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abracadebra

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You learn until you close your eyes for the final time. Unless - as you said - have a closed mind.

my mind is wide open..........just wish me fingers ...........would do what there told....alien egg sacks rule............geez!!!! Ive learnt wow did I take my hands for granted.....everything we do we need our hands..........owell!!!! that's life...........we all have our cross to bare....:rolleyes:
 

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Good Morning, Volties.

Christmas blend coffee and home made banana bread this morning.

There's some "Taz tea in the cupboard. I trust youk now how to use the microwave to heat some water for your tea bag.

Thanks for the coffee Lizzie, I got some good news and some bad news yesterday at the Drs. Since I am "vaping" rather than smoking, the Dr. changed my status to NON SMOKER :thumbs:. Now she says my blood pressure is up, so I need to cut down on salt, coffee, red meat etc and eat whole wheat, oats, and bannanas. So now I will be a vaping horse monkey :laugh:

At least my Dr. sees the advantage to vaping even though there is some nicotine in the juice.

PS: I see that I was missed yesterday. That is a nice thought from Bluesman. I was running errands all day with my wife as well as semi-annual Dr. visit. Besides that my wife claims I spend absolutely too much time at the computer.
 
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Stevie Ray Vaughan was a good blues man. Listen while you have your coffee.



I clicked on this, and I have to brag. Bill, who's getting dressed for work in the bathroom nearby heard the first guitar notes and said, "That sounds like Stevie Ray Vaughan." Sharp! Bill loves the blues and knows a lot more about that genre and rock music in general than I do. In fact, when I met Bill, he's the one who turned me on to the blues. I never appreciated that before Bill.

So I asked Bill to make a blues choice, and I guess, with Stevie on the mind, he chose Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Long version!) - YouTube
 

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Lizzie I found this for you,or for anyone else who wants to see it. This is a western horsemanship halter class,I picked this b/c its a good demonstration of how horses read and respond to body language. The way the handlers move their horses around is the EXACT way a mare moves her foal around, or the lead mare establishes she's the boss. Anyway I hope it helps.
 
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Congress 2009 Amateur Showmanship Finals 2 of 4 - YouTube
Lizzie I found this for you,or for anyone else who wants to see it. This is a western horsemanship halter class,I picked this b/c its a good demonstration of how horses read and respond to body language. The way the handlers move their horses around is the EXACT way a mare moves her foal around, or the lead mare establishes she's the boss. Anyway I hope it helps.

Good stuff. I have been teaching Wiseguy "circle" since I thought it would be a good cue for him and he would have to pay attention and not get ahead of me when we are walking. I can see where good technique of stoppimg, facing the side of his head and having him circle would be a great idea.
 

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Good stuff. I have been teaching Wiseguy "circle" since I thought it would be a good cue for him and he would have to pay attention and not get ahead of me when we are walking. I can see where good technique of stoppimg, facing the side of his head and having him circle would be a great idea.

Another good technique while leading is to work on getting him to go at your pace, and if you start backing up, he does, too. When I had to hand-walk Penny for months when she tore a tendon, I never realized how poor her leading skills were. Sure, she went fine from the pasture to the barn, but when we started taking long walks, all the holes reared their ugly heads. I took my dressage whip along with me. I'd carry it across my body to form a kind of line that she couldn't cross, and if she started pushing ahead, I'd stop her, tap her chest with the whip, and she'd have to back up a few steps. Sometimes it seemed we backed more than went forward when we were heading home. Circling Wiseguy might be good when he's getting ready to spook at something. Sometimes giving a horse a job to do distracts them from whatever they find scary.
 
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