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- Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:04 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Tell us about YOU.
- Replies: 223
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Re: Tell us about YOU.
Ah! There you are Piedmont!
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:46 pm
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- Topic: Last weekend
- Replies: 26
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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: 38175
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
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- Topic: Anyone dressing up for Halloween?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 17297
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
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- Topic: New horse, need help with a name
- Replies: 41
- Views: 25500
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
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- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
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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: 125102
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: 6302
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
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- Topic: My first lesson on Tucker
- Replies: 16
- Views: 14952
Re: My first lesson on Tucker
"like!"
- Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:16 am
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- Topic: A little porcupine for your weekend...
- Replies: 22
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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
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- Topic: A little porcupine for your weekend...
- Replies: 22
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Re: A little porcupine for your weekend...
let's try that again!
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:55 pm
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- Topic: A little porcupine for your weekend...
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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
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- Topic: Family get togethers, 2 hours late? A whine...
- Replies: 51
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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
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- Topic: Ripple...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11395
Re: Ripple...
Ah, I love that, Lorilu!
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:51 am
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- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
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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
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- Topic: What will it take for gun lovers to say ENOUGH
- Replies: 230
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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: 38175
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
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- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
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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: 9410
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
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- Topic: Ripple...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11395
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 2:10 am
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- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
- Replies: 808
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Re: "What's for dinner?"
So Quinta, how were the potatoes?
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 9:56 pm
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- Topic: What will it take for gun lovers to say ENOUGH
- Replies: 230
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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
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- Topic: What will it take for gun lovers to say ENOUGH
- Replies: 230
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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
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- Topic: Kringle exchange?
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- Views: 26422
Re: Kringle exchange?
Ok, I've never done it before, but I'll play!
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 7:19 pm
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- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
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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
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- Topic: Tell us about YOU.
- Replies: 223
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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
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- Topic: I'm in!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 84841
Re: I'm in!
It's like old home week around here...
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 4:49 pm
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- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
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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
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- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
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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: 16348
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
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- Topic: ProudHorse/Panacheart
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Re: ProudHorse/Panacheart
Hi there!
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:47 am
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- Topic: Ladies in waiting, foals born and pics added
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18710
Re: Ladies in waiting
They look fabulous, Shirine!
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:42 am
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- Topic: Another newbie
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Re: Another newbie
welcome!
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:41 am
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- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
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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
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- Topic: Home? and what was your first post?
- Replies: 45
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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
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- Topic: "What's for dinner?"
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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
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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: 16348
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
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- Topic: I'm in!
- Replies: 128
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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: 16348
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
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- Topic: I'm in!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 84841
Re: I'm in!
Hi there!