I wish I knew why they did that. Seems dumb to me!
Right on about the hose. Sometimes we use the North wash rack. A little stand of shady oak trees in the yard lol
I’m still getting reports from the other barn.
They weaned the baby yesterday. But today, they put her in with mom for a couple hours to nurse.
… wtf? I’m no baby baby horse expert, but I have NEVER seen that. Seems like a good way to encourage calling, forever…
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I know when I was paying medical insurance US wire transfers cost the company I worked for $25 per transfer. We would only do them under certain circumstances. A lot of that changed with Covid and they started to be willing to cut less checks since they didn’t want staff in to cut and mail them.
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Not sure if this should go here or in the venting thread but here goes.
I was getting ready to get up this morning when I look out and see Spud exit the barn and start grazing in the back yard 
I leap out of bed, run out, and he let me walk up to him and take him back to his stall. I found that he had tipped over the (covered) metal garbage can in the aisle that contained his hay stretcher pellets and ate almost a full 5 lb. bag of carrots. Since my DH was the one who brought them in last night, clearly he forgot to fasten his door. Luckily it was Spud because Apache would have been down the driveway and over to the neighbor’s house to gorge on his lush grass that he slaves over (this guy is so anal about his yard, it’s sickening).
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Gah!!! 
Good morning, Mom! Has your heart rate come down yet?
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Eep I have no idea of weight or ingredients as they are foreign to me. Jingles to not foundering.
We had a horse abandoned to us. A good quiet horse but not much use for competition as always calling. My instructor said he had been weaned wrong.
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There’s no fortified grain in it, it’s timothy & alfalfa hay, rice bran, and flax. He didn’t eat that much of it just concentrated on the carrots. 
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I impulse entered a schooling dressage show for this Saturday. Time to learn two tests in a short period of time! Training 2 doesn’t seem to ride very smooth from a quick read through, but can’t wait to give it a try.
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I actually love Training 2. Maybe I’m weird, but I love all the diagonals.
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I gave it a try last night, the walk diagonals were a little weird, but it didn’t ride as bad as I thought it would.
I don’t have access to a large arena, which is what the show this weekend will be in - I’ll have to draw it out a few times so I know my geometry targets, then wing it.
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I’m the dumb. Young horse snapped her baling twine twice this morning so I tied her solid without thinking to swap halters. Sure enough she then snapped both the brass clip on her lead and the brass ring on her halter!
After that she got on the rope halter and the lead that can’t break and a half hour session on the solid post…many grumpy faces, many attempts to undo the knot and one valiant pullback try, she appears to have accepted her lot. Hopefully that’s all the reminder she needs.
I’m annoyed as the halter she broke was a custom order for her. Luckily I can send it back for repair. She also stacked it in the process because she’s a bit uncoordinated and is now holding herself just a little funny which tells me she’s sore enough she needs at least a few days off.
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Earlier post about non-horsey dumb: I was getting ready to go into the dressage arena at a local derby and my horse was particularly jumpy with all the activity. Some moronic people thought it was a good idea to spread out their beach blanket and chairs a little off the center line at “A” not in the ring but just outside it. My horse is rearing and having a meltdown and these folks just sat there waiting it out. After the second full height rear right in front of them, they grabbed their stuff and ran for it.
Another time a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I was going around xc at Caumsett Farm on Long Island and the course went through a gap in a hedgerow. Two seconds before I came galloping through that gap, a family out for a bike ride passed by on the other side of it. If I had been a little faster, I would have plowed right into them. They just go on by with their mouths open like fish gasping for air as I yelled “clear the course!” That would have ended very badly for all involved if I took out a family of 3 out for a Sunday jaunt.
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Holy crap, they didn’t have the course roped off??
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Nope! I did talk to the steward after my run and she agreed that people shouldn’t be out riding bikes while xc was running . Duh! Ya think?
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At one of my first events the first jump was a couple of hundred feet from the start box and then the course angled over to the corner of that field into a narrow track through woods to the next field. Just as I approached the woods an ATV came flying out the other way - close enough that I had to pull over to miss it! The driver was an event volunteer…
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Sounds like my XC experience in WI a couple years ago. At the end of a path through the woods, you’d jump #7 which then opened out to a big field. Volunteer was coming straight towards me on wooded path in an ATV. He swerved to his left and so did I. I barely missed him, mare didn’t waver and we jumped #7 as planned. Man, I almost had a heart attack! Why was he driving there when XC had been running all afternoon??
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Most likely it was roped off and they went around.
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Agreed. Given how many people will walk right through “Employees Only” and “Do Not Enter” signs… And then wonder why I’m icy when I come across them in the warehouse.
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I recall an old story about a steeplechase course in England which had a road crossing. There was a gate across it to keep traffic out when the races were running.
somehow, a taxicab got through, as a jockey and horse were coming to the crossing.
There was some sort of wreck–I don’t know whether they hit each other or hit other things while trying not to hit each other, but both cabbie and jock ended up in the hospital.
In the same room.
the jock asked the driver, “What happened to you?”
The cabbie said, “It was the weirdest thing. I was driving along and a horse jumped out of nowhere…”
At which the jock leapt out of his bed shouting, “You SOB! I’ll kill you!” and tried to throttle the cabbie.
An orderly had to pull him off.
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