FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 12

[HairOfTheDog]

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - (very out of date) Who's Who *pics*

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. :~)

I have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will ping everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list.

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.

Previous threads:

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread TEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Good morning:)

Looking forward to pictures of the tank.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Patagonian Cavy’s... that’s his story... I still think he’s messing around in the lab, what with that weird pygmy bull and the sheep goat. ;~)

LOL

I'd agree with you, but I saw some of the same animals at the Tulsa fair when I went. Funny how new species of animals kind of show up all of a sudden all over. I wonder if they are going to be a new fad around here:\

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

Is the holding tank thing that water tank that you were talking about stopping at the QH Congress and buying? Is it for fresh water or waste water or what?

[FrogInABlender]

Oh, and here's one I took when WE were crossing the Mississippi at Memphis when we were headed home. You can see the Pyramid off on the left. They used to use it for traveling exhibitions like King Tut and Catherine the Great and the Titanic, but I think it went bankrupt and is empty now. That's really a shame because they had some really cool stuff there from time to time.

[MissTargets]

This is the holding tank for waste, that was damaged when I hit the "gator" I had to order it from the trailer manufacturer, along with the hot water heater cover. A local RV dealer is going to install for me. I didn’t stop at the QH Congress on the way home. It was late afternoon and I wanted to make it home before dark. I do have a plastic, approx. 25 gallon drum here, I can use, if I can find the stoppers.

[FrogInABlender]

Speaking of gators, when I was driving to Huntsville yesterday evening to that company dinner, I got behind this big box-bed truck that had a flat on the inside rear driver’s side tire. It was flappin’ and wobblin’ all over the place and I kept expecting it to come flying off in huge pieces at any minute. So needless to say, I got on the gas and shot past him as quick as I could coz I sure didn’t want it coming through MY windshield. Something like that could kill you in a heartbeat. I don’t think he even knew it, but it scared the crap outta me.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

That would be scary. He probably didn’t know the tire was down. I think new trucks now have dummy dashboard lights that let the driver know he has a low/flat tire somewhere.

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

Yeah, I think some of them do, but my new truck doesn’t. It’s probably part of some option package that I don’t have. It would be handy though.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Well, I was talking about the semi’s more then regular trucks. As dangerous as flats on semis are, that sensor should not be optional, IMO:)

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

Ain’t that the truth!

[Duchess47]

Tomorrow is Nevada Day :)

This year's theme -

[HairOfTheDog]

I ~love~ Area 51. :~)

[Duchess47]

Have to say it’s an interesting place. We do have some oddities here. I’d like to see the parade tomorrow but I think we’ll wait and look at the pictures in the paper. Too much to do tomorrow morning to drive in (plus I’m not big on traffic and crowds).

[Duchess47]

The KangaRabbitDeer things are the strangest things I’ve seen actually alive and walking around :)

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Oh, you should have lots of aliens running around then:)

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

They’re like some kind of missing link :~)

I do always watch the shows on Roswell and Area 51 both... How far are you from those places?

[Duchess47]

LOL - we have lots of aliens around, extraterrestial, illegal, you name it - we got it.

[CindyDawg]

uhhhhhhhh. NM is not going to like this:’) You should post on the Si Fi thread.

[Duchess47]

I’m in western Nevada - central part. Area 51 is down by Vegas, about 5 hours away I guess. I imagine it’s a long haul to New Mexico - it seems like it probably was about 15hours or more. It’s been so long since I made that drive across country all the sunrises and sunsets run together.

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh rats... I was hoping it was close enough for you to take us tourists there if we were ever in the area!