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My dear departed Walker was the same way. Any kind of bagged feed, packaged horse treats, etc, made him colicky. My feeling was that it was the soy in them. He lived pretty well on a base diet of alfalfa grass mix hay and a mix of alfalfa pellets, rice bran and crimped oats. Potters tested allergic ...

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The claws were a bit more of a challenge this morning... Puck is a bit of a wriggler. However, treats and distraction got it done in the end.

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They were actually reasonably OK to do! Bribery works pretty well... They are growing like weeds! Puck in particular. He has overtaken his older sister in weight and has turned into a bit of a thug. I have to call the vets office on Monday and arrange his brain surgery. I feel its time... As they ar...

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LSP, he has to be far more engaged with me than with any external influence. So he doesn't have the chance to get into a spook. You need to stop it before it starts. Here are some (somewhat stream of consciousness!) notes from lessons yesterday and today not necessarily in any order... Lots of later...

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Your husband would be happy you are riding and getting out and about, to be sure, Demi. Our outdoor arena has been scraped, the base comes in Tuesday, which has to then be compacted, and then we should get the new footing laid within a week or so. Its sitting there in giant bales, waiting to be mixe...

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Oh, Demi. I'm so sorry. Thinking of you and sending you love.

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Sounds perfect Ponichiwa... just make sure she doesn't try to steal him! Chisamba, sounds like an overall positive show even with some very odd scoring at times--lovely picture! And, you got to go do it. which would be more than I'm going to get to do this year by the look of things. The only remote...

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I have had really good lessons the past couple of days. We have been focusing on transitions-crisper, straighter, and more prompt, and where that takes us with the quality of the gaits and how it can set us up for the more advanced work. Its been very helpful (and of course had been something we cou...

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I did not ride today. I have a couple of big work projects I'm working on that actually pay for the ponies, the barn is apparently an even bigger mess today than it was yesterday, and trainer is out. I have a lot of sympathy for her--her husband had a major heart attack on Saturday and had to be lif...

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I'm sorry Demi. That's a Big Thing. Sending your DH best wishes for a full recovery, and to you, strength and patience.

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The barn continues to be a complete and utter shitshow. The outdoor arena irrigation pipe blew up overnight and we now have a giant swimming pool.

We had a rather tense, hot ride indoors. But we rode.

Trainer is out of action again. Don't know how long for this time.

Fun times.

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An interesting question, Chisamba! When is the show? Do you have time to dry run it a few times both ways? I shall be interested in what you decide to do and how it goes, and whether I can apply it to my own showing. I think I could see having less tension in my ride if I reframed/refocused it from ...

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Pray for us. We have to deworm and trim claws this weekend...

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Some things are better not shared with our spouses!

I've never had a dog in this country so I dont know much about heartworm. I'll have to go Google...

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Well, phew... it's hot here and unusually humid as we had a significant rainstorm last night (which I'm really not complaining about!) My ride time is normally around noon, so I'm a complete wet noodle by the time I'm done. What with the wet and the earth disturbance from the construction around the...

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Its been 2 weeks and as you can see they have made themselves quite at home, much to the patient astonishment of Puff.

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I haven't seen GR for some years, but I remember him as being detailed, exacting and all about the fundamentals. People here found him unexciting to audit because he was so detail oriented and repetitive, but I found the detailed work incredibly useful to watch, and there are still things from audit...

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I pay 1000 a month for board, which is pretty much everything except grain and supplements. I pay 850 for full training which is a nominal 4 lessons/rides a week with a National level rider. I dont know what increases we will see later in the year. As the place is being torn apart around us I'm hopi...

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Demi, if there's someone handy I will get them to hold Potters while I dismount, too. I'm not always entirely sure my hips have it in them to do that swing over the back of the saddle!

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Wave at the Utah group for me, SF! I think there are 3 x 3.3 rides from my barn...

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I just feel very meh at the moment. I'm terrified of getting hurt again, and having a less-functional hand is much more scary than it was having a bad ankle injury and just going stirrupless. Doing my head in, blegh. Mari, hang in there. It took me a long time to feel comfortable again after I inju...

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He's doing much better, thanks! I haven't had the intestinal fortitude to call the vet to find out the financial damage yet... I had a good ride in the sweltering heat this afternoon. I think I have finally sorted out my timing for the flying changes. I dont know why I have found it so difficult. Ex...

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Laddie had a choke episode last evening and ended up having to go to the vet, (after hours on the Sunday before a holiday--I'm not looking forward to that bill...) I've just got back from visiting him and he's doing pretty well today, but it was a bit of a scare for the old boy. I do love the barn h...

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This is obviously going to be a lost weekend around here...

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Goals... well it will be hot here for this period and the construction at the farm will be ramping up, so not dieing will be top of list :) Apart from that: 1. Continue to improve my timing for the FCs, which has got so much better but could be better still. 2. Continue to work on not fiddling with ...

