Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Legacy Farms]

I do threaten my hens sometimes. "Stop that, or I'm calling those KFC people on you"

When I was a kid my dad would threaten my horse with the Alpo factory.

 

[Legacy Farms]

So sorry you lost your horse.

Thank you.

 

[Beer can]

My beagle ate ALL of my habaneros the first week we had her. It didn't even phase her. She ate about 20 of them.

We are growing jalapenos in our garden. I can't wait to make fresh salsa.

I bought a potted Medusa pepper plant paid pretty good for it but it was purty.
Planned on saving the seeds and growing a bunch the next yr. Dang chickens ate every single pepper off it
🌶

 

[FortCluck]

I bought a potted Medusa pepper plant paid pretty good for it but it was purty.
Planned on saving the seeds and growing a bunch the next yr. Dang chickens ate every single pepper off it
🌶

Those little buggers! Mine cant touch my plants this year.

 

[Legacy Farms]

I got a 3 yo Tennessee walker mare when my first horse died. He was 37. My mare is now 18. We've had a lot of good times at some really nice barns in Florida. I have her home now- OMG it sure is a lot of work! The daily manure is so much work. She's not a show horse. I also boarded at a barn with gaited horses . Our horses were all barefoot. I did all my showing back in the 90's, doing every show in my area. I am just in it for pleasure now. No show anxiety. We did dressage the last 10 years. She was very good at that. But here I moved to Indiana a year ago and have not done much at all.

I had a plantation walker I rescued in 1998. He was 5 and they were going to put him down because his back and hind end was weak. I took him home, put him out in a pasture on a slight incline for a year. He strengthened right up. After about a year I began working him. Man was he a fun horse. His old owner wanted him back when she heard how I had him going. Yeah not happening! Turns out this big goofball was 15 hands by the time he was a yearling so their 300lb (no joke) decided to break him to saddle. Gee, I wonder why his back was weak!!!! I lost him in 2012 to cancer.
Everyone always says how much work it is having horses at home. To me, it's just another day. I grew up cleaning stalls, paddocks & pastures. We had a 44 stall barn, my day began and ended with cleaning stalls. You'd think at this point I'd hire someone to clean, but I'm too particular about how it's done.
My parents were trainers, I grew up showing. I LOVE showing. I started western equitation, turned to hunter & sidesaddle. When I was 13 I found Saddleseat and never looked back. I still ride and train all disciplines but I personally prefer the cutback saddle. I even trail ride in it.
I never stress once I hit the showgrounds. If I am taking a baby I always say 'I'm gonna die, but at least I will die in my happy place' Happy place being in the saddle of course! I haven't shown since 2016 because there are too many dumb asses that don't vaccinate their horses. There were a couple of years where strangles, rhino and a few other completely avoidable viruses ran rampant through show grounds. No way I am risking my horse's health for a damn ribbon.

 

[Legacy Farms]

Sorry, thought I replied!

He sounds like he was an amazing horse. and like you had a very special bond!!!

I love horses!! Always been horse crazy

No worries! I had weather related issues to deal with yesterday afternoon.

We had a very special bond. I still miss him every day. On harder days I go to his grave and bitch at him for leaving me!

I was born horse crazy & my parents did everything they could to break me so I didn't follow in their footsteps and become a trainer. They would toss me up on the babies, 'because I could still bounce' My dad would toss me up on the rank ones 'to improve my seat'. Ha! Nice try. It's in the blood. All it did was make me want harder and harder horses. To this day I still want a challenging horse. Makes my poor hubby cringe but it makes me laugh. He refused to go ringside with some of the babies I would show. Flash being one of them.
My mom broke her back being stupid on a pony horse when she was 36. To this day she begs me to stop riding. Fat chance mom, Not happening!

 

[Legacy Farms]

Ha I said that too, it took me 36 years to get one..I only wanted one...now I have four with a foal due any day and another in September lol. Just sayin, be careful what you wish for!

I agree! One is never enough. You end up with all the colors, markings, disciplines, then there are the breeds! So hard to choose! They aren't cheap but I spent my life busting my butt to afford to keep them. I will never be horseless.
When is your baby due? Jealous!

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Are you going to be rocking back and forth too?

Sorry....I will stop talking about food.

I was rocking, right before I went delirious.
It was like 10 full pages of posts all about food and I was sitting in a puddle of drool sucking my thumb. It was so bad I even clicked the link and read about that nasty corn pus.

 

[Marinefam2053]

I just read that the disease can live a few hours on currency (paper money) so folks should use their charge cards instead. I don't have a charge card- surely I am doomed. Duh!!

What about a debit card or maybe use your phone to pay for things. ( I don’t remember technical names). Here’s link that might help...
https://www.thebalance.com/pay-with-your-mobile-phone-315479

 

[21hens-incharge]

I was rocking, right before I went delirious.
It was like 10 full pages of posts all about food and I was sitting in a puddle of drool sucking
my thumb. It was so bad I even clicked the link and read about that nasty corn pus.

Yeah it was a lot of food talk.
Kinda hard to find other things to chat about right now. My gardens are covered in snow, no jobs, sewing is all about masks, chickens and ducks....they are just plugging along avoiding freezing, cannot go for a motorcycle ride, cleaning is getting both old and harder with running out of cleaners.

Sorry about the food craze.