--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EAA00000 Date: 06/05/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 06:06am \/To: VICKI NICHOLS (Read 0 times) Subj: Let's try this again! -> Hey, remember me? I called Meg's BBS, left a message and when I was Vicki who??? -> I tried the Union Jack where I was posting from, it didn't answer for -> WEEKS...then I found out it changed its phone number, still couldn't -> connect for some reason. I think this modem is on its way out. I have -> ordered a 686-200, which I will pick up on Friday. Wish me luck, I will e -> learning to navigate my way around in Windoze. Could not get Warped on this -> one. Windows 95 I hope. You will like it. It is a bit different than OS/2 but a lot of things work about the same. -> I used one of the cameras Mike sent me to take some photos, I will have -> to -> make sure I have everyone's address to send them to! BTW, Jean, we don't -> even barbeque without your EGS anymore. Well get them out. mine is 1203 Appian Dr, Webster, NY 14580. I hope your using the Everglades "Heat". That is good stuff! I ordered more of it from Jean and gave a can to each of my brothers & my mother. They all like it now! --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EAA00001 Date: 06/05/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 06:08am \/To: BOB KOHL (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Malla still Has it -> > I would say it has to be around 7-8 years anyway isn't it? I think we > -> had just gotten Malla around that time. -> -> 8 years at least.. I started the echo about 10 years ago.. and it had a very -> shakey first year or two.. John helped settle the feed problems down. Yeah I think that is about right. I had the BBS up for 11 or 12 years now ut didn't have FIdo at first. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EAA00002 Date: 06/05/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 06:10am \/To: BOB KOHL (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Tush-mania -> > -> > Your right. There is NO cure. -> > -> -> > -> yes there is.. a frontal lobotomy. :) -> -> > Hmmm, not sure I would classify that as a cure though! -> -> > ;-) -> -> Yep... but it would work. :) Well I suppose you could call it that. -> -> BTW didn't get a chance to work on the site.. will do so this week. I noticed. Ok Sally is sending me the farm list too. She now has it. I ave been trying to get here to attach it to an email but she hasn't been able to figure that out yet. I just sent here some more instructions. If she oesn't get it she will mail it. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EAA00003 Date: 06/05/97 From: VICKI NICHOLS Time: 07:02pm \/To: BOB KOHL (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Tush-mania BK> > I don't clip ears either...just the very edges. And, having read a BK> > number of times that they use their "whiskers" for spatial sensory BK> stuff, BK> CJ is NOT happy with them on.. so I keep them off. CJ wants BK> all this show stuff and is happier that way. I just ingore BK> the ears except for a small part to remind her we do ears.. I don't see anyone here in Phoenix NOT balding the ears except for me! The ONE time I did bald the ears I had to call my vet and have him tranquilize Spot to do it! It's a good thing I don't go in any breed shows, or I would feel obligated to bald them to be competitive. I guess in Phoenix we don't have the problems with the insects getting in the horses' ears like the rest of the country does? --- * Origin: Strike Eagle ][ BBS (602)486-1737 Glendale, Az. (1:114/163) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EAB00000 Date: 06/06/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 05:53am \/To: BOB KOHL (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Malla still Has it -> Great! You might think of a "challange of the breeds" back there.. that's -> lot's of fun you know. :) Ok I'll bite, what does this entail? It sounds interesting. -> > Well I did take some pictures but I am not sure how good they will be. > -> It was an indoor class so the lighting wasn't real good. -> NO problem although I kind of think I know what they'll look like ahead of -> time.. but then you never know. :/. Well I got one roll back yesterday. None of the indoor ones were on it though. SOme of the outside ones are good but there wasn't anyplace to take a shot that doesn't have some crappy looking building in the background. I will ort through then and see if any of them look good enough for scanning. -> Remember that not all the breeds judge WP the same way. Guess I don't know enough about WP to know what is judged differently. I was always of the opinion that no judge judges the same twice in a row