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[TsPoet]

On our walk today we ran into a nefarious creature that had to be monitored and put in it's place.
Look at Murphy's hackles!


I'm thinking of naming my next dog Cucamonga.

[Fredwina]

I'm thinking of naming my next dog Cucamonga.

only if you live in a Sandy Place
I like "light over the mountain" better.
Fredwina, who may move to Alta Loma

[Zen]

Murphy's really got his back up!

I took Ginger for a hike with me today, she got her back up once or twice as well.


Just about everybody out there today had a dog

[crazycanuck]

Hello!!!!

We just got home from our return road trip from Sydney We took 5 days to drive back this time & managed to see some pretty coolio stuff.

I'll slowly catch up on stuff & promise to post some photos soon!

[chicago]

tspoet, that is so funny (the pic).. I love it!

and very nice pics Zen... very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chicago]

Hi all.. happy new year. I have been busy!! I started attending a CoDA meeting (Codependent's Annonymous) which has been great just in two weeks I've been going. Helping me move along with the break-up which is good. After 8 weeks from the break-up, it was obvious my exbf was not going to call with any kind of follow-up communication. I realized last week that "I" needed some closure... and it was apparent, he wasn't going to give that to me... so I surprised him and showed up at his door on NewYearsDay. I have not talked to him since 11/7 since he left. I cried, I told him what I felt, how I felt, I apologized for what I felt I did wrong in the relationship, I said everything I could not the night he left... cause he left so sudden I had no time for anything, let alone speak. Unfortunatey his mind appears to be made up and he is fine with being out of the relationship... which boggles my mind, but whatever... that's why I'm going to CoDA to learn that I am powerless of what he chooses and to free myself from my guilt that it was all my fault... which I know it was not.

Anyway, it was a good meeting.... and I feel like I got my closure, and I feel so much better... a little more vindicated and maybe a little less humiliated because I felt I deserved to speak too.

So that's all I have to say on that...

but I am here to share my pic of me and Lady Marlene at the stables. She is the horse I train on... I just love her!! I have had the most amazing people come into my life the last few months. The people at the barn are just amazing and the people in my CoDA group are just great... I feel so blessed that even though I dont have the exbf, I still have lots of good things in my life... and one being is this fine horse below!! (Dont' look at my hair, I just got done riding for over and hour with her... and both she and I worked very hard!!, hehe)



here she is on the cross ties. Her coat is a little messy here cause she is sweaty from riding and her coat is a little long with winter... but I love her. She looks a little skinny in this pic, it's just the angle... she's not that skinny, but she's not huge either.... although I do like her size and her breed. I think if I buy a horse I will get a Saddlebred just like her

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

CC- we look forward to a description of your adventure and some pictures!


Great horse photos, Chicago.

[Biciclista]

Chicago, it will get better! Every day without old what's his name, he will fade a little more. Soon you'll wonder what you saw in him in the first place.


And thanks for sharing your horse with us. I remember those days. I remember when I was in my 20's we all wanted the tallest horses we could get(since i rode Arabians, they were never very tall). Then my best buddy and i rented pasture belonging to this 70 year old man. He loved to go to horse auctions and buy ponies. Not tiny ponies, ponies about 12.5-14 hands. He'd get on these ponies and make them walk out like a horse. He explained it was a lot closer to the ground in case he fell. He more than kept up with us on rides. We thought it was silly. But now I can relate to that.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Today a team of guys from the tree surgeon company we hired came and cleaned up our poor giant 60foot 50year old pine that was so devastated in the recent ice storm. I also had them do some healthy pruning and grooming of several other small neglected trees and bushes on our small property while they were here, and remove a large bush that split from the ice storm.

There were so many giant pine branches down and they had to climb all up and through the tree to make precise cuts to clean off giant splintered branch ends and try to encourage some new branches to grow. The many branches down were so big and such a mess lying there for the past several weeks- our poor beautiful tree! It was so depressing to look at in the back yard.
We were lucky the tree company could come help us so soon as they did- they've been super busy ever since that ice storm and are booked up all this next year as well with people like us.
4 handsome strong young men were buzzing all over the property like a swarm of bees and climbing our trees like monkeys- it all happened so fast, in like 4 hours! Their massive shredder machine-truck can chip branches (logs really) that are 15" diameter!
We are so sad to see the formerly full lush pine tree looking so bald, thin, and amputated now, but also glad it was able to be saved somehow, and happy it is all finished now and the huge mess cleared up. It was the best we could do to help the tree rather than just cut it down. They said the big pine would eventually sprout some new smaller branches to fill in the bare spots as time goes on.

