On Jul 11, 6:05 pm, Laurel Reddick <lred... at (no spam) nowhere.invalid> wrote:

I think Cindi should be arriving in town in about a week.  <snip
I hope to convince her to let me take them over on the ferry to
Vancouver Island to have high tea and visit Butchart Gardens.

Cindi is due here the middle of next week, but it sounds like such fun
at YOUR place that I might have to drag along with her!  hahahaha

But I am dreading spiffing up the spare bedrooms as I am
not a fan of house
keeping (she hopes to stay a night or so here with us).

I already addressed that with her, too, cuz I am not looking forward
to all that should be done.  Fortunately, she understands, so don't
worry about it.  <g

I've seen tractors with steel tires in museums and operating in films.
Pretty rough riding, but never a flat.

Tanks also do quite well on treads, although for road driving something
wheeled like a Striker will ride better.

Still, if you've go to go in harm's way the M1 Abrams is the way to go.

On Jul 11, 12:29 pm, <raykel... at (no spam) rnsmte.com> wrote:
You think she is not looney with all her barefoot claims???

No. I do not think she's looney. She has a difference of opinion.
It works for her, in her area, with her horses. It would not work for
me, in this area, with my horses (except 1 horse that I own).

I am not a 100% barefoot advocate, either. Some people are. She is
entitled to her opinion. She is entitled to do things her way... they
are her horses. I don't have to agree and neither do you. Looney?
No. Assertive? Yes. Passionate about it? Yes.

Ruth W.

What more is there to say?
I have thought of doing that, but in some sick way I am fascinated
with your surly contrary castigating manner. And I put up with it
just fine for months on end before it causes me to go postal--so
likely I would feel I was missing something if I kill filed you.
Laurel

Laurel Reddick wrote:
Everything you say is true. And it's a door that swings both ways. From
years of reading what you write Bill, you scrutinize every posting to
find fault in what a person says or how they say it.

This is Usenet. That's what we do here. It's what you are doing now.
That isn't what everybody does John. I would say the majority of

On Jul 9, 4:08 am, "Madeline Rockwell" <madel... at (no spam) vermontel.net> wrote:

We in Vermont laugh at your idea of rocks... Those are hardly even pebbles.

I will try to get some better rock pics, as those just happen to be
pics I have laying around that were not meant to have anything to do
with rocks.

Nah, it's the boulder buried just below the surface with the one small
sharp corner poking up like an iceberg floating in water.

No matter how many pictures you take or how much gravel you spread, you
are never going to simulate conditions elsewhere.

Why can't you just accept that conditions are very different in other
parts of the country?

Not sure how one sharp corner poking up from a boulder is any
different than a sharp rock on firm footing... ??? I doubt Bill's
mare was pawing on a boulder tip when she got her stone bruise.

Say what? Of course things are different in different places. I just
don't want anybody thinking the pics I posted were pics taken
purposely of rocks and that they represent the rocky conditions
here.

For me it was Connecticut.... they grow rocks there.

Hunter Hampton wrote:

For me it was Connecticut.... they grow rocks there.

or maybe eastern Wyoming...

I went to a ranch there and we took a ride I called the Rock & Hole
ride....

On Jul 14, 11:23 pm, JC Dill <jcdill.li... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

It might help to take a look at photos of rocky trails first:

Frankly, the item most likely to cause a stone bruise is a small rock,
maybe 3/4 to 1 inch, that's sharp and jagged, laying on top of firm
footing. The hoof hits it with its full weight. It is unyielding due
to being on firm footing. That is way different than walking around
on rocks that are bigger than hooves. That might break up hooves and
make horses sore, and the hard and unyielding surface can be
challenging, but the standard stone bruise is from stepping on
something smaller than the hoof itself... At any rate, we have rocky
areas in CA too. Like I've said several times, the pics I happen to
have show gravel, and pea gravel, and specifically at the gymkhana
grounds gravel and rock and broken concrete and broken asphalt on
asphalt, and none of them were intended to be pictures of rocks for
the sake of rocks. I'll get some pics when I get back from Canada.