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- Sun Oct 17, 2021 7:17 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September - October goals and progress
- Replies: 311
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Re: September - October goals and progress
So much going on...jingles to all that need them to get their critters sound. I had some lovely rides on Kyra before I went on vacation. She was surprisingly delightful from the get go. Normally we have to have a pretty good discussion regarding energy during warm-up. Usually, she needs more but the...
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:52 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5737
Re: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
Well, Nar (Icelandic volcano) is still sleeping but kind of teasing us...something is going on with some magma movement but nothing visible for another 9 days. Yes, the Canary Island volcano is a beast. The lava ate a beautiful little church yesterday in Todoque. It took a short break this AM but ro...
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:32 am
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- Topic: Does your farrier make an appt for the next time?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6684
Re: Does your farrier make an appt for the next time?
No...and it kind of drives me crazy but I have put up with it for 13 years now
. I try to text her at the 4 week mark and she comes within 1-2 weeks.
Kyra is BF. I can grab a rasp and take a couple mm off her heels and tidy up her toes so I can get her boots on so 5-6 weeks works fine.
Susan
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Kyra is BF. I can grab a rasp and take a couple mm off her heels and tidy up her toes so I can get her boots on so 5-6 weeks works fine.
Susan
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:27 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September - October goals and progress
- Replies: 311
- Views: 108498
Re: September - October goals and progress
Wow Tanga, way to hang in there. I have become so heat intolerant...especially mentally, I just feel like I am frying and I no longer want to feel that way :P . I have had trouble overcoming inertia too. My back/SI issue is traveling into my left hip and so some days, I just haven't felt like bootin...
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:05 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Leaving the pro rides for lessons
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3985
Re: Leaving the pro rides for lessons
I have never had a horse in full training or even lesson rides. I do not like to have every footfall directed. I do much better figuring it out by myself. I certainly need eyes on the ground but like to do homework and see what makes things tick. My last instructor was so good at selecting exercises...
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:31 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5737
Re: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
OK. So my friend Nar went to sleep for about 9 days...at least doing anything visible. Then...on Saturday all hell broke loose...at least that is what it looks like. Now, instead of the Old Faithful schtick, it is pulsing every 8-10 minutes. Little to nothing is coming out of the crater although the...
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:08 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: The farrier cancelled today because
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3003
Re: The farrier cancelled today because
I would call that sufficient for a cancellation
. Glad he is OK.
Susan
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Susan
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:04 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Rider score questions
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4422
Re: Rider score questions
I don't know. I can't envision any judge giving you a 5 on position. I guess 5 is still satisfactory but you are much better than satisfactory collapsing left or not...my two cents
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Susan
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Susan
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 3:55 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September - October goals and progress
- Replies: 311
- Views: 108498
Re: September - October goals and progress
{{{{Mountaineer}}}} Well...Kyra and I are just keeping on with our meager schedule. My sister and I did a yard sale last Fri and Sat so with set up on Thurs, Kyra missed a few days. My back or SI or whatever the heck I buggered up last winter decided to flare up again so I quit cantering again for a...
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:40 am
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- Topic: Picking a new barn, help
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7897
Re: Picking a new barn, help
Rye...good to be ready for any eventuality but it does cost. When (or IF?) I find another barn, I plan to pay for another month at the current barn...providing the reason I am leaving isn't because they closed. Then I have a fall back if the new place just doesn't cut it. I am kind of picky. At leas...
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:35 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Who rides bareback?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5654
Re: Who rides bareback?
NO...NO. My tailbone area no longer tolerates a naked spine under it. Of course, before my surgery, I was sitting right on that bone spur...OWWWW. I am afraid for me it is a saddle or I don't ride. I even have to trick out the saddle with a seat saver with a coccyx cutout to semi-comfortably do what...
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:23 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
My goals were pretty minimal and I feel like I hit them. Her connection is better. The last couple of rides, she has been much softer and less braced picking up the reins in walk and staying soft and connected between walk and the other gaits. I didn't get nearly as much riding as I would have like ...
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 4:55 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: How do YOU develop half-pass?
- Replies: 19
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Re: How do YOU develop half-pass?
