I do wonder how a gas can in the aisle compares in the ‘worry about my horse’s welfare’ scale to something like the dryer needing to be unplugged?
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I use plastic gas cans for water on my trailer …maybe that’s what it’s for?
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It probably depends on how much you’re trying to stir up trouble at that moment.
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LOL I am the one who does grocery deliveries as well. My offsider does the deliveries if I can not get over the bridge,
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Did she have any experience with fancy barns before riding with MB?
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Not that I am aware of.
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I think the trend of taking pictures on fancy chairs and couches set in the middle of pastures is weird.
But kids with ponies dressed as unicorns! Tots adorns!
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Make sure you write “WATER” on those cans boldly as you never want them mistaken for something someone should put gas in!
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Or have someone ruin their gas engine by pouring a bunch of water into the tank thinking it is gas.
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I saw in our local farm store that they now are making then in white for water storage. I think it is a great idea as the ability to pour with a spout is nice. Even if is is those sucky new spouts.
They had the official flammable colored ones for fuels as well.
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Those are probably Christian Louboutin’s, which start at around $700 for a classic regular ole office heel. That’s why. It’s a bougie flex.
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I prefer the term “vacuous” and yes it is a trend. Among teens.
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Idiot sister in law had a habit of storing jet ski gas in yellow cans. It didn’t work out well.**[quote=“roseymare, post:3538, topic:777616, full:true”]
I saw in our local farm store that they now are making then in white for water storage. I think it is a great idea as the ability to pour with a spout is nice. Even if is is those sucky new spouts.
They had the official flammable colored ones for fuels as well.
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So we are well past fall equinox. Everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere the day/night ratio is 50/50 (near the equator) or less. Up here in the PNW on daylight saving still the sun is setting at 6 pm. In Florida I imagine 7 pm.
It is no big deal to be at the barn in twilight or after dark in late October.
As far as stupid glamor shots with horses, it’s certainly a genre. On FB I see a fair bit of low end pro photography of young women in prom dresses or similar cuddling with their horses. Not to mention engagement, wedding, and cosplay medieval gear photos. I have indeed seen young women prepping for such stuff with a makeup artist at the turnout ring.
I don’t like the concept or the results. My favorite horse photos are good performance shots or up on cool trails. But it is very much a genre. And it takes a fair bit of work to pull off so that it looks merely kind of stupid, and not just totally ridiculous and unflattering.
So anyhow if the pictures came out halfway ok, no horse drool or smudged makeup or wierd barn lighting casting bad shadows, then this was likely a planned photo shoot with someone semi competent behind the camera, a million shots, and likely an auxiliary lighting source.
Given who it is, I’d likely find the photos extra ridiculous, but also recognize that horsey glamor shots are a thing. So are “tasteful artistic” Lady Godiva shoots riding naked bareback on beach or meadow with no actual human genitalia visible (double ick). So it could be way worse.
Anyhow I’m sure it’s a planned photo shoot not just stopping en route to a party. And it was done late afternoon running into twilight. And it was face tuned and Photoshopped.
I was just looking at a “horsey and me” portrait of a pretty young woman at my barn and she had her own face so facetuned she looked like a plastic Kewpie doll. The horse was normal and you could see hair texture etc. Ruined the photo IMHO.
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Here’s a funny thing that happened a few years ago in Florida. We had a horse out on the cross ties, and some random guy asked if his daughter could take a picture with the horse. And we said, sure, why not? And the daughter came around the corner in this outfit. Someone suggested later that maybe she was on her way to her Quinceañera? I don’t know. But we certainly took a few pictures ourselves. I have to say the horse was a really excellent sport about the whole thing. He got extra carrots that day.
The trend that makes me crazy when it rolls around again is the one to take professional pictures with horses, and the person decides to wear pants with holes in them. I’m sorry, that is not an appropriate look. In a couple of years when it goes out of style again, you will look at the pictures and wonder why on earth you wore that ensemble.
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I’d chalk that one up to a Quinceañera as well Her date looks like a nice guy.
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He really was! I just saw him at a show recently for the first time in a few years, and he was still being an excellent sport. 
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The fanciest she had been at before relocating back to NJ to train with MB was the well-organized place she was at in NC, run by the Dressage pro who got her started in the sport. Every other barn known to have taken her in was a backyard affair, where she dabbled in H/J. Then, she went to MB’s until the incident and after that she dumped the horses she had with MB on Keni Kerin in NC, then she left NC and relocated to FL, where she might have been at a no-name jumper barn in Wellington that caters to the seasonal transients, before her father was able to negotiate and arrange her present accommodations.
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It’s not hard to acquire a taste for fancy or so I’m told.
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Yellow is for diesel. WTF was she thinking?!
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