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- Thu May 09, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: It’s been at least 20 years
- Replies: 9
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Re: It’s been at least 20 years
Jeese, I'm sorry, Paula. Getting old is rough. Remember me stepping backwards off a stool at champs and the intense wrist pain, and ended up thinking I was riding with a broken wrist for most of the show in a brace and on codeine and tylenol? Luckily a bad sprain, but man. Remember when we used to b...
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: May the horse be with you. And June
- Replies: 26
- Views: 578
Re: May the horse be with you. And June
mari--That's the secret. Makes noise that can be interpreted as breathing, clearing your throat, etc., and go along with the normal faces you make. I have seen the CDJ classes. I do like the ideas of being exposed to everything and being out. But I do not like seeing a four year old ridden so up and...
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3685
Re: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
Thanks, Josette. I love Clark Howard. I live by him. I wish we could even get to this problem. We had it set up to bring them to a NICE apartment complex right near me where we could all easily access and help, and I found good assisted living options. The idea would be they can live in the apartmen...
- Tue May 07, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: May the horse be with you. And June
- Replies: 26
- Views: 578
Re: May the horse be with you. And June
mari--Yeah, you have to find what you can do. Not being a whistler, I have no range there. I wouldn't "kiss" for go because it's to easy to see and hear when you are showing. Keep that in mind when coming up with something that works. I guess I've always really talked to my animals, so I h...
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:49 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: May the horse be with you. And June
- Replies: 26
- Views: 578
Re: May the horse be with you. And June
Flight, Aleuronx. Thank you. It's just getting worse and worse. Sigh. Some days I just stay blocked off, and some days I'm gone mentally and emotionally. Flight. The walk-passage transition is SUPER hard. Quinn is good at it. Quilla, eh. To be better in GP, I added add a lot of other cues to maintai...
- Fri May 03, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: May the horse be with you. And June
- Replies: 26
- Views: 578
Re: May the horse be with you. And June
Glad you are all sounding good and making progress. Mari--I just love your spotty boy. From all my years riding, and jumping and teaching it, teaching half seat/2-point was always a standard, and you always do it over jumps. I don't even know how to get into a conversation at the barn with the lesso...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
- Replies: 139
- Views: 13371
Re: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
Well, things went well at the show. (Life, not so much.) Quinn was getting pretty tangled up in the tempis the day before the show, when she is normally really solid in them, so I was just trying to get them without her skipping them and flinging herself about. I-1 63% https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
- Replies: 139
- Views: 13371
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
- Replies: 139
- Views: 13371
Re: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
Thanks, mountaineer,. I did not know it was a rebound thing. Glad I'm not worse! I get you on the showing thing at this stage in life--it needs to feel fun. I hope you get to ride with Charlotte. I've known her a long time and really admire her. It's a bummer she doesn't really like judging, so we n...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
- Replies: 139
- Views: 13371
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
- Replies: 139
- Views: 13371
Re: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
I think the you'll see a lot of difference with the shoulder work, straightforward. I like to get in under the scapula and stretch and push her whole neck away, and Quinn LOVES it. And I see a real difference when I ride if I do it or don't. That is a FABULOUS picture. We are working on this same st...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
- Replies: 139
- Views: 13371
Re: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
SF--I like the video with Leslie. Good improvement. Your mare reminds me so much of Quinn. She can get so tight and tense and does that leg stomp thing. The big change in her has been the scapula neck release and a LOT of work like you did--really up over the back and loose and relaxed and round in ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Rider health and fitness
- Topic: riding fitness programs?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3166
Re: riding fitness programs?
If anyone wants to join my class, you can. I am SO lucky. Right before shutdown, I gave my email to the best instructor at 24 hour fitness. She is a chiropractor and knows the body well, but also a fitness junky. There is a whole group of us who have been doing Zoom classes for over 4 years. Five da...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
- Replies: 139
- Views: 13371
Re: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
Kelo--So happy you picked a horse you love. You know what I love? Pictures that show hind legs way under and separated--THAT is a sound, talented horse. Chisamba--Yes, the feelings and stress about mom. We're on four hospital admissions since Xmas (all breathing issues, flu and pneumonia--which she ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Want to float an idea past you wonderful people
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1405
Re: Want to float an idea past you wonderful people
I think it sounds like a good idea. I don't know the pony people there, but ponies are the future. And I love the volunteer idea to just get more people involved.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
- Replies: 139
- Views: 13371
Re: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
SF--I've been thinking about this. I'm going to end up suggesting what I always do--massage. Quinn has had some similarities, and still does when she is tight. The running, pulling down and tight and swapping behind is familiar. It's been about 6 years of trying to figure out how to deal with whatev...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
- Replies: 139
- Views: 13371
Re: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
I thought we'd be getting more baby pictures . . .
