tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21020144326753713002024-02-06T18:24:02.652-08:00All Horse Stuffand other glimpses of lifeallhorsestuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05301081722884351021noreply@blogger.comBlogger586125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102014432675371300.post-34623927718488596512014-06-14T09:46:00.000-07:002014-06-14T09:46:50.601-07:00 Hello, hello!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How Are You All? These Summer Like Spring Days Have Been Good To Us In The PNW. Lots Of Riding, Resting, Working And Gardening.<br />
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I'll Be Back.....Just Needed To Check In!allhorsestuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05301081722884351021noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102014432675371300.post-38391753040124283832014-02-08T11:05:00.000-08:002014-02-08T11:05:28.594-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi Y'all!!!<br />
I'm Still Here, Alive And Kicking(Tons Of Snow) Off My Boots. Computer It's Down, So Trying To Use Smart Phone...Well See!<br />
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This Obviously It's From This Past Summer. Not Sure How To Get Real Time Photos Here...Maybe My Smart Phone Can Teach Me!<br />
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Anyway, Pray You All Are Well.It's Been A He== Of A Winter... .allhorsestuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05301081722884351021noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102014432675371300.post-52671840853082486832013-10-30T11:11:00.000-07:002013-10-30T11:11:16.362-07:00Coming in<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hello all!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I know that this unexplained break from Bloggerville had some wondering about us. Thankyou for seeking me out via email and comments. I am sorry for such a long blogger break...totally did not realize that I'd get to ride in such FABULOUS conditions from June till now! Just 3 days of rain in 3 months, and 2 little storms in September.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> THIS IS NOT THE OREGON I KNOW!</span><span style="font-size: large;"> But, neeed I say more - LUUVING IT!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did start a Summertime post , about mid way through it...but so much was going on and the computer does give us fits, from time to time (it is from the dark ages) it freezes up and won't do a thing I ask! </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><u style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">I couldn't make myself sit inside! </u><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So while there is so much to write about ( hospital visits, Arachnophobia bouts, Pescatarian lifestyle changes)..... I have to wait for a day that MAKES me stay put! Plus, there is so much neat-o news from you all to read about and catch up on!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">( Been Race training for a Thanksgiving Turkey Trot 5 K...) ....it has been in the 70's and sunny for the better part of October! So, just like that, I shall leave you again. Gotta work sometimes. All the while wistfully yearning to be OUT in this BRIGHT, Sunny day today. And the next two days off...ride plans!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Say you missed US a little, and I will come back sooner!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>allhorsestuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05301081722884351021noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102014432675371300.post-88714125813312849842013-08-06T11:51:00.001-07:002013-08-06T11:51:02.802-07:00Into the Deep Dream<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is what it is like, riding further into the forests, a dreamy, soothing place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The soaring temps continue here . We did have a small window of cool late July, with marine clouds in the mornings and upper 70's for the days. HEAVENLY it was.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, going deeper into the woods is a solitude place the mare and me crave; the quiet that refreshes and calms the spirit with every step.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sounds of wildlife only can be heard there, like a Hawk that is being pestered by some ravens over our heads. It squawks and flutters to evade. Little chipmunks scamper underfoot, seemingly playing a game with my mare and her footfalls on the shared trail. Then running up a nearby tree just ahead, it hangs motionless staring at us, at eye level. As we near it flicks it's tail, chirps a </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"do not follow" </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">warning</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, and flits up the tree. </span><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">No worries </u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">little buddy, we like the solid ground for traveling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I stroke my mare's neck, happy she is unfazed by it and so many other larger squirrels doing the same thing underfoot, and visibly taunting us in trees next the trails we travel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The mare has been stellar calm. It could be the heat...it does have an effect of mellowing one's attitude out. She has been moving at a snails pace. To increase speed, which I honestly have not had to ask of this mare much, I only have to gently think energy. This hot summer, thinkin' it ain't achieving it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> But ya know- I am not wanting to step things up, so no matter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It is just a strange feeling to know I would have to use my leg on my mare "a thought" works well with! I am sure with the cooler temps, will come the livelier steps again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I know most of the country has been sweltering HOT, nothing new for news in that statement. But for us here in OREGON well, it is like we have had <b>3 COMPLETE summers</b> in the course of 30-70 days. It is strange, very strange for us. Everyday sunny, every day.... While I am not complaining, I will say...it is just strange!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The sunshine has produced plenty of beautiful flowers, vegetables and Blackberries! I have had my eye on many trails with ambling blackberries...but then, so have the local bears! Yes, Bears. The evidences of them can be seen everywhere. Scat! Also the evidence has been felt, as I ride my mare out from our stables..she is high headed and snorty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The smells can not be covered up with the jingle jangle sounds of the "BEAR BELL"...if my mare gets a whiff of something wild, she gets very nervous. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been super spooky in certain area's we ride daily...down by the creek, and the areas of thick underbrush. The other day, we both saw a tree and bush shaking violently some 15 feet from us, just as we passed. She didn't know what to do...turn around on the narrow trail or ??? She faltered in step, and down we went... to her knees. Up she was in a flash and bolting towards the top of the trail. Woo...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, she has perked up a bit lately...but these times are not soothing, but tense!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, in town there are many ongoing summertime activities...concerts in the park, outdoor movies and socials. The annual McGloughlin district-100 home sale- in our neighborhood this weekend, surely will bring scads of folks around. I may partake in the festivities with my 2 neighbor girl friends .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then, hit it back out to the country again and away from the crowds, into the woods!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That is pretty much it these days...a little work, alot of play and always trying to remain COOL!</span>allhorsestuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05301081722884351021noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102014432675371300.post-63481298053513131612013-07-21T14:29:00.002-07:002013-07-22T08:28:57.724-07:00Mountain Times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had an awesome experience horse camping, our third time to Clackamas Lake in Mount Hood National Forest. Clackamas lake sites are only 3 years old and have dedicated horse sites with very nicely built corrals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our time away, this time, was truly a "separated from the "connected" world of cell service", for my man, sister and myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Usually, we may take a walk down the planked runway to the tiny dock of the lake. We sit with our coffee's while we check in and catch up on "Home" activities with our elderly mother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We took the coffee, and walked the planked runway to our known world's reception ..<i><u>but nope, no reception</u></i>! We got spotty reception near the road <u>once.</u>..but after that,<u> nothing</u>. Actually-it was kinda refreshing since we already knew other's were checking in on "grandmother". My Nephew was working on his motorcycle in her garage, and was there at all hours, days in a row replacing parts. Super helpful for the timing, as we girls and my man could relax, knowing he was around to make sure she was alright.