Search found 2499 matches
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 5:37 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Working like freeking crazy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9406
Re: Working like freeking crazy
Oh, yeah... I spread a good proportion of 16 tons of gravel last weekend and could still walk afterwards, so I know what you mean!
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Oven disaster. My husband says "ask the horse ladies..."
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13725
Re: Oven disaster. My husband says "ask the horse ladies..."
See, my husband was right. You all would know what to do. no.stirrups, on the whole, I'd take that approach, but the black smoke and acrid smell filling the house is a bit much. And it is my dessert oven, so I try to keep it clean so that the thermostat works correctly and delicate things don't pick...
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 4:43 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: To Ikea, or not to Ikea...Bookcase wall
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16629
Re: To Ikea, or not to Ikea...Bookcase wall
Here's the thing. IKEA's design is really great. The materials that they build out of (in particular, I'm picking on their melamine and particleboard because that's my business,) not so much. And it has to be that way. Their particleboard has to be more swiss-cheese like than the ones I use in my bu...
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 4:25 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Ah HA! I TOLD you so.....(Color Bias)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14182
Re: Ah HA! I TOLD you so.....(Color Bias)
I found this a bit surprising. I showed my dearly beloved, loud as heck, leopard appy at the lower levels for years. On the whole we got scores that I felt were fair for the rides we put in. In fact, a lot of the time I felt we got "cute points." And this is from well respected judges. I'm...
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 4:04 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Oven disaster. My husband says "ask the horse ladies..."
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13725
Oven disaster. My husband says "ask the horse ladies..."
So, I boiled over a fruit pie at the weekend and burned the subsequent sugary mess apparently irrevocably into thick, shiny carbon on the base plate of my gas oven--my oven is not self cleaning, but this oven is my dessert oven and was therefore immaculate... This part of the oven does come out. How...
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 7:36 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Last weekend
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19247
Re: Last weekend
I have about 4 million deer on my property competing for food with my horses at the moment. We are in a non hunting area, or I would be welcoming the odd hunter with open arms... 12108733_10206169954781330_5580924478789587492_n[1].jpg (That's a good-sized buck down at the back, SueB! And I have a co...
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 4:54 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Last weekend
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19247
Re: Last weekend
PaulaO, yes, they can be very aggressive/protective of their families. The most worrying are cows with calves and bulls during rutting season (which is about now,) and any time they are hungry and feel that you are getting between them and their food source, or between them and their babies, or offe...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 11:36 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Last weekend
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19247
Re: Last weekend
This fellow definitely sent me scuttling back into the house...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:04 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Tell us about YOU.
- Replies: 223
- Views: 202282
Re: Tell us about YOU.
Ah! There you are Piedmont!
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:46 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Last weekend
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19247
Re: Last weekend
They'll be down in my backyard any time soon. I love seeing them, but am not so keen on dodging them to go out to the barn and feed!
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 4:38 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Introducing counter canter
- Replies: 58
- Views: 38307
Re: Introducing counter canter
So, reading through this, and thinking about my own experiences with CC, I do wonder whether we generally try to introduce it in the wrong order, and that it would be much more sensible to develop the balance and strength needed for the simple changes and some degree of collection first.
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 4:28 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Anyone dressing up for Halloween?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 17329
Re: Anyone dressing up for Halloween?
God, no... all I want to do on Haloween is hide at home with the lights off...
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 2:59 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: New horse, need help with a name
- Replies: 41
- Views: 25591
Re: New horse, need help with a name
No suggestions yet, but she's lovely! Very balanced looking, and quite the hunk of horse! Congrats!
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 1:32 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
- Views: 627672
Re: "What's for dinner?"
Roast beef, roast potatoes, brussells sprouts, gravy. Blackberry and apple crumble for desert. Which has apparently overflowed it's dish according to the smoke and smell coming from my oven...
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 12:03 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Goals Thread...
- Replies: 214
- Views: 125359
Re: Goals Thread...
