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I'm a broodmare and checked in foal. Prone to stocking up, but otherwise low-maintenance and a sensible QH. Like most QH, I'm an air fern!

Absolutely every time. I didn't always growing up, but I do now and have for years. I've got a husband and kids and don't want to end up dead or in a coma because I didn't want to wear an...

I've done it before with a shire showing in dressage - his mane was so incredibly thick I just couldn't get it manageable through pulling. So... voila... braids on each side.

I don't think horses are ever evil, but that horse was EVIL. Would dump me in stadium at events and come galloping back to squish me if I hadn't gotten up yet. But hey, I was a dumb little kid and...

Um, I'll play. I'm not proud of it but... I scored a 17%. At a schooling show. Walk-trot test. Horse came down centerline, halted at X, and refused to take another step. Kind judge (at this...

Me, probably, with several students in tow! I won't be riding, though... takin' it easy while my "foal" is cooking.:yes:

Congratulations on your beautiful horse! It sounds like you are doing all the right things with him and he is in horsey heaven.

I had a giant Percheron in training for a while and, like you, we...

Yes, Miss Independence, thank you.
80s rider, please read all these posts with a grain of salt. There is a group out there who view themselves as "die-hard" horsepeople, to the point of not...

Something that helped for me was to think of things not as "riding time" or "TV time" or whatever, but as who has "discretionary time." I work (a matter of us not making ends meet and me being lucky...

When you have children, your life changes radically. You live, eat, sleep, and breathe for them. But that does not mean that they dictate every choice in your life, nor that you dictate every...

Public school is one way to do things. My husband and I both went to (good) public schools and, 5 combined post-high school degrees later, have felt no ill effects.

The question is, I think, more...

Treat them like professionals and not like kids with a part-time stall cleaning job. Barn managers and full-time professional barn staff are just that, professionals. I've worked full-time and run...

Haha! After ten years in the dressage world, I'm just now getting back into eventing and trying out hunting - you guys definitely have more fun; I've seen the error of my dressage-y ways and...

You can definitely have a baby, keep your mare, and spend barn time. It just requires (as you've realized) a commitment from you and your hubby. You are a different person after having a child, and...

I'm not passing judgement on anyone's choices here, and this is just my opinion, so please don't flame me for it - but please, please listen to your doctor. I have yet to find a doctor who will say...

Yes, you can still ride and have a baby. I've got a wonderful two-year old and we're planning another - and I ride several days a week. Until this past summer, I rode several horses a day in...

Godspeed, TT! You've left a wonderful legacy down here - and a lot of other little starfish whose wishes are going to come true.

From Axel Steiner, in a clinic, when I was twelve years old:
"Well, you're sort of balancing to stay up there... but you have no seat to speak of."
From Lucinda Green:
"Hello! Hello! Is the...

Yes, yes, and yes again. Had a horse who (when he wasn't undergoing the four major dental surgeries he had to fix some chronic neglect of his teeth) "fishhooked" himself on one of those four-pronged...

Bless you, EL, for everything that you did for Timmie and for everyone on this bb. Your joy in Timmie was and is evident, and everyone benefited from that and went home, I think, to have some of...

Poor Timmie and poor EL. Timmie is truly blessed to have spent his last days in a loving comfortable home.
I can't help thinking of this in light of the discussions surrounding the horse...

So happy to hear TT is feeling a bit better! I just got a confused look out of my husband when I told him I had to go downstairs to check on Tiny Tim (it's a horse, honey. Well, not my horse. ...

I'd vote for another "collection" to cover some of these vet bills for EL. TT's got an awful lot of Aunties out there . . . seems like EL shouldn't have to shoulder all the burden of being a "horse...

Lots of jingles and prayers for Timmie.

Oh no! Jingles for Timmie.