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No calls, no txts, blogs, no <a href="http://instagram.com/maregirlkk"> <b>"Instagram"</b></a> ...it was a vacation from known connected realities! We only had each other and the horses, NICE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is the stinker news though...I have waited to post this because *** my camera got taken this spring from my parked truck outside my house. I got another camera like it at the pawn shop...but apparently, it is <i>not enough</i> like it,(cords and connections don't link up) and I am unable to retrieve photos from it to our "old as hills" computer. I am frustrated. So there are just a shots from my phone this time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the blasted mosquitoes were awful and plentiful. We did our best with the arsenal of bug replants...but in the end, we waited for the fall of darkness for relief!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next morning we all had a lovely round of STRONG COFFEE and I made blueberry pancakes for breakfast. We sisters decided to take a riding outing to the lake for 4th of July. It was the first of 5 rides this trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My mare was very nicely walking behind Pantz, I was sighing in delight and looking all around. My mare has this kicking walk. She gets her walk on at around 4-5 m.p.h. and gets mighty disturbed, when she must be checked back for using it on trail rides, behind a slow pokey horse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I was just reading over in Germany at<a href="http://horsecrazyamerican.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-perfect-training-scenario.html"><span style="color: #741b47;"> LYTHA'S place, </span></a>that she had gone out with her Mara mare, and met a rider with a horse that has a great walk too...the owner doesn't like to ride with others because their horses get disturbed because... they probably get left behind! That would be a good fit for us, like Pantz is... she outwalks Wa every time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anywho...we were struting through the vast beautiful and my sister and I did a "Leap Frog" in positioning. While Wa was clam, I allowed her to lead. It is the perk for her for remaining calm behind. We did that several times and once my sister spied a large BLACK RAVEN feather! She still has a gimpy leg so getting off to retrieve it was near impossible . I popped off and got it and placed it directly in Wa's mane!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I felt a little badly for claiming the RAVEN Feather so quickly but I had given her a Red Tailed Hawk feather just before the ride, and it was in place in Pantz's mane , looking rather smart!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a nice little first ride, but we did have a slight bolt situation from my mare. The weather was so hot and the winds had come up across the Lake. While it kept us cooler on a very hot day, it made the lake waters have a small tide effect, "Lapping" up onto the land. My mare took issue with the waters and spooked suddenly. She turned to leave...right into my sister! Sis got a huge bruise from that on her forearm...but we gained control quickly and hung out by the waters till the mares settled. It was so Beautiful!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had some cobbler for dessert that eve for the 4th. My man is a great cook and he comes up with such camping delights each year! We pretty much ate only Vegetarian delights this year, Hummus with veggies, my special sandwhich </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">( Dave's killer bread, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">avocado , almond butter, grated carrot,cucumber, safflower mayo and spinach leaves, grated cheese) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next days ride was to be the long one of the trip, since my man had to go to work that day before he could return for the final 3 nights and 2 days of camping with us girls. I had told my sissy that the LAKE RIDE around Timothy is what I wanted to accomplish this year. Last year when we came, she and Pantz mare were recovering from health maladies, and the entire lake ride was out -NOT plausible. But this year...there was nothing stopping us...though it is long, the weather had cooled and water was available along the route for the horses plus, we brought hay lunch for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We soon headed out again, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(after a photo shoot with</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">me in</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the shots, but alas...on the camera) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">for the rest of the ride around Timothy lake. We were almost half way around the lake when my sister asked me, </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"How much further will it be?" </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I answered, "<i> Sister,</i> <i>we are riding the entire loop around the lake today"</i>..and though when you add up the separate trail distances on the map, my GPS was on, and my calculations had us at almost, half way at that moment. " <i>We have about 8 or nine miles to go"....</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After her worry and a diatribe conversation, I took this <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3VZ9JHC98">"</a></span><u style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3VZ9JHC98"><span style="color: #cc0000;">little video"</span>.</a>...</u>Sighing in it, as you hear...we went onward and forward, walking briskly through the beauteous place, above the Lake in the Mountains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second mishap happened about 5 miles from home camp. The ride from my GPS was 16 miles. According to the map readout on mileage, it's 20. It seems very long, to be sure...Pantz was tired and she tripped on uneven footing and caught her hoof boot. They did not go down, but that initial jerk and adrenaline feels terrible. I hate that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> So, my sister thought I tried to kill her and her horse..but the next day...</span><u style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">we all felt pretty darned GOOD!!!</u><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We repeated a neat action we had started the morning of the 5th...get up with the sun( just before 6am), feed the horses, clean the stalls, replenish water, take a jaunt to the rest rooms...<b>then go back to bed!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We enjoyed our getaway very much...and returning home was equally nice. Sleeping in a real bed for us and also the mares being back to a normal routine-less the terrible MOSQUITOS! They were horrendous!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sigh...summertime is lovely. We seem to have had 3 in one season this year...the 90's were hit more than ever and now we continue to go without Oregon's rains and staying in the 80's...<i>I'M NOT</i> COMPLAINING!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, while she has been nice and comfy...I HAVE NOT!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, summer is here in Oregon. While just a week ago it was raining still (typical), it is acting pretty summery now with high temps and plans to be realized. Normally it will rain right up to the 4th of July. Not typical this year, thank goodness!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I sent them in and did the </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.easycareinc.com/Cool_Stuff/Upgrades.aspx">"TRADE UP"</a> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">through the Easy Care Company.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You are able to send in an old pair of competitors hoof boots , once a year, for 50% off Gloves or Back Country Gloves. THIS is a GREAT DEAL, since I have<b><u> finally found</u></b> some of their well thought out and designed boots to fit my TB mare.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The invention of "WIDES", has made us two fillies really happy!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Rear EB Gloves came in the mail in record time. We've had some very nice outings with plenty of trots and canters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It has been like this, easy peesy ,beautiful!</span>allhorsestuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05301081722884351021noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102014432675371300.post-47014543483823238502013-06-04T05:00:00.000-07:002013-06-04T10:35:32.982-07:00A day riding , pondering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who knew something as common as what I call the "Sunshine Blues" </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">could be so blasted hilarious ! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Having "S.A.D.D." makes you manic when the bright light of the sun comes out finally. I try and do everything at once, not being able to follow through with any 1 thing! It is Exhausting! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But when someone like her writes it up; the talented comical soul that she is, it takes on a new light and makes us all in this disintegrating world, (</span> minds and bodies<span style="font-size: large;">) together, and it is not at all as bad as being alone!