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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I was behind a truck a few minutes ago that was headed to the port. There were Bixby Ok mud flaps on it Trans...something truck company.
How bad is it? The media is reporting stuff like Ft Worth on their roofs!
I don’t want any more dogs period. Ever.
Those Tums for him? :’)
Heh... no, they’re for me :~)
Sorry for the rain on your festival.
Your rain has hit our news today. People trying to drive across flooded roads, or a dam, or something.
Nah, I used to try to save them but it was way more trouble than it was worth. They dropped most of their leaves and then they looked so pitiful and it took them so long to grow back that it was nearly the end of summer before they got back to looking half way decent. Just in time for cold weather again. So I just buy new ones every year. Lowe's or Home Depot usually get them in in April so I just go buy 6 or 7 for $8 or $9 bucks a piece and be done with it.
I’m really not that great of a gardener. I just make sure I pick stuff that you can’t hardly kill. I’ve had those same Caladiums for 5 or 6 years, but everything else I buy new every year.
Good thing ecurbh got his new chain saw :~D
Here's where it's on the fence...
The little chair in the witch's circle is right there to the left of it... I don't think it was damaged too badly ;~)
I guess we'll take care of that this weekend, clearing it off the fence. Otherwise, it'll make a great trail obstacle... (we may lower it down a bit)
Hey, I was just thinking that same thing. Looks like a great jumping log to me. You could also practice the "Straddle the Log" thing like they do at Becky's CTRs. I like to use a log like that to get on and off. I get the horse half way across and either mount or dismount from the log.
It’s a nice one for that :~) We’ll clear it off the fence and leave it there, I think :~)
Yikes Beaker... sounds like not a good day!
Wow, sounds like TheTrainRideFromHell! No wonder people were dropping like flies. That would be scary to be crammed in with that many people. Somebody probably either had a heart attack or a panic attack.
As for the smart@ss on the phone, I’d be real tempted to call back and speak to his manager about his attitude. I’m sure that they really don’t want their customers to be treated that rudely. That was just uncalled for.
Well, it’s a good thing ecurbh decided to do a walk through before turning the pony out there while we went on a trail ride. I am not sure the pony would have tried to get over the downed fence, but it’s not a good place for ponies right now, anyhow.
So she’ll have to be closed in the paddock when we go.
Yeah I could do that... but next time I call I’ll get someone different anyway. I just hate it when I try to be polite, and whoever I’m being polite too is outright rude in response.
Yeah, but it might make him think twice about being rude to somebody else (or possibly you) the next time if he gets a good @$$-chewing from his boss about this time. Rudeness tends to be self-perpetuating if it goes unpunished.
Yeah, I’d hate to think about Pony running loose out there on the road. And she’d probably be frantic enough and skittish enough that nobody could catch her either.
I don’t know if I told y’all or not, but I found one of my neighbor’s stud horses out running up and down the road not too long ago when I was coming home from a ride. He was standing at a barbed wire fence talking to a couple of mares and foals in a pasture on one side of the driveway when I saw him, so I pulled up to the house but nobody was home. So I went to the barn and got a halter, but when I walked up to him he took off down the driveway and across the road and went to running up and down the fence with 5 or 6 horses over there. Then he came flying back across the road to where he was before. I tried a bucket with some oats in it that I had in the trailer but he didn’t care anything about that either and went flying back down the driveway and down the ditch, with me in hot pursuit. Then he went back across the road and did a few laps over there again. So I went back up the drive and just stood there and watched him because I didn’t know what else to do. But that must’ve been the right thing to do because he came back across the road and stopped at the fence again. So that time I just “whoaed” to him and talked to him a little bit and he let me get close enough to scratch his withers and blow to him a little bit and I managed to get the halter on. And all this time I’m thinking “This is a stud horse that you don’t know from Adam’s Housecat and he’s liable to bite a plug outta you”, but after I got the halter on him he was just a puppy dog and followed me back to the barn with no trouble at all. I just put him in the first empty stall I could find and said “Thank you Lord!”. I sure would have hated to see him get run over.
Yikes! Good for you the good Samaritan! Glad you got him caught with no problems to anyone... and I hope he actually belonged in the barn you put him in and doesn’t really live down the road somewhere! Did you leave a note or anything explaining why he was in that stall?
We have eye issues I’m afraid, and we’ve canceled our trail ride. Pics in a minute.
Spam to get to a new page before posting pics....
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