TLSnell1981
Tiny bubbles... make me happy... make me feel fine
- Joined
- Sep 15, 2006
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..better late than never!!! Here's to a wonderful, wonderful 2013!!!
Not a horse owner but I have a little story.
I was in Walmart yesterday and the family behind me was buying many, many cases of candy canes. I finally asked what was up with all the candy canes and they told me they were treats for their horses. I knew horses liked sugar but mint too? Lucky horses.
I was looking through old posts when I was here before and it seems I posted here in 2010 - LOL. Well we went from horse leasing to outright ownership. Unfortunately the lease didn't work out for many reasons (we even left that barn) - but everything worked out for the best and we now have a 7yr old OTTB who was rescued from a kill pen at an auction - and he is boarded at a fantastic barn where we are super happy. He's been rehabilitated and he is awesome - I'm just as smitten with him as my daughter is. I even started taking lessons and I ride now with my daughter (it's never too late to start). We had the opportunity to do a show last summer where my daughter won a ribbon. It's been a great turn of events!
enjoy your cruise want to hear all about it when you get back
The cruise was AWESOME!!! Weather was awesome and it sucks being back to reality!
I've been meaning to take some pics of Ivan..it rained while I was gone and he is head to toe covered in mud...all except his butt....I don't know how he does that but he manages to keep his hiney clean.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..better late than never!!! Here's to a wonderful, wonderful 2013!!!
Welcome home! (Double meaning ... I just read on the DVC Mousecellaneous board of your new membership and first DVC booking via the member website! Congrats!)The cruise was AWESOME!!! Weather was awesome and it sucks being back to reality!
Congrats to all involved! I have two OT Trotters (Standardbred). More than a few folks have commented that both horses seem to understand what grace has been extended to them in the next-chance careers. I'm sure yours does also.... but everything worked out for the best and we now have a 7yr old OTTB who was rescued from a kill pen at an auction - and he is boarded at a fantastic barn where we are super happy. He's been rehabilitated and he is awesome - I'm just as smitten with him as my daughter is. I even started taking lessons and I ride now with my daughter (it's never too late to start). We had the opportunity to do a show last summer where my daughter won a ribbon. It's been a great turn of events!
Congrats to all involved! I have two OT Trotters (Standardbred). More than a few folks have commented that both horses seem to understand what grace has been extended to them in the next-chance careers. I'm sure yours does also.
reading this I immediately thought of that contraption in the
Carousel of Progress you know that weight loss machine with the vibrating belt around the butt maybe he has one hidden with a towel
Want to hear all about the cruise & pics closest I ever came to a cruise was Circle Line ferry to Statue of Liberty in NY Was it a Disney Cruise ?
Welcome home! (Double meaning ... I just read on the DVC Mousecellaneous board of your new membership and first DVC booking via the member website! Congrats!)
so Michelle congrats DVC which resort is your home ?
DD gives her horse a peppermint after every riding lesson.
She rode the owner's $30,000 show horse tonight during her lesson and the entire time I was thinking, "please don't let anything happen to the horse, please don't let anything happen to the horse, please don't let anything happen to the horse!!"
I wasn't the least bit worried about DD.
My daughter recently bought a new horse. I won't say what he cost, but he was listed at one point for $60,000. She did NOT pay anywhere near that!
Eight days after the horse arrived at the trainer's barn, he tore skin and meat off the back of his front leg (from just above the fetlock down to the hoof).
It was just a freak accident. Fortunately, the worst he did to the tendons or ligaments was one slight nick. He's been recuperating since September. The hide is almost completely back now but will be scarred. Thank goodness for Shapley's!
The expensive ones always hurt themselves!!
LOL! Sure, that was the plan when I first registered on this site. We figured we knew exactly what we wanted (BWV, 200 pts, Dec UY) but our resale attempts kept falling through. We ended up buying direct (SSR, 150 pts, Oct UY) instead. How we got from BWV-resale to SSR-direct is a long story but we've been content with the outcome. Although we've stayed at most of the DVC properties, we use BWV more than any other due to our conference activities at the Swan, Dolphin and Yacht Club.BWVBound- guessing yours is BWV ?
I've got a question. We have a gooseneck trailer. While it doesn't have LQ and isn't brand new, it is just the type of trailer that could be stolen and turned over very quickly. We regularly have people ask to buy it.
My daughter has been working back into showing the last year or so, and we've discovered that quite a few of the big shows are having a lot of theft issues now unfortunately. I'm going to find a lock for the trailer and am looking for suggestions. I saw one that went on the wheel (covered all the lug nuts so the wheel couldn't be removed).
Any suggestions to save me some time researching?