A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....11-21-03....My Kingdom for a Horse

Billie

[Calpernia]

I just changed my ink cartridges in my printer last night. Money down, by the time this thread is over and my daughter is done printing....I will need new ones!

Full of Grace is beautiful!

[Calpernia]

Post some pics of your horse. I enjoy seeing them.

[AnAmericanMother]

Word to the wise!

When you decide to go for a riding vacation, plan to embark on a conditioning program 2-3 months or more before you head out. Find a good stable with an instructor who caters to adult learners, and ride at least once a week.

You will enjoy your riding holiday so much more! It can make the difference between being happy and relaxed on top of a happy mount as you admire the scenery and wildlife, and being hunched up in agony on an irritated horse, trying to keep the tender bits out of contact with the saddle and praying for the ride to end! Not to mention being unable to walk the next day . . .

When I don't ride for a week or so, I pay too . . . :-p

[Billie]

Thanks, najida, for coming, and for enjoying a love of horses with us. :)

[dansangel]

Great advice! As my hubby's tagline states (. 45MAN further up in the thread) if your advice is not followed, a barrel might be your best bet to sit on afterwards - LOL!

[Billie]

I am impressed, and also thank you for the information that they are small in stature. See, I never would have guessed that they were a 'tiny' breed. I can see if you're used to the tall, long-legged Thoroughbreds, it would be quite a change for you. :)

[Billie]

I believe you *will* keep that promise! And I'm so glad that we're getting more photos from others. It was tough knowing when to stop collecting them just for the original post!

[Billie]

Oh, what a sweet 'post' from weinie. :)

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey, where are Gail and Rus with my coffee? I'm stuck being served from a Neanderthal!

LOL !! Watch it ! Or I'll post my fat teddy pic ! LOL !!

[Billie]

'Morning, Aeronaut! Hope it's a beautiful day for you!

[Aquamarine]

Horses are beautiful animals but I've had some out of control wild rides in my time and tend to stay off of them now. lol

Like you, I'd like to have few around just to look at if they weren't so expensive to keep up.

Have some things to take care of today. Hope everyone has a lovely day! :)

[lonestar]

I don't advise chasing squirrels on horseback!

LOL!

When my friend went to a farm (real farm, NOT puppy farm) to get her 6-week old little dachsie, the parents and litter were in the pasture chasing a bull.

She said, "That bull is going to step on them!"

Farmer said, "Hasn't yet."

[Billie]

It's great to see and read about your Gracie - she looks wonderful at 18! I'd just like to go feed her a carrot and scratch her ears or something!

[sweetliberty]

You just had to hit on a topic I can't resist. The little girl at the beginning, that was ME! I used to even make stalls in the garage for my stick horses and my first girl scout badge was in horsemanship. This is Aspen, the only horse I've had that I have a picture of online, I think.

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[The Mayor]

I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen. -Romans 9:3

Those who love Christ have a heart for the lost.

[Billie]

Hi, Aqua - maybe you'd like to tell us more about those out of control wild rides! LOL

[AnAmericanMother]

In this pic you can see how small many Lipizzaners are.

(that's from a master class taught by the great dressage rider v. Neindorff)

That's the traditional size that you'll still see in the Spanische Hofreitschule in Vienna, but I've noticed in this country bigger and bigger "Lipizzaners", probably the result of outcrosses to warmbloods. Since international dressage judges prefer the large warmblood type with the long stride to the little muscular traditional type, probably Vienna is the only place you're going to see the old type in another 20 years.

[HairOfTheDog]

Post some pics of your horse. I enjoy seeing them.

Always willing to do that!

I will post some of the funny out-takes that maybe you haven't seen before.

I love this one.... All muscles putting on the brakes.... balking at that little jump on the lunge... He always balks the first time round, to see if I will make him do it.

I laugh and send him round again.... second time, he does it. At 22, I don't punish him for trying to make his work as easy as possible.

And this is another lunging shot, where you have to imagine not what is here, but the wreck that happened 2 seconds later when the pony entering stage right clotheslined herself on the lunge line! No animals were harmed....

They adore each other, my two.

[AnAmericanMother]

Is Aspen a Paint?

(Back in the 70s I used to have some pants like that too! :-o )

[sweetliberty]

You have never ridden a horse? I have heard of such people. LOL! I cannot even imagine life without ever having ridden! It bothers me terribly now that I can't ride....I don't have a horse and nowhere to go to ride. I think about it a lot and I miss it terribly. I used to go frequently even when I no longer had horses when I still lived in Colorado. I had friends with horses and they were more than happy to have someone to keep them worked out.

When I was a kid, I'd spend my allownace on horse magazines and cut the pictures out. I had quite a collection. I expect, like so many other things, one day when I wasn't looking Mama probably tossed them out. She had a bad habit of doing that. But now I've started a new one....on the computer. I don't have nearly as many, but I can be a lot more selective.

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