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Kyra's Mom

So much going on...jingles to all that need them to get their critters sound. I had some lovely rides on Kyra before I went on vacation. She was surprisingly delightful from the get go. Normally we have to have a pretty good discussion regarding energy during warm-up. Usually, she needs more but the...

Kyra's Mom

Well, Nar (Icelandic volcano) is still sleeping but kind of teasing us...something is going on with some magma movement but nothing visible for another 9 days. Yes, the Canary Island volcano is a beast. The lava ate a beautiful little church yesterday in Todoque. It took a short break this AM but ro...

Kyra's Mom

No...and it kind of drives me crazy but I have put up with it for 13 years now

. I try to text her at the 4 week mark and she comes within 1-2 weeks.
Kyra is BF. I can grab a rasp and take a couple mm off her heels and tidy up her toes so I can get her boots on so 5-6 weeks works fine.

Susan

Kyra's Mom

Wow Tanga, way to hang in there. I have become so heat intolerant...especially mentally, I just feel like I am frying and I no longer want to feel that way :P . I have had trouble overcoming inertia too. My back/SI issue is traveling into my left hip and so some days, I just haven't felt like bootin...

Kyra's Mom

I have never had a horse in full training or even lesson rides. I do not like to have every footfall directed. I do much better figuring it out by myself. I certainly need eyes on the ground but like to do homework and see what makes things tick. My last instructor was so good at selecting exercises...

Kyra's Mom

OK. So my friend Nar went to sleep for about 9 days...at least doing anything visible. Then...on Saturday all hell broke loose...at least that is what it looks like. Now, instead of the Old Faithful schtick, it is pulsing every 8-10 minutes. Little to nothing is coming out of the crater although the...

Kyra's Mom

I would call that sufficient for a cancellation

. Glad he is OK.

Susan

Kyra's Mom

I don't know. I can't envision any judge giving you a 5 on position. I guess 5 is still satisfactory but you are much better than satisfactory collapsing left or not...my two cents

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Susan

Kyra's Mom

{{{{Mountaineer}}}} Well...Kyra and I are just keeping on with our meager schedule. My sister and I did a yard sale last Fri and Sat so with set up on Thurs, Kyra missed a few days. My back or SI or whatever the heck I buggered up last winter decided to flare up again so I quit cantering again for a...

Kyra's Mom

Rye...good to be ready for any eventuality but it does cost. When (or IF?) I find another barn, I plan to pay for another month at the current barn...providing the reason I am leaving isn't because they closed. Then I have a fall back if the new place just doesn't cut it. I am kind of picky. At leas...

Kyra's Mom

NO...NO. My tailbone area no longer tolerates a naked spine under it. Of course, before my surgery, I was sitting right on that bone spur...OWWWW. I am afraid for me it is a saddle or I don't ride. I even have to trick out the saddle with a seat saver with a coccyx cutout to semi-comfortably do what...

Kyra's Mom

My goals were pretty minimal and I feel like I hit them. Her connection is better. The last couple of rides, she has been much softer and less braced picking up the reins in walk and staying soft and connected between walk and the other gaits. I didn't get nearly as much riding as I would have like ...

Kyra's Mom

I like to LY away from the rail about 5-10 meters then half pass back to the rail. Set up the proper bend for HP and the rail helps draw them over. It has a magnet in it after all

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Susan

Kyra's Mom

Yikes aleuronx...she changed a lot. About a month ago, I changed Kyra back to her treeless saddle and she seems to be happy thus far. She was fine with the Prestige but I was having a hell of a time finding a balance spot in it. I am waffling between selling it now or keeping it another 6 months and...

Kyra's Mom

Well, with my limited HP experience, I was taught to initiate SI then step to the inside and viola...HP. Inside leg maintains the forward and outside leg guards and keeps the haunches moving over. That has worked pretty good...I think those instructions were 4 horses ago and it has worked on all tha...

Kyra's Mom

For the time being, it seems to have turned into another Old Faithful. A little different time frame and a different emission than the geyser but by the faf(tremor) chart, it is still doing its thing. Now if the damned fog would go away. The other night on the live feed, the entire screen was just b...

Kyra's Mom

Right now we're just working on riding with all the distractions — the BO has been out with dogs and chainsaw clearing trees the last 4 times I rode, and the new litter of kittens have been playing around the arena. None of that is a distraction ... but keeping Maia's attention on me, and her nose ...