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is nice when riding, I never have to worry about lists, agendas being met, <i>or forgotten</i>! It's all about the moment I am in with my mare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The "REAL TIME" of riding out is a <b>mind-clear. </b>Nothing else matters in the lapsing minutes into hours. Blue hereon, Hawk, Eagle and many other birds fly above us in the airspace. On the grounds; deer, Beaver, frogs, squirrels, bunnies and the occasional cow and Llama are our trail mates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Usually, I think only about other horse folk when I ride.( </span><i>"IF" I think 'bout anything other than my mare, those animals and the</i> <i>terrains I travel</i><span style="font-size: large;">) It's only fitting to take them along in thought and prayer, knowing of their horse lives through blogging. I leave my other life stuff behind, just take them and their journeys various.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lately, I am CAPTIVATED in HEART by one that has made massive amounts of progress with her new wonderful Arabian mare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I ride my bareback saddle now, I have a partner! She is brave to do it and yea LYTHA, you'll get more buff as you ride on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The brighter light of the sunshine appearing has given me a BOOST...obviously...I have made more posts in this week, than ever! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So when I drop off to normal Posting...make sure to visit my new LINK-"INSTAGRAM"- on the top sidebar!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wa was happy to see me, neighing for me to hurry and get her out there! She has been super lately, really willing, stepping out of the barn door onto rocks. The norm <i>before boots</i>- <b>stop</b> at the last second and question KK girl, "<i>REALLY NOW, you say you love me but these stones hurt me!"</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As you see from the sketch/photo above, I have had some fun with my phone's applications lately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Juliette from<a href="http://www.honeysucklefaire.com/"><span style="color: #e69138;"> HONEYSUCKELFARE</span></a> blog, indirectly turned me onto this App, from another App she invited everyone to try<span style="color: #0b5394;">- <a href="http://instagram.com/maregirlkk">HERE</a>-</span>It is really fun and quick to connect with folks...right from your phone! It is called <a href="http://instagram.com/maregirlkk"><span style="color: blue;">"INSTAGRAM</span>"</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I only have her as a "follower"...so if anyone wishes to have some quick fun, please take a hasty minute and sign up...I am loving the easy connection to friends, <span style="color: #0b5394;">through photos</span>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We did some extended trotting. We went through big bogs and some nice deep water. We continued the trotting on a softer surface that is more uneven and once, I did hear her overreach and skiff a boot a few times. I DID NOT stop...I kept going till I planned on stopping and then- did the "BOOT CHECK" lean over the shoulder. Still on! The right boot was slightly off center...but a walk down the road corrected it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am considering sending my "Renegades" to the Easy Boot Company, for a 1/2 off $ in a "TRADE UP" offer they have. I need rear boots for some of those rockier rides I have put off doing in awhile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The roads with crushed gravel rocks make her dive for the much softer/safer shoulders. But this day, though she actually tried once or twice to go for the sides from pain memory, she began to snort and relax. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, yesterday, we got to go out once again later in the day. I was standing around waiting for the torrents of windy rain to subside as they have seemed to, later in the days. It just kept coming, and the moisture from the skies seeped into the barn doorways. When I stepped into the turnout, the rains had flooded Wa's turnout field too. The 2 weeks of 80's we had in the beginning of May were apparently to keep our spirits up from the memory. <i>NOW</i>, we have gotten 4-5 inches of rain in a hurry apparently, marking an 1800's date for the record rainfall!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I prepared to go still, hoping....getting the rain gear out...for her: quarter sheet, synthetic bridle and breast collar, saddle cover. For me: Rain duster that covers my legs and rear!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">YEA!! a small window of blue between the grey and blackened skies!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was riding and thinking of<a href="http://ayearwithhorses.blogspot.com/2013/05/lesson-with-mark-rashid-with-pictures.html"> KATE'S LESSON</a><a href="http://ayearwithhorses.blogspot.com/2013/05/lesson-with-mark-rashid-with-pictures.html">.</a>... with Mark Rashid. I knew she could be riding right then too!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I have enjoyed identifying with her over "core to core" work. Since I have started riding again after my accident, my safety has been to secure my hands with a light contact to the mare , while holding a rope from around the mare's neck. The results have been to use my "Thoughts only"- that are the core body movements between my mare and me. It is subtle and gently asks your horse to respond to the least amount of movement. With the way the mare has been marking time with her snorting, I know she has felt less pressure and more freedom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Off we went...into the water logged lands. With the front "Gloves" on. The mare soon realized, nothing hurt her toes! She strode out nicely. We went up and down and all around the roads for an hour that wizzed by! We had been trotting and cantering, me riding without my rope ballast now, having the saddle and stirrups. I tested out my sitting trot, as I watched our shadow selves below on the ground, riding along with us. The mare stretched into my fingers and I was able feel her swingy body, as she highblew, and marked the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Making small talk and listening with stablemates was hard without being obvious- <i>I was so out of there,</i> as soon as the velcro, buckles , clips and some odd snaps were in place!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Down the slick trail I hand walked, mounting at the bottom. We then strode quickly up the road, brushing the bright yellow scrub bushes aside. They left sticky, rain battled petals on my legs and boots. It made me smile when I looked down and spied them.The yellow will soon give way to other colors this spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Under the dry cover of the Evergreen Fir trees. The heavy laden clouds had caught up to us, and were relieving themselves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I dismounted for a time...the mare being pensive. We overheard campers nearby. They had loud engines and hearty laughter, not usually heard in these parts. The Memorial weekend has brought them forth, pleasure seeking from the wood, like us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two views of the same mare. My phone's camera, while leaving much to be desired...makes beautiful mistakes sometimes. Loved the purple hue of the overexposed mane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking down now, there was the prettiest little wild Iris. She was all alone in the grassy undergrowth. Somehow she existed on this trail, between the hooves and tires that oft times stroll the pathway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Grass, grass, oh the blades were delighting in this day, beckoning my mare to partake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> "<i>Soon my mare", </i>I said aloud<i>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We both were having fun, though wet we were by now, it was NOT cold. I was ready to mount up again and head on home but I spied another wild thing that ADORES this kind of day................................</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you put both of your hands together, go ahead, knuckles up..................................................</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Really wanting to get us fit for spring. . . and while I have done tons of walking with the mare, I wish to ride longer, and TROT! Slick conditions make that near impossible.Truly, I NOT taking many risks these days..though my therapist told me <i>today, " you have healed up in the quickest scenario.6 weeks. Usually with something like this, it can be up to 6 months!" Woo hoo....!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My mare's normal sole "Tenderness" has come on. after the 2 glorious weeks of 80 degrees. She was getting pretty good at rock walking. Now, with conditions ripe for soft soles ....Grass, and mud softened hooves from moist grounds. Wa does have very good hooves for a TB, but the sharper, broken gravel used on properties and roads for loggers to use, make her wince and groan about having to travel on them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So getting "FIT" means getting a "FITTING" done too. My barefoot specialist told me that she could fit my mare for hoof boots from "Easy care". I told her, "nothing from Easy Care will fit her, all the Easy Boots in the line have specific measurements for a narrower hoof. My mare's hooves are round".<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> She then apprised me of the new "WIDE, Easy Boot Glove".