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Amado

Oh my gosh, I have the same thing. It's going around work. Two weeks now, and I keep feeling like it's getting worse! Coughing wakes me up in the middle of the night. Throat is not as bad as yours. Ive always gargled with either warm water or warm tea. Ibuprofen helps too.

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This is what has worked for me - Betadine scrub daily, (rinse and dry) followed by Miconozole Nitrate 2% (which you can buy either as a "jock itch" cream, or you can buy the Monistat 7 type of stuff made for yeast infections.). That and trying, if possible, to keep the area from staying mo...

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Oh wow, that's just awful. Best wishes for a fast recovery!

Amado

Thank you for all your kind words! I think the key to a successful portrait painting (I paint from photographs) is finding the right photograph to work from. I picked this photo out of probably 20 or so that the person sent me - the focus has to be good, and the light has to be interesting - good hi...

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I did a portrait commission this year - finished it up just in time to send off before Christmas. Image size is 9.5" x 10.5". http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/kjodi/kjodi071/image_zpsfybcxgmp.jpeg I also took some photos in progress, and put them together in a video (need to set up a...

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So is your horse falling out through the left shoulder? (Does the Circle have a tendency to enlarge when you track right?) You could experiment and try some counter bending (at the trot first) to see if that helps. My horse also throws me to the outside at the canter to the right (his haunches swing...

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demi wrote:I think the main thing I got from it was that it built our communication.

Yes! All the ground work has been fantastic for that. And some days, when I'm tired, or when I just don't feel like riding (especially if it's cold) I still seem to have the energy to do that.

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One other word of warning - whatever you do, don't used the lines that connect - make sure your lines are separate. It is so very easy to get tangled up in it all when things go wrong - they get the line up under their tail, or they do a flying leap and get one between a back leg. Rico still flips o...

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I have done lot of long lining/double lunging in the past with Rico - its a great skillset to expand on, and it's a lot of fun! I still do some, but I feel like it had more value early on in his training, I tend to see the limitations more now than I did then (but perhaps that's just me!) - so pleas...

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Wow!!!

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Ok, I am confused by this conversation. According to the US eventing website, the new vaccination rule was to keep competitons from requiring extra vaccinations - not make people vaccinate more? http://useventing.com/news/new-usef-vaccination-rule "Due to several high profile Equine Herpes (EHV...

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Here is a small clip of some counter canter while we were working on flying changes a couple of days ago. Unfortunately my video person had to leave, so the camera is just sitting on the edge of the arena. There is a flying lead change that you can hear and can sort of see, right in front of the cam...

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Yes, I was pleased. Along with the "doing it thinking half pass", she also had me aid him occasionally on the shoulder (I used the whip, but she sometimes uses her knee or her toe) - which really helped him to get the idea of stepping the shoulders around. I think sometimes I have trouble ...

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Do you have anything by Phillipe Karl?

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I've been working this mostly from the walk, but do sometimes go in and out of the trot. Was starting to try to get some passage steps out of this (he has to be much more fired up than he was in this video to get that) I haven't had very many lessons on piaffe, (and none on passage) and had mostly r...

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I had a lesson the other day - first dressage one in a long while. Rico was very good boy, except for a couple of minutes part way through when he completely spazzed out as they started bringing the horses in for dinner. Two ponies came flying in the man door, made a ton of noise on the gravel, and ...

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I managed to get somebody to take a quick three videos on my phone of some piaffe work today, and these are the only three passes we did (so they are cold with no schooling before besides WTC). I do not feel like it is our "best" work, but I have a question, so I am sharing it! They are in...

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found this online:

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Amado

Migraine Meal. I like that. (and yes, it can't be diet, it has to be real)

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and yes - A super fizzy iced coke or pepsi, (and here's the weird thing) - a McDonalds CHEESEBURGER - that will sometimes make it go away if I catch it quick enough. I never go to McDonalds, but I get an abslute craving for those two things when I have the start of a headache.

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Boy oh boy, I get the resistance. It's crazy, but for some reason, I resist, too. Omgosh. This is totally me, even with just the OTC medication. (I think it's excedrin migraine) I keep telling myself I don't like the way I feel when I take it, if it isn't going to work - but also because it tastes ...

