--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E5P00013 Date: 05/17/97 From: EVELYN LICHTMAN Time: 04:59pm \/To: W (Read 0 times) Subj: drop drop ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR] --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: BBS Networks @ bbsnets.com 301-863-5089 (1:2612/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E5S00000 Date: 05/22/97 From: VICKI NICHOLS Time: 12:23am \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 0 times) Subj: letter? Help, help, the Union Jack is down and I can't find anyone else in town with the EQUUS echo! Will send some help messages out, glad to be back. I am just browsing now as my LD phone bill will be outrageous! --- * Origin: Elizabeth's Revenge (1:330/173) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E5S00001 Date: 05/22/97 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 07:38am \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: shoe-mania > JM :> > Hey buy the mens then. They can't be a lot different > style > JM :> > wise. Just have to > JM :> > find the right size equivalent. ... > Is there anything you don't know about (g)?! Plenty of things. But Richard (mine, that is) knows all of those. > Is there anything you don't know about (g)?! I have a couple > of pairs of men's workboots that I was able to find in a > size 6 (I take a women's 8), and they fit like a glove. > However, you are totally correct about size 6's being impossible > to find. These boots are actually hand-me-downs from my > 2 sons from when they were younger. I've tried finding > sneakers in size 6, but no go. Most men's shoes start at > 7 at the least, and some no smaller than 8. Bummer! Ah, Meg, then YOU are the person to ask the question that has been bothering me for years. If nobody makes size 6 men's shoes, then what do boys do when they need at man's 6 shoe? I know a growing kid goes through shoes fast -- my brother keeps telling me every time I call that my fifteen-year-old nephew wears a size 13 shoe -- but for the week or so that he would have been a size 6 , what was he supposed to do, go barefoot? Why is there this huge gap in between the end of the kids' shoe sizes and the beginning of the grown-ups' sizes? > I do buy men's jeans, t-shirts, etc. I like being > able to select the waist size and leg length in the jeans. I'm a big fan of Lee Jeans' Relaxed Rider cut, which has a rather fitted waist and flat rear end and tapered legs but is loose through the thighs. The only thing that would make them perfect is to be able to choose the inseam lenghts as in men's jeans. They are made of 15 oz denim. There's only one pair of jeans I've been able to find that fit better (from No Excuses, of all people). But watch out, because men's clothing is slowly going the way women's clothing has -- with short, medium, and long inseams. Grrrr. > And the t-shirts seem to be cut a little broader across > the shoulder and are longer than most women's sizes. Ditto. I have squarish shoulders and a lot of women's T-shirts are too short in the sleeves because of it. And a lot of women's T-shirts are made to wear outside, not tuck in, and won't stay tucked in for anything. I especially appreciate the long shirt-tails on guys' shirts. And being able to choose the right sleeve length on shirts is great, too (I can wear some full-cut men's shirts). Now everybody's going to start making 'butch women' jokes, but heck, who needs their clothes to fall apart after half a year! --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: Sci-Fido II, World's Oldest SF BBS, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E5S00002 Date: 05/20/97 From: BOB KOHL Time: 02:40am \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Tush-mania > BK :>Took about 3 days to get her back in the groove.. now > BK :>we've graduated to short rides in the big arena. :) > Don't you love training the babies!! Yep, Tush is the easiest so far.. even on her bad days. > I was talking to someone the other > day and mentioned that Fiddle was 5. We both sort of stopped and looked > at each other and simultaneously said, "She can't be 5!". I don't know > where the time has gone! I've been having flashbacks to my "babies in > training" idea...God, what I wouldn't give for more land and a bigger > barn!!! What I wouldn't give to have a barn.. ;) > Might be going to a show this weekend to help out the girl who mucks my > stalls. She has an 11 year old warmblood who's only been to one show > (last weekend). She placed 3rd out of 23 in an adult eq. class. > However, the poor kid went all by herself, and found it amazingly > difficult to show without any help at all (g). So, I offered to go to > the next one with her and act as groom...I can feel that show blood > coursing through my veins already (VGB). Chuckle.. well CJ's been telling me that she's not happy that there were other horses going to a show without her. ;) > Someone say something sensible here! Like...you're too old, Fiddle's > never been in a trailer, she's not fully trained yet...come on you guys! > Wonder if there's a 12-step program for horseshow addiction....HELP!!! Nope.. you'll go wiser and it'll be better this time around. :) > Just