Until I found that show a few months back I didn't even know there were cowboys in Canada, hihi.
To me the concept is rather alien as we don't have cowboys over here.
But you're never to old to learn :)
I also recently found out that when the European colonists got to the Americas there weren't any horses there. They went extinct after the ice age.
The Spanish re-introduced them.
I didn't believe that as I always thought that horses were already there and hence the Nat. Am. Indians were such awesome riders.
So I Googled it. Turns out it is correct. I still find it difficult to believe, haha.
I will have to change my entire image of 'the wild west' and its history.

Feeling good :) Just finished painting.
Now it's deciding on what I want to eat for dinner.
All I know is that I don't want to cook, haha.

I went over your post again, but still feel the same way.
It's a ridiculous question to ask a stranger on a public website. It's way out of line.
How would you feel if we ask you if your dick still gets as hard as when you were 16 or if you're getting E.D.?

You do not ask such questions online and certainly not to a stranger.

If you'd come across a woman in the street or a shop would you then ask that woman the same question?
I can guarantee you'd get scolded or slapped in the face or both. And rightfully so.

Apart from that, no one judged you. People said "WTF??"
That's an exclamation, indicating shock/surprise/disbelieve.

Fact it needs to be explained to you is ridiculous in itself. You're an adult, or at least posing as one. Then behave like an adult!!

I have had the experience that it can 'stockpile' hahaha.

As for the rest, there's no one size fits all. It's a very individual thing.
And could also be that you're quite high in testosterone with all the work you do in and around the house as that's kind of like resistance training. And resistance training ups testosterone, which is also related to sexdrive.

For me, I noticed it go up a bit when I'd started HRT. I hadn't really noticed it had gotten less as for me it always tends to be somewhat lower when I'm single. It usually wakes up at full force when I have a partner so for me it's strongly related to my feelings for a man.

It looks odd to me as well as here in Europe you only see English saddles AND normal reins, stirrups and bridle.
But I watched 6 seasons with approx 12 episodes per season of him riding his horse with this saddle and bridle.
Then I looked it up, as I was like WTH???, and turns out traditional Western bridles are like this :)
And believe me, if you'd watch the show (reality)... the man is by far the best rider I've ever seen! A professional cowboy from Alberta.
I think he was born on a horse, haha.


As for the rest, I think I'll indeed add tail & movement to the manes to show motion.
Thanks!

Thank you, Zee!
As for the horn and bridle... not finished yet :)
And typically a traditional Western bridle does not have a nose or chin band :)

Also for you the question... should I add a tail and waving manes to give it more sense of motion or not?
Or in other words... as it is, does it seem as if the horse is standing still?

Thank you for your feedback! :)
And yup, I have yet to do the horn.

The bridle... traditional Western / cowboy bridles typically do not have nosebands. I Googled that especially to be sure as over here, with English saddles, the bridles do have nosebands, so the absence struck me as odd. But it is correct.
Also according to the example photo I'm using.

In Western riding the horses are trained to be ridden with neck reining.
No noseband is also more comfortable for the horse.

As for the rest... the bridle isn't finished yet. I'll make it a wee bit wider and it still needs small buckles here and there.
I have another clearer photo for that so I put them in the correct place, hihi.

I am in two minds about adding a tail and maybe showing some manes to give it more sense of motion. It shouldn't look as if the horse is standing still :/
But not sure yet.
Feel free to give me your opinion on that. Do it or not?

Sounds way too hot for me as well!

The gallbladder isn't a filter. It's a storage place for bile which is produced by the liver.
The bile aids in digestion of fats.
Without a gallbladder there's no more storage but the liver still produces bile which is then directly dumped into the digestive tract.
When it comes to eating I haven't noticed any difference whatsoever.
But then I must say that my fat intake isn't crazy either.


I'm nibbling on beef jerky, YAM!
Supermarket was out for days and I asked about it 2 days ago. He immediately ordered a new batch which was in today :D
Me very happy, hihi.

