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Kyras_Mom

SF..I hope Tesla's issue is minor. It seems like they do watch the calendar. Kyra and I have been back to hand walking/work. I could have gotten one more ride on Friday but it was starting to snow and I decided to lunge but by the time we made it to the arena, it quit. By then, I didn't have time to...

Kyras_Mom

I agree khall...they have a choice and I like to see that choice. One day oh, 15 years ago, I put Kyra in a small arena to let her "play" and see if she would be interested in working with me (I think she was 5 at the time and I've had her since she was 2). Well, I got my answer. I called ...

Kyras_Mom

Very nice. I so admire liberty work like this. The hours and hours of work.

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Susan

Kyras_Mom

Mountaineer, boy is it tough with these Princess and the Pea horses regarding bits. Kyra is another one and yes, you know immediately. Hence my bastard full double…Weymouth over the top of a bitless bridle. I don’t think she even has room in her mouth for 2 bits and I don’t think at 21, I am even go...

Kyras_Mom

So cute

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I know last year I got into watching baby goats on YouTube. The volcanos were taking a break

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Susan

Kyras_Mom

The overall takeaway was don't buy into his nonsense, just ride through it and carry on with the work rather than letting him derail it and get out of doing the work. Keep him straight and through and keep him busy. Take any emotion out of it, don't pick a fight, you pick the tempo and stick with i...

Kyras_Mom

Potters and Justin...so handsome. We have had our January thaw so I have been able to ride pretty consistently. I am only getting between 30-40 minutes/ride but I feel she has been making progress. However, we are supposed to be back to snow by Thursday with freezing temps at night so it might be ba...

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Sounds like a challenging show Exvet. Seems like it makes us a stronger rider though. We aren’t getting rain anything like California but I am really tired of wet. Poor horses are stuck in their stalls and it is not doing Kyra any favors for her weaker right hind. I had to take a day off from gettin...

Kyras_Mom

I feel ya’. The last barn I was at, one particularly wet winter while I was cleaning and sieving the water from the poop, My boots got stuck and I fell in a giant puddle which also happened to be the pee spot. No horses over the top of me or loose though. Glad Miss A didn’t get herself in more than ...

Kyras_Mom

Darn Mountaineer. Are you able to ‘bribe’ him a bit in that corner. Just hang out, unmounted with some tasty treats and make that corner a happy place? Then carry a few treats with you while riding and feed him one in that corner every once in awhile. I don’t know if it would help or not. I hate it ...

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Khall, Joplin looks like she has a lot of motion to deal with? She is carrying so much better. SF…I was trying to figure out what kind of weird collar you had on her but then I figured out it was her tape job. She is really starting to elevate her front end. Both look really nice. Neither the PIVO o...

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OMG Exvet….SQUEEE :geek: . Oh crap! About a minute after I got on T at the grid day, someone who was lunging in the arena lost hold of her horse and it took a few people to catch it. Needless to say I vaulted off pretty quickly, but T really didn't care at all. Thats cool but this old body has no va...

Kyras_Mom

We have a break in the weather…at least temperature wise. Possibly a lot of rain coming so we will see how much ride time is in the cards. I have had 3 rides in the last week :D . We only have our smaller arena available (approx 25-30m and square-ish) so we can’t do a whole lot of fancy but after mo...

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I am not making any riding goals since I am at the mercy of the weather. I have to find someone to sit with Mom if I haul out and am gone longer than the normal barn run so that probably isn’t happening. I am not even sure where one can haul-in on this side of the valley. We are having a nice break ...

Kyras_Mom

I like the new set-up. Nice and tidy.

Susan

Kyras_Mom

So sorry about your Mom Aleuronx. Jingles headed your way. I got to ride today. Whohoo! I think it has been at least a month. I was on her twice, I think, after my hip injections (first week of December) and even one of those was just a walk about because the footing was yuck. Poor girl has had a lo...