anyway! ;-) --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EAB00001 Date: 06/06/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 06:13am \/To: VICKI NICHOLS (Read 0 times) Subj: Malla -> Why did you decide on a Norwegian Fjord horse? Did you know people who -> had them did you do homework on the various breeds when you decided to get -> your daughter one? I mean, I often end up with Appies but it is by -> coincidence or Well it is a long story but I will relate the Readers Digest version. Niki & Renee went to the Walnut Hill driving competition here back the year before we had Malla for the first time. There was several Fjords at the how. One of them was a mare with a new foal with it. It probably wasn't much over a month old. Niki was about 13 or 14 at the time and had a TB mare that was really not much and was giving her real problems at the time. Niki decided that day (she never did tell me this) that she was going to have one of them cute little ponies. SHe got home that night and wrote letters to every address she could find asking for more info on Fjords. She got a few responses from different registries and associations and a few from different breeders. Then she sent out more letters... She was getting sales lists from breeders all over the country and Canada. Finally one of the breeders called on the phone and asked for Niki. She was on a trip to Washington DC at the time with the National Honor Soc. I talked to the breeder and he asked if we had gotten his sales list. I said we had and that they were way out of my price range ( they were all $6500 or higher) I was used to $1000 TB's or Quarters. Anyway to make a long story short, he offered a free lease of one of his horses to Niki if she showed it for him and just paid the normal board and normal et bills. He would even deliver it and help her learn to drive etc. So when Niki got back from the trip she could barely wait to call and talk to this guy. e did end up taking a trip to see his horses (he had 40 - 50 of them at the ime and was only about 3 hours away from us. He let Niki pick out one of 10 or 2 4 year old mares and then rode them. Malla had never been saddled before this. Niki was the first one on her back. He brought her in the barn, put a addle on her and took her out in this ring made of bailing twine (he had just moved into this new farm). He led Niki & Malla around the ring twice and then walked next to them twice more. After that they were on their own. Before we left they were trotting around the ring. He talked us into letting Niki come the next couple of weeks and spend some time getting used to her nad all. It was Easter vacation so we let her. At the end of it he brought Niki & Malla home and they have been living happily ever after since then. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EAB00002 Date: 06/05/97 From: MEG ALFONI Time: 08:39am \/To: VICKI NICHOLS (Read 0 times) Subj: Let's try this again! VN :> Hey, remember me? I called Meg's BBS, left a message VN :>and when I was replying to one from Mike, the board HUNG UP VN :>on me! That's okay, long distance BBSing is EXPENSIVE, I VN :>love this echo but calling Ipswich is a little much! Hmmmm. wonder why it hung up on you....Glad to see you back, if only in the interim until you get your computer problems solved. Bob had sent you a message about your BBS changing its number, but guess you didn't get it. VN :> I actually rode Dub BAREBACK down the road with some VN :>neighbors, my 7 year old neighbor Brittany rode Spot VN :>bareback with me. We did fine until Dub decided to scare VN :>me and jig all the way home so I got off! I bet I haven't VN :>ridden him bareback in 3 years; it was a spur of the moment VN :>thing. Phew! Don't blame you for getting off! Jigging under saddle is one thing, trying to deal with it bareback is another (g). VN :>have missed. The horses are in the front yard, in a 48 x VN :>48 pen with two palm trees for shade and for munching on. VN :>;) They love it, and so do I. The houses have lots of VN :>things for me to do on them, none exigent, but I did put an VN :>air conditioner on the guest house last week so it'll be VN :>better than the evaporative cooler during the monsoon VN :>season. Everything else is pretty much getting stuff the VN :>way _I_ want it, as well as painting and patching. I am Ah, the joys of home ownership! Sounds like you're having fun, though. Nothing like getting a house settled the way you want it. VN :> I used one of the cameras Mike sent me to take some VN :>photos, I will have to make sure I have everyone's address VN :>to send them to! BTW, Jean, we don't even barbeque without 411 Linebrook Road, Ipswich, MA 01938....and you BETTER send me some pictures! Glad to see you back, and