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Just opened this thread. Boy, this hits home, we are starting down this path with my parents - both are seriously spiraling - they live on opposite coasts, (divorced and remarried to younger spouses) and both have dementia - Dad’s been diagnosed with Frontotemporal dementia, and mom is super stubbor...

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Amado, how are you? How is your husband? I know when a state of emergency is declared here, it allows different funding and access to things. Cancelling leave for some workers etc... Apparently I never answered this! :D We are doing fine - I never tested positive back in March, but recently had a t...

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Loved it.

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I’m having a heck of a time with our compost - I just don’t think it gets warm enough Here to do it the way I’ve always Done it other places. Very frustrating.

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We are on day 3 of a 14 day quarantine. My husband tested positive (test on thursday, results on Friday), he has been sick since last Monday (so this is day 8 of symptoms). I tested negative, but have had a cough since tuesday, and this morning it feels a touch worse. No fever for me yet, he’s had a...

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Just started watching Giri/Haji on Netflix, it is quite good. Sometimes there are subtitles, but they speak in English when they are in London.

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Your new house is gorgeous! (So is the one you are selling!)

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Perhaps you missed it, but I wrote in the first post that the neighbor has the right to use the driveway to get into her pasture. It's in the deed, survey or whatever document. Even if this wasn't the case, there is no way I could put up a gate or fence. How would delivery people to get my place? I...

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Does she have legal access to use your driveway? Can you gate and fence it?

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Looks great. I had really good luck using Manuka Honey on Rico’s terrible heel bulb laceration a couple of years ago. It’s used for non-healing bed sores. It’s got something extra in it, specific to the plant the honey comes from that helps with wound healing.

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Snakes are such cool creatures, glad you were kind to it.

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It there any way to stain the grout darker? I would worry about the difference in height between the floors you lay laminate over and the others. Tripping hazard and potential to mess up all your doorway clearances.they redid the flooring in our house before we bought, I don’t know what they did, bu...

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That is truly horrible luck, more than anyone should have to deal with in such a short amount of time. I am so sorry. But that shoulder repair looks fabulous. Keep us posted on his progress.

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Just finished binging on”dead to me”. It’s awesome.

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Museum of the Rockies is awesome!

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Though it says no other markings designs or decorations - even if that swoosh is white, doesn’t qualify as a decoration/design?

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There are acrylic type paints specifically for painting on leather. I would think you could cover them with that. This one says it won’t crack or peel. If you are good with a small paintbrush, you could absolutely make this work. https://www.amazon.com/Angelus-Leather-Paint-Flat-White/dp/B01H0P3LP8/...

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There should be channels to deal with this behavior. I would be making a stink and talking to someone in HR.

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Welcome “home”! I rarely post, but usually check in every day, and am terrible at remembering who is who!

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I so enjoyed your description on junior, and how donkeys are different than horses in personality -it made me laugh out loud, and now I want one!

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I think this is Marion Dresel-O'Connor, it used to be Cocolalla sport horses, not sure if it is still called that. You can find her on facebook. I haven’t lived in that area for a long time, but I do know several people who have bought from her and been happy. Seems like she used to breed dressage h...

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Wow, your horses are beautiful!!

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Awesome. I love goats. I have a million sheets and blankets because we used to live in the Pacific Northwet. I owned a lot of sheets because saddling a wet horse is no fun.

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Most important question, what Is he wearing when you lunge him? If he is able to turn away from you, then take off and get away from you, it’s not the right equipment. You need something with enough bite to stop him in his tracks when he gets out of control. That might be a rope halter with knots. I...

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Oh thank you all, this is super helpful!

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I am back to feeling like I can get serious about riding after two years in far northern Maine with no indoor arena and 6 months of snow on the ground each year. We have moved back to Montana and I’m boarding at a place with a small but fairly wide indoor, and a good sized (80 x 190–ish) outdoor. Wh...

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Yes! I do a ton of work at the walk. All the lateral work in the walk in the warmup, counterbent turns, SI to renver, travers to shoulder out, on straight lines, on circles. Lengthened walk to counted steps (or whatever they are called. ) and back. That thing that the western guys do, where you do a...

