Re: [IceHorses] Doing what is best

2008-03-03 Thread Janice McDonald
On 3/3/08, Judy Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The lady I ride with had a very best forever riding girlfriend. Their > > husbands were friends. They moved to Oregon together. The guys worked > > together. When the other lady went barefoot and couldn't convert Gayle, > > she > > quit speak

Re: [IceHorses] Doing what is best

2008-03-03 Thread Judy Ryder
> The lady I ride with had a very best forever riding girlfriend. Their > husbands were friends. They moved to Oregon together. The guys worked > together. When the other lady went barefoot and couldn't convert Gayle, > she > quit speaking to her. It doesn't have to be cult-like. We don't h

Re: [IceHorses] Doing what is best

2008-03-03 Thread Nancy Sturm
Nobody is asking > anybody to get married or anything, i mean, heck, its a two-three hour > ride for goodness sake not a lifetime committment. Exactly, Janice. We ride with lots of different people. I think it's good for us and good for the horses. We try really hard not to make it a comman

Re: [IceHorses] Doing what is best

2008-03-03 Thread Janice McDonald
yes oddly un-adult. But its like my friend Sylvia says... we ride with people and two of them in the last five years lost a teenage son each. One is a total almost psycho, just goes off in hysteria at something like a snake on the trail or something. The other is just totally maudlin depressed

Re: [IceHorses] Doing what is best

2008-03-02 Thread Nancy Sturm
I was shocked when someone said some people wont > even ride with you if you have shoes on your horses ?!??!? The lady I ride with had a very best forever riding girlfriend. Their husbands were friends. They moved to Oregon together. The guys worked together. When the other lady went baref

Re: [IceHorses] Doing what is best

2008-03-02 Thread pyramid
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:52:55AM -0800, susan cooper wrote: > We all love our Iceys and we want to do what is best > for them. So let us not get into a fight over tree > vs. treeless. Every horse is an individual and every > owner has different needs. I have treeless, but I > also want a treed

Re: [IceHorses] Doing what is best

2008-03-02 Thread Janice McDonald
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:52 AM, susan cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We all love our Iceys and we want to do what is best > for them. > Those people with really strong opinions need to > remember that other people are allowed to have > opinions, too, and it doesn't mean one person is wrong >

Re: [IceHorses] Doing what is best

2008-03-02 Thread Nancy Sturm
> Those people with really strong opinions need to > remember that other people are allowed to have > opinions, too, and it doesn't mean one person is wrong > and the other person right. They are just different. Amen to that. Nancy, who lives in the house of "different"

[IceHorses] Doing what is best

2008-03-02 Thread susan cooper
We all love our Iceys and we want to do what is best for them. So let us not get into a fight over tree vs. treeless. Every horse is an individual and every owner has different needs. I have treeless, but I also want a treed. That is why I went looking at all the saddles. Petty fighting and bi