Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)
Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.
My pony is rubbing her tail out lately, so tonight I went out to wash her behind and her mammeries really good, because sometimes I think when she rubs, she is trying to itch her mammeries when they get all gunky, and you know how gunky they get in between. At least I see her standing over bushes rubbing on them.
She is 6 years old, unknown as to whether she has ever been bred but I doubt it, since we got her at 4. Do you see anything unusual in her mammeries?
Pictures:
Identical side to side:
Should she have mammeries that look like this? - Of concern are the soft masses *way forward* of her teats... they feel like boobs: Soft, yet firm.... you know. I just haven't noticed this before on her, and she is the only mare I have ever had. I don't scrub and feel around down there enough I guess or I would know if she has always been this way! Is this normal mare parts or should she have those looked at?
yep. I generally get the whole name used by my friends - kimberly
Who is Mrs. Field.
Sally, who won the Oscar, it's her mother. lets see, you'd have to go check out post 30492 and then we made a couple of comments after that.
Glad you like weather.
I storm chased with the local HAM radio club before I moved up here. The local guys here think that I'm not good enough for their bit. They think things are oh so much worse here because of the '79 tornado. But, the one that went through Jarrell, Texas about 5 years ago (don't remember the year) happened less than 2 weeks after I got my HAM license. It was an F5. The tornado passed my workplace and the first film of it was taken from where we were. I followed that one. It was my first "official" one.
Good night all.
Night Sam. Know you're in bed now. See ya tomorrow.
You have to wonder about these things. I don't think there are coincidences. Only God planned things. My other friend Kim, is the kind of friend who can finish my sentences and for whom I can finish sentences. We don't always require verbal communication. Looks say a lot. She's a couple of years younger than me but we tell everyone we're twins. We don't look alike,,, but the thoughts.... and we've found that before we met, our lives paralleled in a very strange manner.
Just to give an irrelevant idea, we both dyed our hair the exact same color from the same age, I don't mean just red. I mean - Loreal Dark Auburn color number 4R. We didn't meet till about 15 years ago. But, we dyed our hair first when we were each 19. Okay, that's kind of normal. But, I moved up here year before last and she's still in Waco. Last spring was when I went blonde. It was a spur of the moment thing. I did it on a Friday. On Monday I emailed her to tell her I wasn't a redhead anymore. That Saturday, the day after me, she and another friend were in the local WalMart with a salon and spur of the moment she talked with her friend walked into the salon right there and bleached her hair blonde too.
I know, all coincidence, but that happens to us all the time.
And then, I get up here, and get in the Hobbit Hole, and there's a Kim, from Tulsa? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!!!
I'm very glad. I sat here and kind of felt like some sicko laughing at the disabled or something. But, the scrolling..... and the photos..... it was a double-take "What?" moment.
Bet your vet does have email. Might be just the ticket.
wonder where Bear is? he liked the cheekiness earlier.
You have to remember that I'm not a vet, and don't play one on FR. And despite working at a hospital, I try not to think about all those squishy internal parts of horses and humans.
And while I did go AWOL when the vet came out to geld Marl's colts, I did manage to stick around, and sorta help out, in one equine medical emergency.
We had just unloaded Desiree, the TB mare Marl talked me into going halvsies on, from the trailer at a dressage show. One side of Desiree's face was covered in blood, from a gash that went halfway down her ear.
Marl got the show vet, and I got to hold Desiree while he froze her ear, and stitched her up. As with all types of scalp wounds, it was very bloody, but not very serious. The vet did a great job, too, because six months later, we had forgotten which ear he did, and both looked perfect. Marl was afraid of cosmetic damage to the ear, but it never happened. And we scoured the inside of the trailer, and never could find ANY indication of where and how she tore her ear.
So a little later, Marl has a training-level test on Desiree. First ride of the day in a new ring with new footing. Very deep footing put in by someone who didn't understand how to build dressage rings. Very soft footing, because it had rained the night before.
The novocaine must have started to wear off, because Desiree started fussing with her head just as they were going into the first corner. An extra-strong head-toss just as Marl tried to bend her, and Desiree went down, and rolled over Marl.
Fortunately, since the footing was deep and soft, the horse wasn't hurt, although Marl complained of sore ribs, and decided she didn't want to ride any more tests that day. She had about $150 worth of tests for Desiree and Aki, which she would be lose if she dropped out.
I read the fine print on the show rules, and it said, "refund for unridden tests only on note from vet certifying unsoundness". So I got hold of the vet, explained what happened, and he took a quick look at Marl. Then he wrote a note certifying her as unsound. We took the note to the show management, where we spent five minutes convincing her that her own rules did NOT say that the note had to be about the horse, just that it had to be signed by the show vet.
Marl got the rest of her money back, and they reworded their rules after that.
Are you winding down the semester? David is supposed to be done mid May, and he flies home on the 23rd, staying until the middle of June. I think he has some more research work lined up for the summer, and he's also going to take a Statistics course.
Well, not really hard, but time consuming. I'd have to copy and paste everything into a new table. I just added it the way it is. Thanks for posting it for me.
Ye gads! That Jarrell storm was a MONSTER!! Wasn't that the one that scoured the ground down about 18" and chewed up asphalt roads as it passed through?
Yeah, I'm a night owl, always have been for the most part. Also, I homeschool the kids, so there's some noise in the house all day. When they go to bed and the house gets nice an quiet, it is a very peaceful time. I enjoy it!
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