Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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!
Pony seems to like it OK.
Bay seems in a foul humor about it and seems to be blaming it on Cyn...
Smart horse :) Two or three flakes is enough for me to head inside too.
We'll be thinking of you. Don't be in too big a hurry to find another -- he'll show up when you're ready.
I came in THIRD in the ladies' 49er division, which for the first time out and the first time ever shooting single action and a lever action rifle, weren't bad . . .
. . . somehow I don't think cowboys used a Weaver stance . . . but that's the best way for me to hit what I'm shooting at . . .
I did make some hair braid ties in the old style, and I have a Crow style beaded hatband on my hat (which is worn high crowned and flat brimmed the way the Northern Plains Indians wore them) but I have NOT finished HAND sewing my buckskin war shirt. THAT is going to take an awful lot of time, since I'm going to have to do four beaded strips for the shoulders and sleeves by hand (since nobody sells a ready-made Crow-style beaded strip, and they're rather distinctive). Plus, no way I'm cutting into real deerskin without making a first copy in (much cheaper) fake suede first. So, I figure I can work on it while watching TV, talking on the phone, waiting on folks, etc.
We don't get snow around here until January or February, if then. Last year we didn't get anything but a flurry or two.
Here's hoping for a 4-5 inch blanketing of snow this winter!
Cool outfit so far - anxious now to see the whole thing finished. Congratulations, by the way.
We were visiting my mother in law in VA over Thanksgiving, so we went up to the Smithsonian over the weekend and I spent some time in the Museum of the American Indian taking photos, making sketches, and looking through their bookstore. As it happens, they have a special exhibition of women's dresses of the Plains tribes = more photos, more sketches. And they had some splendid books in the bookstore, including the original collection of interviews with Pretty-Shield, the medicine woman who told Frank Lindermann the story of The-Other-Magpie. The original interview gives more information, so I have more to work with. With a pattern from a pow-wow/rendevous/dance outfit in Montana and some suede-on-sale from the local fabric store, I'm just about ready to go. I love doing historical research (my first degree was in history) and I love making things, so this is going to be fun . . . .
What model is it?
BigMack
I’m really looking forward to the finished product. I’m still sitting here considering the horse outfit and whether/what/how to make :)
It's what I'd call an entry-level firearm -- for the money it's surprisingly well-finished and it functions well, and if you can pick and choose some of these have VERY nice wood -- mine has a good tight skip grain pattern on the stock. Of course at the distances we're talking about, it would be hard to miss (although one does occasionally miss just the same - usually by being too quick on the trigger before you have acquired the target!)
They're made by IGA/Rossi in Brazil. There's a whole industry arisen in replica late 19th c. firearms to meet the demand of Cowboy Action shooters (of course this means the price of the originals has gone WAY up.)
I could just SEE my long-legged tall skinny Gracie with a couple of deerskins and feathers on her bridle rein . . . very silly she would look indeed!
Man it’s sloppy out. 2-3 inches of snow overnight... now raining. The water has nowhere to go :~\
It’s 61 here this morning, very humid...
Becky
Like a different planet ;~)
Horses got hot mash this morning, pretty damp and miserable out there.
Little bit of excitement if we’d seen it earlier, tow truck on the road behind the house pulled a car out of the ditch, and then slid off himself. ;~) We got there just as he was getting himself pulled out.
LOL...now that would be embarrassing:)
Becky
That’s what I said to him! He said “yeah, I don’t want to talk about it”
I bet it was a lot of fun.
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