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"New" Saddle

4/15/2013

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Feeling the need to return to it's rightful owner the saddle I've been using since I first began my horse riding adventures, I started looking for a new one. Daddy popped into the local pawn shop a few days ago and when he came home he told me they had several in there.

This morning, as I was heading out to go to the feed store, I called Daddy and told him I was thinking about stopping in there and seeing about one of those saddles. That was good with him as long as I called him before I actually purchased anything.

So, with a truck bed of feed (along with a few fence posts and some barbed-wire), I pulled in there and crawled out of the truck. I walked in and was greeted by the sight of over half a dozen saddles of various styles and sizes. I walked around them all a bit...felt a couple of them...Finally, I took one up and walked to the counter, "Excuse me, ma'am, but is there a place I can sit on this thing?" Ends up the best place was right where it had been...on top of a large amplifier (it came up to my waist!) I hopped up and wiggled around a little bit. I got off, adjusted the stirrups (not enough) and hopped back on again. While it certainly doesn't come up as high in the back of the seat, it was pretty comfortable. I liked it...and besides, I thought it looked kind of nice--despite the little areas where it's rather dog-eared.

I called Daddy and he told me to get it. It was marked $120, but it was actually on sale for $95 (I kind of suspected that, but I told Daddy one-twenty)--so what with the taxes and all I got my "new" saddle for $101! I will ride tomorrow morning (hopefully) and find out how grand it really is...

Now, how'd  you like some pictures? I took them after I oiled it when I came home from the chiropractor.
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The golf cart is my saddle stand. :)
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Kinda stream-lined lookin', eh?
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The stamped leather along the back of the skirt...
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The saddle horn is a bit wider than what I'm used to.
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I like the leg flaps (or whatever they're called!)
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Stirrups are wood with galvanized metal around the outside.
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Much better contraption for holding on the stirrups than on the other saddle. (There's my ever present watch--I have a ring around my wrist that is very noticable when I take it off! :D)
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Seat is a tad broader in the back as well as being lower and a hair longer. It's just a different shaped saddle, but I think it won't take much to get used to it.
An upside to the different saddle shape is also that if I ever wanted to take Snip to a reenactment, this saddle would pass muster a whole lot better than the other one! 

Hey! It looks like it might rain!! I sure hope so, we need it. The grass is certainly greener than it was two weeks ago and growing, but it'd grow even better with some rain. In fact, I was singing a silly song I made up on the fly about "the grass grows green" while in the pasture putting out the mineral! I couldn't remember it now, so don't ask for either words or music, please. ;D

        Racheal

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Katherine link
4/19/2013 07:26:45 am

Nice! I like it :)

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