Today's lesson focused on straightness, and adjustability at the canter. Putting together the pieces to make the second level work come together and build a foundation for changes. Physically and mentally quite stretching, working on that school canter to medium canter and back transition, on a circ...
- Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:15 am
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Rustle bucks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6322
Re: Rustle bucks
If he's doing it out of joie de vie you need to tell him to tone it down... This is not a time to be overly sensitive about his feelings, just get his head up. I generally tend to pull harder on one rein than the other to throw them off kilter, and then keep them moving forward. I dislike bucking in...
- Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:36 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: My first lesson on Tucker
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14986
Re: My first lesson on Tucker
"like!"
- Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:16 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: A little porcupine for your weekend...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16792
Re: A little porcupine for your weekend...
To answer some questions... M&M, those are guard hairs. The quills are in a layer closer to the body, and in addition they are covered in coarse hair. We have on big guy who we think is this one's dad who has a completely ridiculous head of hair. He's called Donald, for obvious reasons... Tuffy,...
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:57 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: A little porcupine for your weekend...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16792
Re: A little porcupine for your weekend...
let's try that again!
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:55 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: A little porcupine for your weekend...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16792
A little porcupine for your weekend...
Button is growing:
We do love a tasty apple core:
We do love a tasty apple core:
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:56 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Family get togethers, 2 hours late? A whine...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 31145
Re: Family get togethers, 2 hours late? A whine...
That would just drive me into a screaming tantrum.
Go have that nap now. Sod 'em. They can now wait for you. You are not the maid.
But yeah, I'd stay off the sauce for now if it were me, it might turn off my filter.
Go have that nap now. Sod 'em. They can now wait for you. You are not the maid.
But yeah, I'd stay off the sauce for now if it were me, it might turn off my filter.
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 2:11 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Ripple...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11418
Re: Ripple...
Ah, I love that, Lorilu!
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:51 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
- Views: 627672
Re: "What's for dinner?"
How funny, West. I'm making shepherds pie this evening too, for the first time in ages. I found some ground lamb so it should be yummy.
- Thu Oct 15, 2015 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: What will it take for gun lovers to say ENOUGH
- Replies: 230
- Views: 133880
Re: What will it take for gun lovers to say ENOUGH
If you agreed to the terms of inspection and potential seizure of an improperly stored weapon when you were issued your gun license, I can't see how it would be an issue.
- Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:33 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Introducing counter canter
- Replies: 58
- Views: 38307
Re: Introducing counter canter
Too many jumps in the way for me this evening. Must be patient until Friday, when the hunters leave for their championship show...
- Thu Oct 15, 2015 2:45 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
- Views: 627672
Re: "What's for dinner?"
Sausages, taters, mess o'greens, eventually. Rode this evening, so here it is 8.45 and I'm just cooking now...
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 7:01 pm
- Forum: Tack, Apparel, Facilities and Transportation
- Topic: What is the trick to removing a halter plate?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9430
Re: What is the trick to removing a halter plate?
I will warn you that my DH often puts a dab of Superglue in these when he does them up for me so they don't come undone...
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 2:23 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Ripple...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11418
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 2:10 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
- Views: 627672
Re: "What's for dinner?"
So Quinta, how were the potatoes?
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:56 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: What will it take for gun lovers to say ENOUGH
- Replies: 230
- Views: 133880
Re: What will it take for gun lovers to say ENOUGH
So, okay, your example of the driving too slowly, I might want to do that to people every day on my commute but I know that in my heart, this is wrong. And I wouldn't do it. (I might however, flip said woman off if she is plopping along in the fast lane) My hope then is that she is not the angry pe...
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:52 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: What will it take for gun lovers to say ENOUGH
- Replies: 230
- Views: 133880
Re: What will it take for gun lovers to say ENOUGH
I am originally from England where we have very stringent gun control laws. I now live in Utah... I grew up on a farm. We had shotguns and hunting rifles. Our guns had to be licensed and registered with the local police station and had to be kept in a locked cabinet. After Hungerford, the police wou...
