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I thought I would start a new thread for people over 40
who love horses.
This thread is open to owners leasers an people who
love horses

I will start I am 48 years old and I never yet owned a horse
mainly because of finances.
I have been around horses most of my life. I have ridden
all kinds of horses first ponies then horses
I have ridden Arab, Quarter Horses, Morgans, Appendix Quarter horses.
Thoroughbreds, Appaloosas, American Saddlebreds and Paints and lots of mixed breeds too and all sizes 14hh-17hh
I have ridden both English and western
here is are pictures of me riding my friends Pinto 14hh
and my friends Half Arab

My husband knows how much I would love my own horse so in the spring we are looking in to leasing a horse
 

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#28,761 ·
Hey everyone!

There is no way I can respond to everyone that posted over the last few days, so I am just saying hello to everyone!!

Nothing on the horse front. Haven't been out to the farm since Saturday night. Ughhhh. Planning on riding Isabella tomorrow night. Just lightly.

Finished my summer program today. Those kids are just great, but oh my, my butt is kicked.

I bought a fitbit step counter back in March when I decided I needed to lose 20 pounds for Isabella. (Down 14 pounds so far, thank you very much)
I try to to get 10k steps a day...the recommended amount to stay fit and healthy. On a day I don't go to the farm, I usually have to take a 2 miles walk in order to get in my 10k steps.
During these two weeks, I have reached that goal before noon! I am at 18k for the day right now.

We had some police officers at the school yesterday to give a K-9 demo to the students and at the end of it, one of the students fainted for an unkown reason. The officers were on it! They used their radios to call for a rescue squad. She ended up being ok but having that happen while she was in my care was way too much for me.

I don't have children of my own but during these two weeks, I have 92 that I am responsible for. I love the program but am glad it only lasts 2 weeks.

I bought some wine for tonight. I don't drink much, mainly because I can't stand the taste of alcohol, but I think some sweet fruity wine is on the agenda along with some magical horse breath tomorrow.
 
#28,762 ·
I think Nicker posted a pic of her lovely tack room a while back. Mine is not nearly so homey, but this is it.

The saddle wall.


We have a blanket wall as well as storage for lotions and potions and the small stuff like leg wraps, extra hardware, etc.


You can kind of see the halter wall. It is cluttered in this picture with fly bonnets and a bunch of stuff that doesn't belong there.


With 4 horses, we have a lot of extra tack. Since these pics, I cleaned out the tack room and gave away a bunch of excess tack, but every hook and rack is still full. I also have an awesome industrial medicine cabinet in the tack room that is fully stocked. Got it from a friend. If you are going to get seriously injured at my place, best to do it in the barn. LOL!

Show us your tack rooms!!
I LOVE your tack room!! Very professional looking. :D:runninghorse2:
 
#28,763 ·
Going to try to explain anyway...

Steps to a perfect turn (translated from original Koolio Version)

1) git on yer horse
2) sit deep in tha saddle and hold onto that there horn
3) hoot & holler an kick 'em in tha ribs until he runs up tha butt of another horse

y'all will be turnin' quick like when that there horse kicks the fire outta yer horse.
:rofl::rofl: so true
 
#28,764 ·
Apachetears: Grandson looks so happy, a good fit with Bud.
AA, nice that you could help a patient and found a doc who would listen.

Koolio and NM, can't believe how clean your tack rooms are. Are you sure you actually use them? :)
I'll share mine, it's messier now, with less saddles. I confess: I'm a saddle hoarder. :oops:Any known treatment?

HP, yes on Nike pics: any visible change? Take care of your back so you can ride soon. It the lesson postponed?
Corgi, congratulation on the weight loss, impressive.
MR: have a GREAT riding week end and I am NOT wishing you any mishaps. :twisted:

No riding, working until Sunday, then off a couple days.
 

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Fortunately I have a good rapport with the admitting doctor, and he listened to my concerns and ran a few tests at my request.
Sure makes the load easier when there is a good, professional rapport with the doctors. Better for the patients too!!
:loveshower: :loveshower: :loveshower:

I have been having exactly the same situation at work lately, which has been wonderful for me. In the past, the one doctor and the tech supervisor have made it clear that my observations are not appreciated and in fact have been told I was over-stepping my place by trying to bring things up. The 2 new-to-us doctors are totally different. One in particular came from an ER where they used the techs to the furthest extent of their abilities.. so she welcomes my observations and input. Having this doctor make a point of thanking me for a couple catches - in front of the problem doctor and my tech supervisor no less - has been a huge mental pat on the back for me.