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
- Replies: 139
- Views: 13371
Re: In like a lion, out like a lamb - March and April Goals and Progress
Wow, khall. That is big mare and a a long time. I was so lucky Sora was like a clock--337 days for both and I knew, so I invited people. 355 is a lot. It seems spring here (I might have just cursed it) but I think we're past the deep mud phase no matter what. Wind has really dried everything out. Gi...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Trotting on to 2024 - Goals, Progress and More (Jan-Feb)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 16854
Re: Trotting on to 2024 - Goals, Progress and More (Jan-Feb)
Straightforward--Cool you did the hoof care workshop. I think everyone should know how to trim. It really isn't that hard. I follow a lot of hoof care pages, so always trying to add to knowledge and do better. It seems to wok OK for me. I''ll watch that video. Ya'll and saddles. I'm happy with my an...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: I rold you so ..
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1683
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: I rold you so ..
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1683
Re: I rold you so ..
It's everywhere, so I haven't been jumping in. Those horrendous videos explain a lot of what we see in the "top" horses. I'm sure most are not abused to that degree, but the fact that we see SO many "top horses" doing the leg snapping, double tapping "piaffe and passage"...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Trotting on to 2024 - Goals, Progress and More (Jan-Feb)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 16854
Re: Trotting on to 2024 - Goals, Progress and More (Jan-Feb)
Gorgeous shots, Aleuronx. Snow in the right way is so good for training. Mud is getting there, here, too. Nothing can be close to as bad as last year. Mine are used to galloping up and down hills in foot deep mud in the pasture, so I don't really worry about conditioning. Since we lost the local sho...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3685
Re: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
Thanks Josette. That might be useful. I talked with a lawyer that does elder abuse all day long last week. If the evil POS doesn't give it up, it's going to be horrendous. It's going to be horrendous either way. Mom is still on a feeding tube, trying to feed soft food, and oxygen. Still not allowed ...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Trotting on to 2024 - Goals, Progress and More (Jan-Feb)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 16854
Re: Trotting on to 2024 - Goals, Progress and More (Jan-Feb)
I am so glad Junior is OK, exvet. That's what I went through with Sora. And here, the vets put them on sulcrafate for about 5 days after a choke just because of the damage the tube causes to the esophagus. That's not a good sign the ER vets didn't even know about using it. Almost everyone here has a...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:15 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Improving shoulder freedom
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2010
Re: Improving shoulder freedom
This is what I did with both Quinn and Quilla. For Quinn, doing the scapula release massage helps a lot. I also worked on Spanish walk for both, starting on the ground to cue them so I can do it in the saddle and they understand the idea of using that shoulder more in whatever we are doing. If you w...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:43 pm
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- Topic: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3685
Re: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
Exactly, Josette. The whole process is scary. So many of these facilities have been bought up by corporate entities, like so many others things (as in vets) and are not great. The one I'm looking at is privately owned, is on the second generation of owners, my mom's friends know people who are there...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:58 am
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- Topic: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3685
Re: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
Thanks, guys. I so WISH what everyone thinks should happen will happen--she is held legally responsible. The more I find out and reach out to everyone, I don't think anyone has ever been held responsible. I've had people reaching out all over who are the experts in this, and there is basically, mayb...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3685
Re: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
Thank you Anne and texsuze. So far a whole day and a half and no crises. Talked with my sister for awhile last night (finally she's being open with me) and she has the same worries as I do. My mom may not make it out of this. She's had such bad physical, emotional, and psychological care for a long ...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:17 pm
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- Topic: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3685
Re: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
Yeah, khall, that was my thinking. It's been impossible to find an attorney who does this, even with resources of people who are lawyers and in this law, and even if we had the money. APS has been called by family, hospital and care center. The shit show has just gotten worse. What, it's been three ...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 4:48 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3685
Re: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
Quelah--THANK YOU. That gives me something to work on. I will start making calls. exvet--Wow. You brother sounds very much like half sibling, except my half sibling has stolen far, far more, and caused my mother to lie, cheat, and try to steal for her to pay the credit card bills. She (mom) tried to...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 2:50 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3685
Re: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
Thank you. I'm putting it out there to anyone in case anyone has ideas. I came here with her yesterday and the crap is just worse. Half sibling has minimum $7500 Coco Channel used purse and gets the poodles she had to buy clipped, but my mom can't get her hair done. Hopefully the APS and ombudsmen c...
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 4:38 am
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- Topic: ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3685
ANY help with conservatorship, Adult Protective Services
I know this is a horse board, but you guys are a wealth of experience and may give more ideas. VERY long story of 25 years of a half sister (now 44ish) some kind of mental illness sociopath basically bankrupting my mother, who was already mentally abused by my step father, making my mother pay for h...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:56 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Low Hanging Fruit
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3049
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:50 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
- Replies: 194
- Views: 390789
Re: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
Chisamba. So sorry about the dog. Hugs. It has been a rough fall/winter. Saiph sounds like Quinn in a way. When I rode with Lilo (Fore) in that AA clinic, she had me hold on hard and kick her forward no matter what. It almost broke her and got me killed. I am strong, but I seem to ride with a lot li...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 8:06 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
- Replies: 194
- Views: 390789
Re: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
Nice, Chantal. Interesting bend discussion. I judged one of those IEA shows over the weekend for high school and junior high, which was very interesting. The teams fly in from all over the west and compete, picking horses and getting a few, literally maybe 5, minutes to figure out the horse before d...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 7:23 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
- Replies: 194
- Views: 390789
Re: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
Those are nice changes Aleuronx. I have the same problem with half pass left--it's me. I get stuck. The big helper with me is to think of lifting up the inside shoulder and off the inside leg so the horse can mover over (gets me off my inside seat) and as soon as it feels sticky to me, I circle or l...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 1:15 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
- Replies: 194
- Views: 390789
Re: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
Interesting discussion on shark fins. Sora was like that a little, and Quinn is like that. Quilla is not--I very much noticed she is an inch less than she should be because those whithers never grew. I could be doing something very wrong with Quinn in why she just won't develop much there, but I thi...