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I've started keeping track of mine, and their seems to be a monthly pattern to them, with ear ringing, and that PMS feeling of despair I used to get a few days before it happens. (and I can't decide if the despair is related or if its just panic because of the stress of my husbands unexpected unempl...

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I have always wondered if using a pole for the changes might teach the horse to change in front first.

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I have been the rider in that situation, as well as the horse owner. It's worked out wonderfully.

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Thanks for all of the suggestions! (what the heck is 00 flour?)

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I gave my bread machine away years ago. Got tired of trying to find space to store it, and every time I made a loaf, I'd eat it all waaay too quickly. WIth butter and honey...!

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Except for the time I did the overnight no knead artisan bread recipe in a dutch oven from the NYT, my yeast breads are never as "chewy" as I'd like - especially the pizza dough. I'm wondering if its because I'm not actually working it enough to get the texture I like. Do any of you make b...

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Holy cow.

Hope you feel better soon!

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chantal wrote:You are awesome. Thank you for sharing.

I agree.

Amado

Oh. This made me cry. What a sweet looking pony. And a wonderful tribute.

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orono wrote:Phoenix Rising?

That's the first thing that came to my mind. I like it.

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Wonderful! A happy happy birthday to him!

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Who is that in the video? His hands are awful.

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I think I missed that one the first time around!

:lol

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Funny. I had wondered why all three movies showed up on Amazon Prime a few weeks ago. I watched the first one again, such a fun movie. Guess I need to watch the second one tonight!

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We've got one good side (Left to right) that I can almost always get, the other (R-L) is coming along, I find I get it better if really think about keeping the impulsion, and make sure he is sort of up in his neck (that's probably not the right terminology) - that side also sometimes better if I do ...

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I introduced the changes in 2-point when she was 4. We'd canter around a big arena or field and I'd ask for a change with a shift in my leading leg/weight whenever the canter felt ready. This was all well and good, until I was showing 1st level and got 4 flying changes in the single loop. Whoops. :...

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Love the Lusitano cross. Aren't they fun?!

I'm glad so many people are participating in this thread. I've already had to look a couple names up to figure out who (from the old board) is posting!

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I am mostly letting my trainer work directly on the changes while I do the homework away from the changes that helps the changes. That said, I occasionally can't resist looking at them myself and they are getting easier and clearer for both mare and me. Miss mare is being very calm about the whole ...

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Chisamba wrote:i try to be flexible based on what the horse seems to find the easiest way to learn

That makes a lot of sense.

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I just wrote a huge post in that other thread, haha! This is slightly off topic, but I find the mechanics of flying changes fascinating. I think we had a thread about this in the old forum - My biggest fear in the flying changes is the dreaded front/hind change, it's the one that you see a LOT in th...

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One more set of random thoughts - about counter canter. I've heard both "don't do too much counter canter before you teach changes" and "you need a solid counter canter before you teach the changes". I did it the second way. I got help from a professional with excellent timing wh...

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I think you are right, Mountaineer, balance and strength and some degree of collection first - Counter canter doesn't show up in the tests til 2nd level. A few random thoughts from an adult amateur who has been working towards lead changes for a long time (not even sure they belong in this thread!) ...

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You are in Ludington?! I love Ludington! We spent our honeymoon there (almost 30 years ago!) - my husband's grandparents had a summer cottage at Epworth. The lake is so beautiful, and that state park north of there. Can't remember tht name. There was a fun ice cream place, house of flavors, or somet...

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I really like the name Rosette. It suits her. I would call her that!

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I have tried about every discipline- and I do everything with my horses- regardless of the fact that they are really not appropriate for some of it! We do hunter stuff, jumper stuff, cow work, hunting, eventing, obstacle courses, etc. I used to do WP, gaming, competitive trail... I have always thou...

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That's beautiful, Rosie - I love how you made the eyes blue!

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Wow. Beautifully written. Hope you are keeping all of your horse stories - they'd make a fantastic book. I rode a horse like that a few times when I was riding for an old racehorse trainer - every new thing, he would completely explode. Got so we could walk/trot/center on the lunge line, me riding, ...

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I used to make these intricate braided horse-hair and seed bead bracelets, but they took far too long (and my eyes got old :D) and I haven't done any in ages. But I still have a ton of beads (because you can never go into a bead store and buy just one thing) so I recently made a simpler bracelet for...

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What a sweet looking horse, and you look so happy!

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