Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Just got back from Janelle’s. She and I were sitting around dreaming about winning the lottery. We decided the first order of business would be to take our twenty acres off the market, buy Becky’s Rocky, Michelle’s Tardee, and a really good Arab stallion and open a stallion station.
Then with Sonny, Tuffy and Quincy we’d be set. If you are going to dream, might as well dream big.
Something for everyone eh? :~) Not a bad dream :~)
Yep Queeve. LOL Queen in the blanket. Eve would not let us put one on her.
Not only something for everyone but also to preserve and promote some awesome old bloodlines :)
Larry had told me, all his sons and daughters were like that. You just can't beat those old bloodlines.
Janelle and I were talking about that - and how great it would be to preserve that. There aren’t a lot of modern stallions, especially Apps, QHs and Paints that have dispositions like that - Sonny does but that’s his old line breeding. Quincy is good too, Janelle lets her grandkids up on him. He’s got some old QH in him.
I have to say though, neither Sonny or Quincy could be trusted to carry a kid safely on a trail ride like Rocky does.
Well I wish it could be more then a dream for you:)...I’d love to know he went to a home as good as yours.
Becky
Well, God willing, I’ll win the lottery and be on the way to pick him up before someone else realises what a great horse he is. Or sell the land and be on the way - just have to find a different place for a stallion station.
Well Duchess if there is any chance you think you could ever get him before I’d move from here I’d hold on to him,. I don’t mean this to put any pressure on you:). really I just want him to go to a good home.
I made it up by 3:30, yawn, and will be leaving here shortly. Everyone have a good day.
Becky
Congratulations, Allison and Amy:)
Becky
Those pix sure make me miss my labs. Mother and son, went everywhere with me. She passed at 14 years old and he grieved himself to death within 6 months.
MM (in TX)
There's probably a Lab somewhere who's ready to do her best to fill that hole in your heart . . . .
There's probably a Lab somewhere who's ready to do her best to fill that hole in your heart . . . .
Maybe even two! ;o)
But of course you have to have two, one to keep the other company while they're patiently waiting on the front porch for you to come home.
It's the prettiest picture to see my two girls watching for hubby. They hear the car in the driveway and they lie down by the door, ears up as high as a Lab's ears can get. When the key turns in the lock and they see him through the glass window in the door, they begin leaping up and down in place and barking, "It's Daddy! It's Daddy!"
The Choc has taught the Black how to leap up and down in place like a pogo stick. It's harder for the Black because she has that loooonnnng field bred body, but she's figured it out. When the two of them get going, they alternate up and down like a couple of pistons. It's hilarious.
I’ll bet that’s a sight!
You know, you really need to get a video clip of that for us, just so we can get the full effect.
I could put them outside, in the back yard, behind the gate. It's short enough for a good view of the 'piston effect' . . . only problem is that Ruby likes to brace herself on the top of the gate, so we may get a regular bounce from Shelley and an occasional bounce from Ruby. She's just so LONG, it's hard for her to balance herself upright on her hind legs.
So I fed him and called the vet and he said, no, that's not my dog. We checked ads, etc, but no one ever claimed him.
My son and his wife decided to keep him. He was a FABULOUS dog. He watched their two boys like a hawk, and loved the water. He went with them to Texas when our son was in flight training, and came back here with them while they were in transition. Thanksgiving morning two years ago, he disappeared. We searched and searched. My gut feeling is that he wandered into a hunter's shooting lane.
You know that sick feeling you wake up from when you have a bad dream? That's what I feel like every time I think about Jack.
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