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I am currently reading "Eagle in Exile" by Alan Smale. Fiction, but it is book 2 of a trilogy. It is set in AD 1218, and is about a Roman Praetor who is captured by North American Indians. Pretty good so far. :) Yes, I read all three. Really enjoyed them. Some reviewers were "oh, thi...

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Blob - The timing just doesn't work out, unfortunately. The Halfie was gifted to my former trainer, and while she does ride him, she travels on the weekends to teach at other barns, so we're just not there at the same time(s). It's a small barn, and most of the other boarders don't trail ride. I'll ...

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I had a quiet NYE, went to bed around 10:30. So I go down on New Year's Day to ride and BO informs me that since she was concerned about the horse's reactions to any midnight noise, she was dressed and out throwing them some hay around midnight (the barn has housing developments close on three sides...

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Just finished "War of the Wolf" by Bernard Cornwell (historical novel, 10th Century in what-became-England). It's the most recent of a multi-novel series. I try to alternate fiction with non-fiction, so next up is "Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt" by Chris Naunton. I do, ho...

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Queso is so cute - a real 'My Little Pony." My goals. Haaahahahaha. Basically, to (a) survive riding my beastie when he's only ridden 2/max 3 times a week; and (b) teach him to be a trail horse, something he has always had a melt down over. Sigh. Unfortunately, it took him quite a while at his ...

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Shall we all be jealous? Scroll down on Carl Hester's Facebook page and he's giving a lesson to his 11 year old goddaughter on Valegro (an early b'day present for her). Looks like she's a pretty good little rider, too.

https://www.facebook.com/www.carlhester.co.uk

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Ponichiwa Tsavo was banned from the board because of her posts re acupuncture. Ahhhh... So I won't be attacked if I comment that the NFR broncs are looking fat and sassy and happy. ;) (And would you believe my horse has whacked his GOOD hindleg? Of course he has. He's a horse!) It iooks like just e...

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Mark has always been an edgy, hyper-alert horse. We succeeded at showing 2nd level, but not brilliantly. I believe our best score was a 65%. more often 60-62% (Oh noes, we wouldn't be able to do a freestyle!). A big part of the problem showing was that edginess. He'd be tense at most venues, but obe...

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While Mark has adjusted fairly well to his new paddock/run-in shed arrangement*, he has been a nervous wreck under saddle. He's been at his new home one week, so admittedly, early days. I rode him the Sunday he was moved and the following Wednesday (used up my "floating holiday" from work,...

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My horse has a full brother. He's by Aul Magic (Arabian) out of Confetti's Red Rose (90% foundation bred Appaloosa). My horse is chestnut/snowflake blanket/socks/blaze. His brother is a chestnut leopard. My guy is 16.2, hs brother 17 hands. Both are/were very good movers. I don't know about personal...

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I used to trailer my horse weekly for lessons, and after the first time or two, it became a non-event. I agree with Blob. If you do it regularly, it won't be that stressful because it will become part of the routine. (My roundtrip was about 44 miles)

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Ah, Mari, love 'em all, but especially the spotty ones! Lovely pics. My humorous moment yesterday: Moved the horsie. My old trailer hasn't moved in 3 years, plug rusted so no turn/brake lights, don't trust it, so hired local trainer to haul him. My old trailer is a slant with the divider removed, so...

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My farrier - a rerun since he went on walkbout several years ago, then I "re-hired" him when his replacement passed away - called me this morning at work. "If it isn't one thing it's another." (Roseanne Roseannadanna) He was a few days late - I try to keep to a strict 6 week sche...

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I should mention that the mare won the CDS Sport Horse Championship for her age group as a weaning (open), and had the third highest score in the show. I'm not sure how big she us, but the sire is 16.2 and dam is an Oldenburg. Her name is Confetti's Cottontail ("Bunny") because she was bor...

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Okay. This isn't MY progress, but at least someone with an Appy is making progress. LOL This is my horse's "cousin" (same grandsire). She's 4 or 5 years old, owned and ridden by a 14 year old. The horse is quite green, to my knowledge. She's very hesitant the first few fences, but around f...

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Wow. That is truly annoying. I agree, bait and switch. As you know, I started some jumping lessons lately, and they were certainly much more upfront and responsible, and it's just a little lesson program at a big boarding barn with multiple trainers - the kind that runs a summer camp for kids as we...

