Re: [IceHorses] new kind of bit?
gemstonerottswrote: > It was my right foot. Last time I broke bones it was on my right ribs and > pelvic eight years ago. I am 65, older than dirt. Sylvia i ride with this woman who is 76 and she wears me out :) janice -- yipie tie yie yo
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In a message dated 12/16/2007 6:29:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) . It was my right foot. Last time I broke bones it was on my right ribs and pelvic eight years ago. I am 65, older than dirt. Sylvia **See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop000304)
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this one falls into the category of so unbelievable but true a friend of mine's mom dogged her constantly about how dangerous horses are. She had been injured here and there over the years. Then one day in the middle of nowhere, her horse standing at a dead stop while she chatted with another rider, she reached to adjust her stirrup, the horse shifted casually and she fell and broke an ankle and a wrist at once. She liked to never got back on the horse, but made it back, went to the hospital, got her casts on, but couldnt drive home. much as she hated to, called her mom to come get her. All the way to the pharmacy to get her pain meds the mom just griped griped griped, ranting and raving about see? Horses are going to kill you blah blah blah. Then at the drug store her mom rounded a corner, slipped on some spilled shampoo and broke her arm. haha. thought of that cause I wanted to say last time i broke my toe i stubbed it and a horse was nowhere near it :) Janice-- yipie tie yie yo
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> On 12/16/07, Penelope Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So maybe there is room for variations and I think that if anyone is going >> to >> provide the variations, Janice would be that person. It is good to be >> creative :-) >> Penny > > > > Haha Penny, Nancy, we need to start an "I do My Own Stunts" society :) > Janice-- > yipie tie yie yo Mine would be .. "I Do My Own Stunts But Not Always Successfully Society" or "Creative Landings Society". Although, I must admit, that now that I am eligible for the Red Hat Society, and my body constantly reminds my of my earlier foolishness, I try to think before just leaping into anything. Not as much fun but actually less painful. ;-) Penny
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On 12/16/07, Penelope Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So maybe there is room for variations and I think that if anyone is going to > provide the variations, Janice would be that person. It is good to be > creative :-) > Penny Haha Penny, Nancy, we need to start an "I do My Own Stunts" society :) Janice-- yipie tie yie yo
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>> I broke my nose on his neck. oh...i did that once! on a horse that brought his huge head up too fast and too high, as i was reaching down for the reins. boy...that hurt. Raven Lucy & Molly, the Girl Doggies Huginn & Dixie Chick, the Back Behind the Barn Ponies Maggie Rose, the cat who makes me sneeze Respect ALL Earthlings. We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures.
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>I don't know Janice, I seem to break bones on the side of the horse I fall > off of. > > Nancy > Yep; that's been my experience, too. And I have plenty of falling-off-and-breaking-things experience; I am my own scientific experiment. Oh, but there was the time that the horse that I was riding decided to go left, and although I stayed "on" I broke my nose on his neck. So maybe there is room for variations and I think that if anyone is going to provide the variations, Janice would be that person. It is good to be creative :-) Penny
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I don't know Janice, I seem to break bones on the side of the horse I fall off of. Nancy >
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i dont know how old you are sylvia, but when i was 14 i broke three toes on my left foot and in three weeks I was wearing pointy toe heels at an easter service, then at age 45 I broke three toes on my right foot and they hurt for 9 months, i couldnt wear closed toe shoes for nine months. then spring a year ago i broke a toe and now its just started feeling healed and its been a year and 8 moths. I am 57 now. and this could be just an old wives tale but its come true for me... someone said when you break a bone on one side of your body if you arent getting enough extra calcium to heal it your body takes calcium from the other side and next time you break a bone it will be on that side. nutty i know but its been true every time! janice -- yipie tie yie yo
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In a message dated 12/16/2007 3:51:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh that toe thing, I hit the little toe on one of my heavy duty dog crates, separated the two toes real hard. It hurt so badly I thought I would pass out. But since then every thing I do hurts the toe. It is sticking out further than normal and the joint is swollen also. I run barefoot everywhere since with the MS I need my feet to balance better. Needless to say my feet take a beating. I have dropped a huge box on it and the dogs have stepped on it and I dropped a can on the poor thing. I need to put it in a cage. I even dropped the salt shaker on that foot. I have resulted in walking with a broom stick to keep the dogs off my foot. If I stuff it in shoes it hurts worse. Good think I live in Southern California and its warm enough to run barefoot. I guess I could ride barefoot. I think once my horse stepped on my toe and broke it so I know the feeling. ouch. Sylvia **See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop000304)
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Today I had my first trail ride on Willie/Segull after he has been in training for a month. He was wearing a rope sidepull and did fine plus he had on a regular Icelandic saddle treeless. Nice leather thing with straighter leg panels, more a dressage type than I like. But it fit him great, he was such a good boy on trail and it felt good to be on him even with my broken toe. He is going to be a great horse. Sylvia That's great, Sylvia! Willie sounds like a wonderful boy. What happened to your toe? My husband was Christmas shopping yesterday, and dropped a big boxed wrench set on his foot. It looks bad, but he refused to go to the doctor - I guess it sounds silly to him to tell the ER crew he was injured with Christmas shopping. (I sure hope I'm not getting a wrench set for Christmas) Karen Thomas, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.2/1185 - Release Date: 12/15/2007 12:00 PM IceHorses Community for Photos and Videos: http://kickapps.com/icehorses "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [IceHorses] new kind of bit?
