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Yeehaw, Kelo!!! Many congrats! Darn, I love that little horse, Ironbessflint :) I ran round this morning getting things done so I could go ride this afternoon, but it was not to be as I got home to find two guys finishing the cabinetry in my master bedroom, and, having sat here at my desk listening ...

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I was saying to my trainer in my last lesson that I was really enjoying a low-pressure, no showing summer--everything around here got cancelled. and none of us are up for traveling out of state (and we really aren't welcome anywhere else, anyway with our dismal COVID stats.) It's nice to be able to ...

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Oh, so happy for you!

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How's he doing, H4S?

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Ugh. Tis the season. Glad he is feeling better. Why? Because the weather is getting hot and humid? Ariel colicked when there was about a week of hot (over 90) and humid weather. I'm always on highER alert during that type of weather. Big swings in temperature are what seem to get us here. I think t...

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Ugh. Tis the season. Glad he is feeling better.

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I'm not confrontational either, but in this case, I'd talk to the neighbors before the HOA. Make it clear that because you want to be a good neighbor, that you are talking to them directly (because you are sure they don't realize they are causing you personally a problem) before you escalate it to t...

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Ponichiwa wrote:
Moutaineer wrote:It's been snowing here in Utah. Dampens the spirits somewhat.

On average, you and I are having a pretty decent riding weather kind of day. Individually, not so much.

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It's been snowing here in Utah. Dampens the spirits somewhat.

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Our privileged world has been well and truly kicked off it's axis. Even sleepy Salt Lake City is under curfew from 8pm to 6am every night this week. Downtown got wrecked on Saturday. Not by black people (it would be hard to raise a quorum, let alone a mob, around here) not by Latinos, but by white y...

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Yeehaw. Aleuronx! LOL. Don't know if any of you follow them on Facebook, but Arroyo del Mar is doing a series of little training exercises from their trainers. Mette had a nice one the other day on tempo changes in the trot--a simple exercise, but not so simple to do correctly, always out of the for...

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Demi, that is a nice canter picture. Ugh, the weight loss thing... I have been working like a slave for the past 5 months, what with cleaning and packing and moving and cleaning and unpacking and now extreme yard work, and I'm now riding again. I'm pretty darned fit, but I'd rather assume that I wou...

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How are Maia and Rudy doing?

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Super, Rosie! and Chisamba! Lots of great pics! Laddie and I are getting it back together. We had a productive lesson yesterday with a comfortably "packaged" horse (no trailing limbs, which is hard work for a horse that is all legs) and some of our best countercanter work ever. Trainer rec...

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That would make sense in our dry climate. OK,I may have to rethink this! Thanks!

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I'm thinking about purchasing a two chamber compost tumbler bin. Any thoughts or advice on this approach?

I'm having a lot of fun with my new garden and yard, and spending eyewatering amounts of money. I'll make another post when I'm not trying to cook dinner at the same time

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Aleuronx, at least she has one--Laddie's seems to have fallen, or been rubbed, out. I think it may be a result of his drug reaction earlier in the year, aspecially as it's also developed a white stripe about half along. Very odd and it looks a complete wispy, straggly, stand up mess. In a normal yea...

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Exvet, that walk thing sounds familiar to me, too... I got scolded about letting it get pacey and letting him roll over his front end in my lesson, so yes, we are on the slow it down and ride every stride thing, too.

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It's a huge relief to be able to put my leg on without drama... I'm too breakable for drama. I had a lesson yesterday for the first time since, when? January? No, I think there was one right at the start of March between one problem and the next. But thinking back on it, he was pretty darned squirre...

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Thank you Kelo.

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Interesting ride today. I had my sweet horse back. I had a bit of a revelation the other day--I read something that triggered a thought in me and I checked his (relatively new) joint supplement and realized it was loaded with MSM, which I've had problems with in the past with other horses (not all o...

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Tanga, are you sure about Steve Wysocki?

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Ironbessflint! Nice to "see" you and your gorgeous blondes! Glad Rudy is doing better. That's a scary thing. Seems to take ages to all go down, too. So we had left bend back today, but he was a total powder keg to sit on. Yikes. Time to get back into lessons and get both out heads into the...

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How kind of them!

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A more detailed ride today on Laddie, rather than just testing "sound or not sound." Certainly sound, but he's apparently lost any ability or desire to bend to the left in the last six weeks of enforced idleness. So that's my project for the next little while. Stretch out that right side a...

