The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

[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The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - (very out of date) Who's Who *pics*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. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.

I always have a link to this thread on my profile page, so if you have something to say and can't find the thread in latest posts… look for it there and wake the thread up!

I also have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will now be pinging everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list. As FreeRepublic is a political site, our politics and other issues will probably blend in…. There are many issues for horsemen that touch politics… land use, animal rights/abuse cases that make the news…. Legislation that might affect horse owners.

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. There are lots of ways of doing things and we all have our quirks, tricks and specialties that are neat to learn about.

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

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

[FrogInABlender]

I bought some of the black ones last year, and paid like $25 bucks for a 10” pot full of them but they didn’t make it through the winter. I guess if I ever try them again I’ll just buy the bulbs and go from there. They’re cheaper that way in case they croak.

[Beaker]

I’ve thought about joining the horse.com forum, but I’ve balked because it seems full of angst and teenagers who add full to the angst.

[Beaker]

I’ve thought about joining the horse.com forum, but I’ve balked because it seems full of angst and teenagers who add fuel to the angst.

[Beaker]

If I can add to the discussion over here...

IMO (grin) the best way to cue for canter, is extremely different from how one is usually taught. First maintain the bend, and then with your outside leg behind the girth like it it would be per usual, shift your inside seatbone forward, and pickup the horse's belly with your inside heel. This way, the horse will almost certainly pick up the correct lead in a balanced manner, causing him to step into the canter instead of jumping or shuffling into the canter, which can happen. Tipping the horse's nose to the inside or the outside forces him to canter in a very unbalanced manner, which in my opinion, would make him more likely to pick up the wrong lead. All though this method is a little bit more difficult in terms of you having to be coordinated as a rider, I personally like it better because I've had experience with both methods, and this one works far better because the horse is balanced and can make a smoother transition.

Just food for thought. I won't be offended if you agree or disagree. Everyone has their own way of doing things.

[judicial meanz]

I’ll be mowing too. I have ten acres to brush hog and after that, I am going to fertilize it while the horses are in another pasture for a month or two.

Then I’ll start on the one they are grazing in now, and work to the last pasture.

If the rain will ever quit. Its been monsoon season here.

[Beaker]

Becky? Is that you?

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Not me:)

WElcome to the thread. Have you been here before?

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I started this one from a blub. The bulb was more expensive then the regular ones. I think it was $8 for one. I’d never seen them before, so I figured it was something new, guess not.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

~whistling while scrubbing my toe in the dirt~

LOL...

I've come to town. Mack stayed home today to desk work, and had confiscated the puter...does that seem fair, when he has this nice big office down here:). He can't get work done down here because all the old town farts come by to visit all the time:). I just didn't have much to do occupy myself with at home, I needed a break from reading that book...I'm on the second one now. Pretty good, but so far not as good as the first one. Jenny said she liked the 1st and third one better then the 2nd too. But I need to read it so the 3rd will make sense.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I’m sure that this is a good way too...LOL...but either I don’t understand what you mean by “seat bone” or if what I think you mean, there is no way, I have so little cordination, I have to concentrate so hard on keeping my legs, hand, and butt right, I doubt I could work my seat bone, especially my inside seat bone into the formula:)

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

I do all my mowing with a push mower... Mowed our 4 acre pasture last week with it.

You’d think I’d be thinner than I am. ;~)

[Beaker]

Your seat bones are your butt bones. The bones that you feel when your sitting in your chair. I have very little coordination too, it took me forever to master this way of asking for the canter, and even then I only can do it at the walk when we’re going nice and slow and I can organize my brain to tell my limbs what to do. The trot just adds extra motion that screws me all up. I drive my trainer crazy... :-)

[FrogInABlender]

Those books are addictive. So has Jenny bought any of the others yet? There’s 6 I think, and another one that’s about a different character that’s titled “Lord John” or something like that.

[BladeRider]

Frog, and Blade, this is the best I can do to help you out on your drought, is send you a picture of our rain.

We are getting a pretty good rain here at work this afternoon. I just hope that I am getting it at the house (45 miles to the north)

[FrogInABlender]

I just looked at the radar and it looks like there’s thunderstorms popping up everywhere but my house. :-p

[judicial meanz]

I’ve been here. I just dont post much because I work like a mad man and hardly ever get time off.

I’m the guy with the draft horses and arabians in Oklahoma. Posted pictures of them a while back.

Just figured I would check in.

[judicial meanz]

My terrain is too hard for a lawn tractor. Tried it, and almost shook my teeth out. Decided on an 8N tractor and brush hog. I do use the riding lawn mower for the farm entry and some of the landscaping on the property.

I also use an 18HP Kubota for the hillside out here, because the trees wont let me use the 8N. Not enough clearance.

[MissTargets]

Where you there this past Saturday or the Inter-County Show the week before? The show we were at, was pointed by the Northeastern Horsesman Assoc. Not too many Arabians show at that. Sunday it was pointed by WPQHA also.

[MissTargets]

Pretty pictures of your garden. I thought those rocks were water puddles at first!

[HairOfTheDog]

Teaching the Monster to retrieve...

Sortof... sometimes he just does this:

Or this:

But sometimes he brings it back!

We're working on it...