Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share, usually about our horses, sometimes about our dogs, gardens and other stuff we do. :~)
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So... like the previous threads, this is intended as fun place to come and share stories, pictures, questions and chit-chat, unguided and unmoderated and that we come together here as friends.
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Oh the building should be a great place to hold a sale... great exposure, better than up at your place!
We’re thinking about having one here. I think it’s a good location with the store right there.
You are in a good location to have a sale. We never had one out here because it’s just so far out. We landed up trashing stuff over the years. But I think the building will make for a good sale.
The hardest thing to decide what to do with is pictures...the big ones in frames that I have inherited. I talked to my brother and he’s going to come out soon and go thru them and we’ll divide them up...but still...what to do with the ones like my parents and grandparents wedding pictures??? I doubt I’ll want to hang them, but storing them seems fruitless...how many generations are going to want to pass down a box of pictures of people they never met....but I just can’t throw them away...
Your dinner sounds wonderful:)
That is one big mole(?)...he could do some damage I would imagine. Wonder how many relatives he has out there?
Becky
Well, what we read on the internet about moles is that they’re relatively territorial and solitary, and usually when there is a ‘mole problem’ it’s really just one mole making ALL the holes and one mole can control as much as an acre. They said you’d usually only find one mole per acre. So the “yard mole” and the “paddock mole” may in fact be the same mole, we’ll see.
There is another one out at the far end of the pasture too, that may not be the same one, but I’m going to destroy all the holes in the paddock today and watch... and hope!
The family photos are interesting to keep, but I would put them all in a big album. It’s interesting family history that won’t get looked at a lot, but someone should be it’s caretaker.
Does anyone have a scanner? Another interesting thing to do is scan them and put them on a CD you can store easily and share.
And if you still know who all the people are, write down names and relations and even locations, if they are of old farmsteads, on the back of the pictures... the next generation won’t know.
Well, we better get going.... Our agenda for today:
1. Go down to Bob’s and feed his critters.
2. Pick up our horse trailer from the shop.
3. Back it into the driveway to prep it for a good wash and re-stocking it with all our stuff.
4. Jack up trailer and take slow-leaking tire to tire shop.
5. Go get hay.
6. Go down and feed Bob’s critters again.
Looks like your ferals are paying rent so to speak for the food and a place to live. If there are other moles there they will get them all - and mice, and snakes, etc. Very cool, be sure to tell them thanks when you see them.
We will! We’ll give them a special canned treat tonight, in addition to the dry :~)
I think it’s made a big difference having them out hunting at night. Ours are always in after dark, even the dogs, the night belongs to the ferals, and I see them hunting around the birdfeeder for the mice who come to eat there.
And we haven’t seen one mouse in the barn since they’ve been here.
I do plan someday of putting the pictures in albums and writing who is who on them.
But first, I’m thinking I’m going to have a get together with my brother, his kids, and my kids, and we’ll all go thru all the pictures and divide them up...surely that will thin out what I have:). Then I can put them in albums.
Becky
I love having my feral cats around. And I’ve learned that the dead mole, mouse, whatever is their way of saying they are on the job 24/7. And if Bob so much as gripes that he is overrun with rabbits, the next day he finds a dead rabbit in the alleyway :) Complain about birds eating all the horses grain and low and behold - next morning there are feathers all over the place.
Great pictures and dogs. Thanks.
Fun pictures from the dog show, you made a good showing of it!
I just had a lady come and ride Rocky. She’s a lady I know, and she is/has been for a long time a member of the Buckskin Association, and she runs barrels. She has always wanted to breed a horse to Rock. She took some pictures and unless she just decides she wants him for herself she is going to post his picture at a Buckskin show she is going to this month. She thought he rode very very well for a horse that hasn’t been rode much lately.
Becky
Nice pictures and very nice dogs:)
Becky
We went down to Bob's to feed horses this morning, and immediately observed that things were not as we were expecting them to be. (they were supposed to be leaving at 5 am or something).
They were gone, but the horses were out, he'd told us that they would be in. They appeared to have hay out there, so we figured he'd decided to put them out this morning before they left, and he must have fed them already?
There was no note or money in the cat food, where they said they'd leave it... what the heck is going on?
The pony was in her stall, and didn't appear to have hay, so we fed her some hay and sat and wondered whether he'd given her the bute already. We tried to call the cell phone, no answer. Since she didn't have hay or fresh water, we decided he hadn't done anything with her, so we decided to give her half a bute, just in case. Decided that a double dose probably wouldn't kill her.
We cleaned stalls and wandered around, and cussed a lot about Bob not giving us clearer instructions!
Before we left we made sure everyone had water and called it good.
Kat...
Barney...
Kai...
Bob's VERY nice new trailer... You should feel the floor mats in this thing, they're like walking on a foam pad, very soft, almost feel like gel pads.
And this is their new 'guard llama'. She's to protect the alpacas from coyotes supposedly. She is very serious, and very intimidating. I just think any minute a green stream of spit is going to come out of her.
The alpacas were at the other end of the pasture, didn't get any pictures of them. Hubby still wants a couple alpacas for his birthday. :~)
Anyway... that's not quite the end of the story yet... we get home, there's two messages from Bob. One was from last night, so he's off the hook for all the cursing we did of him, he did leave a message, the other one was from this morning, about the same time we were heading down there. "You don't need to come down and feed this morning... I didn't go on the trip".
Gah! I don't know where he was when we got there, he wasn't home, so he got his stalls cleaned for free, I think... The only downside is the pony might have been double dosed with bute.
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