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I free lunged her for a spell, to see how they would hold onto her hoof. They will have gators on them when I use them, but this would be an interesting test. I knew that free lunging would come with outbursts of breaking the circle, but that is why I did that. She held it together for a few rounds and gait changes. I asked her to canter...yup-whoosh, off she galloped...and that boot stayed on her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">May, has been the sweetest surprise gifts to us in the PNW. She has looked much lik<i>e</i> the season to follow her that we<i> all **LOVE!</i> People in shorts and tank tops. The "Summerlike" 80's have really perked us all up. A "Sprummer, blending of seasons, it has been!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While it is becoming a "<i>normal </i>cooler May" now, half way through it, we've enjoyed the soothing, tempting days of warmth and dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">AND~ we have started our FIRST EVER garden! We've had Raspberries for several years now, here seen with the fruit beginnings </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now we've added Herbs and some veggies. I plan on planting Blueberries and try my hand at "Espalier" as well, with Apples and Pears.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And what horse lover's garden would not have plenty of <b>"KERRITS".</b>..you know what those are...they come with the favorite riding apparel!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I have saved the small packets for some time, and finally get to grow some!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While the past five weeks have been a healing time, that does not mean I have been away from the mare. We have gone on plenty of "Mare Walks"...30 miles to be exact. She has been super, usually greeting me with a nicker or whinny, when she sees me coming! One time she totally thrilled my heart by running to me from the grassy field she had to herself! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I am getting back to myself, whew! Each day has it's own change and lately, normalcy action...like yesterday at work; I shifted the leg bar ( puts feet up) for my client, on the shampoo bowl- myself! Yea, a small task for many, but I have not been able to do that for 5 weeks. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Little by little the " Zinger" I sustained (</span><i>yea, it's a real sports </i><i>injury term!</i><span style="font-size: large;">) and the "Stinger" nerve damage in my arm, have subsided with all the therapy, ice and rest. I have been SUPER CAREFUL!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have ever been lunged upon your horse or any horse, it is much like that. lightly pulling yourself into the movement, keeping yourself fluid and supple. This has allowed my mare to feel the rope as a wall rein and much less movements from me with my hands. Though I have contact with her, I am using my seat/legs and weight for aides only. It has been such a "back to basics" awesome tool! Wa mare has been light, responsive and I think by her high blowing snort, <u>enjoying it all!</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My man told me recently, that I am going to be the recipient of a "RIDING VEST". YEA! I will be happy to wear that out riding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Warming trends of 60-75 degrees, and out of the 30's! Spots of sun shining light! And SHADOWS HAVE BEEN SEEN....Amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also my weather App mentioned some funny developments .. in the way it tells me what's coming. It has been saying<i> "spots of sun"</i> for some time, in between the <i>"periods of rain", or " Stormy periods".</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> But in the coming days ahead ( </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">yippie skippie for me</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">) there are 2 in a row that say, "<b> <i>Plenty of Sunshine"</i>!</b> The weather app writers truly know how to make a girl smile, having those days, land on her days off!!! I am so looking forward to those soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But it finally changed <i>a little, </i>this week! I feel as though I could do some stretching now. T</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">he swelling has</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ceased some, but the tingling fingers and aching upper arm, remains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In other Turning events, the nearby woods are under siege again...all around us they are clear cutting them. All the day long, thudding of the 30 year old + trees can be heard and felt. It is looking quite different and soon, will be bare, right up to our PBO's property. Good for light I guess. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mine say's, <i>"Get me out into the grass, please!"</i> She is used to being out on BIG PASTURE, before we moved here. She had acres of it, all the time! Great omegas and tastes good too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After getting on the horse again, though only for tiny amounts of time, so as not to jar my spine much....I DO FEEL more like myself! I am a rider!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BUT... there is another ramification, from our mishap...fractured teeth. I went into the dentist, due to one breaking in my mouth, days after the fall. As the dentist was charting my mouth, he said "Fracture", several times over, and I got really nervous. Maybe a mouth guard isn't a bad idea in the future, after all!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I must have a crown on 2 molars. OH! So, many apts !!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, that is all for now, and that is ENOUGH TOO, for me...one day at a time...make it through my work, and to all these apts. and then, see the mare in between all that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It brought up a thought for my mind instantly too; though the fisherman was all the way across the pond, maybe a fish did a leap nearer to us- in the little section of waters seen above, at the same time? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course, one of my friends from church came into the salon this week, she had a "ruptured neck disk" a few years ago. I have strict instructions not to cut her hair shorter at the neck...as she has a scar from the surgery. It made me slightly nervous thinking about that, as I looked at her scar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Yea, I broke a tooth too in the fall. The first thing that hurt, was my jaw that day. Now I know why...it probably ( like I mentioned) was open in sudden shock and snapped shut. So, tomorrow I not only have to get my mare's hooves trimmed by someone else, though trusted, it is because I am unable to do it myself now. I go to <u>a new dentist</u> as well. I HAD to find someone new and on our dental plan, as somethings I need will be covered 100%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So while I miss the mare terribly this weekend...and getting out in the out doors places. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"the-entire-day-resting-healing-up-program", is what the Dr. has ordered...when I may steal it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I will think on our last 3 mile outing walk...The mare allowing me a pit stop here, but keeping an eye out for me, over her shoulder all the same!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My sister is still mending her Sciatica problems. She finally got to the bottom of why she has been in so much pain...Atrophied muscles around the nerves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It has been interesting to employ the latest installment of learned riding, from trainer "C" while on Dapple, to my mare. While using stirrups was the intended use for the "Wrapping legs", feeling the outside of your foot in the stirrups to the little toes. It has helped me bareback!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Concentrating on the curve of my leg, like there is a string attached between them under my mare's barrel, and not forcing the heal down, has done something nice for my bareback legs. It keeps my ankle more supple, lengthens my thigh and does not put a bigger bend in my knees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was recently </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">paroosing</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> horse blogs and ran across a gal that had been given some critical news from her trainer, about her hands. She began to use( in an attempt to steady her hands) the grab strap on the pommel to secure her handset by her pinkies, so she may remember the feeling for later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I tried this myself, and while it was higher than I usually carry my hands, something happened immediately, with the mare. She went down into contact as soon as I did it. Huh. It surely makes you carry them, and with elbows just a little closer to my sides, brushing them lightly. And it made the tightening the "armpits muscles"(thanks trainer"C") and core easier too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Having some rather nice and springlike weather earlier in the week, all sunny and warm. we got 3 rides in a row in with bareback saddle. On the middle ride I took her bridle off, for a grass graze for 35 minutes, after some nice trotting sessions and a few canters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unlike the other day, with the mare able to stand nicely while I took a pit stop...she was somewhat frantic. So, I took her up the road a bit and into some brush, for my privacy sake! I tacked/mounted up again and decided that a trot to the top of the lane, then a canter down the road by one of the ponds would be nice. Then home again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We trotted up to the corner----- and <i>WHOOSH------- all I thought I saw, before my mare Jumped 5 feet to the right and to the right again to face the monsters, was a large white thing. </i>I actually let out an expletive D*** **! I thought, "why are you spooking at a paper bag!