In a message dated 12/15/2007 5:07:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Today I had my first trail ride on Willie/Segull after he has been in training for a month. He was wearing a rope sidepull and did fine plus he had on a regular Icelandic saddle treeless. Nice leather thing with straighter leg panels, more a dressage type than I like. But it fit him great, he was such a good boy on trail and it felt good to be on him even with my broken toe. He is going to be a great horse. Sylvia **See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop000304)
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> learn best from verbal descriptions. what is it like to ride like that; > how do horses like it; what use does it have in the overall picture? It's very nice to ride without a lot of equipment between horse and rider. Working up to that point helps you create a special bond. (One can start with the PNH 7 games, then progress to the riding tasks, up the different levels.) Sometimes things don't have a specific *use*, but we do them because we can. So that makes it fun to do it, something special. Some horses like it; some don't. I rode Ljufur with a Cherokee bridle, and he was fine. He was fine with the neck rope. But he was skeptical about riding totally bridleless. He did it, but with reservations :-). Skumur enjoyed being bridleless, also loved the neckrope and the Cherokee bridle. Hlynur also. I had to think about whether I'd ever ridden Cookie in the Cherokee bridle (it's a little bit different than the leather bit connected to reins minus headstall; it's just a continuous string from one hand to around the jaw). I couldn't remember ever riding her with it (but she does bridleless and neckrope), so thought we'd introduce it this afternoon. I only had a few minutes since we had unexpected company this morning, and company coming tomorrow so I should be cleaning house (but you know what they say if your house is too clean, you're not spending enough time with your horse :-)). So, you've inspired me to try it with her. She hasn't worn a bit in about six years. I'm pretty sure she'd take one OK, but having the string in her mouth was something else. She mouthed it quite a bit. Probably tasted pretty dirty. In any case, it was just an introduction to the string, so we'll practice again later on. Judy http://icehorses.net http://clickryder.com
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> Here's some pictures of riding with the string in the mouth: > > http://iceryder.net/string.html thank you for the pictures, but i am afraid i am one of those people who learn best from verbal descriptions. what is it like to ride like that; how do horses like it; what use does it have in the overall picture? --vicka
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> anyone have any experience with these? > > http://www.hiddencreekva.com/natureswaybits.htm Here's some pictures of riding with the string in the mouth: http://iceryder.net/string.html And also there are pictures (will have to find the link) of riding with one rein of the string and the other end hooked around the lower jaw. Judy http://icehorses.net http://clickryder.com
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 09:41:12AM -0800, Nancy Sturm wrote: > So years ago, I went out on trail with a very green thorouhbred mare, one of > her first outings away from the riding ring. The headstall broke and the > bit dropped out of her mouth and I was left with a simple headstall and no > reins for a moment. Being essentially lazy, I didn't want to walk home, so > I attached the reins to the headstall, put the bit in my pocekt and rode her > on home. The interesting thing to me was that she was very little different > bitless than she was with my all-time favorite security blanket bit. It was > a nice object lesson for me at the time. *nods* i had a similar object lesson from one of my students, who while tacking up said "what if we didn't put on the bridle?" we attached reins to stjarni's halter, and although he is anything but a green tb mare he too was still very much like himself even w/o his bridle and full-cheek french-link bit. i now do halter-and-reins lessons now and then with all my students who ride stjarni. at some point i'll get up the guts to try it with the student with the crazy old quarab -- i'm sure *he* has the guts to do it, he's a fantastic rider and very brave, but speaking as his instructor i'm not sure *i'm* ready to watch that yet :) --vicka
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I think that like many bits, it would be only as good as the hands of the rider. And she had better have darned quiet hands. Actually, it would be an interesting test for all of us. Could we give direction, ask for flexion, a stop, a canter depart without pulling the bit right out of the horse's mouth. I have always loved a D-ring snaffle and I've ridden with one so long that my hand reactions are pretty subtle and effective. It's a security blanket sort of thing. So years ago, I went out on trail with a very green thorouhbred mare, one of her first outings away from the riding ring. The headstall broke and the bit dropped out of her mouth and I was left with a simple headstall and no reins for a moment. Being essentially lazy, I didn't want to walk home, so I attached the reins to the headstall, put the bit in my pocekt and rode her on home. The interesting thing to me was that she was very little different bitless than she was with my all-time favorite security blanket bit. It was a nice object lesson for me at the time. Nancy