Kyra's Mom

SF...good show result. I am going to try and get out to watch your Sunday rides. Aleuronx, sounds like an exciting trail ride. It is pretty overwhelming for them sometimes. I know my last two I have turned into real arena flowers. The trail is way out of their comfort zone. And I'm old enough and de...

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Well, the pimple (baby cone) has disappeared...assimilated back into the big crater. Amazing activity today with lava tossing up, down and in every direction.

https://youtu.be/zruKfOH1-eY

Kyra's Mom

Awww...So hard but you must be so proud.

Susan

Kyra's Mom

I too, am jealous of your choices. I am casually looking for a new barn and so far, out of the 5 I have contacted, I never heard from 4 of them and the one I did and went and visited, there is a long waiting list plus the owners are looking to down size in the next couple of years. I like the curren...

Kyra's Mom

Mountaineer, so good you are getting Potters figured out. He sounds like a good egg (and he is 1/2 arab isn't he?) I worked Kyra yesterday and she seems to have lost her little resistance/bracing going right so I am pretty sure that me sitting on a snap that is stuck under the saddle was the cause. ...

Kyra's Mom

Well, the smoke has brought riding to a halt. It got horrible around here starting on Saturday. One retiree at my barn that has heaves, was having to get nebulizer treatments. Poor guy is not tolerating the situation well. So, I just did a short fart around liberty session in the round pen on Saturd...

Kyra's Mom

Everyone looks so...grown-up 8-) . I should probably try a double with Kyra given her extreme difficulty with snaffles? I am not sure I can sort out all the reins but if I can get her back in more regular work, I might give is a try. I might even try Karen Rolhf's double...bitless for the snaffle an...

Kyra's Mom

I am still at it (volcano watching). This volcano is NOT disappointing. The 13th and 14th were AMAZING. It has grown a little bit. Baby Nar https://youtu.be/dfq9R8T5kb4 and teenager (?--they say the eruption could continue for years) Nar. https://youtu.be/U8DBe91UJTc Last night was pretty incredible...

Kyra's Mom

LSP, I don't think he looks too off at all. I think in the short video snippet, he is quick and so hard to tell anything when he is so bothered by the flies. He is handsome, I know that ;) . Kyra has never had an injury but is weak in the stifles (rt>left). It showed up as soon as I started riding h...

Kyra's Mom

I have gotten to ride the last 3 trips to the barn :D . The arena finally dried out, it finally got worked and the weather cooled off for a couple days. Kyra has been working pretty well. Ride before last, I was riding like a sack of ....I could not stay with her at trot. Just a normal posting worki...

Kyra's Mom

With Kyra it is a session by session thing...it depends. I love to warm her up long and low. BUT, she has to swing through and meet the connection. Lots of times she leans and is way on the forehand so stretching gets relegated to cool down. I haven't really worked on a lot of stretching at trot bec...

Kyra's Mom

Jingles for all that need it. Kyra and I are just....I am still frustrated at the lack of a rideable area. I couldn't use the track for about 10 days because the owner was re-roofing their house (right next to the track). Oh, I guess I could have tried. I went over there one day, thinking they weren...

Kyra's Mom

Jingles for Potters. At least you didn't get on him when he was hurting so bad. I had a nice ride yesterday. Trying to beat the worst of the heat. I did some more trot work yesterday and got in some canter work. The trot work, I worked bending lines with some serpentines. I did ask for a lengthened ...

Kyra's Mom

Well, I texted the vet and she said to just watch her. That is it...at this point, I am not really treating any specific problem. The pastern issue resolved within a month of when it appeared and she feels sound to me. The vet believes in Legend but she has gone 3 months without it and I can't tell ...

Kyra's Mom

Yep...it is hard. We had to put my Mom's little cocker spaniel down in March of 2020. That was her company and suddenly she was alone. Now that she is living with me, she has my cats. She isn't much of a cat fan but they all get along. My Emmy cat was sick last week and Mom was very worried about he...

Kyra's Mom

Yes peidmontfields, that is a good idea. I do blood work on the little critters so that would be a good idea for an older horse too. I threw on 10gm of MSM for now. I am going to research the resveratrol and talk to my vet about switching to Adequan so I can give it (and hopefully REMEMBER to give i...

Kyra's Mom

Kyra is well although I am somewhat frustrated. Certainly not with her but frustrated that at the current rate of riding, she is not building up top line or muscle. Of course, part of that is the weather from hell...literally. I just don't handle the heat well and if I do ride, I keep it pretty shor...

