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I did manage to get a ride out in the sunshine today. Very good for the soul! I also went to the gym this morning, so right now, I hurt! Time for a hot shower to lubricate things a bit... We didn't do anything very exciting. It was a nice day for noodling around enjoying each other's company. A few ...

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I fear we are done with riding in the outdoor arena for the season. The torrential rain over the weekend left it underwater, and even if it drains off, once we start to get hard freezes overnight it will still be wet enough to freeze solid. So back to the limited confines of the indoor arena for us....

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Beautiful, SF! Its the same around here, unfortunately.

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Mari, how are you doing? Chisamba, still jingling like mad for Dylan. Sometimes horses are just one heartbreak after another. Im still feeling like hammered poop, but I dragged myself to the barn to watch Potters go today. He looks great and quite happy. He's getting much more connected over his top...

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I got my truck back today. $1300 and change. Ouch. Along with the $1500 for new tires, (and now apparently i need new front brakes as well) for my car after my debris on the freeway incident last month, and then DH hitting a deer on the highway in the dark the other day in his car, with a subsequent...

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My truck is in the shop. Died on me 40 miles from home last week.
US Rider to the rescue one more time.

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I have an absolutely dreadful cold. Punishment for going on vacation and having fun. I'm not quite on the upswing yet, but i hope to be back in action next week sometime. I gather Mr Perfect is being perfect, in the meantime.

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And today, I had Mr Perfect back again... he had his fall shots on Tuesday, and I think he may have still been a bit stiff and resentful yesterday. So now I feel bad.

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Im sorry about Daisy, Chisamba. And yes, just because we can doesn't necessarily mean we should. Back home after 2 weeks of eating, drinking and making merry with the family in the UK. There are multiple birthdays in my husband's family in this timeframe so it just turned into one rather long and ex...

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Greetings from sunny England... I hope Daisy starts to improve, Chisamba. And Odie's cellulitis improves. Blob, Potters has suddenly started getting little rubs from the girth he has been wearing for years, too. Im wondering if he has changed shape more than i have really noticed. Several people in ...

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Beautiful but blustery day here today. I had a good, if rather challenging, ride. Sometimes with Potters the good stuff is right at the edge of what he's prepared to offer without blowing up. The finesse is in getting one without the other. We mostly managed that today...mostly! And then, walking hi...

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I hope Obie feela better, SF. Im just waiting for Laddie to throw a spanner in the works as I'm off to England next week. Truthfully, I'm having far too much fun riding in the lovely fall weather at the moment to really want to tear myself away. Three perfect, centered changes in each direction, twi...

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Blob, sounds like a plan :) however, if Potters retains his current extreme objection to "R" I think I'd rather not, at the moment. I keep seeing that Correct Connect device for just this thing on my FB feed, and thinking "well fine, but if I have to bail out on it, there's a 2 ft lon...

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Elbows... My elbows had apparently developed a life of their own. Potters thought this was a great thing to take advantage of. My rides are all about them right now.

Habits. So easy to develop. So hard to get rid of.

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Yikes, Heddy! I'm glad you're in the right place to get it resolved (I get you on the pack of gawkers coming in to check you out. When I had my deer-goring incident, I reckon the entire hospital staff came through for a look. Fortunately I was so high on Ativan by then, I was past caring. This is a ...

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And just like that, it's the end of summer. We've had our ups and downs over the past two months. No showing for Justin, unfortunately, and it looks like the October show we were planning on has been canceled so we've failed in our quest for him to get his silver this year. We've had some soundness ...

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Potters had been i.proving steadily through the week. Im not asking for serious collection or anything, but he feels like he is pushing more from behind and able to get off his front end. I'm riding on my own all week as my trainer is at the Festval of Champions coaching he niece. I'm actually thoro...

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Very nice, Chiamba. She looks happy and relaxed and forward-going. What a nice job you have done with her. Congratulations!

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@goldhorse. He's very cute! My only question would be about the "easy keeper" descriptor. Sometimes, it seems to me that is code for "borderline metabolic." After what you've been through with Piggy, that's the last thing you need, so proceed accordingly.

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This morning was very expensive, so I'm with you on that, Aleuronx! I decided to suck it up and do a full lamenes evaluation, with nerve blocks and flexions, and a chiro adjustment as he was pretty sore all over when she started palpating him. The upshot was that we injected his hocks and knees, wit...

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A few jingles for Potters would be appreciated.... we were having a really productive lesson this morning working on trot-canter-trot transitions on a circle, really focusing on keeping the outside connection and the inside hind to outside shoulder connection. We came down to a trot and he was sudde...

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Lol, Ponichiwa. Potters has mastered the art of being terrifically charming to all his fans on the cross-ties, too! "OH, he's so cute! Can he have a carrot?" Cool and wet here, briefly, before it goes back to being 90 degrees next week. The flies are going to love it... At least it will da...

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Exvet, im glad you weren't more badly hurt! I also had a harrowing experience on the freeway last week when someone dropped an unsecured load (a set of truck ramps, apparently, according to UHP) in the fast lane on a busy Friday afternoon. Nowhere to go but straight over them. Two exploded tires at ...

