Ah so that explains why my sweet agreeable baby horse is suddenly trying things now she’s 5! Every ride at the moment starts with discussions about whether we’re going forwards or backwards and we have to spend a few minutes on that before she goes back to her well behaved self!
[SHUDDER] Glad you’re ok!
This isn’t a dumb, it’s a brag.
My super scared lesson girl cantered ALL THE WAY AROUND THE ARENA!
AND!
WAS SMILING THE WHOLE TIME.
I am so proud.
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Way to GO!
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Little dumb:
Random person from FB who took my giveaway reclining chair a month+ ago, messaging me about it today bc now they can’t get the foot rest to pop out. 
What do they expect me to do? Fix it?
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Kinda like someone who buy a horse who contacts you X months later saying it is now doing x, y, z right? Like, I dunno what you did, it worked when it left!
I sold a motorcycle years ago, when I decided I’d had enough close calls with other drivers and only got it for the cool factor, and unbroken bones were cooler… I told the guy, who bought it in the summer, that it had a tricky choke and while I always assumed the choke was supposed to stay out when you pulled it, this one would slide back in before it was warmed, causing the MC to die. I told him it never bothered me, I just stood next to the bike while it warmed up and put on my gear and intervened in said sliding-back-in of the choke once or twice.
He called me about not getting the bike to start six months later. Six months. With tones of false representation in his voice even. Bruh.
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these people need to buy new stuff that comes with a warranty. This was a free chair. FREE.
I actually did have someone call me about six months after I sold them a horse, but it was a friend’s mom who had bought the horse for her beginner husband so I felt some obligation. They didn’t expect me to fix it, but it was a ‘you can buy her back or we’re going to sell her as is’ call. I specifically told mom, the actual horse person, that she would need to get on periodically and remind horse of it’s training. She did not, and six months later the mare bucked when asked to canter. I fixed her in about three rides.
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I ordered a pair of quality boots on clearance, like 50% off original price. However, I wasn’t crazy about the calf fit and I couldn’t return them. I put them on FB Marketplace for 25% off the original price to make up for the selling fee and shipping (I offered free shipping), so still a GOOD deal to whoever got them. As soon as I listed them, I started getting messages/questions about width, arch, etc. which I answered. One person asked silly questions: could I post more than the 8 pix in the ad, exactly why didn’t I like them, etc. I knew these would sell within an hour, so I didn’t bother responding to her 3rd & 4th questions. Then she had the gall to ask me why I didn’t hold them for her since she asked questions right away. Sorry sister, I sold them to the first person who clicked on “Buy”.
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Sold a horse to a gal some years ago; she didn’t have a trailer so I hauled her to her barn as a favor. I get a call at work about a month later saying they couldn’t get her in the trailer and could I come and help. Uh no. I’m at work and can’t just up and leave. Then they say I lied about her loading. Huh? I got her there so clearly she loads. 
People!
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I had someone rip me upside and down over a trailer sale for this. I warned everyone - first person to put cash in my hand was going to be the owner.
Lady was asking me this and that, called the trailer dealership where I had it maintained, etc. Just a PITA. I knew she was going to mess with me on price. She said she was coming to see the trailer. Fine, I said, but I told her there were other interested buyers.
Another person called. Wired me the full asking price 20 minutes later, sight unseen. I called the first lady to tell her to turn around, the trailer was sold.
Ohhhhh boy did that unleash a tirade of anger. I ended up having to block her # because days later she was still giving me the what-for.
This is why when I go through my stuff in a month or so, I’m selling it as a lot. I can’t deal with a million different buyers - they’re too annoying.
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Today I had to tell someone to leave my mare alone while I was treating her jaw abcess. I use a plug in hot pad, so having someone goo goo gahhing over an already in your pocket mare was a straight up safety concern.
I said “hey, can we not harass my mare while she’s plugged into the wall?” Lady had the gall to say “talking to her is harassing her?” In a smartypants tone. My answer, “no, but standing directly in front of her is.”
This is a new lady, real chatty Kathy. Nice person, but does not pick up on the fact that I don’t want to chat when I’m at the barn. I’m already short time, the barn is not a social event for me.
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I am the daily dumb. Tried over and over and over to start my little Honda generator today. Pull after endless pull. I already have shoulder girdle issues but I was determined to get this sucker going. Took three breaks the sit down and pant. Changed position 4 different times.