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 5:14 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Kringle exchange?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 26469
Re: Kringle exchange?
Ok, I've never done it before, but I'll play!
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:19 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
- Views: 627672
Re: "What's for dinner?"
Hah, Kathy K!
I will have to pick some brains about smokers sooner or later... We were gifted one by our enthusiastic son. We've managed to smoke a total of one marinated chicken breast in it so far It took us a while to find a safe place out of the ever-present wind to set it up.
I will have to pick some brains about smokers sooner or later... We were gifted one by our enthusiastic son. We've managed to smoke a total of one marinated chicken breast in it so far It took us a while to find a safe place out of the ever-present wind to set it up.
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:30 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Tell us about YOU.
- Replies: 223
- Views: 202282
Re: Tell us about YOU.
Me... 54, a transplanted Brit living up a dirt road on a mountainside in UT (it's a long story!) DH and I own a cabinet and closet company, and I am the chief designer. My education and avocation and original career is as a painter and printmaker, and one day in the not too distant future I intend t...
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:51 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: I'm in!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 85047
Re: I'm in!
It's like old home week around here...
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:49 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
- Views: 627672
Re: "What's for dinner?"
KathyK wrote:Moutaineer wrote:Tonight, we are going out somewhere relatively swanky before the opera (Tosca.) So I get to not cook! I just have to work out what the hell to wear...
Enjoy the opera! If you've never seen Tosca, I advise you to take a hankie.
After years of practice, I'm largely opera-proof. No dying animals.
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:09 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
- Views: 627672
Re: "What's for dinner?"
Tonight, we are going out somewhere relatively swanky before the opera (Tosca.) So I get to not cook! I just have to work out what the hell to wear...
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 3:31 am
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Turnout question
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16382
Re: Turnout question
Well, I'm afraid I bottled out... he's really quite happy where he is and it just seems like tempting fate when everything is going well. Especially at this time of year when everyone is feeling frisky and ripping shoes off left, right and centre. I will reconsider in the spring...
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:53 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: ProudHorse/Panacheart
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9911
Re: ProudHorse/Panacheart
Hi there!
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:47 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Ladies in waiting, foals born and pics added
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18756
Re: Ladies in waiting
They look fabulous, Shirine!
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:42 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Another newbie
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8643
Re: Another newbie
welcome!
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:41 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
- Views: 627672
Re: "What's for dinner?"
Yeah, the scallops were pretty darned good. Marinated in fresh ginger and soy with a spot of brown sugar, wrapped in thin sliced organic bacon, and grilled...Mmm.
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:01 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Home? and what was your first post?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 26749
Re: Home? and what was your first post?
So, it seems to be gone now. How sad. Onwards we go...
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
- Views: 627672
Re: "What's for dinner?"
Scallops, somehow. Wrapped in bacon, maybe, or with some fresh ginger? With baby bok choy and probably CSA spuds. And I have chicken stock.in the making for a butternut squash soup.
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:47 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Goals Thread...
- Replies: 214
- Views: 125359
Re: Goals Thread...
Still working on straightness. My homework this week is a shoulder in at the canter. Now there's an interesting exercise... As a side goal, I have to get comfortable sitting the trot on this big, bouncy boy, and stop dumbing it down. That is going to require me doing some serious core work, but with...
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:31 pm
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Turnout question
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16382
Re: Turnout question
Probably about 4 acres. Lots of room to get away from each other. Highly visible from the entire farm.
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: I'm in!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 85047
Re: I'm in!
Typo, embarrassingly enough... I thought about changing it for here, but reckoned that would be even more confusing!
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:03 pm
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Turnout question
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16382
Turnout question
I guess I'll get this kicked off! So, I have had my new horse since February, He lives at a very nice little boarding barn. His current living situation is turn out all day in his own grassy paddock, in at night--reverse that in the summer. His paddock is bounded on two sides by the mare pasture, bu...
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:48 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: I'm in!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 85047
Re: I'm in!
Hi there!