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This week, I've lost my left to right change. Right to left is clean and tidy, left to right, I'm a flailing puppet. It's not him, it's me. Still trying to persuade both sides of my body to respond the same.

This too shall pass, but, wah!

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How is Junior progressing, exvet?

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I have a cranky shoulder too at the moment. Heat pack followed by icepack, plus 2 ibuprofen, at bedtime helps with the sleep somewhat. I've had surgery on that shoulder before and dont fancy that again.

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Yup. That's wet! She's lovely and you make such a nice pair, Chisamba. We continue to chug away at the basics. Nothing exciting, which is fine by me. Just forward and through at all gaits, some changes, that kind of thing. I have a picture in my mind of what we are aiming for, and self propulsion wi...

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Exvet, the show we bailed on this weekend was also oversubscribed. Recognized, 2 day, 2 show deal, no WD. I was suprised. Good news though!.

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We feel vindicated...A barn buddy got back from the show just as I was finishing up at the barn, and said we made the right decision not to go. The arena was sufficiently unlevel that that first medium trot in the PSG was on a noticeably downhill slope. That would have been more than a little challe...

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Very well stated, Chisamba.

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Potters now appears to be absolutely fine and fabulous. The farrier didn't uncover anything sinister yeaterday and he had a pretty good look. We have, however, scratched from tomorrow's show. No point in going in half-cocked, and he and Justin haven't had the rides they needed this week to go do a r...

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It seems to me that the judges should be the ones making these observations about how thw horse is being ridden in whatever setup it is being ridden in, and marking and commenting accordingly. I do know it can be a challenge to take a schoolmaster-type horse back to showing in a snaffle if it has be...

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Gaaaah!!!! Potters is giving me grey hairs! I'm not sure he will be showing on Friday. He's been going beautifully. Then on Friday he started out really well WTC, went back to trot work and he came up with this really irregular foot-flingy trot. I'd wrapped him with eskadrons rather than putting boo...

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Lovely, Chisamba!

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Pictures, Chisamba!!! Pretty please.... Goals... J&P will do another PSG.in two weeks, so i have to step back a bit until then. We've been sharing the rides this week with me doing the warm up, which has actually worked rather well. Potters is feeling pretty happy and full of himself and I've be...

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Well, that went by fast! It has been a good couple of months. We achieved our goals with Justin showing Potters, just 2 more scores to go... I have been riding consistently since I got back from vacation, and am on the whole pleased with the progress I'm making.and with Potters' attitude. I'm partic...

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The smoke and air quality are so bad out here in the west at the moment, grass pollen is off the charts high, and it is dry, hot and dusty. If you have any kind of breathing sensitivity, life's a bit wheezy and snotty at the moment!

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Eek, Chisamba! I would approach thar exercise with caution. You could make your lower back and hips really sore doing that. Blob, I understand. It is so discouraging to lose so much progress and physical capability.. I sometimes feel as if I'm having to learn to ride all over again and wonder if I w...

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Out here in the desert, the early ride times are considered an earned privilege for moving up the levels. I'm so not a morning person, so this is hard for me to get excited about, but I can just about appreciate getting the cool of the day! I've noticed saddle balance makes a huge difference for us ...

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Exvet, I'm glad you have projects to work on. You did rather have the rug pulled from under you. Continued jingles for Junior's progress. SF, I look forward to reading Tesla's rehab stories and progress! My own personal rehab is coming along quite well. I managed to ride 3 full lessons in the heat, ...

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Lots of good progress here while I've been loafing around gorging myself on good Italian food and wine for the last couple of weeks! Now I have to drop the hammer and work on making my clothes fit again and not squashing my horse. I had a very good lesson today, though. Hard work as mid-day, very ho...

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My feeling with the fillis hold was that it really made me think about what I was doing, because it was different. When I go back to the double (soon!), I will start out with it again so I can get that true feeling of separation and subtlety again. Getting set up just right with the correct feel and...

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It might be an excellent time to see if there is a bit-fitting clinic in your area so you could consult an expert on size and shape for her, before you drop 500 bucks on bits. I've found with Potters that the angle of the mouthpiece is the most important thing for him. Fortunately for us I'm in a ba...

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It's the season, Khall. Laddie coliced on Memorial Day (of course, he always picks a public holiday for his episodes.) He got over it with the help of some banamine, so also probably a gas bubble.

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So, show report! We were at a beautiful brand new facility that sits on the side of a lake at the base of a ski resort. Perfect new footing, wide open arena with no places for Potters-eating monsters to hide. (Though other horses were not so sure... agoraphobic, I guess.) Everything was well organiz...

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Could that be a bite or sting, LSP?

Further jingles for Junior, poor guy. I'm glad you have Troy to keep you occupied, exvet.

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((((Hugs)))) to you exvet. Sensible approach, even if not easy.

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Well, damn, exvet. That wasn't what i was expecting to hear. Pulling for you snd Junior. Potters was feeling like THE MAN on a brisk, windy (and snowy) morning today after coffin joint injections and 3 days off... He will calm down by tomorrow, but he was obviously just feeling good and showing off....

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Oh, no, exvet! Jingles for Junior! At least Troy can put a smile on your face.

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