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Spokeshave....White Snow and foxes.....Sometime back in the late 1980s in N. Illinois, my wife and I were driving along a road in winter through an area with several large horse farms. There was a fox out in a snowy field and we stopped and watched it for a while doing that jump in the snow hunting for voles! (Without that body flop!)

The farm I passed through raised White Lippazaner horses, and passing down the same road in the summer (it being on the way to my parents house in Wisconsin) dressed in riding gear were a Man (Red dressed Huntsman) and 2 younger blond women walking along the road with about 20 hunting hounds darting around. It was unlike any normal day to day experience and was one of those strange "you have been transported to another place" moments. I later found out they came from Austria and were hired to train and groom the Austrian horses and care for the hunting dogs.

Snow...White....Breaking NEWS... the Pantone color of the year is WHITE. Cloud Dancer White!

And, Fox news reports that CNN, in the spirit of the above announcement reports the 2021 DC Pipe Bomb suspect is White! (Sarc/off)

Humm. What will the White house say! Will Cloud Dancer White be the paint color for the new Ballroom?

OK enough....snow slide over!

It was unlike any normal day to day experience and was one of those strange "you have been transported to another place" moments.

I had one of those experiences when I was vacationing in Montana with friends a while back. My host was living in a small house that was part of a livestock ranch on the Yellowstone River. (The river was just 30 yards from the back door.) One night, right around dusk, we were making dinner and I happened to glance up through the glass doors and see a platinum blonde mule looking in at me. He saw me and bolted away. “Hey, what is that mule doing out by the back deck?” I called to my friend. “Oh crap, they’ve escaped again…!” Apparently the ranch owners were out of town and their two clever mules were up to antics. Three of us raced outside to try to block access to the road, but two mules had already raced down the driveway and made it out onto the highway that went past the ranch. (A highway with semis and a speed limit of 75 mph.) I grabbed a couple of lead ropes and Chuck got his van and we drove after the escapees.

Fortunately they had not dawdled on the road, but had run up to a neighbor’s barn just a mile up the road. With the neighbor’s help, we caught them and by that point, it was dark. I told Chuck, “You follow behind us with your flashers on and we will walk them home on the shoulder.”

We did exactly that, with two of us leading the escaped mules and Chuck driving behind us with the emergency flashers on, and fortunately the truckers slowing down going past us. I looked up at one point to see an enormous full moon rising up over the mountains, which turned the blacktop road into silver glitter and the mountains looked like black paper cut out for a stage set. It literally took my breath away that I had been transported into this surreal moment where I was walking a runaway blond mule beside a silver highway in that extraordinary scenery under that huge glowing moon. We got back to Chuck’s house, put the mules back in their pasture, then looked at each other and said, “Did that really just happen?!”

IIRC - At the end of WW2, General Patton was persuaded to send some of his troops into Austria to rescue a large number of Lipizzaner horses so the Soviets wouldn't get them.

There is a scene in the Movie Patton where George C. Scott is riding one of them.

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