> BK :>OMIGOD! IT LIVES!!! ;)
 
> Yep!  Got 5 kids in the program no@...one each day after school.
 
Well I'm down to CJ, Straw and Coffee.. I stopped dealing with that 
SAddlebred owner since he wanted to do things the old way.. I also gave up 
riding that TB mare.. since she had no business being used as a school horse. 
I convinced the gal that's funding the school to send her home (she was 
leased)
 
 
>   Also been trying to get Fid and Shiloh out for an occasional ride on
> @eekends...
 
Well I'm back riding CJ although she's lame again.. we're doing very light 
rides walk only. Straw just got "Adjusted" so it's a slow work up..
 
Coffee and I hit an impass.. he's a dominent horse since he's used to 
passengers..  I can't change him that much since the owner likes him a 
certain way.. so I kinda stopped riding him for a bit after he caused a wreck 
in the river with Tush..
 
For days I had was working her into the river on the bank.. and two weeks ago 
I was taking them down the side for the last time becuase I'd planned to take 
them into the river the next day.. now the side is cement.. and underwater 
(about 3-4 inches). I walked them both down to where the water goes back into 
the river part.. and went to pivit coffee to turn around safely.. he decied 
to step up into the slanted side of the river (also cement) and when I went 
to back him off.. he nudged Tush and she slipped and fell.. Hed to get off to 
get her up.. and since there was no way to get back on I had to walk them 
back through the river (on the bank) to get them back.. I was soaked. Tush 
was so P-O'ed at Coffee she tried to nail him several times.. I kept her out 
of the way after she connected the first time.    
 
Coffee was a tad lame.. for a bit after.. I was worried about Tush since the 
LA river is nasty and she has a lousey immunity system..  I gave her a 
Betdine bath when we got back.. She blew up like ballon for two days.. and 
then came back to normal after a good  furincine sweat. She's pretty much 
over it and the Boo-boo's are just about healed.. I've already walked her 
back down to the river.. but not in it while she had open wounds. 
 
I've just put them back together again.. and I'm easing them back onto the 
trail..   
 
 
> @ell, remember the Camaro and Richard's mid-life crisis car a fe@ years
> ago?
 
Looks like I won't have this pleasure.. ;)
 
 
> I guess that stage has passed as he just took delivery of a beautiful
> t@o-tone blue Chevy Z-71 pickup...@e are no@ officially a t@o-truck
> family!
 
Fine, now send me one for my birthday! ;)
 
 
 
> Mine's still bigger though (g).  His is not the extended cab, and also is
> a short bed.  He's going to have one of those ne@ plo@s put  on so @e can
> actually get outselves out of here this @inter @ithout having to rely on
> a plo@ guy to come.  Last @inter @as so bad and the plo@ guys @ere so
> busy that it @as often late in the day before @e got plo@ed out.  And the
> old man is getting too old to use the sno@blo@er on the place (g).
 
Sounds neat! :)
 
I'm sure he'll be plenty busy the first winter playing with his new toy! ;)
 
 
> Been lurking here every day.  Keeping tabs on everyone's progress, etc.
> I need a fe@ more hours in each day...still not riding Fiddle enough.
> She may be the oldest living horse in history before she learns to canter
> (g)! Shiloh continues to be a saint.
 
 
Well Straw is coming along.. we may show him next year.. Coffee is Coffee.. 
and CJ is CJ..  Tush I still do as much as possible with.. today I was 
working on the small turn out and I had her in there with me to help.. ;)
 
 
I'm having some major problems with the looney lady.. you know the one that 
got kicked by the stud..  We'll see where we're headed with this one.. sigh
 
 
                                  BK 
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