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Posted on 10/15/2005 7:13:08 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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And clue them in that I spend most of the day on Freerepublic? That might not be the best plan.
I *think* I know what Jen's talking about...she's talking about the fuzzy-headed preteen obsession with horses that many young girls experience...I have a friend who's daughter is that way...obsessed in the same way she's obsessed with Orlando Bloom. But there's no real commitment involved.
They love the *idea* but don't really think it through to the care and upkeep issues, which demonstrates a true love of horses.
Certainly not in every case, of course...but thankfully in *most* cases. Otherwise I believe when the pre-teen's interest waned, there would be a lot of neglected horses out there.
I know what she's getting at too, I'm just making it harder for her to do. :~D
Cute baby animals are way extreme, dude. Not for your tender sensibilities.
Wow... they've got a pretty light trigger pull... It's just a story about an orphan squirrel who was adopted by a dog with a litter of puppies!
They must block all of Snopes... wonder why, I've not seen them to carry a lot of gruesome stuff.
She sat in on two 'mock classes' at AMU; just short lectures given by the teachers. She took the Literature, with Joseph Pearce teaching! He's a Tolkien Scholar, and she enjoyed it immensely! I didn't get to meet him because I was on a quick tour of the place while she was in his class. I had told her a little bit about him before we went down there, but forgot to mention that he is British. She was surprised when he walked in and introduced himself!
The Biology teacher talked about ATP, and she said she FINALLY understood it completely! She'd studied it in her Biology text, and had seem some CD-ROM representations of it, but still had difficulty with it. Now she understands it well. I did get to meet the Biology teacher; he was just a very enthusiastic person about his subject.
It is a lovely little campus; emphasis on the little. There are about 400 students this year, and they have another year and a half in their interim campus. They hope to have Phase 1 of the new place ready in the Fall of 2007, though costs have risen so much in the last year, that they won't be able to have built as much as they'd hoped to. They plan to have the Library, the Administration building and a Science-Math-Technology building building ready, as well as 4 dorm buildings, but the other construction will be on-going. They also plan to have the Oratory finished, and around it, on the edges of the town square, will be buildings with retail shops on the ground and second floors and residential units above those, which will they hope will also be done by Fall of 2007.
I was telling SirKit about it, and how pretty it was. He asked if it was a place I'd like to live, and I said in a New York Minute, I would! We can build strong enough to weather the worst hurricanes, but leave for a while, for our own comfort, if it's going to be too bad. At least the place would still be there when we returned. I had chatted with the VP for Financial Aid, and mentioned SirKit had thought about one day retiring from his job and then going back to teaching college. The VP said they'd certainly have need of a good Mathematics/Statistics professor! Who knows, it might be an incentive for SirKit to leave here earlier than he originally planned. Instead of enlarging the house here, we could just build what we want there! May not happen THAT soon, but it's fun to think about!
I asked about IT and Computer Support folks, and they suggested keeping an eye on the website, because they put the job opportunities there.
HUH? It should just be a little baby squirrel story. Ruthy found it!
I love the topic of responsible animal ownership.
Look at Ruthy. She likes horses, her daughter likes 'em too and I firmly believe that because she's a rational person, some day she'll have horses under the full understanding of what it involves to own one...she's already doing her homework.
Look at my chickens...I researched the best pet pullets and prepared for their arrrival. Where as some folks just impulse buy a couple of chicks at Easter 'cause they're cute not realizing that sweet little chick will grow up to be an agressive crowing rooster with 2 inch spurs!
I bet it's the same way with horses..."Little Princess" wants one and that's that...the parents run out and get one and after a while, after the interest wanes, you've got a neglected horse on your hands.
I am guessing they block all of snopes for some reason.
Because of the ninja llamas.
Damn those llamas! *Shakes fist*
Sometimes that happens, certainly. Most of the time though, horses get sold when interest wanes, unless the tendency is for dangerous ignorant neglect. They're too expensive and too labor-intensive to keep even marginally well.
Most people don't commit to them for life like I do. Horses are bought and sold and traded more than other 'pets'. It's because of their expense and maintenance that people don't usually keep horses long when they no longer use them. Complicating our lives and theirs is the fact that the perfect job for the horse is on the opposite track from their owner's needs sometimes. When the horse is young, he does not belong with a beginner, he has to be started with someone with experience to do the training required. The beginner rider often starts with one that is old and declining, just as the rider is coming up in ability. Through the horse's prime, he may perform many jobs depending on talent, but sometimes the perfect job for the horse changes a couple times in his 30 year potential span, as does his ownership, several times in a lifetime.
That's the hard part for me. I can't sell one because I don't only have to worry about the home I find, but the home ~they~ find after me. Remember Black Beauty?
or my emails... they may be protectin' you from baby squirrels but there are better time wasters...
It still astounds me that someone actually MADE such a gif.
Well, Van-sama is now fully marked as a Colorado citizen. *snif* The Vermont plates were ones I got with my first car. Granted, that wasn't all THAT long ago (got my license after I got out of the military), but even so...
Plus now I don't have the "Can't you see I'm a clueless newbie?" excuse for driving here. For all these people know now, I've lived here all my life. Having an out-of-state license made me feel a little better when I got in the wrong lane and had to try to get back in the right spot and such. ;-)
I doubt there are as many abandoned horses as baby chickens, after all, horses are seriesly expensive. I just have a knee-jerk dislike of a lot of stereotypical tennage girl things (have to remember I don't have to worry about being lumped in with that any more) and cutesy-cutesy horsey luv is part of that. Most of 'em have probably never been near a real horse.
According to Opossum organization...they can get rabies but they're just far less susceptible to it...
http://www.opossum.org/
I love opossums. I have always thought they were so clever. There was a "petting zoo" at the church where we went on halloween night and they had a handicapped opossum that you could actually hold! It was snow white.
Put me in the same room with very many teenage girls and I am right there with ya... They are like nails on a chalkboard. but the dream of having a horse, even if unfulfilled, is probably their best feature :~D
Heh... that is really not saying much at all.
I love that opossum page! Says if you see an opossum and you must do something, count the thumbs on "your" feet!
LOL!!!
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