Re: My winter challenge
This message is from: Genie Dethloff Thank you to every one who sent their good wishes via the list or directly to me. You all are a great source of support in so many ways. Weather permitting, I will make it out to watch Pjoska's training session tomorrow and to feed her carrots. She will then remind me of why I gladly spend all this money on her ;-). -- Genie Dethloff and Pjoska Killingworth, Connecticut Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
Trygg update :)
This message is from: Krissie England Sorry it's been so long, I know I promised I'd update on Trygg-pony's progress. And thank you to everyone that replied to my initial posts, I think I missed replying to a few with everything going on over here. Anyway, we brought Trygg home from the trainer's last night and I am so happy with him! He was there for a month on full training and then a second month with them just riding him 2x a week and I was supposed to ride him 2-3 times per week. Well, between the holidays and my son coming down with pneumonia I was only able to make it out 1-2 times per week. But he is doing really well anyway! We have even been doing some little bitty jump "courses" in their lovely indoor arena (boy am I gonna miss that arena, sigh). He has gone from acting like a spoiled brat to really trying to do what I ask and going along with his ears nice and relaxed and happy. He still has his moments, I won't say he is perfect, but the improvement is lovely. He still tests periodically, but rather than the full out "get the youknowwhat off my back, I dont wanna do this" he is more just lightly testing to make sure the new rules are still in effect then moving on and doing what I ask. He has even improved to the point that I feel safe ponying my little boy (Trygg's "owner") around on him after I ride. Now I just hope the weather cooperates and we can keep up the improvement at home. We'll be taking him to our lessons on Mondays with my big horse so we'll have someone to keep an eye out and help us if any of his old issues threaten to crop up. But I really feel like he has gotten past that point between "I don't wanna" and "I'm a little confused but I'm really trying" which is a huge step. And we're finally having fun together :-) I plan to take him to some clinics at the trainer's this spring too. It'll be good for him to go back there and get some more experiences out in the world with the trainer who knows him. And it will give the trainer a chance to see him and let me know if I am letting anything slide or make suggestions for further improvement. All in all, I am really happy that we sent him to "pony boarding school" as my son calls it. So, that's our update so far, I hope to make even more progress in the future and maybe even take him to a baby horse trial at some point just for fun. Thanks for listening! Krissie in currently gross freezing rainy MD Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
Genie
This message is from: Linda Lehnert Genie, I wish you all the best with your upcoming surgery and hope you get a good result. Weather - as you know from the news, we have had one of the coldest winters in many years over here. It snowed the week before last and hasn't warmed up enough to melt any of the snow off. The main streets in town are now fairly clear, but the side streets are slush and there is a layer of ice underneath on the sidewalks and steps into the apartment building. It was below 0C every night for several nights and never got higher than minus 1-2C during the day. The last couple of days it has warmed up and even got over 0C during the day. I hope the weather continues to improve even slightly. A friend who lives in the Lake Chapala, Mexico area called me today and they are having weather in the 70sF with sunny skies - lucky girl! She said it's some of the best weather she's seen there for January the 12 years she's lived there. Hope you are all keeping warm and dry. Linda in Guben _ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
Re: My winter challenge
This message is from: "jgayle" Best of luck, Genie. Difficult times to face, Sorry you have to go through so much. One thing every ten years would be nicer! Maybe. We are having huge flooding and high winds, nothing compared to what you are going through. Thank God I chose a ranch high on a hill as there are so many people flooded out and highways closed. Only thing here would be a landslide. Wish you the best in your surgery. Jean Gayle Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
Re: My winter challenge
This message is from: katesei...@aol.com Genie!!! That's a bad couple of months. My best wishes for a positive outcome and speedy recovery. Kate with Joe and Della **New year...new news. Be the first to know what is making headlines. (http://news.aol.com?ncid=emlcntusnews0002) Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
Ca. Weather
This message is from: "jerrell friz" Hi Folks Hope you will excuse the following post, just could not resist telling you about our weather.[Believe me I am not bragging, so don't read that into this] 70F, today, more for the next few days. Will have to water my Winter garden tomorrow. Now for the bad news, we have less than 10 inches of rain this season. Water rationing, this Summer, high hay, and food prices. I see many ads in the paper for people trying to give their animals away. Regards, Jerry Friz, Anderson, Ca. "Ride and Drive your horses barrel to get the correct timing" "In God We Trust" Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
My winter challenge
