FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 12

[HairOfTheDog]

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - (very out of date) Who's Who *pics*

This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share, usually about our horses, sometimes about our dogs, gardens and other stuff we do. :~)

I have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will ping everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list.

So... like the previous threads, this is intended as fun place to come and share stories, pictures, questions and chit-chat, unguided and unmoderated and that we come together here as friends.

Previous threads:

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread TEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!

[BladeRider]

I’d like to see the film if you try ;~)

ROFLMOA! I would buy a ticket to watch that!

[Duchess47]

That’s the problem, I don’t know what the options are. Right now, I’m getting news third and fourth hand so I don’t know what they are doing or going to do, just that she’s still at the hospital while they explore what they can do :(

[estrogen]

To begin with, I had to put our furniture in storage for a month then have it moved to SC....it arrived scratched and nicked. They broke the glass top to my patio set ( a very nice and expensive set) They took my damaged furniture back with them and were going to have it repaired and replace the glass top. Wellllllll....three weeks went by and they brought the furniture back (sloppy repairs) and tried to give me a set of porch furniture that they had to have bought at the Salvation Army. It was a table, four chairs and umbrella and the price tag said $97.00 $##%*^%$ what an insult. I sent it back with the driver and told them I want my glass replaced and have heard nothing. They are amazing......that move cost me a lot of money and if I had it to do over again, I would have sold my furniture and bought new here....it would have been cheaper. I hate it that these moving companies have no responsibility and ignore my calls......enough of that.

The new horse is an 11 year old former jumper who does’t jump anymore and the owner wants another horse. She is giving him to me. I spoke with the vet and the farrier and there is really nothing wrong with him that a little exercise wouldn’t fix. I guess the owner has more money than she knows what to do with and only rides him about once a month. Her husband said she couldn't’t get a new horse until she got rid of this one....so I get a free companion for Waylon.....should be interesting.He's a paint and not gaited

I will take some pictures on Friday and post them , if I remember how.....I'll try to get some out on the trail too.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE

[estrogen]

If I can swing it, I am not going to work...don’t know how that will turn out. Will keep you posted. At any rate, I won’t do anything until after the first of the yr anyhow.
I turned 62 last Sunday so I could take early SS....don’t know yet what I’ll do.

[Duchess47]

Happy belated birthday :)

[CindyDawg]

Happy birthday Estrogen and Happy Thanksgiving to all of yall.

As some of you know, I've been having some personal problems. Well tonight I guess I go to lurker mode. I am horseless. I sold Sarah Lee in July to keep Okie. Today I gave him away. I'm a little down but it was for the best. If it's ok with yall I would like to stay on the ping list and drop in occasionally when I have horse news though.

It feels weird. I can only remember a short time when I was a kid that I had no animals around. Oh well....

[Duchess47]

I sure hope you stay around. You’re my hero :) I keep thinking one of these days I’ll quit and start a business (if I get the courage that is)

I’m sorry you’ve *lost* the horses but I always thought to myself how difficult it must be, trying to board them and find the time to spend with them. I figure one of these days you’ll get your acreage and can start again.

[CindyDawg]

Thanks. I'm no hero though. Most days it's fun but some days I tell myself "you fool" :')

I wanted to tell you about Sarah Lee though. She has a new name. "loon" She doesn't let anyone ride her. She's just going to spend her days making babies and eating grass. She wanted no part of school horsing.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I’m sorry about the horses. Is it someone at the barn you boarded him at that has him now?

You don’t have to have a horse to post here, at least I don’t think you do...heck, how often do we even talk about horses now-a-days. Please be more then a lurker:)

Becky

[Beaker]

Duchess, I’m so sorry to hear about Lori. She’ll be in my prayers.

[Beaker]

Cindydawg, I'm so sorry to hear about Sara Lee and Okie, but you'll have new horses sooner than you think. If it makes you feel any better, I don't have any horses either, and they still let me stick around! ;-) :-p. Hope you do stick around, we like your company.

[Beaker]

Good Morning everyone!

I hope that everyone has a happy thanksgiving. I'm going to be having it with my father this year. That means that I have to pry my butt out of this chair to go and make an apple pie! Everyone eat plenty of turkey and pie and all the fixin's!

[HairOfTheDog]

Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

We’ll be heading up to the beach house around late morning. :~)

[HairOfTheDog]

Hi CindyDawg... sorry about you being horseless for now, please do stick around.

[MissTargets]

Happy Thanksgiving!!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Hard to remember everyone, but to all

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Very cold here today...we have ice on the water troughs:(, windy too:(, altho the sun is shining nicely. It really blew yesterday, and I noticed all the trees out back have all lost all their leaves, but the leaves that were in the garden and on the patio have all been blown away.

[HairOfTheDog]

We may have ice on the water troughs too. I know it’s frozen out in the pasture, just a little warmer here under the trees.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Harley’s was ICE, Rocky’s was just slushy.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

So what do you do? Pull the ice off or pour hot water on it?

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I just bust it up, banging on it with the feed bucket, when it’s like it is today..maybe 1/4 inch thick. I leave the pieces floating, the sun is shining, so they will melt fairly quick. When the ice is really thick and has to be broke with the ax, I scoop out the pieces with the muck rake.

I have a heater for Rocky’s trough that I will get out today and put in his trough. His trough is big enough that I can then dip out of it to give Harley a drink.

Becky