When in touch with a potential partner you have to be in your feminine.
A man cannot feel anything romantic nor fall in love when you're in your masculine.
That's another problem these days: many women being too much in their masculine, oftentimes so much so that they don't even know and argue till they're blue in the face that they're not.
You need polarity for romantic feelings to come up and there's no polarity when the woman is in her masculine.

There are a lot of other things women tend to do that put men off. Especially now that we also have a lot of men in too much feminine energy.
These men talk too much, can whinge, are needy etc.
A quality man listens to the woman talk. The woman should talk more than the man. And she should talk about her feelings as that raises her oestrogen which in turn raises the man's testosterone. Men can smell oestrogen. Which is also why men often cannot fall in love with an older woman because she a) is too much in her masculine energy and B) doesn't have oestrogen anymore.
He can then be friends with her but he cannot fall in love with her.

Another thing women often not do is ask a man to do things for her. Not necessary big things. Just things that take a few minutes, and then show that you're grateful he did that.
That raises his testosterone. Men need to do, give, serve (not on a 3D level). He should give to his woman. That makes him feel better.
Thing is, most women don't ask anything of their man because she can do it herself, sometimes even better. Big mistake!
And often women give or do too much for their man. Even go as far as to solve his problems for him.

You know, there are a ton of things like that and most people don't even know!
We were never taught any of this as in the past you married, stayed married. End of story.
But the knowledge is out there. That's how I learnt, but most people cannot be @r$ed to educate themselves.

Jake Woodard, excellent coach although he presents himself as motivational speaker, even offers webinars and/or courses for men so they can learn to become quality men & partners as opposed to lame @$$ed Beta men.
He's really good, doesn't beat around the bush either. Stuff like, "If you do XYZ she doesn't want to F you anymore because...."

Stupid thing is, a lot of women do do the work to grow & develop, also concerning being a good partner, feminine etc.
And men... they fiddle with the remote? Then come on here to complain about women, hihi.

Indeed we don't but... we do need good levels of oestrogen in order to be sexual.
As women become post-menopausal the levels drop and are basically zilch.
Also, our testosterone drops which can also have a serious effect on our sexdrive.
You can remedy that by using HRT.

Aside from all that our sexdrive (and oestrogen levels) for a very big part depend on the man:
We need to feel (emotionally) safe, we need to trust the man and know, sense, feel that he's there reliable. This goes for any woman, regardless of age.

That's why casual sex doesn't work for core feminine women --> the safety, trust etc. isn't there. Without that it's very very difficult to surrender and let go.
We have to be extremely vulnerable to open up -figuratively & literally- to allow a man to penetrate us -again also figuratively & literally.

Almost done! Just a few details left to do, which no doubt will still take me quite some time, hihi.

Changed the face a little bit as it wasn't quite right, fixed the ear as well.

Re-did the back- & foreground then started that dust. Was hard work as the largest brush that works for me isn't nearly large enough for that, but yeah... The size brush I'd need for that would cost me some $45.

Anywho, I'm really happy with what I've got now!

To add to my post above ^^^^
What you then get is many women deciding to go and stay solo.
I'm on the verge of doing that as well. Zee says she's done that too.

Women are very good at living solo. Men not so much.
This is also physical, I'm not 100% sure of the reason, but if memory serves it has something to do with a hormonal change in men.
That's also why men often enter a new relationship directly after leaving a partner.
Women generally cannot do that. We need time to heal.

Again if memory serves, the reason we can go solo and lead a totally fulfilling life also has to do with something hormonal, the way we're wired.
You see this happen more and more these days as there simply aren't a lot of quality men anymore who are rooted & anchored in their masculinity.

For me the reason for not finding love is -and you're probably not going to like it- most men being Beta men. Not rooted & anchored in their masculine energy.
Most men are so concerned with never investing, caring for, committing, and provided for a woman that they make it impossible. They shoot themselves in the foot with that mindset to begin with, but women aren't interested in such men either. It's not what we want as most women do have more to offer.