Turns out the choke wasn’t adjusted properly. I had it in the full forward position as I thought was correct upon starting but out of desperation I finally slid it over to mid throttle and the thing hummed along no problem. My shoulder won’t let me forget this trick any time soon. Thank goodness I don’t need the generator to run my heating pad tonight.
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I hung a 16’ gate today.
Yes, wind blowing 40+ and post an old railroad tie we used in that spot 50 years ago, that wires have been stretched to it so many times, it looks windswept.
Gate was found in an old stuff corner, I recycled it from an inconvenient mishap 40 years ago with a cattle truck that missed the corner, so even after a little work, is not quite straight and square, but will be ok there.
Also had to dig a post hole to set a post in the middle, that is one of two such gates in a place where well rigs some times have to turn and there is not much room, so post is set in another pipe and can be pulled out and make that a 32’ opening.
Why was that a daily dumb?
(Looking around, to be sure no one saw me)
I had to drill not two holes for the hinges, but four, the shame.
Post looks like a woodpecker was after it.
After leveling first two holes carefully on crazy leaning post, gate just would not fit, it doesn’t has itself a straight angle anywhere. 
You think I would have engaged brain before drilling.
All is well that ends well, gate looks straight across to the other gate, folds 180 to the fence just fine, it does stick out strangely high and kind of like a kite about to take off at 90 while getting from closed to open.
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I am the daily dumb today.
She’s in the cross ties. She is trying to eat the cross ties, and I holler at her because she just ate through a different pair two days ago. She’s 5, not 3.
She pulls back in offense, breaks her halter. It’s a breakaway halter, so I’m not surprised. Time for a learning lesson, though.
I go to my trailer, get my blocker ring, rope halter, and 25’ rope. Tie her in the arena. Shoo her a little. I’ll be damned if my mare didn’t pull all 25 feet out in rearing surges. I have NEVER seen a horse do this before.
She proceeded to repeat this again, this time with the blocker on the “second setting” where it takes significantly more effort to pull through. She rears and gets 3-4 feet, then does it again and again and again until she’s loose.
I tied her in the stall and shooed her around so she couldn’t get so much power in her pull, so that we could end on a good note with her staying tied. I’m sure she’s going to be sore in the poll after her shenanigans though.
Do I tie a knot at the end so finally she’s tied solid? Do I use a belly rope in conjunction? She’s got me stumped.
I know she knows how to move forward from poll pressure. I double checked in between episodes tonight to be sure, and she definitely knows how.
And, she’s reminding me why I hate giant 5 year olds. Gah.
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The reason she has a breakaway is because the barn does not remove them for turnout. She breaks about one a month though, and now I wonder if this is contributing to tonight’s… episode. I won’t stop with the breakaway outside though. I don’t need her head getting caught under the fence and then the halter won’t give.
Hmm, that’s annoying.
My horse - who was old enough to know better (23) but apparently decided he didn’t want to - used to pull back when he was tied at the hitching post. Not in the crossties - just at the hitching rail. I got tired of him pulling that crap and breaking, ruining and generally not only destroying his halter but the barn property as well so I got one of those elastic lead rope thingies (it was like those bungee ties you can find now), tied him up, sat back, he threw a fit. Then another and another and another. He finally quit because he realized he wasn’t going to win. Sulked for a few seconds then threw a huge tantrum. Boy, was he mad. But he never pulled back again.
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I think I’m going to let her simmer for a few days to let the soreness wear off, then I’m going to put a lunge line on her too, attached to me. That way if she manages to pull all the rope off the blocker ring, she’s going to be in hot water with the Boss Lady, and not free to run around like a butthead.
I think I might double-nylon halter her too, it seemed almost like the rope halter surprised her with the bite it had (even though she’s worn it before) and the “ouch” factor upped the anty in her brain (plus, she was pulling so hard the hondo portion almost ended up in her mouth, even though it was tied properly to start - talk about a wreck if it got in there…).
Ugh. What a S-Show.
way back when I first got her, she would drag me around deliberately while I was teaching her to lunge with this same surging motion. She learned somewhere, sometime, that that motion was really hard for anyone to combat, and she gave herself mini-releases while it’s ongoing. Smart, but annoying, girl.
I need to tie her as high as possible next time. This one was above my head, but I feel like I need to have it even higher to remove her leverage.
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Its when they give you the side-eye and still do it thats truly irritating. No, you aren’t scared or panicking, you’ve just worked this one out…
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