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We've had an inch of snow all year in southern NM and I've worn a coat
maybe three times. Before you move here, NM is 49th in income for the states
and it's not cheap living. And that stepping-out fjord was in snow. You
should see the difference in Riba between summer and winter. She's truly
pokey in the summer and makes trainers crazy, but she's a stepping-out kind
of gal in the winter.
Karen, that sort of echoes what I said about "knowing your farrier." I had a
friend come out from her house just in time to catch a farrier slugging her
horse in the head -- and he was president of the farriers association. My
old farrier whacked Ida in the side hard with his fist once and that was
fine, she deserved it and understood it and has behaved beautifully ever
since. If he had kicked her, we would be talking dead farrier. Walt liked
me to help him, because I didn't interfere with his work and just listened to
his stories (VBG). He's an old guy and says the only bad injury he ever got
was from a kid's gelding that was so gentle that he forgot to be careful.
Gail Dorine
Las Cruces, NM
