CHIT CHAT in VOLTVILLE

[Konstantine]

However, they do have jeans that are built like riding tights, so they are stretchy and skintight. See TuffRider Ladies Stonewashed Riding Jeans I'd rather just have plain old riding tights. The idea behind them being skintight is so no wrinkles form between your leg and the saddle. That can get uncomfortable if you ride for very long with bunched-up jeans making a wrinkle where your leg rests against the saddle.

All this stuff seems to be really expensive, mainly because they know you will pay for your hobby. There are many english companies on ebay with better prices as i saw yesterday, England seems to have a lot of stuff related to riders and horses. Even so i can't afford anything like that. A pair of black jeans are fine for me and can handle thorns and bushes on the mountains. The new boots proved to me perfect for work and riding.

 

[JoAnnW]

Morning Volties! Coffee and blueberry muffins on the table.

Notice I did not add Good to my greeting... I woke up to a winter wonderland today. More than we've had in the past 2 years. It's still coming down heavy and expected to continue through the entire day. Now expected totals are 3-5"

This is spring??

 

[StrangeShay]

Good Morning e'ryone! I woke up to the first real snow in a couple years and am so very happy! I should mention I was born and raised in Michigan so winter without snow is just plain wrong (although before I moved here I didn't call it winter until we had at least 6-13 inches of snow).

I seem to have forgotten to bring any goodies, I will try and remember next time.

 

[awsum140]

Good morning, Volties. Thanks for the coffee and muffins, JoAnn!

I got up to nothing, nada, zip, not even rain. It did start raining around 7 and now it's snowing, been snowing since 7:30, and the trees and grass are turning white. The prediction is for 1-3 inches, so no big deal. I do absolutely, positively, have o go out to the post office and send a package to Debra so she can check her T3 rebuilds.

 

[JoAnnW]

Good morning Shay and it's great that you are happy about the snow. I must admit that it is quite beautiful... on every branch.

Looks more like waiting for Santa instead of waiting for the easter bunny though.

Aw Awsum, that will mean a lot to Debra and put a much needed smile on her face.

 

[Renolizzie]

Blueberry muffins with our coffee! Yummy.

That's nice of you to send a package to our Deb, Awsum

Well, I have to pull it together today and go clean a couple of houses. Leaving pretty early. I'll have to open the greenhouse up at the last possible moment since it is 32 degrees out this morning but the greenhouse will easily reach 90 if I don't open it up;( Let's hope it warms up fast once the sun comes up.

Have a great day, Volties.

Snow, boy, we could use some moisture around here. I wouldn't mind a final spring snowstorm.

 

[SandySu]

All this stuff seems to be really expensive, mainly because they know you will pay for your hobby. There are many english companies on ebay with better prices as i saw yesterday, England seems to have a lot of stuff related to riders and horses. Even so i can't afford anything like that. A pair of black jeans are fine for me and can handle thorns and bushes on the mountains. The new boots proved to me perfect for work and riding.

Riding clothes can be expensive. I think they believe people who ride horses are always rich, so they can charge more. Not necessarily so, as I can attest. Also, I just found sites that had the items I wear, but they may not be the cheapest prices on the Internet. I was more showing you the kind of riding clothes I use than suggesting that's exactly what you need to wear to ride. And last but not least, I like to try on clothes and footwear rather than order it sight unseen, so often I pay more because I go to my local riding shop to get clothing.

I think it's crazy how they charge more for horse stuff. A good case in point is a medicine, a painkiller, that they make for both dogs and horses. The dog kind is much cheaper than the same stuff marketed for horses, so a lot of people use the dog kind instead. It's the exact same drug, just in smaller doses, so even if you have to give more pills to a horse when you use the kind for dogs, it still comes out cheaper. This drug is Previcox for dogs and Equiox for horses, in case you want to research this further. I was just using it as an example of how they milk horse owners for all they can.

 

[SandySu]

Morning Volties! Coffee and blueberry muffins on the table.

Notice I did not add Good to my greeting... I woke up to a winter wonderland today. More than we've had in the past 2 years. It's still coming down heavy and expected to continue through the entire day. Now expected totals are 3-5"

This is spring??

And yesterday, we had the first day in weeks where not a single snowflake fell! It'll be back, though. I guess you are getting what I call the last hurrah snowstorm. We usually have the biggest snowfall in March, and then after that, spring starts to happen. I read on the weather site this morning that there's a big snowstorm in Colorado now that's supposed to come this way. It'll hit the mid-Atlantic states, they predict, so it may miss us or we may just get the edge, since sometimes these storms pass south of us.

 

[Konstantine]

I was just using it as an example of how they milk horse owners for all they can.

So true, you have to see a local company here, they have insane prices for simple stuff. The whip i'm using is sold here for around 13-15 euros and you can get it online for 5. They have 3-4 times more on everything.
Mainly because riders here had money to pay for this stuff, regular owners do not use so specific equipment like chaps etc.

I liked this boot HKM KODIAK TALL RIDING YARD MUCKER WALKING BOOTS ~ SAVE £££S OFF RRP | eBay which is cheap and not full leather but i think not suitable for the summer.
Has a killer look even if it's not the one of the best around, makes you look like Michael Jackson.

 

[dwsizme]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/us/ohio-punxsutawney-phil-indictment/index.html

Groundhog being held responsible for wrong forecast. LOL

Sent from my tapatalk app.

 

[abracadebra]

Good morning, Volties. Thanks for the coffee and muffins, JoAnn!