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Poor Annabelle. Thankfully, from what you've said, her prognosis is better than my guy's. So the stabling saga continues. NONE of the stables in the area that are affordable and have a suitable stall paddock arrangement are available. Strangely, one said, "I'm out of town, back next week, call ...

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A place to keep my horse, not too far from home, not too expensive, with a covered arena.........I've struck out at four places already - too full or too expensive. Hitting the road this weekend, in search of....a "unicorn" barn?

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My last horse, Erik, always got excited about "going for a trailer ride." But it was not crazy, just more like a dog when you say, "Walkies?!?" He whoop around a little then come to the fence and eagerly wait for me to get hitched up, stand quietly while I put on the shipping boo...

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Well, &*%*()@%!!!! I just received a letter from the BOs saying they are shutting down as of 1/1/19. They are entitled to their retirement, but don't tell me they didn't have this in the works long before yesterday. Now there will be about 17 people scrambling to find new boarding arrangements i...

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Wow. That is truly annoying. I agree, bait and switch. As you know, I started some jumping lessons lately, and they were certainly much more upfront and responsible, and it's just a little lesson program at a big boarding barn with multiple trainers - the kind that runs a summer camp for kids as wel...

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Ryeissa wrote:Yikes! How scary

It was! It happened so fast, I can't believe I escaped unscathed. Well, at least I kinow "whoa!" sorta works.

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Had a very odd weekend. Rode Mark early on Saturday and he was laid back and we walked around the (small) property for 45 mins. Then off to the jumping lesson. Again, a course of x-es, different instructor, but it is sort of gratifying that despite the fact that the fences are tiny, I seem to be get...

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Finally had an actual jumping lesson. LOL Same horse I had that strenuous flat class on. Mostly just little "x"s, and while I didn't get left I was a bit wonky over the first few and had to grab mane until I began to get my eye back. Eventually we did some little courses, also all "x&...

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Well, progress of a sort. First, while I hold out no great hope that my horse will come sound, the lump on/of his injured suspensory is waay down. (this after three years). After the visit to Davis, he had yet another shockwave treatment, but I also started giving him a supplement called "Total...

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Yes, the volunteers were wonderful, especially Abby in the ticket office who was dealing with refunds, exchanging tickets after the freestyle was cancelled, etc. Unfortunately, in that capacity, she was the ONLY one who seemed to really know what she was doing, so the lines were a bit discouraging. ...

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North Peak in Walnut Creek (formerly Castle Rock/Leap of Faith, etc.) That place changes names so often it's hard to keep track! The lesson program is run by a gal name Deb Henry.

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Well, Seven Oaks may work - but it's a long drive for me, and their availability on weekend is minimal. The other choice is just as far in another direction, and I know from others' experience in the past, that while I may get good lessons there, I will also be pressured to buy a $$$$$ horse from th...

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Since my horse will never show again, I took the flash off his bridle. However, even when I used it schooling, it was never tight. My horse was never particularly evasive of the bit, but when he was young and green, a loosely fastened flash just reminded him not to open his jaw too much. He's always...

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My first two horses were mares. I moved on not because they were mares, but because of very specific issues: The first had talent as a jumper, but hated to jump! The second, purchased as a green 4 year old just trotting over x-es, turned out to be a klutz. Dangerously so. By then I was eventing, and...

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Haven't noticed a thread on WEG. Anyone - besides me - go? I saw the Grand Prix and Grand-Prix Special (sadly, freestyle cancelled due to weather considerations), the eventing cross-country and stadium, the show jumping team final and the driving marathon. If I brought a horse home with me, it would...

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Re" Treason: We are basically in a cyberwar with Russion and others, so.......

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A friend who lives in Aiken drove down to Georgia and helped drive people to the polls to get out the vote against Moore.

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The only things Trumplethinskin lacks to become a total fascist are his military parade and a fancy uniform dripping with gold braid. Cadet Bone Spurs, indeed! I'm glad my uncle has long since passed. He served in the WWII in the Philippines. He'd be disgusted by this vicious, childish poseur.

