[drivingpairs] Re: Tandem Talk

Would be great Noel, but at the moment I'm $7,000 in the red and don't
really think I want to start paying writers.  Don't want to go broke inone
year.  I meant to send that to Jay and not to the list, but sometimes I
fail.
Dottie

AmeriCan Carriage Driver, LLC
Dorothy A. Billington, president
P.O. Box 570
No. Scituate, RI 02857, USA
http://home.earthlink.net/~americancarriagedriver/


> [Original Message]
> From: Noel Jones <gedeckt@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dorothy Billington <dotbillington@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/2/2006 11:58:07 AM
> Subject: [drivingpairs] Re: Tandem Talk
>
> Dorothy,
>
> Could I suggest that you ask Helen for permission to reprint articles 
> posted on DrivingnPairs?  I am sure that we could work out an 
> arrangement of cross-promotion that would be advantageous to all 
> involved...I am not sure of your fee schedule for articles as it has 
> been years since I  wrote professionally...it was amazing how little 
> some magazines paid...and how much others did!  I got $50 for an 
> article about horse barn building design from an American magazine, and 
> then a check for $150 from Nova Scotia for the same one!
>
> Anyhow, the driving community is small, so the more exposure we can all 
> give to the efforts of people like Jay who are willing to share their 
> time and experience.
>
> On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Dorothy A. Billington wrote:
>
> > Hi Jay, I think it would be fun to put a section in my magazine called 
> > "Tandem Talk", unfortunately, I am a tandem dummy.  Do you think you 
> > and or some of your tandemaniacs might be interested in writing for 
> > ACD?  Doesn't pay well, but it does get you a free magazine and all 
> > the glory you can handle.  Not to mention that I am always open to 
> > other articles that suites someone's particular fancy.
> > Dottie
> >
> > AmeriCan Carriage Driver, LLC
> > P.O. Box 570
> > No. Scituate, RI 02857, USA
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~americancarriagedriver/
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jay Hubert <jhubert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Mar 2, 2006 12:19 AM
> >> To: Pairs List <drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: [drivingpairs] Tandem Talk
> >>
> >> Last weekend, I had the opportunity to help a friend with her newly 
> >> organized
> >> tandem of Morgan ponies.  She had driven them as a tandem once 
> >> before, and really
> >> got hooked.  Fortunately, she is wise enough to know NOT to drive 
> >> them without
> >> help, not that her husband is not a helper, but he does not know much 
> >> about
> >> tandems.
> >>
> >> We switched positions from the way they had been hooked before, to 
> >> see if the
> >> younger, more forward pony would make a leader.  He was absolutely at 
> >> a loss.
> >> Although bold and forward as a single, out there all by himself, with 
> >> his buddy
> >> right behind, he was totally confused. He kept drifting back 
> >> alongside the
> >> wheeler.  We switched them back and viola, we had a tandem!  The 
> >> point I am
> >> making is that one cannot always tell from how they act as singles 
> >> now they will
> >> perform in a tandem.  Poor Rio just did not know how to deal with it, 
> >> but in the
> >> wheel, he was super!
> >>
> >> Since my friend does not have any real tandem harness, we "made do" 
> >> with two
> >> single harnesses, and a bunch of baling twine.  She did have a pair 
> >> of buckle in
> >> to the throat latch roger rings, so that was good, and a bountiful 
> >> supply of pear
> >> snaps, including a couple of very large ones we used as tandem 
> >> terrets. Pear
> >> snaps also took the place of tandem keys on the trace buckles.
> >>
> >> Needless to say, with two greenies, we had a couple of "tandem 
> >> moments" where
> >> things got a little exciting, but we were very pleased at how well 
> >> the boys did.
> >> The leader went forward when asked and the wheeler backed when asked, 
> >> and things
> >> got straight in a hurry.
> >>
> >> After a very pleasant session with the boys, we took out my new mare 
> >> as a single
> >> and had a nice drive around the neighborhood.  Jazz is intended to 
> >> become my
> >> wheeler, assuming she continues to progress.  We will be at the 
> >> Arizona and Ram
> >> Tap CDE's as a training single pony and after that we'll see how she 
> >> is doing.
> >> Needless to say, I really miss the tandem!
> >>
> >> Y'all play nice and drive safely!
> >>
> >> Jay E Hubert
> >> Coffing Oaks Welsh Ponies
> >> Galt, CA
> >>
> >> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and 
> >> taste good
> >> with ketchup.
> >>
> >> And I STILL drive too fast to worry about cholesterol!
> >>
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