This message is from: Genie Dethloff Since others are sharing their winter hardship stories and why they can't ride, I guess I'll share mine. This fall and winter are ending up being very challenging for me. It started with my husband's various diagnostic surgeries and then removal of a kidney for cancer. He went back to work 12-1 then had his six-week post surgery check-up which coincided with a nice holiday break. I had had just a few weeks of normalcy, back focusing on my horse's training, my riding and my volunteer work at a therapeutic riding center. Then I pulled a muscle in my back overdoing things like shoveling snow and couldn't ride for a week. Then we went into NYC on the train for my daughter to get her visa from the Greek Consulate for her winter term abroad starting 1-18. While in NYC I ended up in the ER with chest pains which luckily was not due to a heart attack. During the work up they took a chest CT scan and found a mass in my breast and in my left lung. The breast mass ended up being normal tissue. Friday I started my surgeries for the lung mass. I am waiting results to see if the cancer has moved into the lymph nodes of my chest. If it hasn't, I have 1/4 of my left lung removed on 1-16. Unfortunately the mass is not where they can get a needle biopsy so I am going into major surgery not even knowing what the mass is. Since my mother and her father died of lung cancer, it is a good idea to get the growth out. My surgery is scheduled two days before my daughter leaves so that she can make sure I make it through surgery OK before she leaves! Luckily, I have Pjoska with a great dressage trainer, but hate spending all of this money when I can't ride and now won't be able to for quite a while. Since I board and Connecticut is very expensive to board, even if I took her out of training, I'd still have quite a horse bill. Hooves still grow and shoes still need to be changed! I never made my reservations for the NFHR annual meeting and seminar as I had expected to as life was getting complicated; I guess I made that call correctly. I hope every one who is going to the annual meeting and seminar has a great time - I wish I could be there. -- Genie Dethloff and Pjoska Killingworth, Connecticut Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
Re: not riding (kinda long)
This message is from: Heather Baskey So very well said, Lois .. Heather ... who currently plays from the ground with Henry ... and LOVING it. From: Lois Berenyi To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Sent: Friday, January 2, 2009 4:15:49 AM Subject: Re: not riding (kinda long) This message is from: "Lois Berenyi" I agree with what Kate has said. I owned horses of various breeds and abilities for 30 years but mostly rode sporadically during the first 10. I realized that I much preferred them from the ground than from the saddle. Partly it was because I could see the entire horse, read its expressions and communicate fairly well from the ground. From the saddle I saw two ears, a neck and a shoulder. I never developed the physical finesse to read them with my body as the great riders do. I was somewhat clueless and tended to seize up when a movement felt wrong into something resembling a fetal position. Years of lessons improved things a bit and I knew quite a lot in theory I could not transfer into practice. For some reason horse and non-horse people can't understand owning a horse and not riding it. Or, if riding it, not showing it. My answer has always been that I have dogs who cost me the same per day to feed and maintain and I don't ride them. I enjoy the horses as I enjoy my dogs. They are my friends and companions and there are so many ways to enjoy them without burdening them with my weight or myself with aching muscles and joints. I'm 69 and in the last few years thought I was getting too old and too stiff to keep on going with the farm we had so we sold out. I donated one of the Fjords who currently is excelling as a therapy horse and the other mare was sold as a broodmare. I didn't like to ride and it turned out she didn't really like to be ridden. I think I was wrong to give it up so completely and talk myself out of something I had loved for so long. Sometimes we take the negative and/or an entirely too pragmatic approach to what we see as limitations. After years of being stuck at the farm not being able to find suitable help, the dirt, the muck, the snowstorms, repairing the fence, dealing with foundered horses and all the rest I was starting to dream of a horseless life. So we moved to a beautiful golf course community where it never snows, someone else mows the grass and I have absolutely nothing meaningful to start my day. If people think owning horses without riding them is foolish I beg them to watch golfers spend fortunes chasing little white balls. So, Laurie, don't be too discouraged. Think of how you would feel if Oz was not in your life. What are your first thoughts in the morning? I bet they include your pony. Give yourself a break. Meanwhile when I need a fix I go and visit some of my former horses. Lois Berenyi in the Sunny South - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 9:32 PM Subject: Re: not riding (kinda long) > This message is from: katesei...@aol.com > > Laurie - I understand what you're going through.? At only 48, the combination of arthritis and injury has left me with pretty much constant pain, and nothing medicine can do (other than drug me into submission).? If it's really cold, I hurt just walking.? Even on warm days, I can't spend more than 45 minutes in the saddle before I'm done.? I have taken a tremendous amount of pleasure in the 101 other things I *can* do with my horses, including ground work, clicker training, grooming, trick training, and lately learning to ground drive (for me, walking helps once I get past the first 5-10 minutes). > > Don't put any more pressure on yourself about what you should be doing.? Do what you can, enjoy it, and find the pleasure in that (even if it's just sitting in the pasture having dinner with the ponies)! > > Kate > with Joe and Della > > -Original Message- > From: crystal...@aol.com > > > it's become a chronic pain which is now affecting my daily life and is making me quite depressed. > ...it's not that the knee doesn't work, it's that there is ongoing pain that has begun to make > everything just too much effort. > > Important FjordHorse List Links: > Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e > FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw > Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f __ Reclaim your name @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com. Get your new email address now! Go to http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/ Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
