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Its been another hit and miss couple if months for me healthwise. Covid really kicked my butt and compounded my respiratory issues, but I now feel like I've got some solid medical and therapeutic help moving forward who actually understand the struggle. Its damned hard to do this sport if you can't ...

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What a horrendous situation, Tanga. I can't offer any advice but get thee to a specialist in family law, but I can offer my sincere best wishes that you can get her to safety.

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Lol...

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Well, that's a poor excuse

Congratulations and best wishes to the whole family!

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Excellent ride today which was just what I needed. He was relaxed and cooperative and "with me" with minimal angst on either of our parts. The speech pathologist has given me some breathing exercises to do on horseback. It's been interesting and caused a certain amount of ear swiveling and...

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I'm so sorry, Flight, for your injury and your family's loss. Wishing you speedy and uncomplicated healing. And thats a lovely picture!

Wishing all of you, wherever you are, a peaceful, safe and wonderful Christmas.

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SF, thanks for the review! The Acavallos seem to have different sized nubbins in different pictures on the web, which is rather confusing! The STS ones look a bit too complicated to me and not dressage legal means switching things out for showing, so no... I do like the turned eye. I find it much ki...

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A question about stirrups. Who uses safety stirrups? If so, what? I'm most interested in the Rid'up ones. I like a stirrup turned at a 90 degree angle to the eye and I thing the technology where the whole foot breaks away from the leather makes more sense than the ones that open down the side and by...

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Spirulina is one thing I haven't tried! Thank you for that thought. Can't hurt, might help! Off to order some now.

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Flei looks cooperative and willing, Chisamba. Lovely pictures Straightforward. Tesla has turned into quite a chunk, hasn't she! Queso just looks so damned cute! Potters and his next-door stall neighbor are both covered in hives today. No rhyme or reason that we can discern that just the two of them ...

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Totally agree on the temperament. I'd rather have an agreeable, cooperative horse than a really fancy one. My trainer has Covid, poor woman. Assistant trainer set up a trot pole pattern for us to play with.today. We haven't done that before. Potters got pretty into it. Not a spook to be contemplated...

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I'm so sorry about your dog, Chisamba. That must have been devastating. I think bend is probably something we all work on, once we get to the level of sophistication in our riding that we understand the concept. Bending honestly through the body going to the right is one of (the last of) Potters' ex...

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Chantal, sorry things didn't go entirely according to plan for you, but it's all experience. Lovely pictures, however. I must admit I tend to just noodle about without showing goals, so they are a good focus for me, even if I also suck at showing. I keep thinking that if I do it more, maybe I'll get...

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Following along here. I'm having some breathing issues and voice problems which are a bit of a drag. I'm on some meds for an infection which are kicking my butt a bit, and started work with a speech pathologist last week. So my emphasis for a while when I ride is going to be to work on my breathing ...

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I sneaked out and watched Mike Osinski teach a clinic this afternoon. I'm always happy to go to one of these things and pick up the odd useful nugget or have my own understanding solidified--and see if this is a person I would like to work with given the opportunity. I liked him a lot. I'd be happy ...

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I've had a bit of a difficult week health-wise, and I've also had a couple of major work deadlines but I did make it to the barn today and had a nice, if a little briefer than I would have liked, ride before I ran out of air. Potters was very kind to me... I do have to say that my diligent out of th...

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Blob, I know its hard, but if you live and ride for long enough, you are bound to have those years. It is discouraging, but at some point in the future you can look back and realize that there was something positive to be learned. I'm not calling this year anything yet... there's another few weeks t...

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SF, I can't ever seem to find whole ducks around here. I can get frozen duck breasts, which are OK. I haven't done them for a while. I should put them back on the list!

Dinner was good. Leftovers will be good today, too!

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There's just the two of us this year. I'm doing stuffed turkey tenderloins wrapped in bacon with roast potatoes, sprouts and carrots, and gravy, and cranberry sauce (for which I now realize I forgot the orange. I will have to brave the store tomorrow.) Its all the turkey flavors without the giant bi...

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Nice, Aleuronx! I do like your pole exercises, Chisamba. I'll bet your students love them! Nice ride today. Blue skies and sunshine if a little chilly. One more day of this and then winter starts to rev up. I seem to be adjusting to the new saddle fit and I don't hurt tonight. Potters thought yester...

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I hope Annabel is feeling much better, SF! (For some reason, though I've never met her, I feel rather fond of Annabel!) Yeah on the behind-the-leg horse being entirely detrimental to the seat and position--and it's such a vicious circle, especially if one has a less than perfect seat to start with. ...

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You can certainly build the back and shoulder muscles and minimize the look, but wither conformation is wither conformation (unless you are Potters. who would have quite the sharkfin if he still had the top of his withers intact but now has a slope and a crater, like a cross section through a volcan...

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Congratulations, Mari!

Looking as splendid as ever on that spotty boy!

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SF, I would say that she is looking much better. If I were going to offer my inexpert opinion, I would say that she's still has some overall body tension which is stopping her from really letting go over her back and hind end and being more elastic and squishy. She obviously has the athletic ability...

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LSP, sounds like a good plan for Lynx. It really is a puzzle untangling what is affecting what at any one time sometimes. But I do believe that the best thing you can do with a functionally sound horse is appropriate steady work with an eye towards it being physical therapy. On the subject of which....

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I'm sorry, Khall.

