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Happy New Year 2025!! Hope your holidays were fantastic and you enjoyed your visit with your sister. For us, it was the usual chaos but very enjoyable with our adult children. Once again I am committing to improving my health & fitness. Of course the holidays added a few extra pounds since I knew I would be "getting…
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@Mouse_Potato - Back in the saddle, HOORAY!! That's great news. And since your last post was 2 weeks ago, I hope that you were able to get even more consistent ride time. Are you riding your mare, or still the trainer's horses? Sorry to hear about the drought. We got significant rain from the hurricane that relieved our…
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@Mouse_Potato - special prayers for your surgery tomorrow 🙏 I hope you were able to ride as much as you intended & enjoyed every minute of it 🤠 Hopefully you will recover quickly & not be out of the saddle for too long. Also, glad you have a generator now, I think this hurricane season is going to be hectic & a generator…
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Whew! Update on the pest screens - they are working very well, considering... They do blow around quite a bit. I added some copper rings & washers to the bottoms of each panel to hold them down a little, but they still blow open in a light to moderate breeze allowing the houseflies that are resting on them to fly in. So…
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Interesting... I also typed a reply yesterday & it was lost - but I'm pretty sure it was my own fault for refreshing the page before hitting "Post Reply". I do indeed understand your "inflammatory response". It's disheartening that MFP keeps taking away features that many of us come to rely on for continued success with…
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Hello @SandraJN I am pleased to meet you & so glad to see your post. Hopefully you will share more about your horse life in time. Do you ride? My name is Mitsy & I have 2 horses, both older but still riding. @Mouse_Potato - I'm with you! Already missing the news feed but hopeful that it will increase activity here. Please…
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Hello group! Just an update: my equine activities have been sub-par this month due to planning & prepping for our 4 day WV ATV vacation last week. I did manage to squeeze in one last ride on each horse today, but it was short & slow. Soooo - Dwayne & I went to WV, Hatfield & McCoy ATV trails with our boys Johnny & Ben,…
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Hello again! @Mouse_Potato - Looks like you made it back a little earlier than you expected from your last post. Mounting block or not, that's so awesome! I can see its been over a week since you posted, so have you been back on your mare? How's her training coming? I confess, I jumped the gun a little expressing my…
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Hello everyone! My mother has been riding Slate with me on Sunny 5 times now 🤠 Our last 2 rides, she trotted a few straight lines up the paddock with me on foot leading Slate (so she could get the "feel" of trot). Finally, the last ride after me on foot during her trot, she felt comfortable enough to trot Slate with me…
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And today... My Mom started "Riding for Fitness" with me again. We're going to take it really slow since she is 67 years old, 5'3" and over 200# It's been over a year since she's been in the saddle so it'll take a few weeks for her regain flexibility, balance, & confidence. Slate is always good to her :smiley: I installed…
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Hello Group! OH dear! I just realized that my last message is missing a 5 😆 I am 5'5" & 168#. Probably crazy, but I hope to one day be athletic enough to mount my horse bareback from the ground 🤪 I've seen it done on YouTube & at a riding barn I visited MANY years ago - so I know it can be done... just not sure if I will…
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Hello group!! @Mouse_Potato - My January was slow as far as getting back to my diet & exercises (including horseback riding). I lack motivation when it's cold out 😅 Otherwise, 2024 is good & I have increased my riding this week - thanks to the very mild weather❣ I also saw in the news feed where you were finally released…
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Hi again, @jumpthemoon - Thanks for telling us a bit about yourself & horse! It's nice to have names to associate with profile pics. I usually always sign my real name to posts out of habit, but now with this 'electronics world' we live in, everyone has a username or screen name they prefer. I also keep my username the…
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@Mouse_Potato - OUCH 🤕 That's rough! I saw when you initially broke your foot & posted to the MFP news feed the bad news saying no more exercise for a while. I do hope you heal quickly & that surgery goes well ❤️🩹 The holidays have wreaked havoc on my diet & activities, but I'm the only one to blame. For some reason I…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎆🎊🎇 I really wanted to start 2024 with a New Year ride today... but it's spittin' ❄ flurries out there today 🥶 So, I've decided to restart my yoga and strength training programs again instead. So glad I went for a ride on each horse yesterday since it was much nicer outside 🌞 It was a great TROT workout for…
