Dixie Chicks

[Alaskan]

The L1 and L2 vertebrae have some impact on your hands as well but I have a couple bad discs in my neck also Felix.... It happens a lot when I worked really hard the hands end up going numb for days after... They're not numb constantly it's off and on with certain movement... Especially driving causes numbness or typing...

definitely go to a physical therapist... I adore mine. (chiropractors scare me)

There should be things that you can do at home too. I was told to do the following:

1.find a clean spot on the floor and lie down (OK, the first part already makes this impossible, doesn't it?

)
2. take a small bath towel, rolled up into a skinny burrito shape, and put it under you, start at the hips,
3. just lie on it without moving (or letting the dogs of kids jump on you

) for about 5 minutes, then move the towel roll towards your shoulders, a few inches, and repeat.
4. keep doing that until the towel roll gets to your shoulders.

Anyway.... it is supposed to help everything loosen up and get back into position.

Hi bogtown!
-Sigh- damage is probably already done but a bit of physiotherapy does make it feel better for a while...

And this thread really does need a daily digest...


This shirt maybe Alaskin?

nope! Not the right shirt... however, I am pretty sure I listen to Alice Cooper.

the boss had us fill out a "be honest" sheet on what do you like, dislike about the company.. it was a 3 pager! I wrote a few paragraphs.. came from the owner, only the owner will see the answers. Everyone had to do it...

ooooooh, wonder what will come of it?

 

[Beer can]

the boss had us fill out a "be honest" sheet on what do you like, dislike about the company.. it was a 3 pager! I wrote a few paragraphs.. came from the owner, only the owner will see the answers. Everyone had to do it...

We have to do a satisfaction survey every year for the company. It's anonymous though and you can write comments, good way for employees to vent. Nothing ever seems to change though. "We here you". Is what we get.

 

[hennible]

Thanks AL.... Will see if I can find a clean spot, sans jumping kids and dog

Good luck right?

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, your point of view is very understandable. As much time as you've spent with horses, the idea of eating one must feel like someone suggesting you eat your own children.

I think I would be Ok if it were an animal raised like livestock... We dont do that here...

48 years now of Caring for boo boos Riding and driving and sitting in mangers.... Crying in manes... following and being followed. Cursing broken gear or bandaging a bowed tendon and cursing myself. I have been Bit Kicked Draged and fallen on... and trampled...

My first horse was an ex cutting horse with a reputaion as an outlaw. Bad choice by not following the ranch owners suggestion that she shop for a horse for me... He threw me at the top of a mountain in a pile of cobble stones... and ran home. We traided him straight across for Dobbin.

When I was fourteen I chose to have my Dobbin Euthanized. Because I had out grown him. He was almost thirty and had terrible ring bone... I couldnt subject him to the next owner... Who had started to take a two by four to him to get him in the trailer. His name was Dobbin an old cowpony... Brands on his hips sayid hed come from an indian reservation. He fought the vet who went to inject him... The stable owner did it herself... with her hand gun.

My next horse was given to me.... a beautiful Palomino Parade mare... Flighty but sweet and even though she was in about eighteen full of energy and light. She was a delight to ride and I settled her enough so I could ride her bareback

goldie and me I was riding her at the same time as Dobbin because he was layed up so often.

I had only been riding about six months. and now I was riding two...

The woman gave her to me the next year and about three months later took her back to put her in pasture with some brood mares.... Goldie died of Hepatitis within a couple months after that.

My next horse was Carmel Mist... Misty.... came to me through a horse dealer and she had had an auction tag... my guess is she was standardbred because she had a killer trot.... I had to train her myself because when i got her she knew only plow reining and had no undestanding of leg cues...

Misty


here she is at two... She taught me alot... I had her for nine years she gave me a half arab son two years before she passed away suddenly from an entrolyth. Necropsy was helpful.

Marc her son


I had him fourteen years he died of cancer.

My next horse was an off the track Thoroughbred.... Stone Road was his name

Beautiful boy but no pix of him... I found him a good home because I didnt have time for him my son was two at the time.