I like to LY away from the rail about 5-10 meters then half pass back to the rail. Set up the proper bend for HP and the rail helps draw them over. It has a magnet in it after all
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Susan
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Susan
- Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:53 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
Yikes aleuronx...she changed a lot. About a month ago, I changed Kyra back to her treeless saddle and she seems to be happy thus far. She was fine with the Prestige but I was having a hell of a time finding a balance spot in it. I am waffling between selling it now or keeping it another 6 months and...
- Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:18 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: How do YOU develop half-pass?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4794
Re: How do YOU develop half-pass?
Well, with my limited HP experience, I was taught to initiate SI then step to the inside and viola...HP. Inside leg maintains the forward and outside leg guards and keeps the haunches moving over. That has worked pretty good...I think those instructions were 4 horses ago and it has worked on all tha...
- Tue Aug 24, 2021 3:57 pm
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- Topic: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5737
Re: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
For the time being, it seems to have turned into another Old Faithful. A little different time frame and a different emission than the geyser but by the faf(tremor) chart, it is still doing its thing. Now if the damned fog would go away. The other night on the live feed, the entire screen was just b...
- Tue Aug 24, 2021 3:48 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
Right now we're just working on riding with all the distractions — the BO has been out with dogs and chainsaw clearing trees the last 4 times I rode, and the new litter of kittens have been playing around the arena. None of that is a distraction ... but keeping Maia's attention on me, and her nose ...
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 5:36 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
SF...good show result. I am going to try and get out to watch your Sunday rides. Aleuronx, sounds like an exciting trail ride. It is pretty overwhelming for them sometimes. I know my last two I have turned into real arena flowers. The trail is way out of their comfort zone. And I'm old enough and de...
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 5:09 am
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- Topic: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5737
Re: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
Well, the pimple (baby cone) has disappeared...assimilated back into the big crater. Amazing activity today with lava tossing up, down and in every direction.
https://youtu.be/zruKfOH1-eY
https://youtu.be/zruKfOH1-eY
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 5:05 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: College Ramblings
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2345
Re: College Ramblings
Awww...So hard but you must be so proud.
Susan
Susan
- Sun Aug 22, 2021 5:03 am
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- Topic: Picking a new barn, help
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7897
Re: Picking a new barn, help
I too, am jealous of your choices. I am casually looking for a new barn and so far, out of the 5 I have contacted, I never heard from 4 of them and the one I did and went and visited, there is a long waiting list plus the owners are looking to down size in the next couple of years. I like the curren...
- Thu Aug 19, 2021 9:41 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
Mountaineer, so good you are getting Potters figured out. He sounds like a good egg (and he is 1/2 arab isn't he?) I worked Kyra yesterday and she seems to have lost her little resistance/bracing going right so I am pretty sure that me sitting on a snap that is stuck under the saddle was the cause. ...
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 4:48 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
Well, the smoke has brought riding to a halt. It got horrible around here starting on Saturday. One retiree at my barn that has heaves, was having to get nebulizer treatments. Poor guy is not tolerating the situation well. So, I just did a short fart around liberty session in the round pen on Saturd...
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 4:33 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Lets talk Double bridles
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7113
Re: Lets talk Double bridles
Everyone looks so...grown-up 8-) . I should probably try a double with Kyra given her extreme difficulty with snaffles? I am not sure I can sort out all the reins but if I can get her back in more regular work, I might give is a try. I might even try Karen Rolhf's double...bitless for the snaffle an...
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 4:21 am
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- Topic: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5737
Re: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
I am still at it (volcano watching). This volcano is NOT disappointing. The 13th and 14th were AMAZING. It has grown a little bit. Baby Nar https://youtu.be/dfq9R8T5kb4 and teenager (?--they say the eruption could continue for years) Nar. https://youtu.be/U8DBe91UJTc Last night was pretty incredible...
- Fri Aug 13, 2021 5:37 am
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Rehabbing the mild stifle strain
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9059
Re: Rehabbing the mild stifle strain
LSP, I don't think he looks too off at all. I think in the short video snippet, he is quick and so hard to tell anything when he is so bothered by the flies. He is handsome, I know that ;) . Kyra has never had an injury but is weak in the stifles (rt>left). It showed up as soon as I started riding h...
- Fri Aug 13, 2021 5:19 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
I have gotten to ride the last 3 trips to the barn :D . The arena finally dried out, it finally got worked and the weather cooled off for a couple days. Kyra has been working pretty well. Ride before last, I was riding like a sack of ....I could not stay with her at trot. Just a normal posting worki...
- Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:57 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Lets talk about stretching for the mid-upper level lads and lassies (for real this time)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5529
Re: Lets talk about stretching for the mid-upper level lads and lassies (for real this time)
With Kyra it is a session by session thing...it depends. I love to warm her up long and low. BUT, she has to swing through and meet the connection. Lots of times she leans and is way on the forehand so stretching gets relegated to cool down. I haven't really worked on a lot of stretching at trot bec...
- Thu Aug 05, 2021 3:27 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
Jingles for all that need it. Kyra and I are just....I am still frustrated at the lack of a rideable area. I couldn't use the track for about 10 days because the owner was re-roofing their house (right next to the track). Oh, I guess I could have tried. I went over there one day, thinking they weren...
- Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:03 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
Jingles for Potters. At least you didn't get on him when he was hurting so bad. I had a nice ride yesterday. Trying to beat the worst of the heat. I did some more trot work yesterday and got in some canter work. The trot work, I worked bending lines with some serpentines. I did ask for a lengthened ...
- Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:50 pm
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Joint Maintenance?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5235
Re: Joint Maintenance?
Well, I texted the vet and she said to just watch her. That is it...at this point, I am not really treating any specific problem. The pastern issue resolved within a month of when it appeared and she feels sound to me. The vet believes in Legend but she has gone 3 months without it and I can't tell ...
- Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:47 pm
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- Topic: Painful topic making that hard choice
- Replies: 47
- Views: 10228
Re: Painful topic making that hard choice
Yep...it is hard. We had to put my Mom's little cocker spaniel down in March of 2020. That was her company and suddenly she was alone. Now that she is living with me, she has my cats. She isn't much of a cat fan but they all get along. My Emmy cat was sick last week and Mom was very worried about he...
- Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:41 pm
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Joint Maintenance?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5235
Re: Joint Maintenance?
Yes peidmontfields, that is a good idea. I do blood work on the little critters so that would be a good idea for an older horse too. I threw on 10gm of MSM for now. I am going to research the resveratrol and talk to my vet about switching to Adequan so I can give it (and hopefully REMEMBER to give i...
- Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:37 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
Kyra is well although I am somewhat frustrated. Certainly not with her but frustrated that at the current rate of riding, she is not building up top line or muscle. Of course, part of that is the weather from hell...literally. I just don't handle the heat well and if I do ride, I keep it pretty shor...
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 3:06 pm
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Joint Maintenance?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5235
Re: Joint Maintenance?
Yes, I have to contact the vet and see if we can switch to Adequan. She may be IR...I haven't had her tested but a couple of times when she has gained weight, the fat is in those ominous places (neck and butt). She only gets a cup and a half of Strategy Healthy Edge for to get her California Trace i...
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 3:00 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
pietmontfields...that is so good to hear. All that hard (easier :) ) work has paid off. Gosh, we are just in hell here. Not as brutal as some places in the west but bad enough. Not the least of which the smoke from the many fires moved in over the weekend. Usually that is an mid-August event. It doe...
- Mon Jul 05, 2021 5:17 am
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Joint Maintenance?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5235
Joint Maintenance?
Almost 2 years ago, Kyra came up with a small effusion in her right front fetlock. None of us (myself, Straighforward who was riding her at the time, or the vet) could discern any lameness although she did have some heat in that ankle. So, I started her on Legend at the vet's recommendation. Fast fo...
- Mon Jul 05, 2021 5:09 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
- Replies: 209
- Views: 82789
Re: Sweat equity: July-August goals and progress
Goals for me...figure out why I am so weighted to the left. This started since I tweaked my back in February. Even if I physically stand in the stirrups and move my seat to the right, I still feel most of the weight is in my left cheek. I gave up and went back to my old treeless saddle. I seem to ha...
- Mon Jul 05, 2021 4:46 am
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- Topic: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5737
Re: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
Still the best show in town and good old Nar the volcano(short from Ragnar) hasn't disappointed. It is so funny in that it shuts down for a short period and everybody on the chats say...oh, it's done. Nooo :lol: . After this video was done, a good portion of the inner wall collapsed and the crater w...