Kyras_Mom

Mountaineer, I hope your saddle is OK. I had a oh, damned…the saddle episode once. Problem, it wasn’t my saddle. I had a young horse who I had shown locally a couple times. Both shows were low key and she handled them well. We decided to make our first bigger show out of town. Hauled 5 hours. Appare...

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So good to hear from you demi. I am glad you are figuring out your new path. Sorry that you have to but glad that Besa has kept you grounded and given you a purpose. Well, we are (and have been since mid-November) in the winter doldrums…and since winter doesn’t start until tomorrow…winter sucks. It ...

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I like the BB’s much better than other forms of SM. Of course, I am old, not technologically savvy and don’t want my life splashed out for all to see or meddle in.

I too would be happy to kick in some $$ to keep this low key and helpful BB.

Susan

Kyras_Mom

Well…the crappy weather continues although it looks like we will get some relief temperature wise sooner than later. Unfortunately, my BO is having major back surgery the end of the month. She and her husband do all the work so that will put a bit of a kink in things around the barn. Husband says he...

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Ponichiwa...swoon. Queso is da' bomb. Well...our weather has just sucked with a capital "S". It has been raining all day and is supposed to switch to snow tonight then temps with highs in the mid-20's and lows in the teens and single digits. That will mean rock hard frozen ground with litt...

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Khall… :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Joplin is really progressing. I am just looking at my fat horse. Ground is frozen with not enough snow to cushion it so right now we are just hand walking. This week is insane for appointments for me with the added physical therapy for my hip. So, she is having a vacation....

Kyras_Mom

Interesting Exvet. Thanks for sharing the results of Junior’s exam. Hopefully all your documenting will get you to having a perky pony with stamina. Kyra had a real problem with the smoke here this summer for a couple weeks. I hadn’t seen the air that bad here before but Idaho was burning so most of...

Kyras_Mom

Healing jingles for both of you.

Susan

Kyras_Mom

Everyone has been so busy and productive. I have continued to be quite sore post PRP but finally starting week 3, the soreness is starting to abate. I start PT this week and I started rowing this morning. The protocol said bike riding but I don’t have a gym membership and no bike but I do have a row...

Kyras_Mom

I had a nice vacuum…it worked great until the dry winter air and it started zapping her with static. That was the end of that. I gave it to straightforward when I moved barns. Miracle groom spray works quite well too. I just lightly spray the brush…brush, clean brush, respray and brush some more…rin...

Kyras_Mom

Haha Mountaineer…I first read that YOU got plastered

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Belated Thanksgiving from me. Our family had a very nice day. 3 chubby old people so we didn’t fix lots but what we had was very nice.

Susan

Kyras_Mom

Chisamba

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Susan

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Kyra is pretty much on vacation since I am grounded for another week. I have been really sore since my PRP injections so I haven’t even ventured to the barn much. The soreness is slowly abating and I will be starting PT next week I think. I did pull her out and was able to lunge her some on Saturday...

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I managed to get a few rides in last week. They weren’t long but I feel they have been quality. My last ride most of the arena was too soggy and parts were lumpy due to freeze/thaw so we sent most of our ride time on a 20 m circle on the upper part of the arena with better footing. I had her spiral ...

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Glad you are back in the saddle Mountaineer. Also glad that Potter’s is so indifferent about all the extracurricular activities. Well, our weather has gone to hell in a hand basket. The sun is shining but it is also cold at night…in the low 20’s and mid teens after 2 inches of rain in the first 10 d...

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Exvet…both guys look very nice. Hopefully next show won’t involve so many distractions for you. I got a ride in today and it may be the last for a couple weeks. It is supposed to get cold. Low 20’s to high teens at night which means the very wet arena will be frozen. Couple that with my hip injectio...

Kyras_Mom

At this rate it is going to be a hella' long winter! No kidding :P . Kyra had 3 days of hand walking or long reining due to rain and or arenas under water.. Yesterday, My arthritic foot was sore and decided that she had to carry me. We did some walking around the perimeter road and I finally took h...