I don't want to be a robot and just mechanically do the same things by rote. So nice to have doctors that don't want that either!


Rick: loved all the painted horses. sounds like the trip was a memorable one.

Blue (i think?): love the bareback pad.. looks very comfy. hope it gets a lot of use.

Koolio: your tack room is beautiful! so neat and clean.

HP: hope your back continues to improve. back pain is the worst. :sad:

apachetears: yay for grandson riding!! you may want to look into caged or hooded stirrups for him.. they may be cheaper than having to get new riding boots for growing feet!

MR: look forward to your helmetcam vids! one of these days DH and I will get to those lovely trails you ride.

corgi: that is a lot of steps.. does knowing make you feel like you accomplished something or make you exhausted?


If I ever get near my tack room again, I will take some pics. With the hours I have been working, riding seems like a distant dream..
 
#28,766 ·
Thanks Eole! Vanity wasn't enough motivation to lose some weight. I am doing it for my horse. LOL

PH- a little bit of both! I know people who have jobs where they are on their feet all day get even more steps in, but since I spend many days in front of a computer, my high steps days first make me like Imhave accomplished something and then the exhaustion kicks in. ��
 
#28,767 ·
Eole- I don't have any recent pics of Nike. I haven't seen any more changes and have not been able to work him at all. Rain and lack of round pen have tied my hands. I think he looks good and seems happy except when he is being eaten by flies. I got SWAT and I will put it on his legs once my back mends. Once there is no pain, I will get my lessons started.

Cogi I want a fitbit! I lost my original clip on one. 18000 steps wow that's about 7 miles!!!
 
#28,768 ·
Going to try to explain anyway...

Steps to a perfect turn (translated from original Koolio Version)

1) git on yer horse
2) sit deep in tha saddle and hold onto that there horn
3) hoot & holler an kick 'em in tha ribs until he runs up tha butt of another horse

y'all will be turnin' quick like when that there horse kicks the fire outta yer horse.
Horn usage maybe once a year, I am tempted to saw it off.
Kick'em in the ribs is an instant leap to a gallop and then some.
I have also had 3 collisions with others already this year.
Not a perfect turn yet!

MR: have a GREAT riding week end and I am NOT wishing you any mishaps. :twisted:
Now I feel like I am already hexed.
More bad is coming I can feel it.

MR: look forward to your helmetcam vids! one of these days DH and I will get to those lovely trails you ride.
You seem to travel a plenty, it's a wonder you have not been there yet.

Good Evening All:
Painting in the house this evening and the corn is growing.
All is well and off to camp tomorrow.

I may need to listen to some music before bed.
Seem to have Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan on the brain.
Another song by Alice in Chains called Man in the Box mixed in there too.
Strange what one's mind dreams up late in the evening.
 
#28,770 ·
Horn usage maybe once a year, I am tempted to saw it off.
Kick'em in the ribs is an instant leap to a gallop and then some.
I have also had 3 collisions with others already this year.
Not a perfect turn yet!



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Keep on practicing, you'll get that turn one day. :D

I have been told by a saddler that it doesn't work to saw the horn off, something about the way it is made, metal bar inside maybe? Don't really remember what exactly he said, but I was convinced not to try it.

However, if one day you cut off your horn and it works out, I'll be glad to send you my saddle for a similar remodel.

My tree is Ralide. (sp?)

Anywho, have a fabulous trip! Can't wait to se the video!
 
#28,771 ·
Eole: your tack room is not messy! Big and beautiful is what I'd call it :D

I am so glad you have more saddles (I think) than I do!! They are so fun to buy and try, aren't they?

I thought about opening a tack store at one time. The area won't support one, but the problem would be I would have to have one of everything for me. I'd have to post "Not for Sale" signs on just about everything...:oops:

Corgi: 14 lbs gone is great!! :loveshower:
I sure hope you get some horsey time this weekend. I finally found the pictures of your DH and Scruffy.

Those pictures brought tears to my eyes. Such a wonderful partnership! My favorite is the hug, such love in that picture...

PH13: I am glad you have Doctors that will work with you too! So nice to have teamwork instead of oppression. :wink:

I think employees work a lot harder if they get respect, and when those above them take the time to listen to their ideas.

Only insecure folks turn down educated help.

This MD (GP) took me seriously enough that there was a pulmonologist and a neurologist in the patients room within 10 minutes of my phone call. The MD came too.

