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To: Mama_Bear; MEG33; jaycee; gardengirl; yorkie; OESY; Kitty Mittens; The Mayor; GodBlessUSA; ...
December 29, 2008


Graphics and MP3 link by Billie

3,059 posted on 12/29/2008 7:56:10 AM PST by JustAmy (I wear red every Friday, but I support our Military everyday!!)
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To: JustAmy

Mornin’ all.

Beautiful. That’s one of my favorite songs. I was so horse crazy when I was little, it’s a wonder my folks didn’t ship me out west/no return address. LOL


3,062 posted on 12/29/2008 8:31:37 AM PST by gardengirl
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To: FRiends; JustAmy; Mama_Bear; Billie; NicknamedBob; ST.LOUIE1; Kitty Mittens; La Enchiladita; ...
Happy Monday To Amy's Place


Love "Wildfire"!..Beautiful opening, Billie and Amy.
I am not ready for the after Christmas cleanup nor the paperwork
...so I am bird watching this cold, sunny morning.

3,065 posted on 12/29/2008 9:16:25 AM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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To: ST.LOUIE1; Mama_Bear; Billie; DollyCali; dutchess; Aquamarine; GodBlessUSA; OESY; NicknamedBob; ...

YIKES .... I missed pinging some of you to today’s Opening. I apologize.

Please see post #3059.


3,072 posted on 12/29/2008 9:33:34 AM PST by JustAmy (I wear red every Friday, but I support our Military everyday!!)
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To: JustAmy
Poor little lonesome baby!


3,077 posted on 12/29/2008 9:51:27 AM PST by jaycee ("God's love still stands when all else has fallen.")
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To: JustAmy; Billie

A very beautiful horse in your opening this morning. Like that music also, girls!

Getting ready to run a couple of errands....will see ya’ll later! Very lovely Holiday display, Amy! Glad you are a lot better...its rough being sick during the holidays.


3,078 posted on 12/29/2008 9:54:48 AM PST by jaycee ("God's love still stands when all else has fallen.")
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To: JustAmy; yorkie; OESY; MEG33; jaycee; Mama_Bear; The Mayor; ST.LOUIE1; Billie; ConorMacNessa; ...



White Horses
 
  Where run your colts at pasture?
Where hide your mares to breed?
'Mid bergs about the Ice-cap
Or wove Sargasso weed;
By chartless reef and channel,
Or crafty coastwise bars,
But most the ocean-meadows
All purple to the stars!

Who holds the rein upon you?
The latest gale let free.
What meat is in your mangers?
The glut of all the sea.
'Twixt tide and tide's returning
Great store of newly dead, --
The bones of those that faced us,
And the hearts of those that fled.
Afar, off-shore and single,
Some stallion, rearing swift,
Neighs hungry for new fodder,
And calls us to the drift:
Then down the cloven ridges --
A million hooves unshod --
Break forth the mad White Horses
To seek their meat from God!

Girth-deep in hissing water
Our furious vanguard strains --
Through mist of mighty tramplings
Roll up the fore-blown manes --
A hundred leagues to leeward,
Ere yet the deep is stirred,
The groaning rollers carry
The coming of the herd!

Whose hand may grip your nostrils --
Your forelock who may hold?
E'en they that use the broads with us --
The riders bred and bold,
That spy upon our matings,
That rope us where we run --
They know the strong White Horses
From father unto son.

We breathe about their cradles,
We race their babes ashore,
We snuff against their thresholds,
We nuzzle at their door;
By day with stamping squadrons,
By night in whinnying droves,
Creep up the wise White Horses,
To call them from their loves.

And come they for your calling?
No wit of man may save.
They hear the loosed White Horses
Above their fathers' grave;
And, kin of those we crippled,
And, sons of those we slew,
Spur down the wild white riders
To school the herds anew.

What service have ye paid them,
Oh jealous steeds and strong?
Save we that throw their weaklings,
Is none dare work them wrong;
While thick around the homestead
Our snow-backed leaders graze --
A guard behind their plunder,
And a veil before their ways.

With march and countermarchings --
With weight of wheeling hosts --
Stray mob or bands embattled --
We ring the chosen coasts:
And, careless of our clamour
That bids the stranger fly,
At peace with our pickets
The wild white riders lie.

. . . .

Trust ye that curdled hollows --
Trust ye the neighing wind --
Trust ye the moaning groundswell --
Our herds are close behind!
To bray your foeman's armies --
To chill and snap his sword --
Trust ye the wild White Horses,
The Horses of the Lord!

Rudyard Kipling





Based on Revelations 19 & 20




3,080 posted on 12/29/2008 10:09:40 AM PST by Lady Jag (DONATE NOW at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: JustAmy; Billie; All; FRiends
Amy and Billie, your #3059 is just Excellent; Billie, your Graphic is Perfect for the 'Wildfire' Song, and the Lovely Face of the Girl in the Pic Looks just Like I would Imagine Wildfire's Owner to Look; so Beautiful and Elegant. (I Remember the Wildfire Song from Years Ago, and it's Good to Hear it Again. Thank you!)

Thank you to Everyone for the Pings!


3,148 posted on 12/29/2008 10:11:24 PM PST by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!!)
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To: Billie; JustAmy

I just had to remark on this picture again. I looked at the beautiful muscular horse, the moon, etc. and thats all I saw.
As I kept reading posts, I kept hearing of the beautiful girl. I checked back once and still didn’t see it.

Last night when Kitty made another remark about it, I went back again and there was that beautiful face that I just kept missing. Its funny when you look too hard, you can’t see it.
It was lovely!


3,203 posted on 12/30/2008 12:49:45 PM PST by jaycee ("God's love still stands when all else has fallen.")
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