Scary Day 17

Personals from 16..phew!

Aberlemno..a mincer stud! LMAO!!
Dont you just find all the bargains?
Your car boots seem to be full of them..I never find anything of great interest..mind you I am usually accompanied by Tiegan who drags me over to all the stalls with toys and we end up going home with bags of Barbies and the likes!
Must make some time to go myself as I love a good old rummage!

EMW..how went the final filming?
Did you manage to see Jim?
How is he?

Jenna..Armbros prognosis is guarded at the moment..however due to how well and how quickly he has recovered so far we are hoping that he will have at least 50% liver function.
I think I would be really at home on a boat as I have so many cobwebs here!
Its just laziness with me though!
Glad you had a nice week end and the boys joined you after all..bet they had fun.
Well done you..a first eh..no wonder OH was slightly miffed!
Cant do Reiki but lots of prayers for your friends son.

Jude..what a lovely day you had then..thankyou for the report..almost feels like I was there:)
Bet you're glad it wasn't you driving then? lol

tl..lovely butterfly..how do you manage to do that and put writing on?
I will go and investigate the Dollar Glen Castle..thanks for the idea..oh I am hopeless!!
Below is a piccy of Armbro in daylight! lol
Not sure what shows/classes..don't even know what he could go in..the pics dont really do him justice..what catches you eye is when he moves..cant explain it tl..you know I am rubbish with words!l
Your eider ducks would have been a sight to behold..i have never seen that many together.

Esme..hope you had a nice lunch..next time have a wee vodka and coke for me please.
Arm bro is 12 or 13 now..oh I always forget and have to go and check his papers!!
Ive had him 5 years now..oh that makes him 12!!

Wills..I will bring Dusty over for sure:)
yes I remember the Clydesdale..did it belong to one of the girl's b/friend?
It was lovely.
I wish I had made it to the Perry clinic this year but the purse was sadly empty!
Shep..glad you made it!
Aw poor wee pup..have you named him yet?
Glad things are looking up with sis and her horses..it must have been so frustrating for you.
You are lucky having OH to ride out with..mine has tried bless him but he just finds it too uncomfy!!
Never mind he is happy to walk.

Napster..lol..I don't think there is an easier way ..if you find one let me know..I think we all get dizzy..or does that come with age!!

Rosemary..oh so glad you had a nice day..your cake sound lovely..lucky you..my mouth is watering thinking of it!!
Good luck with the show tomorrow:)

Ann NF..oh that sounds like a lovely walk you had..its good the ponies are doing well..do you have any pics of them?

Hello all just came on to say a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my dear friend lynn g who is a whopping great ** years old today well you did,nt think i was going to tell you her age did you anyways hope you had a smashing day lynn see you monday .xx

Right, hopefully I am organised with my reply system now (Word document) so I can scroll backwards and forwards and not lose everything in the process!

Jenna - I sat down and meditated and sent what healing I was able to your friend's son (I tried so hard, so I hope he received something). He sounds like he is coping well with it, but perhaps he may be put to the test when he actually has chemo.

It can't be easy sharing children between remarriages either, especially if you are not 100% amicable about the situation. I was fortunate and although I was married before, we never had children, so my three are "sired by"!!! by current OH.

A Mincer Museum - I rather like that idea! I find them hard to resist - don't know why, but probably because they remind me of my childhood. It was always my job to turn the remains of the Sunday roast into mince for Shepherd's Pie on a Monday. I used to make the Mint Sauce too. . . I did have a break from the Car Boot Sales, but am addicted again now . . .

As for personal stuff - I don't think we actually divulge that much about our whereabouts - only vaguely tied to an area. What that other spiteful girl said was referring to people who gave the exact whereabouts of the yard where they kept their horse or pony, and what have you, which enabled her to sound as if she lived just down the road and actually knew them . . . I think most of the clocking up of viewers of this thread on the forum are ourselves - I sometimes read people's postings although I don't have time to write myself, and the rest of us will be clocking up quite a few viewings and postings personally.

Lynn G - Happy Birthday to you too - hope you had a lovely day, and a nice meal, pressies etc.