[Tuckervill]

That pine tree will fill in so fast you won't even remember what it looked like!

Did they leave you the nice chipped-up wood to use for mulch in the spring?

Instead of buying mulch, we rent a chipper ($100 a weekend) and chip all the branches that have fallen throughout the year. In the meantime, while we stack up the branches, the birdies have a place to nest.

Karen

[Zen]

I had the tree trimmers from the power company make me a bunch of mulch. I never did use itbut Ginger likes to lay on it

[Aggie_Ama]

BSG- Thanks for the suggestion of putting water in Maggie's food. The vet suggested it today, when we told him we were already doing that he was pleased we were a step ahead!

[Zen]

I'm considering a remake of another bike. I want something that will take a wider tire (38's?) to go on dirt roads. The Mariposa has (I think) 29's.
Maybe I'll start perusing the pawn shops.

I've been on the Rivendell site too much...

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

BSG- Thanks for the suggestion of putting water in Maggie's food. The vet suggested it today, when we told him we were already doing that he was pleased we were a step ahead!

Oh, I'm so glad!! Our cat Pearl, who has had kidney issues for years off and on, started getting bad again a month ago. That's when I just switched all three cats to canned food ONLY, and added plenty of water to it all to sort of force them all to get more water. It seems to have done the trick- Pearl has slowly improved since I did this and is now a lot better than last month. I wanted to avoid giving her sub-cutaneous water injections if at all possible, and the soupy food is working. Of course they all complained bitterly but I held firm and eventually they had no choice but to eat the canned mush food instead of the pellets they loved. I have found a few canned brands and flavors they seem to like well enough. I avoid ones with any kind of gluten in the ingredients as I suspect the toxic chinese gluten disaster was what poisoned Pearl in the first place several years ago and damaged her kidneys early on to the point of almost killing her.
Keep us posted on Maggie's progress!

I'm considering a remake of another bike. I want something that will take a wider tire (38's?) to go on dirt roads. The Mariposa has (I think) 29's.
Maybe I'll start perusing the pawn shops.
I've been on the Rivendell site too much...

Just a thought- I used to run 38's with inner Kevlar belts on my Rambouillet because I felt I needed super wide tires to go on dirt and gravel roads. DH suggested 32's, which worked fine for me too. Then we both switched to 28's with Kevlar (flat resistant inner layer) ....and those worked just fine too over fields and rocks and gravel and dirt and potholes. I didn't notice much of a difference except they were not as fat and heavy. Finally, last year we switched 4 of our bikes to 25's with flat resistance inner belts- and hey, I can't believe what kind of rough stuff they go over with no problems ...and no flats!...except...The only flats I've ever had were from long sharp glass shards, and that happened with both wide and thin tires- few tires can withstand a long nasty glass shard or a nail, regardless of width. So all I'm saying is that I myself found that I didn't really need super wide 38's to ride mega-rough surfaces and gravel roads- what I needed was flat resistant tires and the 25's seem just as bulletproof to me as my old 38's were, due to their tough inner belts of flat resistant material.
My DH likes his 700x25 Continental gatorskins....I like my 700x25 Continental 4 Seasons Grand Prix best.....and we both like Pasela Panaracers w/TourGuard (Kevlar) of varying widths. All those ties have inner flat-resistant belts. We put the (more expensive) Continentals on our pleasure bikes and are using up our older wider (and cheaper) Paselas on our errand bikes now. Just more stuff to think about.

[Pax]

I'm considering a remake of another bike. I want something that will take a wider tire (38's?) to go on dirt roads. The Mariposa has (I think) 29's.
Maybe I'll start perusing the pawn shops.

I've been on the Rivendell site too much...

If my PT lets me ride this Spring I'm going to see if my Trek 7.5 can handle a switch from 28's to 38's...I need a little less jarring on the commute.