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The wall is pointless and impossible. To throw out a change-up on "if you build it, they will come," - "If you build it, they will find a way over/under/around it." The vast majority of "illegal aliens" came to this country legally, and just overstayed their visas, etc....

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Well, shirrene - I'm leaving Sunday from San Francisco for the WEG, staying with friends in Aiken, and then a rented house in Tryon. my email is marrujosc@gmail.com. Give me an email sometime and maybe we can hookup at the WEG. I used to have a friend who lived in Bendigo, but we lost touch quite a ...

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So it's just an animated film, based on Munro Leaf's children's book (which I loved as a kid and which had marvelous illustrations by Robert Lawson. Also the author and illustrator of Mr. Revere and I, the story of Paul Revere's horse). HOWEVER, I was torn between cracking up and simultaneously sayi...

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Some intelligent and some very dumb comments on that article. One woman was saying it couldn't be "ancient" because prehistoric horses had three toes. Ummm......30,000 years ago - that is, I believe, the Pleistocene, the era of the modern single-toed horse. She's probably only off by a few...

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I just finished "Out of the Clouds," about Stymie and Hirsch Jacobs, and just wanted to say how much I enjoyed it. There were some reviewers who complained that it "wasn't enough about the horse," but a book like this is as much a social history as the story of a champion racehor...

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I don’t know if she has school horses. It’s been at least 28 years since I last saw her!! But maybe she could be talked into giving lessons on one of her horses, if she had one that was suitable. I boarded with them before Carolyn even got into dressage. She had a little QH stallion named Buzzy Bar...

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Hot4spots, I would try both trainers for a while if you can, and then decide. Too bad you don’t live closer to Pleasanton. I boarded at Yarra Yarra for several years and I really like Carolyn Adams. Actually, Pleasanton is closer than either of the other two leads I was following. I know Carolyn, b...

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G Talking of leopards, it started hailing here a minute ago and my old appy, Walker, who tells me he "can't canter properly at all, no really, not one step" has just gone streaking past my office window towards his shelter, not a bunny-hop behind to be seen... Yes indeed, it is cold and w...

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Okay, so after the visit to Davis and their verdict, my beautiful guy is going to have to go into semi-retirement and try to learn to be a trail horse (so far, he disagrees). But despite the fact that I'm a "Little Old Lady," I'd like to continue to progress, even if only in teeny-teeny st...

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Opinions needed: I can either drive a longish way (I think about 1.5 hours) and take some lessons on schoolmasters, or drive 40 minutes* and do the same. The 1.5 hour away one, I don't know anything about, so have to investigate. The closer one, hmmm....well. Friend/low level trainer speaks well of ...

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Oh my, Chisamba, Musical Comedy. I've been bitching about how hot it is out here (San Francisco Bay Area, East Bay), but while there are occasionally humid days, they're nothing like you're describing. I will stop complaining. I was so down after the UC Davis verdict, even thought I kinda knew it wa...

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I retired Walker from dressage because I reached the point where I couldn't keep him sound enough, even with regular injections and assorted pharmaceuticals. He had so much try, he'd always really give it a go, but one day in a lesson, I looked at my trainer and said, "no, this is futile, we a...

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Well it turns out I do have pneumonia. The radiologist had a look at my X-rays and the hospital called me this morning. They’ve prescribed 2 antibiotics which hopefully won’t make me vomit and fingers crossed I’ll be feeling better soon. This is Day 9 of being flat out. Onward and upward. I felt &q...

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Kande - you sound like the conversation going around in my head - If I can just get him "going down the road" and into the open space, I can stand doing the same (relatively level) ride over and over again. I'm right next to Mt. Diablo (SF Bay Area), so the areas I can take him are limited...

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Hot4spots, is he in pain? I personally would not keep an animal confined and in pain for another ten years. Perhaps I sound particularly harsh but as cruel as nature is, predators pick off the slow, sore and weak and it is better at that than we are. Edited to add, I believe in giving horses a happ...

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Well, it's over. We went to UC Davis. X-rays, ultrasound, etc. Severe CHRONIC suspensory desmitis, i.e., it ain't gonna get better. Ever. We got momentarily hopeful when there appeared to be a bone chip - maybe that's the culprit! Nope. No evulsion, no fracture. It's an osseous formation WITHIN the ...

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