I am a core feminine energy woman and with a core masculine energy man I can shift into that energy, which is heaven on Earth!
With a Beta man I can't do that. I'll still have to carry the masculine load which is exhausting to a woman, causes physical stress as it upsets her nervous system. It forces her to shift into masculine energy which we do have but it's not the idea that we live in that 24/7.

Don't believe me, want to argue about it? Then educate yourself first. And once you've done that, use your new knowledge while you read men's posts. What they say, how they say it etc.
Then you'll quickly see what I'm talking about. Most say they are good men and they want love, yet they aren't ready or willing to go the extra mile for a woman. Or if they (think) they do, they don't do it the right way but still the Beta-man way.

I'm 100% convinced this is the reason many women cannot find a partner.
Women are further along in the process (this is always the case, no judgement) and don't want a whingy, whiny, demanding, needy man by their side.
So many men demand everything yet offer nothing (much).
Men demand everything of a woman, her giving up everything (when moving house for him for instance), risking everything. She must be all in, while in the meantime he makes dammed sure he always got an 'out'.

Women might have gone for that 50 years ago, but not anymore. We want a man by our side, not some wimp who's afraid to go for love.

Nah, the saddle is relatively new. And making it dark will be a problem as the horse is also dark brown.
Burnt sienna is not dark, not in paint anyways. It's the base colour of the chaps, pure sienna is the colour of the back cinch.

The chaps were actually a slightly different brown but I wanted them to really pop so I went for a base of burnt sienna :)

The emojis work, it's just when you click "add smiley" most aren't visible.

This is what I get, has been like that for months now:



I have very fast internet. I highly doubt that's it.

My cats don't wear collars either.
I don't want them to, not even if they have so called safety clasps that open when it gets caught. I still feel it's too risky.

My cats' chips are under the skin of their neck/between shoulder blades.
I had that done when they got spayed so they didn't feel a thing of it.

Nevertheless I can't get a catflap as I have sliding doors with huge windows in 'em. Too expensive to have a catflap fitted in there and what if it goes wrong and the double glazing breaks? Would cost a fortune to have that sorted and I haven't got a fortune, hihi.
So getting up again and again it is.

It's not on here and the reason used isn't necessarily always distance.
Sometimes it's their age or height or whatever.
I cannot set filters for distance on every site and if I can I don't want to set it to 50kms as then I'll only get men from the province I live in. I'm looking for men from outside that province so I have to set a wider perimeter.
It would be helpful to me if there was a setting like "between 50 - 80kms away".

And again, distance isn't the only excuse used in such messages.

Once on some dating site you could search with a ton of specific filters so you could narrow it down to what you really were looking for.
The end result was getting this message:
You're looking for a unicorn!

Not kidding, hihi.

I also think there's something underneath it that has to do with lack of confidence. But then quite silly to make that worse by sending such messages?
The reason it kind of P me O is that I feel a sense of entitlement in there. Maybe not meant that way, but it feels like that to me. I guess that's my pet peeve. Based on women not having had a say in their love life for centuries. To then get a message that doesn't respect my free will & choice rattles my cage.
I do get such messages quite regularly. Really weird.

I second that, WTF?????

Talk about presumptuous.

I'm actually not too bothered anymore by IBS, haven't been since I basically stopped eating potatoes/pasta/rice with my meals. Just greens and meat.

The only thing I have to be careful with is onion, leek, and now you mention it ---> spicy foods.
I never liked spicy food much because you cannot even taste anything you eat anymore. And my gut doesn't like it either.

I got that dislike of spicy stuff when I lived in Jakarta. Much over there was really bad. Asians love it, their bodies can handle it, and when something had gone off they added red pepper so they could still eat it.
Me, I remove every little sliver of red pepper if it's in a meal, or I order/buy something else, hihi.

I also had my gallbladder removed some 17 years ago, but that didn't cause me any trouble. Apart from recovering from the surgery itself. That was incredibly painful for me and took way longer than I was told beforehand, phew!