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The area Rico’s sore are on is not white, Update - a few weeks ago I made the mistake of putting regular bellboots on and it irritated the sores, which meant I had to start over! Had to soften the scabs again with miconazole nitrate, then cleaned daily, alternating between wiping with a betadine sol...

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He’s gorgeous. (I can’t play the video either)

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I think your best bet is file folders in one of those file containers (that’s where mine are) or in sleeves in a notebook ( like somebody else suggested) and stuck in your bookcase with your other dressage books. Scanning all those things and putting them on a comptur or ipad somewhere is a pain in ...

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My horse is having issues with two sores on the back of a front pastern, definitely scratches - I’m having luck with vetericyn. (Once I got the scabs loosened up and removed using a mixture of triple antiobiotic and miconizole) I spray on the vetericyn and wipe it off with a paper towel several time...

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Omg, that’s fantastic!!

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I had custom Konigs made for me - and it felt like the heel slipped a little, but I solved that by putting in some of those gel heel inserts - that solved the issue.

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Thank you. Googled. Think I’ll pass.

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I get invited to join some dressage facebook groups by various horse friends - but I want to know who the people who are behind the groups are before I click join - does anybody know who these are? Dre ssage Sc hooling Discussions. (I put spaces in so it doesn’t so easily come up on google) Symp ath...

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Not here. Won’t even crack freezing today. 12 when I woke up. Entire property feels like one big glacier.

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Holy cow. Those are spectacular!!! Wow! I LOVE them!!

(Carp. Now I have to fight the urge to go online and buy supplies).

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Adorable, AmityBee! One thing I like about these needle felting projects is that it’s easy to just sit down and do it in little sessions, a few minutes here and there. I’m still working on what makes the best eyes, I made a second eye for the cat, but I’m not sure I like how they turned out, one is ...

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Cool, will check out the magazine next time I’m at tractor supply! You should try it. It’s a lot of fun!

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Got one cat eye in. Made this one with a blue bead and some paint, I think I need to buy some, making them takes too long! And finished the tiny horse. Definitely like doing them without the wire better (this one has wire) https://s26.postimg.org/qgwnftkop/CB137360-_AE85-4_D2_A-_BA90-_BA4_F56_C97_C7...

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Tail is on. I have to be quick with the pictures. She knocks in on the floor if it sits there for too long. :lol: https://s26.postimg.org/dq4zmvi3d/0_EC330_D7-_DF46-4827-81_EB-2507_FC41_F22_E.jpg https://s26.postimg.org/o07em3sjd/AB1_F2817-_CF2_A-4_D28-823_E-_CD684560_F200.jpg

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So I started playing with a tiny cat portrait. I don’t quite have the right colors yet, so i had to mix a few together. It’s a little small for all the detail I like to do, and her head is a little big for her body, and I still have to add the tail and glass eyes. I also have to be careful, because ...

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I couldn’t get through the first episode. I couldn’t deal with Game of Thrones, either. But I am able to watch some of the dark dectective mysteries - like Hinterland and Shetland, and The Frozen Dead. Loved those. Also - Endeavor. (The Inspector Morse prequel) That one is awesome.

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Awesome! The amount of sculpting and shrinking you can do is amazing, you just keep stabbing! I ordered a felting “pen” made by clover - it has three needles (but you can use it with two or one - and it’s making the felting go MUCH faster. I also ordered one that has 6 (?), but it is harder to use. ...

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I also like the idea of a box with all the pictures. What a lovely gift!

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Just the forelock, mane and tail. The rest (the body) is wool fleece , felted and shaped with a barbed needle.

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I did this with mane hair. Better than tail hair because it’s finer. The body is maybe 5 inches long. (More pics in the needlefelting thread)

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So here are a couple more experiments, I took the paint foal’s spots off and turned him into a regular sized horse. I am trying some wire supports, they give structure, but are harder to felt because you hit them with the needle. I am experimenting with hand painting trade beads and dimensional modg...

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I would love any leftovers!! Would be happy to pay shipping. I’m finding that the wool I got from my spinner/weaver friend is felting easier than the little packages of colored wool I found at the store. It is felting much faster, not sure why.

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Love those dogs. I was kind of hoping to find something I could make in the under $100 range. They are a little easier to sculpt when they are bigger, but they take a lot more time and materials! I kind of like the simplified shapes, with the correct coloring, though sculpting more of the features i...

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