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Well, I have a consultation with a neurosurgeon on 22nd Sept. We leave for France on 24th. I'm hoping that if he decides i need surgery, (which i get the impression he already does from reviewing my records) that we can get it set up for soon after I get back. I'm assuming I'll be out of the saddle ...

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Reserve champion with an 82% aggregate score!

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I could not be more proud of Justin... sitting 2nd after the prelim 5 year old test with a whopping 83.2! It was a perfectly lovely ride. Both of them were cool, calm and collected in what is a very big atmosphere for such an inexperienced pair. The leader was only a breath ahead of him with an 83.6...

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I'm so glad your daughter is going to be OK, exvet. Very scary for all concerned. And Troy looks like a cool dude. I was a bit frayed around the edges on Friday so I did not ride, but I did get on for a few minutes today. The act of getting on really flares things up, though. I'm OK to putter about ...

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No, not hip. Spine. I ruptured and extruded a disk at T3/T4, so it would be a matter going in there and cleaning it up. It is supposedly a relatively straightforward surgery-as much as anyone rooting around in your spine can be. I will find out next week what they want me to do next. I am in the han...

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Chisamba, no, I am not. Im not doing that great, really. Its looking more and more like surgery is in my future. Im not in severe pain but the nerve stuff is giving me issues that I dont think are going away. I have a follow up in a week and I guess I'll know more after that. Its pretty disturbing t...

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Hey there, you are a month ahead!

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Good job Tanga! I like Mike Osinski as a judge. He was here a couple of weeks ago, and the svores did seem a little lower than ive seen him judge before, but I didnt watch the rides. I had a second steroid shot in my spine on Friday. Apart from the injection site itself feeling thoroughly insulted f...

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Im sorry to hear about Leo, Khall. You tried your hardest.

That's a lovely picture. Its doubly hard to lose our pets when they were the threads that tied us to.the past.

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Well done, SF and Aleuronx! Well deserved successes after all your hard work. Fingers crossed for you daughter, exvet. That's very stressful. I had my follow up appt this morning. They are going to give me another steroid shot in the spine on Friday. Fingers crossed that does the trick. Apart from t...

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Congratulations, Aleuronx! Nice job. And Tanga, good on the 72! Blob, fingers crossed that MM can get some relief. Ive never had to deal with a non-sweater. Do we know what causes it? It seems to happen more in hot and humid climates? Well, my small.progress, I actually managed to drive to the barn ...

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Good going for the first time out, Aleuronx!! Give it some wellie tomorrow...

Urgh, SF. I really hope you get to your show and clinic.

Still not doing so great here.

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We'll all be riding down center line with you on Friday, Aleuronx! Best of luck!

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Still alive... just about. I had L3/L4 joint space injection 5 days ago. I'm greatly improved, but still pretty painful at times and annoyingly disabled. I need to have patience. I know these things can take 2 weeks to full effect. DH took me down to the barn this morning so I could watch Potters go...

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Owie, Tanga! That was a lucky escape!

LSP, take the compliment and enjoy it. Your work is paying off.

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Most of my goals came to naught in the last 2 months. Oh well we achieved other things and learned a lot.

I'm going to have to wait to see when I can ride again before I set new goals. And the spine clinic have just called and put my appointment off from tomorrow until next Tuesday. Wah.

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Its been a rough week. MRI tomorrow morning, assuming they can straighten me out enough to get me in the tube. Spine and pain doctor on Tuesday. I've seen him before some years ago and had some spine injections from him. He's really good so I have hopes that he will be able to help me.

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Well, I'm down for the count. Don't know what I did but I woke up this morning unable to walk upright and in the worse pain I have ever experienced in my entire life in my SI joint and sciatic nerve. I've just got back from the doctors office. He shot some steroids and lidocaine and benzocaine in th...

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It will theoretically be 35 here at dawn, but will actually probably be a couple of degrees cooler so my veg garden is wearing towels and pillowcases tonight. It's a shock to the system after the 90s of the past week. I had to put a jacket on to go for my walk this afternoon. I have to adult and ear...

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We did it again today. It was good. A serious thought at the start of the ride about a spook at some dude off in the distance, but after a reckoning about that, the rest of the ride went pretty well. We did 25 minutes and called it good as it was another sweltering, blustery day. Fire and colic weat...

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Potters had been off work since the show on Saturday because of life in general, and came out today absolutely loaded for bear. I'm over it. Being nice and understanding and ignoring it isn't working. So, we had something of a "stop being an asshole and get in front of my leg" ride. And he...

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I bailed on wearing a jacket at the noon hour yesterday. I'm glad I did, even though I've got one of those perforated ones

I'll go back and do the 3.3 next month for 2 days, but thats it.

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Exvet, as my friend Alison says, "the runway isn't getting any longer." Once you hit 60 or so, you've got to decide how you want to spend the rest of your riding life, and make it happen one way or another. Striving for perfection is all well and good, but... So today, I rode our collectiv...

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After yesterday's excitement, I decided to dial it way down today. I overdid it and we ended up dragging ourselves around the arena like a sedated snail. And I had an off-course, and we had one pretty legit spook at something that made us both jump. So I ended up with a score that I think is the wor...

