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Post by DianneC on Mar 14, 2008 10:54:29 GMT -5
Ouch!!! Take it easy and make up a good story about the black eye. How cool that she was so calm...most horses would have been scared and left.
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Post by fantasykiger on Mar 14, 2008 13:09:25 GMT -5
OOPS and OUCH !! I bet Jim was doing some apologizing, did he make dinner that night?  I am glad to her Stormy handled the situation well, that is good news should you ever fall around her. I one time tripped and fell just leading my horse she looked at me like I was nuts and why was I laying on the ground. It is good to know they will not get frightened and bolt away. |
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Post by nrly on Mar 14, 2008 14:02:08 GMT -5
no he didn't make me dinner,but he did wait on me hand and foot. yes he did apologize. he felt so bad, I kept telling him it was just an accident. she was so awesome, I am so impressed with her. Then just before we left I went into her pen, she sniffed me all over, and nudged me. I hugged her and she stood there and took it. Again she is my treasure. This morning my knee bruise looks like a smile below the cap. my face is reddish purple and when pressure is put directly on my knee it burns and I still haven't gotten it looked at, and when I am asked I will just laugh and say the other party looks worse. As if the earth could look worse.
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Post by prizmbluekigers on Mar 14, 2008 15:51:05 GMT -5
Nola,
Oh my, we don't bounce as well as we once did. Glad it wasn't worse for you. Good Stormy!!! Not only did she not spook, she was sympathetic and loving.
My last and most recent train wreck was off an Arab I had and I fell almost directly under him - maybe because he was whirling head to tail like a dervish and I was half off his outside shoulder with no chance of regaining the saddle again in my lifetime so I curled up and let go. I had no helmet and have been concussed from being thrown as a kid (used to exercise Thoroughbreds at the track) so I protected my head and left my side exposed. He was very quick to avoid stepping on me. Once I was on the ground he came back to sniff and ask what I was doing on the ground.
In his defense, we found that my saddle had a cracked tree and he got pinched, poor baby must have thought he was being attacked. (he was a little excitable no matter what). After my broken ribs healed I worried that the wreck might make him evem more jumpy for me, but he recovered quicker than I did and became the proud owner of a 12 year old girl who could do anything with him. My Kigers are calmer - better for an "old lady", and yet, when I told a long time friend I have mustangs she asked if I was crazy working with wild horses (Forgive her, she knew not what she said. She has since changed her mind and quit referring to mustangs as wild, now they are not yet gentled.) If not for the freeze brand on my stallion she might have refused to believe he was once wild because he is so well behaved
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Post by stlkigers on Mar 14, 2008 16:47:23 GMT -5
Nola:
Glad to hear you're surviving....and it's great to hear that Stormy was a great girl and just stood still...sounds like she was checking you out to make sure you were ok....isn't it neat to have a connection with a horse like that?
Hope you mend quickly and we get TONS more photos of you and Stormy out and about!
Angela
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Post by nrly on Mar 14, 2008 17:33:53 GMT -5
I guess wrecks are a part of the thrill. One thing I am also thankful for is Stormy isn't very tall. Kigers will be all I will own, (except for the other horses I now own) after these other die. This breed has turned out to be the most wonderfully intelligent, compassionate,and giving breed I have ever known. And yet I feel these words do not express it well enough.
And yes 49 is a bit old to be falling off a horse, am glad though it was in somewhat of a soft place, but that fall is not going to stop me from riding my Stormy.
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Post by nrly on Mar 16, 2008 1:22:14 GMT -5
a friend taught Stormy to slide up next to her 4 step mounting block and Jim got her to slide up to it and he got on her back and rode. So no more heaving me up and over. I was so impressed with Stormy. After about 10 minutes she had it down pack. now Doreen will teach her how to side pass and come up to the mounting block for dis-mounting. Today i felt the worse yet, so now i hope to start feeling better.
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Post by kimk on Mar 16, 2008 22:51:23 GMT -5
Congrats on your first ride Nola, and I wish you many more successful ones to come. Stormy sounds like a doll.
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Post by fantasykiger on Mar 18, 2008 13:03:02 GMT -5
Mounting blocks are a life saver and training your horse to stand near one and be still is a precious blessing, you will be thankful for. I would not be out trailriding on a Clydesdale if not for that invention of the mounting block at home or the big rock or stump out on the trail and a good horse that will stand still next to it. It is good to hear you are on the mend and Stormy is learning a new talent to help make your experiences with her all the more grand  |
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Post by nrly on Mar 18, 2008 16:22:28 GMT -5
she is just so wonderful, she is a blessing. The only thing is my knee cap has an indent and I still can not move as quickly after the horse's as I did before. If it does not get better soon I am going in and have it x-rayed. Those mounting blocks are wonderful,and i am going to have all my horse's trained so i can use one when I ride them. So since I am still a bit sore in the knee I still have not tried to ride, but soon.
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Post by lindaf on Mar 18, 2008 20:45:47 GMT -5
Hey, Nola. Take care of yourself. I find healing takes longer with my advancing age.  And little hurts have a way of showing up after the BIG hurt begins to heal. I think using a mounting block is a favor to my horse. Unfortunately, mounting blocks rank along with helmets as oh, so nerdy here out west. Takes a brave woman to use either one. <G> |
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Post by nrly on Mar 19, 2008 2:23:11 GMT -5
well this woman is going to use the mounting block, and I also am thinking about the helmet. I went to the hospital and I am now on crutches, and have to keep an ace bandage on my knee, and sleep with several pillows under my knee. I have a very (and they stressed) very bad contusion. And I have to go and see my Doctor in a few days. Will keep all posted.
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Post by angelsdream on Mar 19, 2008 18:52:22 GMT -5
Oh sorry Nola. I hope you get better. Is there anything broken or is it just bruised up? My mare kicked me in my knee cap and shattered it into 5 different pieces, took me 6 weeks to heal but still isnt the same. Stormy sounds like she handled it very well....
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Post by lwood92 on Mar 19, 2008 21:54:32 GMT -5
Nola, I am so sorry you were hurt so badly. I hope your recovery is speedy! I too would be lost without a mounting block!
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Post by nrly on Mar 19, 2008 21:57:09 GMT -5
nothing broken thank goodness but they say a bruise can be worse then a break. yes she did a very good job handling this situation. And I measured her today she is 14 hands she is not a pony.
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I am glad to her Stormy handled the situation well, that is good news should you ever fall around her. I one time tripped and fell just leading my horse she looked at me like I was nuts and why was I laying on the ground. It is good to know they will not get frightened and bolt away.
And little hurts have a way of showing up after the BIG hurt begins to heal.