to see you're enjoying yourself. A letter or phonecall to let me know how everything in your life is going would be much appreciated!! What are the chances of that trip east in the fall? Still on your agenda? I've been dreaming of Phoenix lately...especially since we've had no really warm weather at all so far this year. We've had the HEAT on the last 3 nights! Been in the high 30's and low 40's in the a.m. The horses haven't even completely shedded out yet...and this, the first week of June! BTW, what's the scoop on Dub's showing? Did he do that dressage show? Meg --- * Origin: Elizabeth's Revenge (1:330/173) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EAB00003 Date: 06/05/97 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 06:32am \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 0 times) Subj: ??? > Glad to hear it! Ms. Fiddle and her partner in crime, > Shiloh, decided to knock down a few fence rails > yesterday and indulge themselves in some nice, very > green grass in the front paddock. I came home from > work to find them there knee deep in grass. Needless > to say, I was scared to death that I'd have either > colic or founder on my hands. However, all seems well > this a.m., so I'm hoping for the best. The paddock > they have been in all year does have some grass, so > I'm hoping they had had enough that this won't be too > much of a shock to their systems. I tell ya...it > never ends with horses!! Oh noooooooooooooo ........ I can just imagine how you felt when you saw them ...... I'm tellin' ya' ...... never a dull moment when you have horses !! > This was the paddock that we spent two weekends on > liming, manuring, picking rocks and seeding. They I remember you telling us about all the work you had done in that paddock .. > didn't tear it up at all, thank God! I probably would > have done them in if they had, after all that work! > Now, poor Richard (aka post hole digger!) has to > replace a whole line of fence......he was planning on > doing it little by little over the summer, but I think > his schedule will have to be moved up. He insists on > doing it himself, by hand...I think he's nuts! Poor Richard .... I'll be thinking 'bout him ..... Hope he gets it all fixed quickly ..... --- * Origin: The Grass is ALWAYS Greener on the Other Side (1:371/33) --- TosScan 1.00 * Origin: Home of Mr X's 'Xtraordinary Carriage Services (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EAB00004 Date: 06/05/97 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 06:37am \/To: VICKI NICHOLS (Read 0 times) Subj: Let's try this again! > Hey, remember me? I called Meg's BBS, left a > message and when I was replying to one from Mike, the > board HUNG UP on me! That's okay, long distance > BBSing is EXPENSIVE, I love this echo but calling > Ipswich is a little much! Of COURSE we remember you -- how in the world could we EVER forget ;-) > Anyway, I asked the SySop of the BBS where I have > been toodling around in a Trade Wars game if he would > get Equus, and here I am! I may not be back until I > get the new computer set up, this danged modem is so > unreliable...or maybe it's not the modem, it may be > the computer. It IS pretty old...it started life as a > 486. Nice guy for sure!! > I actually rode Dub BAREBACK down the road with > some neighbors, my 7 year old neighbor Brittany rode > Spot bareback with me. We did fine until Dub decided > to scare me and jig all the way home so I got off! I > bet I haven't ridden him bareback in 3 years; it was a > spur of the moment thing. Hehehehehe ...... been there -- done that . > You guys are gonna have to catch me up on > everything I have missed. The horses are in the front > yard, in a 48 x 48 pen with two palm trees for shade > and for munching on. ;) They love it, and so do I. I'll just bet they do!! And, YOU love it too (I can tell ). Ain't it fun to have the horses where you can just walk out anytime and 'love' them??!! > I used one of the cameras Mike sent me to take > some photos, I will have to make sure I have Need some (photos that is) > everyone's address to send them to! BTW, Jean, we > don't even barbeque without your EGS anymore. Hehehehehehe ..... addictive, ain't it !!! Good for you, Vicki ..... looks like things are looking up for you now. Take care ..... --- * Origin: Home is Where the Horses Are!! (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EAB00005 Date: 06/05/97 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 06:37am \/To: VICKI NICHOLS (Read 0 times) Subj: X and Another JOB!! > Jeez, I wish I could SEE Tuffy and the cart with > the ring bearer! That HAS to be the CUTEST THING! I'm hoping that that accept that option too ..... --- * Origin: Home is Where the Horses Are!! (1:371/33)