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Hello again @srutter13 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024! You mentioned you like to camp at least once a month... Where? I'm in rural Northern Virginia & cannot even imagine camping in the winter months. I'm a sissy when it comes to cold 🥶 And like you, my property is limited for riding, but we do have a few trails through the woods (23…
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@srutter13 - I'm here! Sometimes I think I am the only one, though 😂 It's a real treat to hear from another horse enthusiast. Are you a rider, owner, or both? Please feel free to share your horse & health journey here - I look forward to reading about it 😉 My name is Mitsy L. Good & I have 2 horses... Sunny (25 yr 13*3 h…
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Soooo.... I did not get very many replies to the original discussions that I posted to from Mom's account or mine, so I also commented on a very active thread that get 10+ posts per day. I didn't bookmark it the day I commented, and DID NOT get notifications. Went back for 2 days and saw all the new comments, then I…
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👋 Hi Group, Posting yesterday's ride stats from my Garmin, just because 😁 I forgot to stop & it after riding Sunny so I just let it continue tracking for my ride on Slate. 10 miles in a day isn't too shabby for November 😅
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Horseback riding. I searched for "Horseback" within the MFP Fitness & Exercise category and the last post was Jun 29, 2023, and 1 result in this discussion back in 2018. Is there anyone else here that does horseback riding as their workouts?
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Thank you Jean 🤗 I am aware of the standard notification that is available within the Community. This feature request is for Push Notifications for the MFP app so my phone will make a sound (depending on settings) and show me the notification the same as when someone likes something in my news feed or profile. This is the…
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Okay, I'm pretty sure I have my notifications set the way I want them until MFP adds Push Notifications for groups. I DID get the last message with bubble on the 🔔 once I bookmarked this discussion. Immediately after the screenshot when I clicked the 🔔 again I saw a new notification from the Category I followed (Feature…
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Did not get a notification for the last post from this morning. I am going to bookmark this discussion and try again...
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Hello everyone! I want to mention that while I am not new to MFP (2015), I was a Spark People member from 2005 until they shut down. I found the tools & community there to be more user friendly than here, but as far as tracking my calories in & out, MFP is just as good IMHO. My username was the same for both. Since then, I…
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Not as good a result (& I forgot to screenshot it🤦♀️) I did not get the red bubble by the 🔔, but when I clicked it, the notification was there with a small blue dot beside it indicating it was not read yet. My final test will be to post to a different community discussion and NOT BOOKMARK IT. Then post to the same…
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Great news - my 1st test was successful and I DID get the notification that this discussion was started 😁 Here is a screenshot of my settings & the notification... Next test is to post from Mom's account on the "Group Notifications" discussion that I created that IS BOOKMARKED to make sure I get a notification from it.
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Hello everyone! Our Horse Enthusiasts group could be an active & successful platform for all of us, but I'm tired of complaining about the lack of activity here. So, in a final attempt to encourage MFP to implement Push Notifications for Groups, I have submitted my request to the "Feature Suggestions and Ideas" thread in…
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@Mouse_Potato - I've never been to a "barn party." Is it like a normal party, just held in a barn? I know colic is a serious condition and has SO MANY causes... Anything that increases stress in any way can cause it, but I've never really considered weather fluxuations to be a significant factor as long as there is…
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Welcome @jeanm927 Honestly, this group isn't as active as I would like. Problem is MFP won't implement push notifications when there are new posts, so members don't know when there is new activity. I have asked several times 😖 Anyway, I'd like to hear about your progress and horse journey. You mentioned show season is done…
