Western MA, 5 acre pasture with 3 horses on it full time. I'm not supplementing with hay yet because the pasture's still in good shape and they're all fat, but when they start to lose weight I'll supplement with hay for awhile, and then when the water freezes I'll bring them in so they have access t...

Beautiful! How do you prepare the surface of a rock before you paint it? I just wash and dry if it's dirty, and then use acrylic paints. I spray them with an acrylic sealer and let them dry for a couple of weeks before I put them outside. I left some outside all summer and the paint didn't fade, bu...

No, we can not. I have never consented to that content leaving a place where i had control over it, and the ability to delete it if I chose. What good would it do to delete it when it's been up on the board where anyone could copy it? We don't own pictures that someone else took of us without our k...

Plus, the trail is the only place that we get that Big Road Trot, which both mares much prefer to cantering. I love to trot and always wanted to get a trotting Standardbred so I could do it right! Oddly enough, our Halflinger has a great road trot, although both of her mule kids would rather canter...

I'm down to 450K and it still won't import and it's getting hard to make the photos smaller without creating a file that is too large to hold all the pixels. I kept shrinking one I wanted to upload and finally just edited it down to 124K and it uploaded. So I don't really know what the max is, but ...

Mashed potatoes, and apple pie (kinda) for dessert.

Thank you! I do have a hard time putting it down after I've started. I get very focused when I draw, and find it easier if I have a couple hours at a time to work on it. I do think it would be good for me to do again, it helps me get out of my head. Not much else crosses my mind once I get into a p...

Kris, the photo was posted on udbb. Long gone now. She put up two pics. One when the filly was 2 and then a more recent one (8 year?) with the filly standing in a barn aisle. It was medium bay with a little white on the face. Really pretty; my type, which is why I remember her so well. Ah, that exp...

Last one, it wouldn't let me put them all in one post Yes, definitely get out your supplies and make some more, because it would be such a shame to let that kind of talent go to waste. I do most of my painting a few minutes at a time when I'm waiting for the dogs to come back in, or waiting for som...

Kathy Johnson wrote:LOL, thanks Josette!

Now we need another thread for the more serious injuries, and how to cope with them. I won't be able to participate because I don't have any, or at least have fully healed from any I had, unless we're going to count muscle loss as a serious injury!

musical comedy wrote: She did. It was that pretty-faced bay filly. Part arab, I think.

I'll keep looking, as I like to be able to put horse faces with screen names. Was she a bay?

I was an art minor in college (talked about that in my "about me" post). I haven't done many projects in awhile. I got very discouraged when in the separation and divorce I lost every piece of art I had made and still had in my possession at the time. Something like that would be very har...

My reinventing came about as a result of the Triple Crown of Death in my life. I lost both my brothers and my horse within 3 months. I also lost a huge part of my social life since that was entwined with the barn and my so-called barn friends dropped me like a f'in hot potato, including my best fri...

I just can't add anything more in my hands. I have too many things to juggle as it is. The penlight (clicker) can be difficult to use, if he's looking away or we are in a bright room, it doesn't work well. You might be able skip the penlight/marker and just work close enough to him so that you coul...

Last night, I had Bush's baked beans with sliced Hillshire Farm Cheddar Wurst sausage. Let's just say that I'm here to represent the white-trash culinary contingent. I've noticed that it was missing and thought someone should speak up. :lol: I can help with that, as I just had ham salad and tomatoe...

Kande, those rocks are wonderful! And I have so much smashed pottery that I've saved to make mosaics "some day"! I haven't done it in a couple of years, but I fell in love with pottery about 5 years ago, the wheel did not come naturally to me - it's taken awhile, but it has slowly gotten ...

We have started heel, sit, down, stay and come. I use a pen light as a clicker and a vibration collar for "come". It is a struggle to juggle a hyper puppy, pen light, treats and collar remote while also getting the timing. Ay yi yi :shock: We are making some progress, though. Now there's ...

I did arena work after 2 days off and it was okay all things considered. Rocky has started to get her winter coat and I think the heat was annoying her. I found a pic you posted of Demi, but have you posted one of Rocky? I looked, but haven't been able to find anything more about her. I think the s...

Kande, I love those! Someday I want to do a mosaic-tiled rock in similar style to your painted stones, to put in our yard with our house numbers. I smash up all my broken pottery with the idea that I'm going to use the pieces to make something someday. Got into making ceramic buttons for awhile and...

I find it interesting that some of the earlier posts say they feel better bareback. I have enough trouble staying in the saddle. Rode our Halflinger mare out today and what a wiggle worm she is. I thought of this thread and the idea of riding bareback and realized that we wouldn't have been trottin...

Beans cooked with a ham bone, black olives, cheese, lettuce, tomato, on a flour tortilla. I've really been into egg custard with maple syrup lately, so made some in the cooker thing that shall not be mentioned for dessert. The texture is iffy, but it tastes just as good as baked.

I made quite a bit of pottery until I decided that I'd better leave that alone and ride more while I still could. I never got very good at throwing because I was too interested in experimenting with clays and glazes, so as soon as I get tired of riding my plan is to get back to throwing pots. I thou...

P.s. And then there's horse camping which is double fun! We used to do that frequently, and even had a covered wagon that our team of mules pulled. I couldn't stand sitting in the wagon all day so we got a bigger trailer so that I could take a saddle horse, and a truck big enough to put the wagon i...

PaulaO wrote:I just want to say that any thread that mentions mini donkeys or burros is USELESS WITHOUT PICHERS! LOL

My mule (the chestnut) was having a "make her stop looking at me" moment.

My understanding, is that the purpose of soaking was go get the hoof immersed in Epsom salts to draw out the infection. Now that there are gel like gooey Epsom salt poultices, I find these work better. Another possible reason might be to increase the temp inside the hoof to increase the inflammatio...

clanter wrote:I look at it when a person is seeking a shorter horse to get on

Or maybe it's when we start getting the urge to get off when our horse starts acting up?

I don't think I ever voluntarily dismounted during my first 60 years, but have done so more than once in the last 5.

Well I want my own section then (guy/68) :lol: and senior horses, we have a 24 year old who acts like a three old... I think we meant senior riders, or senior horse people! :-) I have some senior horses but they aren't the ones I use for dressage, but that's not going to stop me from butting in her...

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... A friend of mine...

Fatcat wrote:I don't like soaking, I think it turns the hoof to mush.

I thought that was the idea: to soften the hoof so that the abscess would have an easier time working its way out?

I am curious, why do you think pain is better for you than shirt term pain relief?. For me it's the ying-yang thing. I feel like I need to have down days to appreciate the up days (need to experience sorrow to be able to experience joy, need to balance inactivity with activity) so don't medicate if...

What do the rest of you do when the creakies creak up on you? Rest. I'm not a pill person either, so if I overdo it I just take a day or two off until I feel like getting going again. Some moving around helps, and I have to go out and do chores anyway, but sore muscles make me feel tired so I usual...

I felt a bit disheartened that I'm still dealing with some anxiety about riding. I've worked hard on this since my offloading two years ago. But it is what it is. Maybe the best thing about being an older rider is you cease to dwell on one day. That, and I think we've seen and experienced how quick...