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 4:18 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
- Replies: 194
- Views: 390789
Re: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
Mari gid you salute with your left hand or did the photo invert itself?? I did salute with my left hand. Both halts :oops: No comments from the judge though :lol: I always salute with my left hand! And have never heard anything. I'm not sure there is an official rule? Or if there is one, it's defin...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:40 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
- Replies: 194
- Views: 390789
Re: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
Tanga, Calif. Dep't of Fish and Wildlife would like to know about your badger sighting. https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Badger I am very jealous.[/quote] Well, that is very cool. That was the badger! It's clearly not expecting an actual address that I can give them and trying to get me ...
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:24 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
- Replies: 194
- Views: 390789
Re: Powering through to the end: November December Goals and Progress
Not posting goals, but I have to say I love my girls. Yesterday proved it. I took my dogs on the trail yesterday. One is a lab/pitbull mix that is fast and loves to chase. The other looks like mostly Dobie, but bigger, and some kind of giant hound because he loves to scent, and he is all about grabb...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 6:09 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September October, we go on and on.
- Replies: 240
- Views: 1076648
Re: September October, we go on and on.
Oh boy. I'm not doing my recap. I went back and looked. It went really badly with Sora, but it ended up being the best it could. Still weird having so much less to do at the barn. The BO mentioned it was weird to see me walking with only two horses. Interesting Leslie Morse keeps coming up. I knew h...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 7:16 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September October, we go on and on.
- Replies: 240
- Views: 1076648
Re: September October, we go on and on.
Hey, can I just vent a little? OK, we all know I am not the best, but I do what I can. I couldn't get enough GP scores (along with a LOT of other people) to ride it at champs, but did get my freestyles, and I rode four GP freestyles during the year under three judges just so I can get year end award...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September October, we go on and on.
- Replies: 240
- Views: 1076648
Re: September October, we go on and on.
Best photo, ever, Chisamba! By Red Wine. Wow. That was the stallion involved in the abuse/neglect case here in Santa Rosa and some whole thing where he sort of disappeared somewhere or something.
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:31 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September October, we go on and on.
- Replies: 240
- Views: 1076648
Re: September October, we go on and on.
Good job, Chisamba, keeping on keeping on, and everyone else. khall--love the piaffe thing. I think doing it in hand every which way is totally the way to go. Two weeks down and I finally, mostly can get up and walk and do things and not feel like I need to sit down because I'm dizzy and need to bre...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:24 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September October, we go on and on.
- Replies: 240
- Views: 1076648
Re: September October, we go on and on.
Thank you, everyone. I'm still not processing very well. I'm still quite sick and walking up the hill even a little to get the girls exhausts me. At least I'm not sleeping 18 hours a day. My leasors are giving attention to the Q's. They were already looking for mom when ridden by where she was, and ...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 1:58 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September October, we go on and on.
- Replies: 240
- Views: 1076648
Re: September October, we go on and on.
My friend and her vet daughter tried for two days. We lost Sora last night, three days after she went there. My amazing friends. In August the vet had a hard time, but was able to get in with the tube and get everything out with a smaller tube. She tried and only got a little out, but could not get ...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 1:49 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Life Changes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2889
Re: Life Changes
I am glad it all worked put for you. I think a lot of us are going through similar challenges.
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 7:37 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September October, we go on and on.
- Replies: 240
- Views: 1076648
Re: September October, we go on and on.
exvet, I am sorry about the harsh judging at champs. That's what I saw, too. Hey, sometimes you win by showing up. I know I did. Ugh. I have to let this out. I took my older mare up to my friend's wonderful farm on Saturday. She travelled well and went into a quarantine stall with mushy food and alf...
- Sat Sep 30, 2023 5:13 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September October, we go on and on.
- Replies: 240
- Views: 1076648
Re: September October, we go on and on.
Chisamba wrote:Tanga my oldest student tripped getting out of the shower and broke her ankle!
OMG!!! Be CAREFUL people! It's stupid trips and break this month!
- Sat Sep 30, 2023 5:07 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: September October, we go on and on.
- Replies: 240
- Views: 1076648
Re: September October, we go on and on.
Chisamba, I am SO sorry about your mare. Life seems to be tricky right now. With all of these decisions, I always err on the side of sooner after too many tragic too late cases. And I think if it can be a learning experience, that's a good thing. Flight. OMG. This is DO NOT TRIP month. Someone at th...