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, it turns out that it was a darkly dressed woman with a white sweatshirt wrapped around her waist, walking a dog! I was embarrassed that I cursed, and apologized She totally may NOT have heard it anyhow...having a 1,000 pound animal, appear like that! My wrapped legs may have helped me there, I was thinking, very thankful to have stayed aboard! My mare normally does NOT spook sideways. But it was alright, and we did canter off down the road as planned. and then home again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had been out for 20 minutes. It was a calm and relaxing ride. We did no trotting, just a walk as I allowed Wa mare to choose the directions, we made a big loop. She chose the middle ponds to walk by, but since there were vehicles there, I knew we'd turn around soon. I figure since these folks pay to have the privilege of camping and fishing there, I shall leave them to their privacy and solace of the place, and ride elsewhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I didn't turn around in time, and just as I caught the view and eye of one of the fishermen, with his fishing poll overhead in the middle of his fly cast---------<b><i>Crack</i></b>----- the whip like noise!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wa was gone from under me in 2 seconds, she stopped, dropped her shoulder, and whirled around to the right to evade the danger she perceived.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am calling it a 185 turn....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My longer legs<b> really tired </b>to stay aboard my horse, as later I noticed the saddle sideways. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I remember was, watching my left hand hold onto the reins with a death grip (<i>thinking don't let go and don't loose you horse!</i>) as I started to hit the ground with force, and she leapt away, in the same direction we had come from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't think I lost conciseness, I saw Wa stop dead square and look back at me. That is the 185. She kept looking at me, without moving, as I peeled myself off the ground. I heard myself firmly saying "HO"! Then I thought to make the treat "click" noise...she received her treats as I got to her, still standing still.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I thought my jaw would come off ( I probably had my mouth open as I hit ground, no time for expletives this time!) it really hurt, and so did my head, leg and my left arm and shoulder were numb.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I just started walking on the ground with the mare home, the same way we had come.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I called my sister, for accountability. I was feeling somewhat sick now. She asked me a barrage of questions: What day is it? <i>"Survivor nigh</i>t, <i>Wednesday!"</i> I said. I got all questions correct and she said she'd come to help me ...but I stayed her off till I got to the long hill up to the stables. I called again then, letting her know I would make it and call again, before I drove.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I knew I couldn't do everything with one hand up that hill, so I decided to use a familiar mounting stump nearby, it is super tall and I step onto Wa from it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>***</b>Here where I really let out the stress of what happened...Wa not only turned herself around towards the stump, she walked over to it and side stepped up, then waited for me! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I got on and BAWLED ALL THE WAY BACK to the stables...using my right hand to secure reins and mane, she took care of me by walking so ultra slow up that hill...I didn't know it was possible, truly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, there you have it. I am glad I had my helmet on, it took the brunt of my -whipping to the ground- head. I had my I.C.E. tags on the mare and me too. So, if I had been knocked out...all the numbers to call were there, as well as the mare's facility and my sister's number. I never looked back at the fisherman...poor guy saw it all! But I hope he said to himself, "That's a great horse!" Cause that is what I thought, after all was done...A flight response is natural to her, all the other stuff she did to help me, was her choice. <i>She knew..</i>.I know she had to know, <i>I needed it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am out of commission. While I did go back to the stables yesterday to check in on Wa, it had been 2 days since I had seen her. And I did take her for a grass graze for an hour. I over did it and am in worse pain than before.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Ice is my friend, some strong drugs, and my therapist, whom I see again tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">See ya all soon, take care! Something like this makes one re evaluate all. My sister says, "You better be a saddle girl" . But, I got dumped from a stand still off her mare while wearing a saddle. So-When It happens, it happens fast!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Glory B our rescue kitty, stares at a springtime visitor.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fortunately, he stayed up there and she stayed down. It did not amount to anything but a -frozen in place- <b>staring contest.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While the first week of springtime was quite stormy-volatile, we made the best of it at the stable by doing extra grooming, working in hand and over poles in the arena. After one grooming session, a stablemate noticed the cool hair formations right off the "Grooma" massage tool. The large faced rubberized brush, doubles as a nice shedding implement! I took a sample home and put them on a plate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Now the second week, was truly~ LOVELY!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had one particular outing last week in which I wish I had a video of the event that occurred! I am calling the mare my </span><br />
<b style="font-size: xx-large;">"O</b><span style="font-size: x-large;">n</span><b style="font-size: xx-large;">T</b><span style="font-size: x-large;">rail</span><b style="font-size: xx-large;">TB"</b><span style="font-size: x-large;">,</span><b style="font-size: xx-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">after we finished, <i>a sort of race.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We trotted down a long road away from home, then up the hill towards another LONG stretch of grounds. Being between the rows of evergreen plantings, it is very soft footing without rocks. There so happens to be a nice road as well, just to the left, on the other side of the larger row of deciduous trees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had already seen a couple fat bunny rabbits and the token Jack Rabbit that lives in those trees. He with his longer ears and legs, could reach nearly 3 foot tall, should he stand all the way upright!! Appearing for a second, he ducked into his private forest once we began up the lane trotting.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">While I was asking the mare for transitions from longer to shorter...all of a sudden...a Plump grey squirrel (the size of a small dog) popped out of the trees onto the road to the left of the mare and me. He decided to run straight up that road, paralleled to us. We soon joined him, as we continued trotting. While I was not racing him, we did gain in trotting speed with my attention <i><u>not focused entirely upon the mare</u>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was laughing out loud, as this rather large squirrel, that kept slightly ahead of us but never looked back, just ran and ran and ran! When we finally came to the end of the lane, he ducked back into the tree grove, out of sight. We stopped and then decided which way to go from there, as my "Cardio Trainer" App on my phone, spoke up in his British voice saying, " 7 miles per hour". </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><u>That was one fast squirrel, I say!</u></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What a hoot that was, delightfully and so naturally derived from our surrounds! My kinda fun!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The week up to Easter was fantastically busy, and fun in it's own way too, in the salon. I had my <i>"all star line up "</i> as I call them. Faithful clients of the past 25 years, showed up for appointments made, 12 weeks ago for the Holiday. I Love springtime hair styles!!! I am always surprised with some of the requests, and so willing to comply for a change always. It revives my creativity, and is always a blast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Right before Easter Sunday, I decided to jaunt about with the mare early in the morning time. Knowing that Sunday would be full of Church and family, and not too much time for horsin' around.