Is Your Horse, Balloon Safe?

Well I’m about to find out if mine are, my aunt just let a whole bunch of birthday balloons “loose” on the front yard for the dog to play with and since the wind has picked up the balloons are heading to the paddocks.

Guess I’ll be chasing renigade balloons all over the farm this afternoon

<It’s all part of my ninja training >

[This message was edited by Tin on Oct. 25, 2001 at 01:08 PM.]

Well I thought someone had invented a balloon that took your horse for a ride. Guess it is in the translation huh? So it’s "Is your horse, balloon-safe? Not “Is your, horse-balloon, safe.”

And we wonder why people get pissed off over some of our posts?

Keep us posted on how balloon safe your guys are!

“The older I get, the better I used to be, but who the heck cares!”

often pass over low enough that I THINK they are landing.

Music just keeps on eating. The others pick their heads up and watch.

When I first trained Music I livved on a farm with a landing strip. The (single engine) plane often flew low over the ring. After the first time or two, Music didn’t care. Liza, on the other hand…

and i misread it as a balloon shaped like a horse - thought it was for some occasion that i missed, since i am always out of the loop, and started wondering where i could get one, and how cute it must look, etc…

My TB stood next to a hot air balloon while it inflated. He did not seem to care. He did, however, care about the helium balloons being held by the child watching the Fair parade we were participating in. Go figure.

Both boys do airplanes (helps to live on the landing path of the local airport and have the Blue Angels/Thunderbirds doing maneuvers over your pasture every September), and both don’t mind helicopters (we often patrol near the hospital near the helipad).

well I guess I could make a horse shaped balloon. Now how does one go abouts making a balloon…

<It’s all part of my ninja training >

Where do we write to get the video highlights?

“The simple truth is never simple and rarely true.”
-Oscar Wilde

I know at least one of mine is. I was riding him in a park once, and a balloon drifted overhead … low enough that the pilot could ask “would it bother your horse if I land in this field here?” I thought “Holy S***! … well it’s a public park …he has as much right to it as I do … I just hope I can hang on!” and responded “Uhh … no problem … go ahead”. We just stood there and watched as he set it down for a few minutes, then fired up the burner and lifted off. Little never even flinched.

I played a camp game once – a relay race of sorts – that involved balloons. Pick up the empty balloon, blow it up, ride to the center of the arena, deposit balloon in a half-full water trough, ride to other end and wait for the rest of your team. When everyone has arived, ride back one at a time, jumping over the trough where balloons are floating… First team to complete won.

I was riding a crazy grey pony who excelled at that sort of nonsense. --Jess

I used to board at a barn that adjoined a small airfield, and the horses got to be quite nonchalant about galloping alongside the runway next to a taxi-ing biplane. I never got quite used to galloping toward a plane that was coming in for a landing. Call me a chicken, I guess.

Well I’m about to find out if mine are, my aunt just let a whole bunch of birthday balloons “loose” on the front yard for the dog to play with and since the wind has picked up the balloons are heading to the paddocks.

Guess I’ll be chasing renigade balloons all over the farm this afternoon

<It’s all part of my ninja training >

[This message was edited by Tin on Oct. 25, 2001 at 01:08 PM.]

When I was vacationing in Florida, saw the Goodyear Blimp. We followed it to watch it land and how they docked it. Right next door to the landing strip and hanger was a riding stable and people were riding…guess no problem there!

Doubt that would be true with Dixie. She did not care for the kids playing splat ball in the open field next to the riding ring when I rode her Sunday. She is green, but she walked the field Saturday (with no kids playing splat ball). Do not worry the kids, let us know when they are out there.

Deb413

We will expect a full report!

Now Bud is that. We boarded at a place along the approach line for the Harrier squadron at MCAS.

My those things are noisy! Wasn’t the most secure feeling either. As many of them had a habit of falling out of the sky there for ahile you know!

“The older I get, the better I used to be, but who the heck cares!”