Our Ortho doctors are all very polite and about half are very easy to "suggest" things to. The rest have varying degrees of willingness to do as we ask. But all of them have at least one time agreed to a request or suggestion from me personally.

After Chivas tossed me last October, one of the ortho Docs said "oh good, you're back" when he saw me return. So that was nice. :D
 
#28,772 ·
Hi All!
These tack rooms are making me jealous, my tack hides in the "junk" room of our house. Its the room that catches all of the assorted stuff that has no home :razz:
Corgi, well done on the 14 lbs, I'm currently trying to lose a few too, so far 4.5kg down, so about 9lb? Still have about 15kg to go though. Like you, it seems to help the motivation that it is for Boston's benefit as well as mine :wink:
Just had some bad news. My mum has just been diagnosed with thyroid lymphoma :sad: At this stage it sounds like its very treatable, she has to have surgery on Monday and then will decide the "game plan" with an oncologist after that. She is only 66, has had breast cancer (early stage) twice in the last four years (weirdly, they were both separate cancers, unrelated to each other). It all seems a bit deja vu at the moment. Think I will go and give Boston and Rose a big hug
 
#28,773 ·
Was able to go out and spend the evening for some R&R.

I was able to walk up and catch her halter with my hand in the open pasture with the other 2 mares right there by her. She pulled back a little once she realized I had her halter then settled right down and we went for a walk for about 10 minutes. I then stopped and tapped on the back of each leg and quickly got a leg lift. I thought to myself " Self, this is a great day!" Then I decided that was a great note to end a first day back so I turned her loose. Guess what happened next. Comon guess. Yep, she followed me around the pasture freely even with the other mares right there with her. We even circled them and walked away from them with her following me. I walked out of the pasture and she stood by the gate for a minute before turning to go back with the others.

After feeding them I hung around just soaking in the moment as I watch her eat then headed home.

God sure has blessed me with some amazing bonuses this week.
 
#28,774 ·
Morning all!:D

You all had me in stictches this morning! Great posts.:clap::rofl:

MR, so happy you get out this weekend! LOVE the shoes! :wink: Looks like something my DH would wear. he would say they were just broken in! LOL

Vicki, so sorry to hear about your mother. I am glad there is a good prognosis at this point. :hug:

Jay seemed better yesterday. I couldn't ride, as I had a committment, so I was limited on time, so we did some groundwork in stead. He was eager and willing and very in my pocket lately.

I pulled out my 3 Minute Training book and did various things. Much more limber. We tried backing through some poles. Thinking this would be a breaze, it came to me that it wasn't! I would walk him through the poles, and when I was about to set him up to back back through them, he would move his hind end out of the way! LOL So we started by actaully only coming through the poles half way and then back thru. It didn't take him long to figure the whole thing out.

We are still working on side jpassing over a pole.

Funny thing is....being the great trail horse that he is I figured he would know how to do it.....nope! So that was fun to work on!

A productive day shopping yesterday. It's a sad day tho when it takes me 6 different stores to find a composition book with horses on the cover. :x What happened to the day and age where most of the book and binders had puppies/kitties/horses on them? What is this world coming to?

Overall, the school supply options STINK this year! :x

Corgi, congrats on the poundage! I won't recognize you in December!

TJ, got our flights out your way for Oct. Hope it all works out! SIL found them CHEAP so had to jump on that! Fast and furious trip.

Stranger than fiction.........So here is a little scenerio that occured yesterday with my mother's DH. THose who have been around know he is not my favorite person.....So, I recently bought an Instaheater and stand to bathe the horses. He volunteered to help me put it together. (yes that is nice, but he thinks my DM and i are complete idiots and can't do anything for ourselves.) I said thanks, but i want to try it on my own. His reaction.....:icon_rolleyes:

So I went in for BUTE yesterday and he asked me how it was going. I said fine and that it had come with tools. He was :shock: I 'joked' that I thought the company must cater to rich people who don't readily keep tools handy.

His retort was....:x.most rich people would be having someone else putting it together for them. People like that are worthless. Those type of people need to die..................

Yep....Good MOrning to you too! I should have known better b/c this guy can't joke, nothing is funny to him, he is such a downer. That is a direct quote from him....I can't make this up.

I just walked away.....what do you say to that? Even if I had a retort.....it would be wasted on deaf ears and he is a waste of my energy. :icon_rolleyes: I do not know how my DM deals with him day in and day out. SIGH

Koolio, speaking of DHs, congrats on yours!! Wow! He must be good!! I too am now preferring to be a homebody now that I have horses in my life. I know it's good to travel, and I do love to.....but I also so love to be with them. :love:

AA, congrats you sound like a real asset to your hosspital.