Armbro is such a lovely boy and looks in super condition. He reminds me very much of a horse I knew when I did my BHSAI training back in 1971. He belonged to the Senior Instructor and was called Red Alligator - he was a beautiful lad. Long gone to Rainbow Bridge now, as has his owner.

I had to laugh at you and your bamboo roller blinds - I think I would have done the same thing too!

It sounds like you've been working really hard on your house, what with painting the decking as well as all the other jobs. I spent the afternoon in the garden today, and removed 5 barrowloads of weeds and plants I didn't want to be living where they were for any longer. I am removing all the problem plants I've given house room to for 18 years, in order to make the garden easier to maintain. You know - the sort you give house room too and then they become garden thugs!

tl - 7 mincers at the last count. I really should re-home some, but I'm getting fond of them . . . My husband thinks I'm quite loopy . . . I had to smile at the Meat Grinder adverts I have inspired at the top of the page, just by writing Mincers!!!

How thoughtful of you to let the Eider Ducks sleep in peace. I have always wanted to see them in the wild. Best I can manage is Pink Footed Geese on the Essex Marshes (think I've remembered that correctly).

Ann NF - I was with you when you wrote so eloquently about your walk on the marshes. The only walk I have managed today is to take Fahly up to the field with his girls. Tam had a friend round earlier, and they walked the dogs, but poor Fahly was doing stallion yells because his herd had split up. I tried to calm him, as I was still in the garden, weeding, but he was trumpeting and hurtling round because Tam had gone up the hill! Daft horse!

Jude - how exotic the Bee Eaters are, but how sad their offspring didn't survive to fly home. I can remember one of the Monica Edwards books which was set on the Romney Marsh, and told the story of when a Hoopoe nested. I believe they are regular visitors now.

I loved hearing about Gatcombe. I only went the once, but it was a lovely venue. We're just too far away from anything where we are now, sadly, although we could still get a place on the Pony Club bus to Badminton if we wanted (and saved hard enough!)

I hope that your new pillows continue to be excellent. OH and I have orthopaedic pillows which I bought at the Royal Welsh one year, and they are excellent, even though they were £25 a piece.

Shep - I hope the collie pup is on the mend now - pity that mum got a bit over-enthusiastic with him.

I'm quite happy with the new format of the forum - just takes some getting used to, but the craft forum I go to has the same layout, so it didn't seem too different for me.

Esme - is Dunston your own horse, or one you have on loan? He sounds a lovely lad.

Glad you enjoyed Cornwall and came home feeling rested. My family will be off this holidays too, so I will be staying home and holding the fort. I predict I shall get an incredible amount of "Home Economy" done, and revamp the garden totally!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYNN!!!

Hope you have had a wonderful day, especially after all the recent trauma.

Why didnt it say that it was your birthday on the board I wonder? I noticed it said peoples birthdays on there the other day, and presume 'it' knows as we had to put our dob when we registered. Love the pic of Armbro BTW

I think the DG wouldnt be happy if we started too many threads, we would be getting through several a week - lol! What problems are you having Lynn? You can click direct to the last page and not have to go through them all. I noticed some people have put that the page doesnt fit on properly but I havent had this. I think you are using Explorer as a browser - why not try Firefox? It is great, far far superior to Explorer (free download from Mozilla) The good thing about it is you can open lots of links at the same time, and you can have them all loading in the background while you read one that already has. You can open all the different Scary Day pages then just click between them back and forth to see what has been put. I cant survive without Firefox and its tabbed browsing now, when I had to use Explorer on friends 'puter the other day it nearly drove me mental!!!! (I've got the last 3 pages of Scary Day 16 open at the mo to refer to)

Aberlemno, how is stripy horse and his puffy leg - hope he is okay. You can always open a Mincer Museum to display your exhibits - lol!

Jenna, I do hope your friends son is progressing - what a terrible shock for everyone. 80% odds sounds pretty good though, so fingers, toes and everything crossed for him. I'm sure your boys genuinely enjoyed the model boats - just ex trying to play games. So glad it was a success

Sooooo it's Shy Esme then - lol!