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I packed a light fare of Banana w/ Almond butter and an Espresso coffee for me. The mare was still eating her hay when I arrived, but I convinced her that it would be worth it to come away with me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">GORGEOUS! What a day!!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">While the mare delighted in eating the luscious greens of springtime grasses for an hour or so, I nibbled my treats as well. These outings are fantastic times to contemplate blessings and riches of spirit. The mare seemed to do her own meditations, often </span><span style="font-size: large;">she'd stop chewing to </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">stare down the trails</b><span style="font-size: large;">. She seemed very soothed....Springtime was tasting and looking fantastic!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I am proud of Wa mare for standing well when I tied her, taking a pit stop. I had not done this for awhile, going out of sight. Sometimes she acts like she may be the "ceremonial offering" to the beasts of the wild, and gets a bit frantic...this time, not one move. It was awesome to spend the early hours in nature with the mare. Calm and soothing, clearing out some cobwebs of unrest and doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Easter Tidings were abundant and full of Joy and a refreshing of spirit. Our Service at church renewed me in a different way; reminding me, " therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW." 2 Corinthians 5:17 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Letting go of the old ways of living...yea!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The transformation of the mind, depends upon what one chooses to dwell upon, and to live for. Being not conformed by this world we live in, 'cause ya'll know what it can do to one's spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>PEACE</b>...it is such a Peace allowing oneself to let go of bad habits and mindsets that stunt. I wish to be free of those that hinder, and full of that which seeks to serves others; their best always. Being kind and longsuffering.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> God knows, I have needed that from Him!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mare totally agrees with me too..... Being found in a peaceful way, things always go better! She has been such a love lately. Having a bright sky and a warm breeze, that will always help the mind's eye too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sending Peaceful Springtime's offerings to you all; in hopes you were able to enjoy Easter, and be refreshed in the ways most beneficial to you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The year I met him, I watched as h</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">e helped several horses at my stable regain health. Sometimes he worked without being paid, coming out in between appointments to do a ck up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He made sure the horses were calm and comfortable, while healing from their serious maladies. He is a "give, give" kinda guy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Washashe mare<b> </b><a href="http://www.allhorsestuff.blogspot.com/2010/10/down-times.html"><b>Here</b>,</a> <b><a href="http://www.allhorsestuff.blogspot.com/2010/10/down-times.html">the first time she met him </a> , </b>I<b> </b>truly thought she would try and lay him low! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">s he found the area's of trauma, she made terrible faces and also began kicking the ground with her hind leg, to relieve the pain as he did the same, by massaging the blocked area. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We knew he was a "Keeper" after that session. He also uses pure essential oils, and the horses sniff them, as needed to soothe themselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The weekend he came, i</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">t was so nice and bright out (CCCold in the dark arena) we chose to partake of this therapy session outside in it! Wa was very aware she could NOT SEE her 2 mares out back, and tried to get us to walk that direction a few times. She soon settled into his handiwork, with yawns and droopy eyes. He liked how she kept breathing through the work he was doing. Apparently, some horses hold their breath and it does block releasing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We all got SUNSHINE THERAPY weekend before last, here in the PNW. Trails started to dry out and the warmness reclaimed our cold bones for movement again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> After a good long ride atop my steed, the warm radiant sunshine filling us up to the top with JOY, my "CARDIO TRAINER" App told me the mileage had reached 5 miles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It certainly was a great therapeutic workout for the both of us. AND*** I did it, I walked the entire long hill up to the home trail! Instead of her pulling me up, because the grounds were dry and non slick, we both happily strode the entire thing up- NO STOPPING-! The C.T. App then told me how much reward I'd earned. I was Alarmed with the calorie burn! 6 Avocados! Who could eat that many?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She then quickly bend her neck around to the left and pointed at her shoulder, touching it repeatedly. I was astonished and said, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">"Alright girl, I will attend that for you."</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">D'apple and Pantz, my sister's 2 mares, have certainly benefited by our therapist's Robb's skilled ways also. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most recently D'ap has been receiving treatments from Robb. Our barefoot specialist had said, " D'ap really has no connection through to her hind end". We have had many lessons with her on just picking the hind hooves up calmly. She has a terribly difficult time, often SLAMMING them to the floor...and if your foot is in the way, woe to you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Robb has had several sessions with her. She seems to really enjoy them. The HOMEWORK has been to build her hind end muscles up and engage her in lateral work more. Our Dressage teacher "C", also wants this for D'ap. She is not traveling under herself and is very weak. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We knew all this, and sister has taken many a day into weeks, to focus upon hind end work in hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"It is natural for the horse to lower his head and neck to look at the poles this,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> in turn, rounds the long muscles over the back and loins and allows greater freedom for the hind legs to come under the weight of the body, while the need to lift the legs over the poles requires greater flexibility and, therefore, suspension."</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> Quote from , "LUNGING The horse and Rider" by Sheila Inderwick</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Other work sissy has done with the D'ap is taking her through many obstacles. Outside there is a huge course of bridges, poles in a pattern to back through and also, random RR ties to step through. But when weather is ick, inside there is a reinforced covered pallet, and poles to arrange.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b> HAHAHA!!!</b> Sister sent me some shots, after the first time she asked D'ap to step up on the pallet. She willingly did, and stayed...while sister took shots. Then my sister decided to go to the tack room for something. D'ap was still on the pallet, when she returned!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> We did some in hand laterals firstly, and then some pallet work with "one foot at a time". She is very good at listening and will stop movement, if you ask her too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My Sister's<b><u> tender loving care</u></b> of this mare and her unique willingness to try anything we've asked of her, seem to go hand in hand. She snorts if she is pensive, and breaths deeply, blinks and chews if she accepts . It's like a game to find the way to her heart...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This mare D'ap, has given me such a loving therapy too. She is non reactive, and I can trust her. She gives 110% and during my recent lesson, with trainer "C" , I received "New legs" and "New arms"! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">D'apple continues to train me! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My legs came to me after trainer "C' told me to Drape my legs around the horse. My sister has told me this for ever...<i>but, </i>when "C" added the, "Feel the outside of your foot in the stirrup, and the little toe". <b>CLICK***!</b> My legs suddenly felt as though they went around the horse and my thigh lengthened, with the calf contact suddenly becoming more apparent. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I feel badly that something my sister has taught me for years, I learned how to apply with another trainer. <i>BUT</i>,<i> "<u>when"</u></i> you get it, you get it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> BEAMING RIDER...all smiles I was!