Kyra's Mom

Yes, I have to contact the vet and see if we can switch to Adequan. She may be IR...I haven't had her tested but a couple of times when she has gained weight, the fat is in those ominous places (neck and butt). She only gets a cup and a half of Strategy Healthy Edge for to get her California Trace i...

Kyra's Mom

pietmontfields...that is so good to hear. All that hard (easier :) ) work has paid off. Gosh, we are just in hell here. Not as brutal as some places in the west but bad enough. Not the least of which the smoke from the many fires moved in over the weekend. Usually that is an mid-August event. It doe...

Kyra's Mom

Almost 2 years ago, Kyra came up with a small effusion in her right front fetlock. None of us (myself, Straighforward who was riding her at the time, or the vet) could discern any lameness although she did have some heat in that ankle. So, I started her on Legend at the vet's recommendation. Fast fo...

Kyra's Mom

Goals for me...figure out why I am so weighted to the left. This started since I tweaked my back in February. Even if I physically stand in the stirrups and move my seat to the right, I still feel most of the weight is in my left cheek. I gave up and went back to my old treeless saddle. I seem to ha...

Kyra's Mom

Still the best show in town and good old Nar the volcano(short from Ragnar) hasn't disappointed. It is so funny in that it shuts down for a short period and everybody on the chats say...oh, it's done. Nooo :lol: . After this video was done, a good portion of the inner wall collapsed and the crater w...

Kyra's Mom

Not that I really know how to teach Spanish walk but Kyra and I have been working on [i]something[i] for a little over a year now. You just have to keep evolving it. Kyra just lifted her lower leg at the beginning. It probably took her 3-4 months before she started anything resembling a jambette (le...

Kyra's Mom

Kyra has continued to be a eager beaver and a pleasure to work with. We had a monsoon on Thursday...well for us. We got 3/4 inch of rain overnight which turned our arena into a lake so I set up poles indoors and we had a long rein session over the poles. She worked well but looked a little bracey to...

Kyra's Mom

So far, things are going pretty well for me and my Mom. My biggest issue is with the difference in temperature I have to maintain for her. I guess I just have to get used to sweating :P . She has some cognitive decline but so far, mostly weak on memory issues. I'm sure it is my good cooking :lol: . ...

Kyra's Mom

I read the Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Very interesting. I had to go look up blue people...it is true. Last week I finished Radium Girls. Fascinating, yet horrifying that no one knew then when they did know acknowledge the effects of radiation. Those poor girls...what horrific deaths they suffe...

Kyra's Mom

OMG...this thing is pumping out so much lava this weekend.

This guy's drone shots are spectacular. I wish I could get a couple stills off this video.
https://youtu.be/S5qYg1OTUxs

I am probably burning up (haha) all my internet data. Sometimes, I can't take my eyes off of it.

Susan

Kyra's Mom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOEuf_4z_sM I have been watching this volcano for about 3 weeks. There are some amazing videos out there. This is what drones were meant for although the live stream is stationery cameras. There are some incredible drone videos on Youtube. It builds up pressure and re...

Kyra's Mom

I had rotator cuff surgery 20 years ago. What looked like a full thickness tear on the MRI was not so I got off easy with the surgeon buffing up the tear and fixing the impingement I had in the joint (thanks big boobs :P ). My rehab was pretty easy and I got the OK to got back to horse activities af...

Kyra's Mom

What a nice active stretch Demi. It sounds like those that can are making good progress. Jingles for everyone else that needs it for horse and or person. Kyra has been an absolute delight. So much fun to ride. We aren't doing much fancy but her responsiveness is as good as it has every been. She has...

Kyra's Mom

I tried Noom and didn't like it. My "advisor" was a pain in the butt...harped on the same thing forever. Why don't you cook, what is your meal planning. Not a very positive (or helpful) fellow. I am sure I could have changed advisors but I didn't. I am not into writing in a journal which t...

Kyra's Mom

Everyone is so busy. LS...jingles for you and your critters. Kyra has been a good egg. The outdoor arena hasn't been in great shape. It had rained again and it "sets up" almost like concrete and get very crusty and if there has been much traffic it is very cuppy. I prefer not to ask for mu...

Kyra's Mom

Well, yes age is just a number. Is it the number (65y.o.) I feel like most of the time...NO. Many days I feel about 80 (I guess). Does it keep me off my horse...hell no. I went through 6-7 years with that many surgeries for this that and the other thing. I maybe rode 100 times in those 6-7 years (25...

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