Posted by write4change
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Breakfast with Ulli,
Staggered up in time for no accidents in the house before the walk. Kimba has learned that she gets to go back to the house as soon as she does her duty. Thus, she is now prompt and the walk is about 15 feet. She needs me. I guess that was always a consideration because she is so different that no one has fostered her in six months. I am not sure about this rescue--how profit making they are. They talk all the time about being understaffed. My big question that I have not voiced is why with so many homeless dogs in this country are we flying in foreign dogs. What is it about Americans that taking care of our own is not as up lifting as taking care of the exotic. And Oprah is a fine example of that. Once she said that Americans have no gratitude only entitlement. Is that thought something we manifest everywhere.
Coming back in the house I make my tea and start Uli in the morning. Everything about that has worked for me in the last week. I thanked a lot of people this morning with no results. I kept getting a weird triangle on the screen. Turns out I was disconnected because the cat decided to sleep on the roter?
When I move back to Texas, I will get into carriage horses this time. I am too old to fall off a horse any more. And I may need like in the old days horses to plow and pull as much as transportation. 9eagle I loved your explanation of falling I wished I had thought of it. For my daughter it was not an issue because she started gymnastics at two. No one I know thinks of cross training with jumpers as gymnastics but balance beam work and dismounting gave my daughter a sense of her body and timing none of the others had. When she started riding and jumping at 11, she had the timing and when her balance came really off she would do a running dismount. At a major horse show, and she had not been competing 4 months. Someone cut her stirrups. After the second jump, they fell off. She pulled him up and gathered herself and completed the round without faults with no stirrups. She got a standing ovation. All that did was take her riding knowledge and confidence up another notch. My daughter Maxx was an incredibile rider. Just before she died, she was the youngest jumper on the youngest horse and without even considering campaigning yet--she ranked 18 in the entire state of Texas. As long as she was alive, I stayed on the ground. I did not want to compete with her in anyway. After she died, I kept her horses and her two Picasso and Mighty Max were both state champions in California. In fact I hold the amateur jumper title for the years 97,98,99, 2000. I don't know how long someone will take to break that record at the Pacific Coast Horse Association. Before me, two consecutive years was the most ever done.