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:35 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: training spanish walk
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3242
Re: training spanish walk
Not that I really know how to teach Spanish walk but Kyra and I have been working on [i]something[i] for a little over a year now. You just have to keep evolving it. Kyra just lifted her lower leg at the beginning. It probably took her 3-4 months before she started anything resembling a jambette (le...
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:58 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: May-June: Don't be afraid to set some goals and make it better
- Replies: 279
- Views: 46930
Re: May-June: Don't be afraid to set some goals and make it better
Kyra has continued to be a eager beaver and a pleasure to work with. We had a monsoon on Thursday...well for us. We got 3/4 inch of rain overnight which turned our arena into a lake so I set up poles indoors and we had a long rein session over the poles. She worked well but looked a little bracey to...
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:24 pm
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- Topic: Caring for the aging parent
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7980
Re: Caring for the aging parent
So far, things are going pretty well for me and my Mom. My biggest issue is with the difference in temperature I have to maintain for her. I guess I just have to get used to sweating :P . She has some cognitive decline but so far, mostly weak on memory issues. I'm sure it is my good cooking :lol: . ...
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:19 pm
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- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14559
Re: What are you reading?
I read the Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Very interesting. I had to go look up blue people...it is true. Last week I finished Radium Girls. Fascinating, yet horrifying that no one knew then when they did know acknowledge the effects of radiation. Those poor girls...what horrific deaths they suffe...
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 9:13 pm
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- Topic: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5737
Re: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
OMG...this thing is pumping out so much lava this weekend.
This guy's drone shots are spectacular. I wish I could get a couple stills off this video.
https://youtu.be/S5qYg1OTUxs
I am probably burning up (haha) all my internet data. Sometimes, I can't take my eyes off of it.
Susan
This guy's drone shots are spectacular. I wish I could get a couple stills off this video.
https://youtu.be/S5qYg1OTUxs
I am probably burning up (haha) all my internet data. Sometimes, I can't take my eyes off of it.
Susan
- Thu Jun 10, 2021 5:15 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5737
I found a way to really waste time...Iceland volcano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOEuf_4z_sM I have been watching this volcano for about 3 weeks. There are some amazing videos out there. This is what drones were meant for although the live stream is stationery cameras. There are some incredible drone videos on Youtube. It builds up pressure and re...
- Thu Jun 10, 2021 5:09 am
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- Topic: Rotator cuff tear/surgery? Update
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6411
Re: Rotator cuff ear/surgery?
I had rotator cuff surgery 20 years ago. What looked like a full thickness tear on the MRI was not so I got off easy with the surgeon buffing up the tear and fixing the impingement I had in the joint (thanks big boobs :P ). My rehab was pretty easy and I got the OK to got back to horse activities af...
- Thu Jun 10, 2021 4:59 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: May-June: Don't be afraid to set some goals and make it better
- Replies: 279
- Views: 46930
Re: May-June: Don't be afraid to set some goals and make it better
What a nice active stretch Demi. It sounds like those that can are making good progress. Jingles for everyone else that needs it for horse and or person. Kyra has been an absolute delight. So much fun to ride. We aren't doing much fancy but her responsiveness is as good as it has every been. She has...
- Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:07 am
- Forum: Rider health and fitness
- Topic: Health and fitness 2021
- Replies: 56
- Views: 21547
Re: Health and fitness 2021
I tried Noom and didn't like it. My "advisor" was a pain in the butt...harped on the same thing forever. Why don't you cook, what is your meal planning. Not a very positive (or helpful) fellow. I am sure I could have changed advisors but I didn't. I am not into writing in a journal which t...
- Wed Jun 02, 2021 5:50 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: May-June: Don't be afraid to set some goals and make it better
- Replies: 279
- Views: 46930
Re: May-June: Don't be afraid to set some goals and make it better
Everyone is so busy. LS...jingles for you and your critters. Kyra has been a good egg. The outdoor arena hasn't been in great shape. It had rained again and it "sets up" almost like concrete and get very crusty and if there has been much traffic it is very cuppy. I prefer not to ask for mu...
- Thu May 27, 2021 11:24 pm
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- Topic: age is just a #-right??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3847
Re: age is just a #-right??
Well, yes age is just a number. Is it the number (65y.o.) I feel like most of the time...NO. Many days I feel about 80 (I guess). Does it keep me off my horse...hell no. I went through 6-7 years with that many surgeries for this that and the other thing. I maybe rode 100 times in those 6-7 years (25...