Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Morning Beaker
I wonder if it's EVER going to rain here again . . . .
Eeeek. I saw that awful big ice storm on the news just now. Sounds miserable.
Bays ok. New farrier will be here this morning and probably pull the shoes and leave him barefoot for a while. He’ll be fine and his feet could use the rest from more holes, I think.
Read the last three pages on the thread at the farrier forum. It was actually a very positive experience after the Jaye person left. ;~)
Bay’s never been in egg bars. Before the NB shoes, he was in regular shoes or eventers, with leather pads.
You still there and still have power? Is it light out yet?
Dang Becky! 29* and ice is awful! I hadn’t watched the weather until late last night and it looks like y’all are getting it pretty bad. But the weather’s been so strange here the last couple of days. It was 60-something degrees at that parade Friday night and yesteray evening when I went to feed it was 76*! Now that’s just plain odd, even for here. I hope it quits icing on y’all soon. Snow isn’t too bad, but ice is just dangerous. Trees, roofs and powerlines fall down when it’s like that.
Me and Grace in our parade outfits...
Kari and Faith...
Kari's husband's horse, Soldier. I thought this was a nice head shot...
Some of the others in our group...
A spiffy-looking harness horse...
and his carriage...
The parade was scheduled to start around 7pm so we got to our planned parking spot around 5:30 so that we wouldn't be rushed. We picked a spot that was near the end of the parade route so we wouldn't have to drive back through all the parade traffic when it was over, but that meant we had to ride through downtown beforehand to get to the starting point at the high school. But that was kinda fun since people were already starting to gather and it was like a little pre-parade but wasn't as stop-and-go as the parade itself was. I got a little video clip of it here. It's kinda dark but gives you the general idea. Like I say, it was fun and since I have parade buddies again I'l probably try to make it an annual event. If nothing else, it's good training. Grace got a little antsy a few times when we were going through the thick of the crowd and there was only 10 or 12 feet between the people on one side and the people on the other, but would calm down when I spoke to her. So I was real pleased with her behavior. ShesaGoodGirl!
There were probably two to three hundred horses there and a couple of dozed wagons or carriages, so I'd say the equine turnout was pretty good.
Aw - you guys look FABULOUS!
Terrific. The places you go and the things your horses have done... these are great miles on such a young horse. I think if I ever get a young one, I’ll send it to you for a year!
Heh, I can probably fix you up with one that’s got a years worth of riding already ON it, but I don’t know if I’m up to riding one that I didn’t raise. At least with them I know what I’m dealing with and they know from day one that I’m DaBoss. ;o)
Oh - well in that case we’d have to plan it farther ahead so the horse can be born there :~)
I’m kinda worried about Becky. She was talking about limbs cracking all night long and one falling and brushing the back of the house. I sure hope they’re not without power!
I bet they are without power or she’d be here. I just hope she’s warm. 2J just posted that she’s got power but her trees are demolished. I’m sure Becky’s place, and the road out there, are a mess.
If we don’t hear from her by this afternoon we ought to give her a call, not that there’s anything that we can do for them, but we could offer a little moral support anyways.
Agreed. I’ll call her in a bit...
How long is this storm supposed to last? Have you heard? I haven’t been on the national news this morning so I don’t know what’s in the forecast.
Looks like they’re still getting ice and freezing rain and it will continue through tonight. According to their forecast, the freeze line is parallel to, but about 20 or 30 miles south-east of I-44, so that pretty much gets everything around Becky. Hopefully the high voltage transmission lines are still holding or they’ll be a LONG time getting those back up.
Update on Bay:
Is this bruising? - Page 8 - The Farrier & Hoofcare Resource Center Forums
Well that’s good news! His feet do look so much more comfortable not being perched on top of those too-small shoes. I’ll be interested to see what TheNewGuy says and does in a month. I just hate that you had such a bad experience with an NB farrier. You might really want to consider sending those pics to Mission Farrier School, not to be vendictive, but so that they won’t refer him to some other poor unsuspecting soul.
I had lain a wreath down on top of this trunk where he likes to nap and I'll bet it wasn't there a minute before he had made a bed out of it. How's that for being a ham?
Sweet Christmas kitty picture!
I don’t know if I want to communicate to the school yet, still thinking about that, and thinking about what final thing to say to Randy.
I don’t know if you’ve also read what I’ve written in the HH about it, but he ran the Community College farrier program that was here in town years ago... it closed down shortly after he retired, and that’s probably 15-20 years ago. I remember it. Incidently... Mark, my previous farrier, went through that program. We talked about how Mark’s work hadn’t been perfect, that the folk on the farrier forum hadn’t thought Mark was doing well enough at heel support either, but that the main reason I switched was because Mark started missing appointments and wouldn’t call for weeks! He rolled his eyes... “Most common complaint about farriers. I can teach them to shoe horses, but I can’t teach them how to pick up the phone”.
Talking about feet, he pulled a skeleton of the lower leg of the horse with all the foot bones and started ranting about the way the shoe sat and how it affected the inner workings of the foot, and swinging that leg around and holding it up next to Bay... who was looking at him a little wide eyed at that point.
You can tell he was a good teacher. ;~)
Now how does Randy fit into all this? Is that the NB farrier who set the too-small shoes? I guess I should pop over to HH and catch up...
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