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Don't most couples have registries now? If so, they almost always include inexpensive items in with the more expensive ones, and I would think an option would be for a group of friends or family members to go in together on a gift .

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Looks like the indoor accessory is $60, although I didn't read all the specs to see if anything else would be needed. Soloshot says it only tracks to 100' indoors, so it would probably need to be set up in the center of most indoors.

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So I harvested one of the last cabbages from the garden and shredded it for coleslaw. There was some left over, and when I tried it the next day it was stingy, and not just a little but stingy, but really stingy! This is the first time all summer that this has happened, and I still don't know why th...

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For me, the reward is the feeling I get when I'm on the horse and we are working together. I think that's the reward for us, and probably for them too, because that's when they're experiencing the fewest/least aversives. I find it kind of sad to think that the only rewards the horse gets are releas...

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I think we have so much to still learn about those dynamics....what happens in that physical conversation is like our dressage ocean. Like the gap in science between outer space and the ocean....we know a lot more about what's outside our planet than we know of our own oceans! I think that we've on...

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Thanks redsox, I struggle with letting her tell me how far she can go because I picture her in my mind as a ballerina dressage horse. REALISTICALLY, she's a neat little trail horse and doesn't mind doing some arena work once or twice a week. I am the one who feels that I would be "relegating&q...

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Hopefully, not too good to be true:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/hea ... e21021695/

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Nope. Never happened to any horses I knew. It was rampant around here when people first started using it. In fact, the warning is still on the package insert, which must be for horses who don't get dewormed often enough, because we only saw the reaction the first time we used ivermectin and haven't...

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I finally got out and rode my horse and it was fun and easy just as I knew it would be, so now I just need to keep it up. So I have one tiny little goal for the challenge (that I, for some reason, insist upon making into a mountain): change my clothes, go out and get my horse, brush the mud off, put...

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I'm reading through these thinking, "This is insane!" I've owned horses over 50 years and never heard of this and these! Don't you remember when ivermectin first came out and you used it for the first time and most horses' midlines, and sometimes their entire underneck swelled up from the...

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Ponichiwa wrote:
In good news, a glass of wine at ~120 calories is pretty easy to budget in. And, in my experience, is worth the lightly dressed green salad for lunch.

Wine doesn't add all that many calories, but it does make my resolve a bit too fuzzy (as in destroys it).

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Recently, I started doing the Benny and Joon thing by vacuming prior to getting in, way more thorough but still not perfect. I just started vacuuming the bed, too. I like to get really sleepy before I get in bed because then I'll knock right off, so don't really want to have to dog wrestle to get t...

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Still working on lie down, been getting the behavior but not yet consistent or on command. When I first started clicker training I was really into teaching mine to bow, because it was a complex enough behavior that it was a challenge, but it was something none of them already knew how to do, so whe...

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I like clicker training because there are so many different ways to do it. One can sit in a chair in the middle of the ring, or on the other side of the fence, and click behaviors and then drop the treat in a bucket. Or, one can do in hand work and just click the highlights, or clicker train from th...

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angela9823 wrote:He finds that sand and brings it back to bed. I'm having to change sheets almost daily.

I just gave up on keeping the grit out of the bed and started wearing pj's so that I can't feel it.

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I just had butternut squash with butter and maple syrup for my mid-morning snack. Normally I eat it without the butter, which may be why I haven't been eating as much of it....

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I say yes. Major Onetrick says no. I feel like crap every time I tell Sophie that she can't get on the bed. And I resent my husband for it. Best thing we ever did was to set up another bed in another room way over in the other part of the house. The idea was that when the snoring got unbearable the...

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Pizza again, with homemade crusts out of the freezer topped with chopped black olives, ground up stewed tomatoes, and sharp cheddar (because that's what I had).

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You'd have to reduce daily caloric intake by 500 calories a day to lose 1 pound in a week. That's a big calorie reduction. That's why weight loss is slow. IMO, slower is better, because it's the most effective way to change one's eating habits in a way that can be sustained. I yoyo dieted for years...

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cut back the salt as much as possible. I went on a low salt diet one time and started losing weight right away because the food was so bland. Not to mention that my already low blood pressure got so low that the nurse checked it 3 times. But it wasn't a no salt shaker diet, but a true low salt diet...

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Weigh and write down everything you eat every day for a week. Then go back and add up the calories, just to give you some idea of whether it's a metabolism problem, or an excess calories problem. Eating healthy is one thing, but cutting enough calories to lose weight is another entirely. I don't hav...

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My horse rubbed out a piece of his mane right in the middle of his neck, so I decided to just cut the whole thing off and let him start over again. He's going to look funny when it starts growing out again, but probably not as funny as it looked with that piece rubbed out. I knew about neck threadwo...

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I can't believe this weather either! Last night was a bit ominous with the wind, but the weekend is going to be beautiful again. I can't believe it's November, and I'll be out riding in the leaves again this weekend! I missed a full week of great riding weather with the flu, and about the time I st...

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I get someone to tip the hoof over like that and then just use the nippers to take off the excess length, and that's all I need to do. Even the oldest ones do a good job of keeping the frog and sole in good shape as long as the walls don't get long.

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Just a note of caution. He's not always pushing off the ground equally with both hind legs, which is a sign that the energy (both tempo and speed) is too low for his strength level. Posting can make that tendency worse if you rise as the strong hind pushes off the ground, or better if you swap. Tha...

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lorilu wrote:passagey trot? No Kande that's just a trot with some suspension.