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The arms came shortly after this moment during the lesson. My sister has gotten me to CLOSE my hands around the reins and also, not to "Puppy Paw" my contact, by breaking over at the wrists. Trainer "C" effectively related last LSN, for me to not "GIVE AWAY" my contact of "Being there" for the horse, as they seek the bit and contact. I am getting that feel now. She knows I had a mindset instilled in me by a former trainer that I was hard handed. She has blown that bogus ( I now realize maliciously spoken) theory out now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I love trainer "C", she makes sure you KNOW "where you are going rightly", as she begins to change the ways in you that are not beneficial to growth in your rides.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> She stopped me firstly, to make a point. She took the reins, behind the bit, and asked me to hold her hand. I gently felt her. She then told me, "Good, you have excellent hands that are sensitive and gentle".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She had instilled again in me the confidence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> We then proceeded, her asking me to breath upwards for the trot, thinking it mostly. D'apple moved upwards into the trot. <b>HERE IT IS</b>- Trainer "C" then said, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">" I don't see your armpit muscles engaged!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b> ....!!!....</b> what, but it worked....I tightened those unknown beauties, and my shoulders went back a notch. D'apple went down into the contact and I again, BEAMED WITH DELIGHT! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It allowed me to "Carry my hands" easier, I found. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I totally had to apologise to my Sissy after the lesson. Nothing "C" had asked me to do is new to my ears, sister has tried to teach me these things all along, but it came as an "AHA moment", with the addition of the new "visualizing suggestions" I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Love this mare, her nature is helping me learn. She and I are forgiving and understanding of each other, going very easy. TREATS of green grassy delights came after the lesson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to you D'apple mare, I can take all my new body parts back to Washashe! Using them in "Trailssage". </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The D'apple of my eye you are!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HAPPY SPRING!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> New beginnings abound, as I read around the globe. It's all good, huh!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is one happy, drunk bee!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It was raining, icky, cold out. I trimmed my mare's hooves and then, gave her a massage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I was avoiding going out in the cold rain. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I knew I wouldn't melt. That is what I told the barn owner, when I saw her briefly, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">" I need to just keep going</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, and not let this stuff stop me"!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I DID go on out into the foreboding day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I recently installed the "My Fitness Pal" App back onto my new phone, and have been doing very well with my diet tracking. It even gives me "<i>pep talks"</i> in the form of "exercise note's, as I document Cardio </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">/Strength and workout activities. It is quite hilarious! But, for me right now, <b>super motivating.</b> The all to recent non- riding-winter- blaws- weight , has to leave me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The mare and me, happily set off, breathing in the moist air. She took in liquid refreshments, as needed, and they were plentiful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All in all it was a great 3 1/2 mile walk...burning off several hundred calories. Today, I am a bit sore from how fast my pace was, in between the mare's grazing times. I walked and she trotted! The last long hill up was the killer though. I got myself into position behind the mare. Rope in left hand, Tail in right. </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"Okay",</b></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I said chipperly, there she went. It was too slick to actually walk, so she kinda moved her feet a bit faster. I was joggin' behind! Before we actually reached the top, I said several times, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">" And....." . </i><br />
<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">t is the precursor "half halt" word I use before a change. She kindly stopped for me, after I said the "AND". Huffing a little, I again asked her to move forward with the ,<i><b>"Okay".</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That was really fun! The mare took just as much delight, I am sure of it, in munching the greens we found everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today, now the SUNSHINE is out! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One day we got in right as it began to spit. I had none of my rain gear on, so my leather saddle got a few dashes of moisture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I was noticing that the storms of the week before, had left remnants of themselves along our paths...and the snow level has been dropping again, with winds high.<i> Nothing like </i>your storms in the Midwest though-wowee baby, just heard more snow dumpage with a side of those high winds are on the way <i>-again! Heavens!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There was some gunfire somewhere in the woods, so I unclothed my "Bear Bell", so it could go before us with it's jingle jangling noise. This past year I have been told by many a hunter we have happened upon, and some fisherman from the private lands below the stable, <i><b>"That bells sound really carries, and can be heard from afar off!</b></i><b>"</b>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, during the thick of hunting season we (mare too), do wear brighter hunter Orange colors, for the visual impact of being a human/horse presence in the woods. And<u> </u>now, I rely<u> </u>upon my <b>Bear Bell</b> , to be the first indicator <u>we are not the prey</u>, to those lurking in the woods!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The folks with horse trailers, parked at the forestry gates seemed to be loaded up and ready to go...but they stood there, watching me (hearing me too) approach on the stretch of road I ride to the gate's entrance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Once Washashe mare and me got up to the horse trailers, a gal stood and talked to us for a some time about trails. She was inquisitive about all my gear and the trace clip Wa was sporting. She exclaimed too, <b>"Your horse is HUGE!</b>" Then she managed to get all of the others over to see just how large my horse was. I told her,<i>"<b> truly, she is a petite TB mare, compared to others in her breed. She just has a Big Presence"</b></i>. She also said, <i>" You</i> <i>smell so very good, what is that scent?" </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I also KNEW the mare had <i>" to go".</i> I began my "P" whistle song. Usually the "X Files" tune. YUP, she parked out, and did her thing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This makes for a better ride back along the roadway and tree'd area's I know she gets uppity in. I do KNOW her well, and am patient when she displays less than perfect behaviors. I just begin to breath deeply and if needed, we do figure eight's around trees or stop altogether. Then I ask her to shut down the adrenaline, by putting her head lower. The signal to me that is happening, is a snorting she does. Then, we can set off for home again. I tire of her behavior and she gets tired of my relentless antics... but, she always gives! The snorting release is the final straw for ...I usually giggle a little too, happy to have her calmer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> She is the resident fawn, that never leaves the property. She likes to bed down here, and is rarely scared of the cars, or even us as we pass by ( or shoot photos!). We all have discovered something definitely wrong in her gate. A hitch in her giddy up. She never jumps and is confined to the property, as it is entirely fenced. Her mother used to come back every night, to stay with her. Now, I am not sure that is the case, as it may be a season for finding some deer-love again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My man had it last week. I thought I'd been careful , though not stopping for a moment, kept myself busy- busy! So this week has been rough. I am TEA-PEE"d about out, and taking everything under the sun, you name it, (natural stuffs)I am taking it! Last night resorted to a O.T.C.D.(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">over the counter drug</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">)of which I hate the commercials for. You know, the one with the little- <i>GROSS- </i>green, blobbie people that live in your body when you have a cold. It helped I have to say, but I am still home today, Raw throat, dry hacks and no voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">O</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ne nicer day, I actually rode out. Again, not so wise a move. But I needed a change of atmosphere and thought the mare could use an outing , to stretch her legs . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She was standing in the run. (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">pic above</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">) She appeared to be keeping tabs on her two favorite Lead mares, Maddy and Zee, as they were munching hay, in the outback field. She nibbled hay a little too, and I went inside to set up our tack for the ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last October we both were surprised to find a new clear cut road, right through a gorgeous wooded area we ride. It's trail I called "Canyon Creek" trail. You could really only travel it during the driest times of the season for it's very steep decent down to a creek, then up again just as steeply, to the other side of the canyon. The mare did not like the trail much, but we'd concur it once or twice a summer. It was full of wildlife and HUGE trees that could tell stories about times gone by, if they could talk. They always talked "restful peace and beauty" to us, as we rode through them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> By October, there was a substantial amount of base rock laid for large logging trucks. I knew this would probably be a winter job, since they got the piles of rock laid so thickly and quickly. When the mare and me couldn't ride out at all...I had no idea what was to be-when we finally did!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I saw that illegal vehicles had made a whole new way around the gate, and that was discouraging. It is posted clearly at the PORT BLAKELY gated lands; that fires, unauthorized vehicles, along with hunting and shooting -are prohibited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> As we rode along, We spied many fires had been set last fall/winter. Never have I seen so many... the scorched grounds were everywhere, with garbage and wood objects the offenders brought in to burn. This endangers the whole forest, not to mention private property and homes that bank right up to these forests! There has been a lack of management, I have noticed over the years I have ridden the lands. Not for lack of reports, friends of mine and myself do report gates crashed and down, dump sites with couches and appliances. Makeshift shooting ranges, open fire spots under the trees, gun shell casings ,beer bottles and cans strewn about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simply discouraging. And the roughest patch is that I have been asked to call authorities, with the GPS setting...and I have. Nothing. "Big Wind" is what I call that, and it stinks too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Though the road and some of the trail had been trashed and harrowed by illegal vehicle passage, the main loop trail was too narrow for them to use. It was actually pristine!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Not even last winter did it look like this. Flat, almost dry and nice. I only saw </span><span style="font-size: large;">2 sets of hoof prints!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> So many riders like myself last year, continued to ride all winter long on it. This time last year., it was a bloody mess as normal. WOW, I was amazed, but I also thought </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">OF WHY!</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I minded not the walk to higher, dryer grounds along side the mare. She snorted relief at not having to negotiate the trail with me, having my own opinion(differing from hers) on traveling speed and route. This way she just followed behind me and chose her own footing calmly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Though we were out only over an hour, and traveled less than 5 miles...we both were beat. Wa asked to roll again, I availed her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We'd seen so much and with me being not well, whew! Which is why I can even post this today...no work <i>or play</i> for this girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy your time off now! See you when I'm well again~</span></div>
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Testing out the "Panorama" mode on my cell phone's camera...it sometimes makes body parts disappear or sometimes adds more of them!~</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While winter has a grip on most the country still, it took a one day reprieve from the PNW, allowing us a happy sunshine outing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was another rare appearance too, 3 out of 4 boarders in the stable- with horses. It was fun to catch up on news . I had forgotten my girth and went to the tack room for it. I glanced back at the mare and saw this shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All riders dispersed soon after, so I am glad I captured the rare sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Off we went, down the trail solo today. We do love our adventures we two girls!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Soon after I stopped for this shot of the sun rays through the mossy trees and the mare giving me "<i>her look", </i>we had a lovely trot down the lane ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> OH! I am so loving riding in a saddle again. Having stirrups to do "two point" trotting, has given me such a high! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once we reached the corner we slowed to a nice brisk walk. The mare snorting delight <i>and then, </i>I caught a glimpse of him....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">See the man towering above our heads, above Wa's right ear ?? He stands on the banks of "Shawna Pond" fishing and quite unaware of us, approaching behind him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It is the dang strangest thing to come upon someone standing that far above one's head! The first time it sorta made the mare stop, and really ponder it. Now, we are used to it unless the one standing there is casting, as he fly fishes. The "whipping noise" of casting does get to her, sometimes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I normally say, "Hullo" or "Hey there!" as we approach (<i>sneak up behind them) </i>. My secret giggling ensues after the initial greeting too...tee hehe... as they are never really sure if they heard it at all; they seem to feel as though they are alone in the woods. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that leads me to a story: ONCE , while approaching a man fishing in this manner I shockingly realized, <i>he was doing his thing, off the side of the pond- facing us! </i> Yea, no hollering hello that day! We turned and found another route out of the woods! As we passed him from another direction, minutes after, - YOU BET- he may have pondered his actions! You are never truly alone in the woods; I have found out myself, several times!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such a lovely day it was and the ride we had truly blissful.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> We returned to the stables to find all had left, and we had the place to ourselves. I cold hosed Wa's legs, applied "Sore-No-More" spray to them, and also her back. She asked to be turned out in the arena as we passed the gate, for another roll. I picked her feet, groomed the arena dust off from her rolling, and she willingly returned to her stall and run for a big drink of water. She began to finish some left over hay. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I always say, "seeya later" to her, before I leave. She stops whatever she is doing, even eating, to look for me and the treat that ensues! I love it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">THEN- I jetted over to my sissy's barn for another lesson with D'apple mare.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sister tried to invite her to the gate. As you see, standing in the sunshine and dry grassy area, was far more comfortable for the mare! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sister lunged her lightly, as I tried out the Panorama mode again on my phone's camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two white horses, one woman!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While the lesson was not as "AHA" as the one last Sunday, it had it's moments of connection for the mare and me. I MUST stop trying to micromanage myself and riding! The times I saw myself in my "MINDS EYE", those were the times I saw it correctly and did it correctly and honestly. D'apple responded to those moments (wish they lasted into minutes) and sister also responded with "Nice" or "feel that?!" <u>I did feel that</u> ! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am starting to compile memory for the feeling of correct. D'ap and myself had not a problem this time with direction. She was a bit fussier with her head, but sis did say, we were more controlling this time and less passive. We ended on an excellent note though. Breathing in deeply (rising of energies) to trot for 3 strides and then, breathing out (relaxing and lowering the energy) to come back down to walk. <u style="font-weight: bold;">AWESOME! </u> Doing this several times, we were together and very much in communication.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That really felt nice, such a cool connection. I do this with my mare without thinking really, but to do it in the school, with D'ap, well, I was elated and we ended on those *wonderful* breathing* connecting* moments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These Short and concise doses of school, have far more impact for the both of us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hope all is well with everyone....taking the Sunny day as a hopeful sign.</span><br />
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