Napster - I get the most dreadful migraines - to the point where I darent move a muscle for fear of being violently sick. Definitely lie-in-a-dark-room-with-flannel-on-eyes type. Mine are triggered by sinus problems. Ordinary stuff doesnt help at all, the doctor is trying long term low grade anti biotics (the kind you take for continual chest infections etc) I am touching wood as I say this, but they are currently working wonderfully well. Nurse friend thinks I may have a mild alergy to something, and this is keeping it damped down. I was worried about taking things long term, but feel so much better generally speaking I think its worth the risk. What I am on is old tried & tested one used for bronchitis etc. and nurse friend says you can take them forever with very little worry. I still get the odd migraine, but nothing like I did. They had been getting to the point where my life was badly affected and I was having daily headaches, 1 or 2 migraines a week and also getting wheezy - so I will risk side effects as all has virtually gone! Big sympathy - when I get them I would gladly be shot to stop the pain & sickness!

Shep - can you do pics of the puppies? They sound adorable! Glad sis it starting to tow the line - 'bout time!

tl - are you there, or have you got too fed up with the new format? I must admit, I have stopped browsing and posting on other topics as much as I did. Now they are all in different bits I am not bothering. When it was all muddled in I popped in and out of interesting stuff I noticed when looking for Scary Day.

emw - hope the filming went well??!!

Laura - I wondered who on earth you were - then I realised its Laura(Taz) - not the same without Taz!!!

Rosemary - so glad you had a lovely day for your birthday. Your son sounds wonderful making such a gorgeous cake - I take it this is the horsey one too? You will miss him when he goes back I am sure.

The farrier has been and he is really positive about CKs feet and feels we have made a real breakthrough. For the first time in several years there was actually lumps of horn to nip off as well as rasp. He has a small crack in one toe, but farrier said its nothing. The sole has really thickened up and he is galloping round our rutted concrete hard field happy as larry. I still havent done much road work, but farrier says just 'go for it' now as our field is just as hard and rough as the gravelly lanes and bridle paths. When he starts doing regular work now and more mileage we will see if his feet will stand up to it. Phil is away for a couple of days, so I will get him to do pics when he is back - will also re-post the original one of when the shoes first came off to compare. Farrier and I are amazed at the difference, quite unbelieveable. Obviously shoeing doesnt agree with him - when I bought him he was recently backed with his first set of shoes on, and he seemed to have excellent feet - they have slowly deteriortated over the few years since. I havent fed him differently since having the shoes off, or applied anything to the feet - its all happened just because he isnt shod. Fingers crossed everyone! M's feet are so tough he had trouble nipping them back - so no question of shoeing him just now. TC's feet had splayed a bit, but are fine too. As he has been roughed off while daughter at Uni they have 'conditioned' themselves and seem tough too. Farrier has bought his wife a ConnemaraX yearling, and says he certainly wont waste his time shoeing it in future unless absolutely necessary as it seems to have tough feet - and he is all for barefoot horses if it suits them (although also feels not all can happily go barefoot, and it does depend on workload balanced with original hoof type & condition, how it is kept etc.)

Nice day today - after farrier we went to get some diy stuff for the old kitchen which we are turning into a study (hence even more mess here than usual - well thats my excuse anyway - lol) We treated ourselves to some Hereford Steak for lunch, and sat outside in the garden with a lovely meal and a bottle of wine. A nest of wrens has just fledged and they were fluttering round us, landing on the apple tree above, and even on the picnic table. They are SO sweet - and amazingly noisy for such little tiny birds when calling their parents.

Sorry if I've missed anyone, there were a lot of posts to trawl back over having missed a couple of days & only doing the Gatcombe report.

Happy birthday Lynn - hope you had a wonderful day and that you got all the presents you want, and were spoiled rotten -

spent day here in show preparation ... how come it all takes so long? chat tomorrow. Knackered - bet the bord don't like that!