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Isn’t that great Chisamba…someone who gets “it”. I picked the surgeon for my total hip because his wife is a very accomplished dressage rider. He understood ;) and did a good job. I got in a ride today. It was 70 degrees so I also washed her tail one more time and got it bagged up. For our ride I ju...

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Glad you are on the mend. Sorry about the postop pain. It sucks when you can’t use the whole arsenal to combat it. Can you use ice? Those movement restrictions are the pits…especially for a horse person. Those things tend to be automatic :P . Stall rest is hard :lol: . Take care and heal fast. Susan

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Heddy, I had one round from the orthopedic surgeon that I was seeing here. They didn’t draw enough blood so the resultant injection was like 2ml volume then he just injected it near something…no imaging and despite all that it did help. It took about 5 weeks then I noticed that the pain was much bet...

Kyras_Mom

Goals… Me…get my a** moving. Anything. It has got to cool down one of these days? Forecast for 100 or more all the way through the weekend. My rowing machine is in my garage which has been running about 94 degrees. We will see. I finally found out what is wrong with my left hip. I have a tears in bo...

Kyras_Mom

Yeah Chisamba...it is done. Heal up and you will be riding before you know it...do follow instructions though. I know horse people

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Jingling for a smooth recovery.

Susan

Kyras_Mom

With my mare, I couldn’t get any decent lengthening on a circle. In her early days, she carried a lot of tension and it basically took a lot of forward and back for her to find that gear. SI prior to asking for the lengthening also helped. I also tried to do short diagonals…using the whole long diag...

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Sounds like a good plan LSP. The only one that has the clock is you. I didn’t get Kyra into the show ring until she was 8. Until I had the mouth issue diagnosed and remediated, it would have done no good to take her to a show and show the judges just how tense and distracted she could be. Better to ...

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LSP--I hope you can get things shussed out. Kyra has a fussy stifle and when she was young, I kept getting told she would grow out of it. She didn't. But therapy work and dressage has seemed to keep her remarkably sound. No...her gaits are not world beating and we've both missed the boat(more my fau...

Kyras_Mom

I’ve used toh to canter. Helps with the collecting before the canter transitions. I also like to feel the walk to the point of almost jigging energy. I put my legs in canter position but it is my seat that does the asking. It’s a swoop of the hip Karen Rohlf calls this ‘busy feet’. I move her sligh...

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I learned it from a dressage instructor to reinforce the inside leg to outside rein. He had us do that way (change to the outside of the circle) to engage the new inside hind and establish correct bend. Also shows very quickly whether the horse is in front of the leg.

Susan

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I made it to the barn today despite feeling tired and achy post COVID booster. It was all good though. A couple acetaminophen and some equine therapy on a gorgeous fall day and I’m all better. Kyra was trimmed Wednesday and had yesterday off but seemed fine today. She has had issues with retained so...

Kyras_Mom

Looking good!

Susan

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Back in internet land. My modem died Saturday night so today, I went and got a replacement and viola…nobody activated it. At least I didn’t have to wait the 24-48hrs that was stated :shock: . I am just totally kicking myself for not trying out the bastard double bridle before now. I had thought abou...

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Thank you

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Kyras_Mom

I watched it from the link on TOB. I will have to rewatch it and write down the 24 behaviors...so I can watch for them. For me, it is pretty easy to know (like you) when something just is not right. Finding a vet that will take the time and believe is sometimes another story. I had a mare that I sta...

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Thanks Chisamba. I think I have that one and she still got some pinching with it. Might not be the Baucher though, might just be the loose ring. However, If I ever want to show, I will have to find the least annoying legal bit on her and I can try it again. I can often get 2-3 decent rides before th...

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Tesla went back to work on Thursday and had a few opinions about it, but on Friday she was super. About a half hour into the ride I felt her back come up, so I thought she needed to poop and gave her a walk break. No poo so we went back to work and her back came up even more. I thought maybe I'd ke...

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