HOping all of you have a wonderful day.

RIDE STRONG!:gallop:
 
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VickyR: Put your mother in my prayer bag...hugs...

Good job, Rick & Reba!

Nicker, your mother's DH is simply unbelievable. And October had BETTER work out! I can't believe that there's even a question of my vacation request being accepted.

As for work...on to it...

All take care, later!
 
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Your Grandson's smile says it all!! What a handsome young man and horse too! They look great together!

What kind of horse is Bud? He looks gaited and a nice size for kids.

Yes, can see the deer in the picture!!

Last post for a while computer is acting wonky again...
Bud is a stock quarter horse he has a smooth gait when he wants too but is known for choppy walking.
He is a short and stocky like a bulldog quarter horse and is easy to get on and if you fall is not too for from the ground. LOL

Your PC may need it's Cache and temporary files cleaned.
Be advised adobe and adobe flash player are now said to be a security risk due to adware and a lot if not all browsers, IE, Mozilla and Google Chrome are stoppping use of it.
I have deleted and uninstalled all adobe products from my PC and it runs somewhat better My PC is a new one less than three years old and is having problems also.
If you don't wish to uninstall adobe then go to your task manager and "end task" while you browse on some web pages.
Good luck see ya when the PC comes back on line!:)
 
#28,777 ·
VickiRose: Best of luck to your dear momma. Praying all goes well.

TJ: your boss needs to approve that vacation and quickly. I hate it when they drag out letting you know anything.

Roadyy: Nice R&R time! Any word on the property?

Nicker: School supplies are just starting to show up here. Another week and everyone will be stocked up. The first weekend in August is tax free on school supplies, so big sales will be planned for then. Do you have tax-free times there?

How do you like your horse wash? Excuse me for saying this, but your momma's H sounds like an idiot.

Didn't manage to pick up my truck yesterday going after it this morning, after DD has school.

Have a great day everyone!
 
#28,778 ·
Going to try to explain anyway...

Steps to a perfect turn (translated from original Koolio Version)

1) git on yer horse
2) sit deep in tha saddle and hold onto that there horn
3) hoot & holler an kick 'em in tha ribs until he runs up tha butt of another horse

y'all will be turnin' quick like when that there horse kicks the fire outta yer horse.
To Funny. :rofl:
 
#28,779 ·
Boots

Mine are Dan Post Milwaukee in black, R toe, cowboy heel and 13" height at size 11.
I gave $149.00 for them back then they list now for $169.00.

Dan Post Men Milwaukee

I bought them new in 2002 I should have gotten them in 12's.
Mud, rain, horse wrecks the pull on straps have long since departed and the spurs stay attached now along with a set of dog tags "just in case" I wear them only for riding now. they are broke in, have been since that winter and fall of rain and mud soaked them through and through back in 2003.
They have held up and are a tribute to Dan Post ability to build a Danged good boot!

If you don't plan on style, or walking around in them a cheap plastic or rubber pair of riding only boots will do.
 
#28,780 ·
Hi All!
These tack rooms are making me jealous, my tack hides in the "junk" room of our house. Its the room that catches all of the assorted stuff that has no home :razz:
Corgi, well done on the 14 lbs, I'm currently trying to lose a few too, so far 4.5kg down, so about 9lb? Still have about 15kg to go though. Like you, it seems to help the motivation that it is for Boston's benefit as well as mine :wink:
Just had some bad news. My mum has just been diagnosed with thyroid lymphoma :sad: At this stage it sounds like its very treatable, she has to have surgery on Monday and then will decide the "game plan" with an oncologist after that. She is only 66, has had breast cancer (early stage) twice in the last four years (weirdly, they were both separate cancers, unrelated to each other). It all seems a bit deja vu at the moment. Think I will go and give Boston and Rose a big hug
My tack room has bicycles and tools in it, fishing gear and camping gear.
I've since gotten a large rubbermade type box and started moving the tack in that.
It ain't nothin' purty but it is less messy LOL

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Currently I'm going through Graves disease of the Thyroid, I had my Radioactive Iodine I-131 in March and am awaiting the thyroid to slowly go out of business.
I never felt so bad from something wrong with me as thyroid problems, one minute I'm unable to get out of bed the next I feel as if My heart is going to explode!
Thankfully the symptoms are subsiding with diet and exercise.
Tell your Mom to hang in there it gets better!
 
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