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Oh, I completely understand the "why." I was expecting something. But it doesn't make it any easier to swallow coughing up an extra $250 a month.

Nice show report, exvet!

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Thank you, Chisamba. You are probably right! Urgh. Board has just gone up by 25%. That's a lot of money. I just had lunch with a friend of mine from another barn and hers has gone up by a similar amount. I understand it, but that's a big jump in one go. Barn availability not helped by a local equest...

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By golly my abs are on fire tonight. I've been doing some pilates as well as some more aerobic exercise.(back on the trampoline!) And I think my best ride ever on Potters today. (And my longest and most intense in at least 2 months.) What a superstar he was. Actually I think he's been a total star f...

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Well, I'm feeling much better, so now I need to get back in shape (wah!) and ride my horse.

I need to refine my understanding of connection, collection and impulsion.

I need to continue to work on my position and alignment.

You know, just learning how to ride, really...

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All I have to say about the last two months is. Oh, well. Man plans, the gods laugh. But, all was not lost. Potters has been in full training for the past two months and I'm really pleased with what they have done. It's all been about rideability and adjustability and building topline and strength. ...

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Posted before I saw recent updates!

Jingling madly for Brandon--always scary stuff.

Thanks for the clinic update SF!

Blob, work suddenly got very busy for me too. What with that and not feeling that great, life has been a bit of a struggle. But at least I can pay the board bill...

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Flight, I do so love your spotty horse! I hope the move goes as smoothly as these things can. Easier when you are upsizing than downsizing, at any rate! How did day 2 of the clinic go? SF. She was meant to be here a couple of weeks ago, but things intervened, and she has been postponed. I'm now comp...

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I liked it when we had 4 tests per level to pick from. With just 3, the middle one always gets ignored and I usually feel like the test writers skimped on it a bit too. But the jump between the first test of the level and the third can be quite a big one. I let Justin do a quick warm up, but I actua...

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I've ridden 3 days this week. Today didn't happen... combination of very sick kitty needing emergency vet trip and a client flying in for a meeting. I'm paralyzed with exhaustion this evening. Still sitting at the dinner table surrounded by dirty dishes and lacking the oomph to do anything about it....

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I drove to the barn, groomed, tacked up, and by then I was toast, so I didn't get on today. Justin rode him (very well) and I sat and watched. As it was just the two of us, I had the chance to ask Justin a lot of questions about how he was riding him--specifically the fact that I feel like I'm naggi...

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Back on my horse today for the first time in 6 or 7 weeks. It felt like home. I'm completely wiped out from 20 minutes of walking and a couple of circles of trot.

My request to trainer is back to basics and let's not continue band-aiding over my holes.

I'm going to be sore later...

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Nice pic, Chisamba! Well, I'm not quite up to riding yet. I will try and get on for a pony ride at the end of his training session on Thursday and see how that goes. I did go out and watch yesterday. I've had time over the past few weeks to think through what I believe we need to be working on based...

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Thank you. As always, some things that ring a bell...

(I don't know how the organizers of these symposia get away with them being such an ongoing sh*tshow. You'd think they would have done enough of them by now to have some idea of how to do it.)

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My husband is much older than me, so I face the reality that unless I fall on my head, I'm going to outlive him. At which point, I think I'm going to be looking to do something like this while I'm still able to make my own decision and find a place I like. Tough around here, though. There really doe...

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I tested negative this morning. Let's hope it sticks this time. Still feeling a bit weak and watery so don't think I will be leaping onto a horse tomorrow, but with any luck, later in the week.

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I am so sorry Tanga.

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Well, double ugh. I tested positive again this morning. And I feel rotten. Apparently, there is such a thing as Covid rebound. Who knew? I have far too much to do (like earning a living) to be in this state. Tanga, I hope your old mare is doing better. It's so hard to know what to do with these oldi...

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Exvet. You went, you did it. You are doing very much better than 90% if not more of the dressage riding world. This stuff is hard when you get to this level, and I certainly notice the difference in my aging body. Chisamba, I'm sorry you have to make such a difficult decision. The very worst part of...

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Well I was happily revved up to go ride this morning, but DH just tested positive. As I have one barnmate who has just gone through chemo for a brain tumor and my trainer is in line for hip surgery, and we are all stuck inside because it is pouring with rain, I'm exercising an abundance of caution a...

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Negative covid test and feeling much better today!

Well a clean sweep at regionals for our barn in training level--AA Champion and reserve, Open Champion. Very proud of all the riders and baby horses.

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At least its a client with a legit problem, exvet. Not like the interior designer who even though she's been told I'm sick has called me 3 times this week about her bloody closet rod color.

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Good luck at Regionals, Exvet! Our gang made it down there yesterday in one piece but are stunned by how hot it is. 3 of them straight in the deep end tomorrow morning with Training level Champs, AA and open. I hope your wrist is improving, Tanga. Still not feeling too fabulous here. Improved but me...

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Sounds like the comments I have got this year Zevida. "Capable pair but needs more impulsion and engagement." Once I got over being prickly about it (felt better than that to me!) and heard it from more than one judge, I reckoned its good to get an impartial view and know what I need to wo...

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Damn, Tanga! Sending you healing vibes. Well done Zevida. That is a very respectable score. LSP, I'm always suprised by how quickly some joint injections work. Good deal that he had a good roll. Thats a very positive sign. I think you are going to be pleased with how well you can control this and ho...

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