Thanks, lorilu. That's what it looked and felt like to me too, but I was told it was a passagey trot, so I think passagey trot means different things to different people?

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I agree that long necks are more problematic. Of course, the way they are set-on makes a difference too. While it could be coincidental, I've noticed that the modern warmbloods have a head-to-neck connection (for lack of a more appropriate term) that encourages a break at the 3rd vertebrae. I think...

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When I lose impulsion with my mare, she immediately goes into a passagey trot. That is her evasion and not a correct passage. It definitely comes from a tense back and trailing haunches. It is like a jackhammer that launches me out of the saddle and is almost impossible to sit. I immediately know t...

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Winter shoes or boots are always an option too, although that won't help with the hunters.

We're fortunate here in MA, because there's no hunting on Sundays, and here in western ma there are way fewer hunters than there used to be.

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Remember that the wheels often turn slowly, but they do eventually turn. Use the focus that got you to where you are to focus on everything else except the whacko. You don't need to do much of anything because the idiot apparently, wrote it all down. So now it's just a matter of time. I've watched n...

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A trainer may be giving up 500 to $800 worth of income a day because weekends are your income building days, depending on lesson fees and number of lessons. Every trainer's gotta charge what they gotta charge, but disapproval if students opt out because they don't feel that the service is worth the...

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I've taught myself more by concentrating on my horse when riding alone and by watching good riders when not riding. That's what I like to do, too. I also do the video thing, which I can do now that I'm retired and have the time. So an hour to ride, and then another hour or two to analyze the video,...

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Because I wasn't 17 anymore I realized I didn't know everything. Now I'm in my seventies I know that nobody knows everything! Why weren't you happy with the instruction you had later in life? I don't think I've ever thought that I knew more than my instructors, but when there's a huge discrepancy b...

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I learned that trainers talk rubbish when I was 17. Why didn't I trust my own judgement, instead of spending loads of my hard earned cash on them in later years? So now I'm curious about why you went back and drank more koolaid when you already knew? One of my friends took lots of lessons for years...

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Thank you, demi :) The fact that I put myself at the mercy of that woman again and again, just to get my horse the treatment that is just that little bit better than others is saying something. ;) Too bad you couldn't trade time with someone and let them hold your horse for her. Something else I of...

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So no I will go out and hack around the property on my own but am super leary of road trips with anyone except a trusted companion. And even then I no longer have the urge to go ride in novel places with people I don't know well. It always sounded like so much fun, but then after doing it *a lot* w...

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boots-aregard wrote:out of the accounts of poor, unable-to-earn-it-back elders

If they're poor enough they may be fine because social services will take care of it. We used to be so afraid of being poor, but now I think it may be an advantage.

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My 69 year old friend was going to trailer over and ride with me but she cancelled at the last minute because it looked like rain. I was relieved that she cancelled because she has almost stopped riding in the last 5 years and her horse is quite a handful. He's been out of the routine too long. I'm...

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I am mwatkins. Do not join my club. I joined your club decades ago, because I felt there were just too many discrepancies between what I was reading and what I was being taught in lessons. I was slow to ditch the lessons because I knew that there was a very good possibility that I was just misinter...

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When I looked a the picture (of Buck)I realized the reason my half-halts stopped going through was because I was blocking them with my tension. Tension in my arms mainly, from misdirected brain signals to "keep those reins short". It's such a dilemma, isn't it? Keeping the reins shorter s...

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And don't get me started on what insurance companies decide they wont cover after the fact----GRRR I DESPISE them. There needs to be a central place where complaints are filed, so that we can look up that information before we choose a plan or company. I wonder if Consumer Reports, or some similar ...

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PaulaEdwina wrote:I don't know that you can tell impulsion from a still photo so I won't speak to that.

If there was more impulsion the steps would either be higher, longer, or both.

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Oh I completely disagree. That is self carriage. That is a quarter horse using himself back to front. But that's JMO too. I think it's probably self carriage, but just not the kind of self carriage we're looking for in dressage? What I like about it is that it doesn't look like the hindquarters are...

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I think about this and worry about this myself, quite often. It is terrifying to me. I am single and childless. Who is going to do this for me when I start to falter? :( Save up enough money to hire someone to do it for you.? I know someone who got into a serious car accident and was badly hurt. Sh...

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I have a very tense mare, I rode in a clinic and the clinician had me rode what I thought was way over tempo, but after ten minutes she settled into a relaxed contact and I was able to reduce the tempo and maintain straightened and rhythm, however, it was more of a warm up than the ultimate goal. I...

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Thoughts? And 2) Just general lack of strength and balance. If the saddle's a little tight I think a pad will just make it tighter. If it fits it doesn't need any pad at all, except to keep the bottom of the saddle clean, so a thin pad sounds like it might be an improvement. Can you try a few trot ...

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demi wrote:
Also have been reading the tempo thread and thinking about it.

Do you think you might be over or under?

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Shows up a lot with horses learning collection whose go-to move, unlike Kiwi's, is to reduce tempo and reduce speed rather than compress and take more weight behind. Ah, so that's what people are talking about when they say passagey trot. I could tell that it wasn't something they wanted, but could...

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And it can be done to an extreme, as shown in horses with passagey trots or 4-beat canters. That's a horse/rider pair that needs quicker tempo to close the back door so the haunches keep stepping under. I have a question about passagey trots. Passage is a more collected trot, right? So why would a ...

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Flight wrote:Kande I would think that tempo is good for most of the video. The canter maybe a bit more energy but tempo ok?

Thanks, Flight. Agree that the canter needs more energy.

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