And finally Katee ten years after stony



and why I know Percheron physique. I have had her the longest. She came to me as a six year old in May of 2000. This year she will be 21

She will be my last... but I fully expect her to be well into her thirties before she passes.

By then I will be in my seventies. Its a lifetime of associations unlike dogs horses demand YOU communicate on their terms.... a flaired nostril lowered head pointing a toe standing stretched out... all communications of pain.... Ears flicked eyes rolled ... fear or intense interest... Trust in their human so profound you can go sit with them while they lay for their nap. They can suppress their fight or flight instinct just by your touch... for a person like me who is unable to walk I can still ride or drive... She has given me that freedom allowed me to revisit past joys.... its beyond rights beyond ownership...

No no horse meat for me.

deb

 

[BriardChickens]

the shop is the owners "baby" (he has so many other projects on the go). Really hoping there will be changes, but you never know what comes out of this.

 

[perchie.girl]

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If you spot movement in your periprhial vision dont turn to look directly... There have been several peekers in here at this house I havent told any one... but I smell orange blossoms when my dad is around and Aquavelva when Grandpa is around... here I just see movement in the dark.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

My mom believes in ghosts, I don't like hearing her long dragged out stories about her ghosts, I think she's nuts, Lol.
I did get freaked out a few years ago. I was putting wood in our outside wood boiler at around midnight. Clear sky, full moon, snow on the ground, quite and no wind. I had that feeling like someone or something was watching me, turned around and a poof of snow about ten feet high was slowly gliding up our driveway and into the field behind our house, there was no wind! Hair stood up on the back of my neck and I couldn't get back in the house fast enough. I'm sure there is a reasonable scientific explanation for it but it sure did freak me out, Lol!

Awesome.... I would love to have seen something like that.... one thought though. We get dust devils here little teeny things has to do with the temperature difference between the ground and the surrounding air.... usually on a completely still air day but usually pretty hot. could something like that develope in cold?

deb

 

[BriardChickens]

Pretty horses percie.girl! A lifetime with horses.

I am lucky to ride ~1/year right now and really miss it when I don't. I had lessons for 2 years as a young kid, then we got our dog. The dog needed training and we became competitive. My thought was why train someone else's horse when I can train my own dog. I've been training dogs since then. Sometimes more or less competitive, these days less.

Lots of horses around here, sadly lots get bought by the meat guy at auction.

 

[perchie.girl]

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My dad had first hand knowledge about Area 51. He worked for EG@G in Las Vegas. Designing test equpment for the Atomic Blasts was his job... But I think he did a lot more... He spent alot of time at the test range which was just a few miles from Groom lake. He full on believed UFOS were out there... But because of his secret clearance he never talked aobut it or hinted even.

but when we moved from there he started experimenting with Electromagnetic fields in his lab.

deb

 

[tntchix]

For years a Chiropractor kept me walking and moving.... My neck looks like an un even stack of poker chips... I have a crushed vertibre just under my soulder blades.... And I have a natrual sway back which messes with my sciattic...

My neck causes my hands to go numb my crush vertibre causes an ice pick feeling to emitt from my sternum... and when My sciatic goes out I almost cant walk.

One of the things I absolutely love at my chiropracter is the table he has you lay on before he works on you... its a massage table... I have heard vertibre go back into position while on the thing.... It loosens the tight muscles too. Your back muscles will tighten to protect further damage to your spine.

Physoitherapists are equally as good as Chiropractors they just do it differently. A Good Chriopractor here wont touch you the first time without exrays. My most favorite one left to work in Colorado. For the Olympic center there....

The one I have now is nice but not as good at getting the major stuff.... But neither one required that I sign up for a series of adjustments to "correct" all the other issues. Only just enough to make me feel better... Maby one or two visits...

deb

Ooh the massage roller That is the only thing I will ever miss about those awful painful yrs when my spine rebelled against me. I would go early. Oops, I'm early doc. Ok go lie down on the machine. LOL