;DHURRAY!!!! Rain is here!!! My Rain Dance must have worked Lol! It is a damp, drizzly, misty morning and smells fresh and crisp and scrumptious! The sweet peas growing by the door are more fragrant than ever and the whole garden is looking refreshed and sparkly with gossamer threads in their hundreds.
Wee Cap the pup I am rearing got me up at 4.30am but at least I had a few hours uninterrupted sleep from eleven last night..... he has been getting me up every two hours and I have been a zombie Lol!!
The sun is just creeping up over the forest and sending golden rays across the hill, it is one of those beautiful mornings when I sit and watch the world with a sigh of complete contentment...... have a good day everyone

Thanks for the b/day wishes everyone:)
Had a nice meal with Mum..not really an exciting day as it should have also been my wedding day..but never mind.
No pressie from OH as my weekend at EMW demo is what I chose:)

Jenna..good to hear that "S" is managing to keep his spirits up..I have a friend who does Reiki and shall ask her to send some along with everyone else..I can only offer my prayers.
i am pleased you and your sons had a nice day..your ex sounds a bit of a prat..I am sure the boys would tell you if the were bored..i wish I could have seen their faces when they got their prizes..a memory they will treasure.

Darkmare!! Thankyou my friend:) Hope to see you before Monday though..I have had a bath..honest I dont smell!!

Shep..great news about Cap..bless him..he will no doubt be another of your many shadows!
Thats good that OH can do feet..saves waiting on farrier.
If you want to read any trimming books or anything give me a shout as I have a couple and once Jude has taken from the cd what she needs then you can have a look at that if you like?
Poor Mrs Silkie..trying to steal her babies indeed!
How happy she must be now..your Oh sounds a wonderful caring man shep.
I am thinking about you in your wee cart..clip clopping along the road with all your "family" following behind!!

Aberlemno..isnt it scary just how quickly weeds take over..mine was starting to resemble a jungle and dont ask me how or when but..we have barley in our garden!
Honestly we have..I have had everyone inspect it incase I am imagining it..the wee birds had a feast on it and are sad to see it go..not that they had left much!!
I ended up just buying another set of blinds..maybe I can look and see how to fix the broken ones and then put them in Michaels room..if not I will pluck up the courage to take them back!

Jude..i think I put my birthday in our format and as this is American it may show my birthday on the 8 september! We shall see.
I will have a go at firefox but I am such a wimp..the thought of trying to download it scares me!! lol
That really is good news about the feet..especially for CK..well done for taking the plunge!
Your lunch sounds idyllic Jude..how sweet the wrens fluttered around you.
I have lots of little birds in my garden but as I still havent bought a book then i dont know what they all are!!
We had one come into the house last week but Alfie managed to let it out before it harmed itself..they hop around the decking in the morning shouting for me to hurry up with their breakfast!

Esme..Dunston sounds wonderful..I dont think it will be long before you are having a good old canter..take it at your own pace and you will be fine.
I had never thought of describing Armbros colour as a polished conker..its good..it is so very true!!
Did the cake turn out ok?
I can only bake from a packet!
Yes I know..I am hopeless!
I have honestly tried but never really succeeded...cooking/baking just not my forte in life.
I have a George Foremans too..they are great but oh I hate the smell of the meat cooking..probably why I dont really eat it but the "clan" all enjoy it!

Rosemary..have a lovely day today..good luck!

tl..thankyou for my cyber card..made me feel all soppy!
like you I am not as keen on this new board and find I dont really bother too often reading other posts...I too enjoyed the simplicity of the old.
But we cant lose you tl..please dont stop visiting and spending time with us..you would be sorely missed.
I heard through the grapevine that Scotts place is now sold..he is only keeping one pony..an old favourite..dont know what one though.
It has to go to his field in Aberfoyle and be looked after by one of his liveries who stays there.
How sad really..I hope the Dene/Balliton lines do not dwindle away now.
I wonder why the ducks were not on the sea when it was calm?
Daredevil thrill seeking ducks perhaps?!

Well today I am not really doing much..2 days and then I am off to Hereford!!
Oh I cant wait!
Have told OH that we must leave around 5.30am as I want to go and take in all the sights I can on Friday..then the demo saturday..car boot sunday and then home.
I jsut love going to new places and to meet all my cyber friends just makes this even more special.
A great b/day present indeed!

Off to walk this whining sad eyed dog now!!
Take Care All

LynnG x