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Tentative goal, world situation permitting, is to get Laddie back to full work and fitness and back at least to the quality of work that we had before everything went to hell in a handbasket. He was fabulous, sound, flexible and fluent and kind to ride this afternoon, bless him. I'm going to be much...

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#4 makes me want to sneeze:)

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But he isn't getting a degree to go out and get a job. He's already got his degree, and his MA, and he's now doing original research for a Ph.D., which is a job in it's own right. So yes, he will become one of the foremost experts on the subject, through many years of work, and if he is fortunate, g...

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So, Laddie, once he stopped bucking and farting on the longe, (which probably loosened him up nicely, old fool...) was sound for the vet this morning. But, it's the best part of a year since we did his hocks, and there's some narrowing in the lower joints, so we injected the lower outside spaces and...

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Well, we are not entirely sound. Just about rounds out the two months...

Vet tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed it's "just" hock injections (that's what it feels like to me.) It's been about a year, and it's been a difficult few months for him.

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Such a good boy! He looks fabulous.

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So, six weeks and a house move later, I got to get back on both my horses today. Laddie has been getting lunged a couple of times a week, and, although s little tubby, he felt pretty good and ready to get back with a program. He will get his feet done Tuesday, and then it's back to real work. Walker...

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Personally, for me, I am assuming it isn't going to happen this year. As Laddie isn't getting any younger, that's sad for us as I'd have liked to have got my bronze medal on him. I felt like we had a shot at it this year, before all this lot started. But I don't know how many more years he has left ...

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Are you guys still getting after shocks?

We are still rocking and rolling here... another 4.2 this morning. Which when combined with a spring blizzard made for a very rude awakening!

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Here, we have a clearer view of how things are progressing locally than we did a few weeks ago. As a county, we have been hit painfully hard by the virus. We are fundamentally a ski resort and a giant playground for the rest of the USA, so we were infected early and very widely. Having booted out th...

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Well, I actually got to see my horses today, which was a treat. They are both fat and happy and sound, but Laddie has lost some muscle tone which is going to take some effort to regain. Unfortunately, with moving on Monday, I'm guessing I should self quarantine for 14 days after as I will be exposed...

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I'm getting daily reports from Pip's new home. He's doing well by the sound of it, and has his new adoring mom wrapped round his little hooves, which makes me very happy. I miss evening stables. Around 6pm there is a wierd hole in my life. Very busy packing up for our move. Packing the tack and feed...

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I love my horse vet. That's all I have to say! All the treatment for Laddie's wild ride in February, including 3 official barn calls plus him crawling through the electric fence one day to check on him in passing, came to around the same amount as the cat's visit yesterday. Not that I in the least b...

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I had to take one of the cats to the vet yesterday (of course, because we don't have enough to deal with atm...) They had me call when I arrived, came out and picked her up, did a phone consult with the vet. then brought her back to the car once we were all done. Paid over the phone with a credit ca...

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The West is restless, it would appear. Here in Salt Lake two weeks ago, now you.

As long as Yellowstone doesn't blow, we are good...

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It's a sad day here. We had dear old Lucky put to sleep this morning at the ripe old age of 35. He was the Best Horse Ever and had been a part of our family for 28 years. We bought him back our New York days for my husband. He may have been a short-legged sorrel of unknown breeding (part Dachshund, ...

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Ouch.

Dont do a second shot of Excede.

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They've just shut down all non-essential business in our county until May 1st.

State run liquor stores will stay open, though...

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Or both, Literiding!

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Ugh, Leoapp. Whole Foods here is quiet and reasonably stocked. They have old folks opening hours, too, so I can send DH with a list if it comes to it. The Smith's (Kroger) here is apparently mobbed during old folks hour. I've just had the list of not available and substitutions for my Kroger pickup....

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Leoapp, you have to stay up and push the button at 12.01... that's the only way I got to make it work for me here.

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If you are going to the barn, are you limiting what you touch and sanitizing what you do? Door handles, halters, tack? Are you wearing a mask so you aren't spraying droplets into the dust and bedding that someone else is going to breathe in?

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Well, it's been quite a stressful day here. We were rudely awakened at just after 7am this cold and snowy morning by the violent shaking of a 5.7 earthquake, which was followed by approximately 50 aftershocks of varying magnitude--some really quite big--throughout the morning. There's quite a lot of...

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Our barn is closed to boarders for at least 7 days. Ugh.

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