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We went over to the facility for a pre-show warm up this morning. Potters was lovely to warm up in the indoor and then just melted down when we went outside. The wind was blowing the trees around and apparently we've never seen that before. And they have flowers on the letter pylons. Oh boy. I sure ...

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Oh, ha ha, Ponichiwa.

Cheese and pickle sandwiches, anyone?

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heddylamar wrote:Hmm. I should take some oil out to try too.

How is Potter's tail?

Potter's tail is... scabby and deeply unattractive. If I do badly at the show this weekend I will blame it.

But it has a fuzz of hair on it. So maybe in a month or so it won't look ao bad.

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Argh, Desitin... I'm trying to get it out of Potter's tail for the show on Friday. I have found that hot soapy water is doing the trick, largely, combined with an application of greasy sunscreeen which seems to dissolve the Desitin.

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Oooh, he looks so good, exvet! What a nice chunky boy! Lovely ride this morning after 3 days off, which we apparently both needed. We walked for about 20 minutes before we picked up the pace, and I was rewarded by a truly soft and happy and cooperative horse. Now to just keep it simmering along like...

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How very distressing, exvet. My dear friend took her perpetually nqr young mare (anothed Danish Warmblood, as it happens) to CSU for a work up last week and came home without her. Spinal compression at C6/C7. Ugh. Been there with the truck, Aleuronx. A friend rescued my away horseshow weekend by loa...

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I had one that was like this after a bath, LSP. If you didn't scrape and towel off his tummy really thoroughly, he was miserable. Just hated the feeling of dripping/trickling water.

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Oh, poor Maia! Both of us were pretty cooked for our lesson this morning, so we kept it short and sweet. But what we did do made me happy. We've switched from our left canter lead being better to the right lead being better. The left lead isn't awful and he's not reluctant to take it, but it's not q...

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Great ride today. I didn't have to insist, he just cooperated happily. What more can a person ask for? It's just as well he did. I was pretty beat after yesterdays shenanigans, and now, after riding this morning, working this afternoon and working out this evening, I'm cooked. And I have a lesson in...

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Sounds really positive, SF. I'm just pooped out this evening. I got pushed hard in my lesson today, and Potters did not start out entirely wanting to step up to the plate and collect and feel the burn. We did actually get there and he was comfortable and happy when we did, but we had some moments of...

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Tail top is a big, flappy, papery scab today. So tempting to rip it off! But I resisted and stuck it all together with a liberal coating of Desitin so it won't sunburn. That's going to be fun times to wash out. Oh, well. It's a long way from his heart and the judge won't see it as we come down cente...

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Well done, SF! You deserve it! Enjoy it!

Heddy, hugs. It's a hard road.

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Good luck, SF!

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20250530_125349.jpg Jeez, horses... this will teach me to brag on how great he's looking. He managed to do this in his solitary turnout sometime between 6.30 and 11am. Not a sign of how or on what (and there's not a lot for him to have done it on. And 4 of us went out separately to look.) I hope it...

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Yay, aleuronx! Exciting, if gulp-making!

Potters had a nice handwalk and a graze in the sunshine today. Back to work, mildly, tomorrow.

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The cheekpieces were on the bit ring, the reins on the cheek piece rings, like a curb...

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I remember some years ago a fellow boarder coming into the ring with her horse and pronouncing. "I've found this great bit for my horse, he comes on the bit really easy with it, because it has poll pressure, and it's show legal!!!" It was a baucher. It was upside-down. She was not an easy ...

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We took some hoof x-rays today. They really look pretty good. The Osphos appears to be doing it's job well keeping the holes in the navicular bones under control. There are no ragged edges on the left and the right is quite minimal. Vet was quite happy. I'm really happy! We should be able to keep on...

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You also might want to find out if there is a bit fitting clinic near you at some point. Stephanie Beamer is pretty good and travels extensively. She's mainly Neue Schule i think. She comes to our barn once or twice a year.

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Don't forget the Weymouth needs to be narrower than the Bradoon. (1/4 or 1/2"? Can't remember... someone will jump in...) We have a bradoon with a bean that is the same size and shape as his snaffle, and a very short shanked Weymouth with a low port and a forward tilt. I bought what he was alre...

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Are you going to Les Bois, SF? Two of my barn buddies are going up. Justin is riding his young one in the 5 y.o. test. They are sitting first in the country at the moment, which is kind of exciting for a kid from Utah who bought an unbroken 2 year old sight unseen. They are worth a watch if you get ...

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You've got to wonder who thinks holding a clinic in an arena with llamas next door is a sensible idea!

I mean, not to be a princess or anything, but if I've shelled out financial and emotional capital, and time, I want the clinic to be a productive experience!

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Potters has been starring in his own production of "The Haunted Arena Corner" for the past couple of days. It's been very windy and the barn had the audacity to move the menage two feet to the left. So we've been working in 3/4 of the arena. However, we have had some really nice work. I've...

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He looks a chunk, LSP! Potters is looking amazing at the moment, too. He actually has dapples, which is pretty good going for a chestnut! My friend who has been holding the Mette clinics has decided to put her farm on the market. It's sad but necessary for her, she's just not in physical shape to de...

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Congratulations, Aleuronx! Nicely done.

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