--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: DCZ00021 Date: 08/28/96 From: DEBBY TAYLOR Time: 10:13pm \/To: BOB KOHL (Read 2 times) Subj: TOO HOT BK>Well I'll soon go back to sticking my head under the hose again.. I'm >riding/working anywhere up to 5 horses right now. Tonight we went riding and it was so humid and hot that my glasses kept fogging up. The lens cleaner with the anti-fogging stuff is in the Plymouth and it went back to the mechanic. I sure needed that stuff tonight. BK>I've also noticed she's just turned a tad more independent... I tend to thi >her baby days are about over.. ;) It sounds like it. We've owned 2 mares and we can tell when they are heat by the way they act but neither of them have turned into witches but there is another mare in the barn that really gets evil when she is in heat. Is this training, or the lack of it, or are some mares just this way and there is nothing you can do about it? BK>Today I got there late.. but spent as much time as I could doing everything >could with her short of saddling up (back acting up)... Do you wear a back brace when riding? I think I'm going to leave Smokey at his present weight. He's had more energy than ever before. Tonight we started working on a slow Western jog. Its funny because he can't believe thats what I really want. I've spent ages working on getting him to go forward and that what he keeps giving me at a working trot speed. Now I want forward at a Western jog speed. I, also, want canter with him bending through the curves instead of dropping his shoulder and sticking his nose to the outside. I use to get it before I hurt my wrist but I haven't really worked on it since. Well I'm going to have fun during the next couple of weeks if the weather doesn't get to hot again. Debby --- QMPro 1.50 93-4227 Horse is spelled "P.O.V.E.R.T.Y. * Origin: The Knights End BBS (1:208/606) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: DCZ00022 Date: 08/28/96 From: DEBBY TAYLOR Time: 10:13pm \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 2 times) Subj: Tush MA>Believe me, Jean. I've tried all this. And many times. I'll give her >months off @ithout even a try then go back to square one. She's OK >every@here but her muzzle. Maybe she just has ultra-sensitive nerve endings >there or something. @ith Ms. Fiddle you never kno@!! I can't even try to >cut them ith scissors! She knows that they help her find her meals and the good grass and she's not giving them up. Debby --- QMPro 1.50 93-4227 Horse is spelled "P.O.V.E.R.T.Y. * Origin: The Knights End BBS (1:208/606) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: DCZ00023 Date: 08/28/96 From: DEBBY TAYLOR Time: 10:13pm \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 2 times) Subj: The kiddos! MA>Today @as a big day here! The three kids that I've been @orking @ith did >demonstration for their parents! The all did so @ell!!! I'm so proud of >them! Have a 2nd grader, a 5th grader and a 6th grader. They are all at >different levels, but every one did their absolute best today! Yesterday >had a "pre-scho@" day. @e did tack, gave Shiloh a trim and bath etc. They >all @orked very very hard and did a great job! Today as the big "sho@" or >their parents. They @ere a little nervous (so @as I!), but they came >through like troopers! How exciting! Congratulations to you the kids and Shiloh. Debby --- QMPro 1.50 93-4227 Horse is spelled "P.O.V.E.R.T.Y. * Origin: The Knights End BBS (1:208/606) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: DCZ00024 Date: 08/28/96 From: DEBBY TAYLOR Time: 10:13pm \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 2 times) Subj: Books for kids MA>I'm looking for horse books for 1st or 2nd grade readers. Anthing @ill o. >Books on horse care, riding, stories, etc. Also, there used to be a >magazine of horse stories and articles geared just for kids..it @as back n >the 60's...does anyone remember the name, or if it's still in print? I've >got a 2nd grader @ith a reading problem...she's gotten so frustrated she >@on't even try to read anymore! I've told her mother I'd try to find easy >readers on horses that might peak her interest. Any help @ould be >appreciated! Thanks! I'll look at the ranch. They have a small library of horse books and it has to be in tatters before its thrown away. Maybe I can get some titles and authors for you. Debby --- QMPro 1.50 93-4227 Horse is spelled "P.O.V.E.R.T.Y. * Origin: The Knights End BBS (1:208/606) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: DCZ00025 Date: 08/28/96 From: DEBBY TAYLOR Time: 10:13pm \/To: JAN MURPHY (Read 2 times) Subj: Fjord sightings JM>Well, who'da thunk it but I just found a Fjord picture in my new (Sep/ Oct 9 >issue of _Handwoven Magazine_. In the 'story cloth' section which eatures >projects woven by readers, there's a picture of Jeanine Martinsen of rcas, >Washington, with one of her two Fjords. She's woven saddle blankets for bot >of them. I take it you do some kind of weaving? If so have you been into Straw into Gold in Berkeley? Do they sell weaving supplies? JM>There's also a big section of the magazine this time 'round on "Nordic >Traditions" including Norse Lichen Dyes, Old Looms of Norway, and some of th >weaving techniques found there. We had a fjord at summer camp this year. It was soooo cute. It was a fairly young one and from what I saw so mellow. JM>So if you've ever had a hankering to weave your own saddle blankets, take >heart, you aren't alone. No thanks. I'll let Tolkat weave mine. It would take me a month of Sundays to get one finished if I didn't just put it aside to do later (which never comes). Debby --- QMPro 1.50 93-4227 Coffee is a way of life. * Origin: The Knights End BBS (1:208/606) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: DCZ00026 Date: 08/28/96 From: DEBBY TAYLOR Time: 10:13pm \/To: VICKI NICHOLS (Read 2 times) Subj: Chasin' cattle VN> Hello Meg! VN> Well, I talked to a guy with the Arizona Desert Riders today - they are >having a trail ride to raise money to buy Jake Hunt a new horse and pay or >his >medical bills - he's the one who got hit by lightning and his horse died. >Dean's son decided he wants to live with his mom (another topic) who abandon >him when he was 8 years old; I am so upset I am offering Casey as a >replacement Don't be too upset Vickie. Kids that age all seem to suffer from the grass is greener somewhere else syndrome. It will take him a while to come to his senses. I swear that with my boys that the term "brain dead" described them from about 10 till ???? the oldest seems to be able to think now, he's 26 the youngest is now able to think as long as you stay on one of 4 or 5 subjects. VN> The cattle drive part itself is less than four hours, according to he >man >I talked to. Distances aren't what they used to be; the range is apparently >fairly close to the ranch. I called my mom and made arrangements to keep ou Thats probably just about the right length if you are use to staying in the saddle all day. The thought of staying in the saddle all day is enough to make me cringe. I wouldn't be able to walk the next 2 or 3 days. Make that I wouldn't be able to move. >the only problem that they had was that Dub is clever enough and experienced >enough as a ranch horse that he constantly was stepping out, over the barbed >wire, and getting loose. This was a regular thing with him, about 3 times Giggle. Did you ever get to watch him do it? Debby --- QMPro 1.50 93-4227 Coffee is a way of life. * Origin: The Knights End BBS (1:208/606) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: DCZ00027 Date: 08/28/96 From: DEBBY TAYLOR Time: 10:13pm \/To: GUENTER TAUBERT (Read 2 times) Subj: Plastic-Horseshoes ? GT>Hi there horse-back-riding folks. >A friend of mine on the internet in Germany and associated with a >small company manufacturing a patented-PLASTIC-horseshoe is wondering >IF there might be an interest in it in the USA ??? I wish more people here would use them when riding in tall, dry grass. Up near my mom's house a fire was started when a horse's shoe struck a rock. There is alot of iron in those rocks and they spark easy. Debby --- QMPro 1.50 93-4227 Coffee is a way of life. * Origin: The Knights End BBS (1:208/606) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: DCZ00028 Date: 08/30/96 From: BOB KOHL Time: 01:16am \/To: VICKI NICHOLS (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Trucks > MM> have an auto on mine even with overdrive. One thing to > MM> remember though is that if you do get one with overdrive > MM> don't use the overdrive gear to tow with. Put it in the > MM> regular D and everthing is fine though. > MM> And your right the horses will definetely like the auto much > MM> better (and so will you). > Refresh my memory - you have a Ram? With the 5.9 liter engine? > NEVER use the overdrive in towing? I don't mean to be dense, but > it's a new truck and I haven't towed anywhere yet except in town. And > I've had the overdrive off for that, but what about on the freeway? Depends on the specific unit.. I have tried overdrive on a freeway drive with FLAT ground... and no traffic.. we did OK.. otherwise leave it off! :) BK --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: DC^00000 Date: 08/30/96 From: VICKI NICHOLS Time: 02:10pm \/To: EMIL KUCERA (Read 2 times) Subj: spooky horses >descent. EK> ok, now you better translate NAACP for me! People are sure crazy EK> about these things. One of these days it's going to backfire... National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. --- Maximus/2 3.00 * Origin: ElseWhere (1:114/212) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: DC^00001 Date: 08/30/96 From: VICKI NICHOLS Time: 06:31pm \/To: MIKE MAY (Read 2 times) Subj: Trucks MM> ALWAYS turn the overdrive off before towing. It isn't MM> made for towing use. MM> You will overheat the transmission in no time towing with it in overdrive. MM> Other than that I alway keep mine in overdrive though. MM> It is much better on MM> gas that way. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH! Thanks for telling me that. We got the towing package, of course, and I guess I assumed that would make us immune to transmission overheating problems with the horse trailer. --- Maximus/2 3.00 * Origin: ElseWhere (1:114/212)