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They are home but feeling a little insecure yet. They are residing in the kitten condo in the dining room...

Meet Puck (blue point male) and Phoebe (seal point female.)

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Oh, Maia! Give your mom a break!!! So, a recap: 1. Get over my FC mental block. If I stay on message, he can do them with his eyes closed. Yes, we have made some real breakthroughs on this. I'm happy. 2. Work on the canter connection and throughness. Yes to this, too. Still needs more, but doesn't i...

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She is 16 weeks and he is 12 weeks, but quite big for his age. They have had their first shots and wormer. We have a wellness visit scheduled with the vet tomorrow morning to double check all is well. We went down to meet them again on Monday. She's a bouncing ball of mischief who I think will be th...

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Kittens are coming home tomorrow!

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So I just heard back. Didn't make it into the show. Boo. An expensive non event.

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I'm TRYING to show in 10 days time, but the show secretary, having announced over a week ago that the show was overfilled and there was a wait list (without telling anyone whether they were actually in, or on the waitlist, only that special consideration would be given to those that were signed up f...

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How is Piggy doing, Goldhorse?

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That would be very scary, Susan. I hope it's all resolved now. Sorry for the Covid afflicted. It's too bad to have got this far and then to get afflicted. I've avoided it so far but am feeling like it's only a matter of time. I haven't had my 2nd booster yet as I'm "saving" it for a few we...

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I had such a good lesson this morning! (Potters completely ignored the track hoe that kept appearing and disappearing on the bank above and behind the barn.) I think trainer was trying to keep our minds occupied because of said track hoe, so she set up 2 sets of cones to make a pair of side by side ...

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I'm glad Maia got there in one piece, Heddy. What a long trip! I arrived at the barn this morning to the excavator ripping out trees on the corner of the outdoor arena. OK, then, we'll go inside. I get halfway through tacking up and he comes trundling across the driveway and starts ripping out a tre...

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Lots of lovely video to look at! Sounds like you all had productive weekends. I worked in my yard and went on a hike with my husband today... back to it tomorrow. Hopefully the howling wind will have given up by then. Al, yes, she does look a bit tight behind, shame when everything else was so good....

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Yes, today was much better. After him completely blowing off my leg for 10 minutes, my trainer passed me a whip. Didn't have to use it, but carrying it sure got his attention. Little stinker. Once we'd established that, I could get a nice connection, a soft back, clear lateral work and clean, prompt...

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First ride back after the weekend today thanks to that darned work thing. Typical post-clinicitis ride, trying too hard and failing miserably. Tomorrow is another day! Didn't help that it was 93 degrees and howling with wind. Potters view was "forward? In this? I don't think so!" The weath...

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Chisamba, I'm so looking forward for you to have your hip replaced and for you to be out of pain! Keith had both his done some years ago and it was a life changing experience for him.

And yes, you are absolutely right. This ain't a rehearsal, folks. Do all the things.

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I'm thoroughly irritated trying to use Equestrian Entries to enter a show at the start of July. It's one of those 2 shows/2 days deals. Only the second day is up. But it's complaining that I haven't booked stabling which is apparently attached to the first day that isn't up yet... and various other ...

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Remembering what happened last time the stock market tanked, I could see some "spend it now before it just dwindles to nothing anyway." And the rich folks pulling their money out of the markets have to do something with it, and you can only build so many houses. Trying to book a trip to se...

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After a broiling hot weekend, it is cold and wet here today. Potters gets the day off and I get to try and catch up with some work (which of course is why I'm here posting.) So, the clinic was very positive. I've got lots of homework! We worked a lot on connection and straightness. I've been tending...

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92 degrees this afternoon riding with Mette... I'm mostly dead.

Potters was a superstar. I'm so very fortunate to have this equine teacher and partner.

Better report to follow once I've recovered a bit and watched the video.

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Your trainer has the gift of clarity, Demi. This is a very concise description of what we are working through to get a correct connection.

Potters thinks its for the birds. "Surely I can spook my way out of this? No? Oh well, all right then!"

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As a frequently inept student, most of the time I think I'm doing one thing, but I'm actually doing another ;) Ain't that the truth, Heddy! Yes, Demi. Its a great help to feel what its meant to feel like, rather than what we've assumed it ought to feel like. Potters is being a good humored and pati...

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Sounds like you may be on the right track with Lynx, LSP. Good and interesting lesson this morning. He was flatly refusing to pick up the left lead canter for me, just bulging out his right shoulder and completely blowing me off, which of course leads me to all sorts of contortions and doubts. Am I ...

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So lovely, Chancellor!

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Ponichiwa, Anne Gribbons is here next weekend. $400 a ride...

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Bahaahaah, Heddy... No, no, not happening!

Apart from anything else, I could buy a horse for the price of 5 Siamese cats... which is a bit horrifying.

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