think...this time next year...you and the Tushster! All depends on el budget Meg.. but yes.. I'd love to. Speaking of which.. we snuck in a little trot tonight.. even thought she was full of it.. hee hee.. not much.. just a little bit two times. It was a little soon for her and the first one was off balance and geeky.. second one was better.. although she was feeling REAL good.. ;) Momma was also VERY full of herself today. Took me 20 minutes at a serious extended trot just to loosen her up.. and get her mind on things. :) BK --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E5S00003 Date: 05/20/97 From: BOB KOHL Time: 02:41am \/To: DEBBY TAYLOR (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Our vacation! > -> I'm going to call up north this week to find out about Dorrance.. > -> should be netmailing you shortly thereafter. > I've been trying to get hold of the lady that you are suppose to contact > about the Dorrance clinic with no luck. I finally left a message with > Dr. Deb. She is generally pretty good about getting back to people. > I've never been to this location and thought it might be a good idea to > get directions or something on how to find it. I'll call Dr Deb this week and leave a message. I was not impressed and actually rather annoyed with the set up. BK --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E5S00004 Date: 05/20/97 From: BOB KOHL Time: 02:43am \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Xanabar's sick .. > X is sick ..... he looked like he was colicing when I came home for > lunch today ....... I immediately gave him some Bute and called the vet Ahh you shouldn't give bute unless the vet tells you to.. you're masking symptoms.. especially if they are not dire or life threatening. > Come to find out he's got some kind of infection - don't know where. > Dr Moore took a blood sample ...... when he took X's temperature it was > 103.5 (a horses temp SHOULD be less than 101 Dr. Moore said). 99-101 is pretty normal. Tush usually runs between 100.5 and 101. > I just about pulled a panic number when I though X was colicing -- it > was a year ago all over again (been almost a year since "Baby" died > ). I saw all that flash before my eyes and I was truly in a panic. > Anyway, that's all I know for now. Dr Moore went ahead an oiled X, > gave him some more Bute and some Banemine ..... I'm to give him some more > Bute tonight. > If it's not one thing it's another . Always. :) BK --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E5S00005 Date: 05/20/97 From: BOB KOHL Time: 02:47am \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Sick X ... > It's been almost 3 days now and X is still a pretty sick little guy > ..... his temp was back up to 103 again last night ....... Doc > Moore was out again last evening and took some more blood samples - he > said that X had some sort of infection and his blood count was pretty low > (anemia) from it. I'm getting more and more concerned as X is really > depressed and he's not eating NOR drinking. Dr Moore is coming back out > this morning again. ASk him if you can move up to Naxcel instead of Pencilin. It's far more potent and it's also $80 a bottle. BE VERY careful with it when you're given a shot.. MAKE absolutely sure that you haven't hit a vein under any cricumstances.. the anifilactic shock from this stuff is deadly. This was the stuff that nearly killed John Lyons Stud and cost him his sight. Also be advised I've used it three times to knock out infections in Tush when her immune system still wasn't working right. Be very careful with it.. but it's a kick ass anti-biotic. (excuse my french here folks). > X has NEVER been sick ...... I just can't understand how I can be > soooooooo careful and horses in my barn get sick ...... I've said it a hundred times.. and you should know it by heart now Jean. Horses are exceptionally fragile animals. BK --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E5S00006 Date: 05/20/97 From: BOB KOHL Time: 02:47am \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: ??? >>> Link must be broken again ...... I haven't gotten any messages in the >> Nope.. traffic was down. > Thanks for answering -- I just thought maybe something was wrong -- > obsiously it's still working. Yep.. well I'm in the middle of fidonet wars.. chuckle.. BK --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E5S00007 Date: 05/20/97 From: BOB KOHL Time: 02:48am \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Tush-mania > Nope ....... now 12-step program for that .... like MIke says > ...... this is NO CURE . Even getting old nor getting thrown > is a cure for that ....... Thrown heck... Straw trying his best to kill me hasn't stopped me. :) BK --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E5S00008 Date: 05/20/97 From: BOB KOHL Time: 02:49am \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Da Tush strikes back Da Tush is at it again.. Her tush is darn near a hand and a half taller then her withers again right now.. chuckle.. I tend to think this gal might get up to 16 hands if I'm lucky. ;) And... she moves naturally collected so far. :) BK --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861)