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Im fine too, just woke up

so whats up? how are u?

I think the others left so guess ur stuck with me

hi Drew

wow a lot of stuff has happened while I was asleep...

hi!

It is amazing! I had the luck to experience similar situations and got overwhelmed. We are lucky people, to get to see this. Good night. Thanks for this awesome conversation.

Oh, it is almost 2 a.m. around here. I must get some sleep, the morning will be there soon. Thanks for creating this place Val. Good night.

It is absolute amazing. It is the thing, where I feel so content with. Never made a better decision in my life.

Yeah, he got his own rack. Sorry, but I couldn`t resist this joke. LOL

It is great!!

I hope you will be back in the saddle again! I started riding "English style" like we call it here, it is mostly dressage and jumping. When I got my own horse and saw that she would never be a dressage horse, I started long distance riding (do you call it like this in English?) And I ride her Spanish classic style. My mum was a primary school teacher and started a farm in her school, that was, when I first started giving riding lessons. I had some pretty good trainers. Went to France to train horses, came back, studied veterinarian, got sick, changed to history of art/ history always training horses and giving lessons to provide my studies at university. While working for a magazin and doing my ph. D. I realized, that I missed the kids and the animals in my life and that they are more important to me, then getting a science book done. Seven years ago I decided to make an education for animal assisted therapy and education. Since then I work as a teacher with this back ground ability. Lucky for me my boss new, what she would get, if she hires me, she knew my mum. So mostly if I work with horses, it is with the heavy traumatized kids from my classes at our stable. The horses are very healing. Time for my own riding became rare. But now and then a ride through the meadows and forest.

So what style do you all ride? Gary rides western, as I read out of what he wrote.

So glad, it was only the helmet that broke.

No! Never! Everything fine. I just want to make my point clear, because that is something that still bugs me after all this time. Sorry if I made the discussion to serious. I didn`t want to stop it.

If we all would always be smart....

Please take this really serious. At the age of twelve I witnessed a deadly accident in my riding lesson. I wasn`t able to go on a horse back for a few years after that. A helmet would have safed the girls live.

Last week I had a discussion with a twelve year old, who greatest wish is a horse. But her mum and dad won`t buy her one, even aaalll of her friends will get one. LOL I made a math lecture out of it and let her calculate what I already paid only for stable rent for my horse. The result made us both turn pale. Since than she is very happy to take care of one of my mums ponies for free. LOL

@Drew Espinosa Listen to her! Always helmet!

Wow this is early. Racing horses might be the same here, but with the other horses we start a year later and jumping a lot later.

And today, PBS Newshour has a story about a young man who was born without limbs (it’s probably on their site too). He works as a web designer for Quicken Loans and they showed him driving, flying a plane, and even texting! The next time I want to complain about how difficult it is for me to do something, I’m going to feel really guilty because I forget that I have it so much easier than some others.

Once I had someone to ride my horse once every week, or at least she wanted to. I told her not to use bearing-rein ever. She didn`t listen. My horse bucked her off 7 times in 8 minutes. She is a proud horse and wont bare bearing-rein, she made her point clear.

I don`t know the prices around Texas and I am not sure if German prices would help. But here it depends who gives the lessons. Starting with 15 € open end.

OMG

LOL Always going /falling ahead as good example, if you are the teacher.