tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post4900402793625121792..comments2024-03-01T06:49:59.106-05:00Comments on Behind the Bit: News flash! Animals are not machinesStacey Kimmel-Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08498926535389535263noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-33789596829361203442009-02-04T17:31:00.000-05:002009-02-04T17:31:00.000-05:00Great post, Stacey. It brings back memories of muc...Great post, Stacey. It brings back memories of mucking out stalls and turning out horses to earn riding lessons. I have seen how children behave now, and I can see where it would apply to animals.Barbara Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00610140328527165017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-43374408295494041202009-01-29T15:00:00.000-05:002009-01-29T15:00:00.000-05:00I'm so glad to hear you sing the praises of Pony C...I'm so glad to hear you sing the praises of Pony Club. Having two kids in it and running a barn, I really don't know what I would do with out PC's common sense work ethics and partnership endorsing philosophy. And to think enrollment is down because it is "too strict"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-40690865236043102922009-01-28T13:03:00.000-05:002009-01-28T13:03:00.000-05:00Being of the college age myself I was shocked to r...Being of the college age myself I was shocked to read about people my age NOT cleaning up poop. I thought unless you were super rich, that was just part of the horse owning duties. When I stabled at a barn for a short period the high school kids and college kids seemed to do more stall mucking than the older people. I can't believe people treat their animals this way. It's wrong, and on the Nightshadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03872418221870293324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-30490987832847311362009-01-28T12:10:00.000-05:002009-01-28T12:10:00.000-05:00Janice, I remember we used to astonish Jerry Stein...Janice, I remember we used to astonish Jerry Steinmetz when we showed up at the barn in the most frigid weather -- I remember spilling water on my coat and having it fall away in shards within seconds. <BR/><BR/>Entirely too much is made of "being cool" these days, young and old alike. Does anyone remember a short-lived auto commercial, a take off on "i'm too sexy for my shirt"? The driver is a Stacey Kimmel-Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08498926535389535263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-15086415198280598922009-01-28T12:04:00.000-05:002009-01-28T12:04:00.000-05:00Hey Stacey, no apologies for a "rant" needed. This...Hey Stacey, no apologies for a "rant" needed. This was a great post. I appreciate your thoughts on this especially because I have an 8 y.o. daughter. It jsut so happens we're scheduled to go to our first 4H horse project meeting tonight. So it's good for me to remember what it's all about (the HORSE) before we get too deep into the giggles of the club. I'd hate for her to lose the horsemanship Horseypantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11046197500440656224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-30542477903818492142009-01-28T11:20:00.000-05:002009-01-28T11:20:00.000-05:00Great post! It really makes me wish I had my hous...Great post! It really makes me wish I had my house and farm set up better, so I could mentor and even foster kids and teach them what I know, and things that I wish I had learned years ago. <BR/><BR/>My verification word is 'rowls' *S*Christelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15109922922919704259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-43918288371915323102009-01-28T10:19:00.000-05:002009-01-28T10:19:00.000-05:00I had a professor in college that assigned the Nat...I had a professor in college that assigned the Nature Deficit Disorder book to read. He is part of a dying breed that teaches their children (and others: he goes to elementary schools and gives wonderful lectures) the wonders of nature. He is basically retired now (still teaches one class) and it is sad to think of all the people that he has influenced, will there be someone to replace him? Dawsonfamilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027540248141972742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-57938270729882254142009-01-28T10:18:00.000-05:002009-01-28T10:18:00.000-05:00Can't say it enough, Pony Club!Can't say it enough, Pony Club!Boss Mare Eventinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08039910692009593158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-77233929516223873502009-01-28T09:31:00.000-05:002009-01-28T09:31:00.000-05:00Everything with kids is screwed up these days. I'm...Everything with kids is screwed up these days. I'm sorry but if my boys do something wrong they are getting in trouble and they know it. Hell my kindergartner's teacher THANKED us for disicplining him at home (time outs and such) and commented that other parents don't do that sort of thing anymore. And I KNOW who she is talking about too. *headdesk*<BR/><BR/>My oldest helps out feeding all the Malaureehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00567556763431288523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-75585990515133309232009-01-28T00:01:00.000-05:002009-01-28T00:01:00.000-05:00Isn't it insane these days? My hubby tells me stor...Isn't it insane these days? My hubby tells me stories of a barn he shoes for, this one girl talks to her mother like TRASH, he said the F-word is in every sentence, and the girl is very condescending to her mother. Not to mention she says every horse she rides is a POS, even though she rides really nice horses. <BR/>I can't fathom a kid who won't clean stalls either. These days parents don't Mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03574914465998507310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-66776943344552296132009-01-27T23:25:00.000-05:002009-01-27T23:25:00.000-05:00I am thankful that my grown children do not have a...I am thankful that my grown children do not have a nature deficit disorder. However, you nailed it on the head. It never ceases to amaze what horses do for us.Kitty Bohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11993868991117800584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-45178651525949532742009-01-27T22:06:00.000-05:002009-01-27T22:06:00.000-05:00Remember when we used to help clean the barn for f...Remember when we used to help clean the barn for free lessons? Or do ALL the watering? (Breaking the ice, to boot?)<BR/><BR/>We worked a lot for our riding privileges and while I was happy not to have to clean Pepper's stall every day, I would never have gone without checking his water or clearing out a really bad part of his stall. It's part of being a horsewoman and it's sad that these Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14093558563358431804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-47295359607824833542009-01-27T21:13:00.000-05:002009-01-27T21:13:00.000-05:00My husband and I lament about how kids now seem to...My husband and I lament about how kids now seem to spend less time with nature and animals. When I was young I was out at dawn in the swamp behind our house. I didn't come home until dark. My mother had to check my pockets for toads and bird feathers.<BR/><BR/>I can't fathom a barn girl who doesn't do stalls either. I think you are right about some young riders not being in it for the right A Bay Horsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16519878838113259362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-51254341311918375242009-01-27T21:04:00.000-05:002009-01-27T21:04:00.000-05:00I hear this! I work three days a week at the barn ...I hear this! I work three days a week at the barn where I board my horse. It's populated primarily with 4-H kids -- but often times, they're not the main problem. The adults are as bad as the kids, or worse! Last weekend the kids were out at a gaming 'playdate' and I was mucking stalls. One of the moms came in to clean out her two horses' stalls. When she left, the barn owner and I discovered jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04693551223749982508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-401217680323270622009-01-27T20:43:00.000-05:002009-01-27T20:43:00.000-05:00Preach it Stacey! Know the best part? You LIVE wha...Preach it Stacey! <BR/><BR/>Know the best part? You LIVE what you are talking about.Mrs. Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15269132012512166439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-17260117876557476202009-01-27T20:26:00.000-05:002009-01-27T20:26:00.000-05:00You and me both! I did have the benefit of trainer...You and me both! I did have the benefit of trainers who were quick to tell me at volume ten, with expletives, when I'd messed up. <BR/><BR/>I was worst when I only got to ride on weekends -- you try to get as much in one ride as you can. Ironically I was riding a horse that was ridden in lessons six days a week, I rode him on his day off, until a kind boarder offered me her horse to ride.Stacey Kimmel-Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08498926535389535263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317822193674196694.post-77839094727774577732009-01-27T20:06:00.000-05:002009-01-27T20:06:00.000-05:00Great points you make! I remember being a little g...Great points you make! I remember being a little girl who lived in the country and took long pony rides most afternoons. . .<BR/>It was only years later I realized how much I took those long-suffering ponies for granted. . .<BR/>My horse now has much to thank those long ago little horses for, as does the pony my own daughters ride. <BR/>I eventually learned that a horse is not like a bicycle that~M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01083796034991390283noreply@blogger.com