I got up to nothing, nada, zip, not even rain. It did start raining around 7 and now it's snowing, been snowing since 7:30, and the trees and grass are turning white. The prediction is for 1-3 inches, so no big deal. I do absolutely, positively, have o go out to the post office and send a package to Debra so she can check her T3 rebuilds.

your such a sweet heart awsum...going out in the snow....down under is still humid...so its weird here ...that we still have these humid days..... still need air con.....

 

[abracadebra]

Good morning Shay and it's great that you are happy about the snow. I must admit that it is quite beautiful... on every branch.

Looks more like waiting for Santa instead of waiting for the easter bunny though.

Aw Awsum, that will mean a lot to Debra and put a much needed smile on her face.

you bet joann im a happy little vegemite...

 

[Konstantine]

Debra?? The adapter didn't work?

 

[abracadebra]

So true, you have to see a local company here, they have insane prices for simple stuff. The whip i'm using is sold here for around 13-15 euros and you can get it online for 5. They have 3-4 times more on everything.
Mainly because riders here had money to pay for this stuff, regular owners do not use so specific equipment like chaps etc.

I liked this boot HKM KODIAK TALL RIDING YARD MUCKER WALKING BOOTS ~ SAVE £££S OFF RRP | eBay which is cheap and not full leather but i think not suitable for the summer.
Has a killer look even if it's not the one of the best around, makes you look like Michael Jackson.

well they will suit you..because your bad your bad your really !! really!! bad...n ill tell you once again....WHOS BAD......lol

 

[abracadebra]

Debra?? The adapter didn't work?

No!! NO!! NO!! to all 3 of them

 

[Tail11]

Good morning everyone!

hows the pain now tails?....hope all goes well at the doctors...

I'm not in pain all the time, which makes me think it's gall bladder problems. It has woken me up twice in the past two weeks. A true symptom of gallstones.

Like in between your shoulder blades? I saw "back pain and vomiting" and went straight to lower back pain and nausea, and Mom yelling at me inside my head ("hey, kidney infection!").
Dude, what's up with you and stones? Might be a gallstone now...
I didn't think vegans could get those...

I wasn't specific on my pain, but it has happened twice in the middle of my back and has woken me up out of bed. I've read that vegans/vegetarians can get gall stones. It is not the blood type cholesterol that builds up in the Gall Bladder. I do eat a lot of spinach, and that has been shown to cause gall stones.

I've not been diagnosed yet, but I've spoken to a few people that have had some sort of gall bladder problems and they agreed my symptoms sound like I might be having gall bladder symptoms.

FYI, I'm not a dude.

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[Konstantine]

No!! NO!! NO!! to all 3 of them

Crappy stupid vape Ohm meters, if you had a cheap multimeter by now it would have ended.

yes i know i'm bad i'm arguing about it with my ex via mail. I think i'll close her FB account, emails even net access just for fun...
LOL

 

[abracadebra]

Crappy stupid vape Ohm meters, if you had a cheap multimeter by now it would have ended.

yes i know i'm bad i'm arguing about it with my ex via mail. I think i'll close her FB account, emails even net access just for fun...
LOL

at the time I thought...those dudes on the you tube vids looked cool...just screwing them on...and reading there ohms....lol....

 

[SandySu]

So true, you have to see a local company here, they have insane prices for simple stuff. The whip i'm using is sold here for around 13-15 euros and you can get it online for 5. They have 3-4 times more on everything.
Mainly because riders here had money to pay for this stuff, regular owners do not use so specific equipment like chaps etc.

I liked this boot HKM KODIAK TALL RIDING YARD MUCKER WALKING BOOTS ~ SAVE £££S OFF RRP | eBay which is cheap and not full leather but i think not suitable for the summer.
Has a killer look even if it's not the one of the best around, makes you look like Michael Jackson.

I wouldn't buy them for riding because of the lug soles. You want something smoother on the soles so that if you fall, your foot slips out of the stirrup easily. My winter tall riding boots are great for winter, and they are rubber and neoprene, I think, which is unusual, since other rubber boots I've had are too cold in winter and too hot in summer. But around April when there's still enough mud to want tall boots, they get too hot. My riding sneakers are water-resistant so that if I have to walk out into a pasture and the grass is wet, I don't get wet feet. They only come up over the ankles, though, so if the mud is deep, I have to wear the tall boots. Fortunately, the mud where Penny lives now isn't as deep and horrible as the mud at the last place she was at. It does get muddy, but you don't sink into it. I have had times when I sank into it and when I went to lift my foot to take a step, my boot started to come off. And these are boots I usually remove with a boot jack. One time at the last place, where the mud was so bad, I started to walk out in the pasture to get Penny, and I got totally stuck! When I went to lift a foot, the other just sank deeper, and I couldn't move. I was out there whimpering and cursing, and I guess Penny took pity on me. She came over to me and stood beside me and let me lean on her to extract a foot at a time and walked slowly alongside me as I struggled back to the pasture gate. This is a horse who generally stands and waits in the pasture for me to come get her, doesn't come when I call. And she hates walking in the deep mud and sometimes would hesitate when we came to it and I was leading her toward the gate, which is where the horrible mud is. But she saw me in trouble and voluntarily on her own came to rescue me. What a horse! This is why I love her. When the chips are down, she's there to help, steady as a rock, even though she can be flighty and spooky when things get too calm for her taste.

 

[Konstantine]

Nah the safety boots i wear are fine, they saved me since the horse stepped on my feet 2 times.