A Tribute to Freepers - Summer Freepathon! Thread 4

You must meet some freepers in your area. We have get togethers and have other events. Some of us ladies have had lunch. FReepers are as wonderful in person as they are on the internet!

541 posted on 06/14/2002 9:29:28 PM PDT by WIMom

thank you Mo
you are generous girl
Love, Palo

542 posted on 06/14/2002 9:29:29 PM PDT by palo verde

bump for The Cause and a thank you, WIMom, for posting and bumping and drawing our attention to this on other threads.

God Bless Free Republic and its coffers!

543 posted on 06/14/2002 9:29:37 PM PDT by GretchenEE

To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Those are the ponies I was talking about a few weeks ago .. I was trying to tell a freeper about them .. but others said I was wrong

Thanks for proving me right ... LOL

544 posted on 06/14/2002 9:30:06 PM PDT by Mo1

Makes me *almost* want to have another.

545 posted on 06/14/2002 9:30:08 PM PDT by WIMom

Thanks BADJOE! You are wonderful.

546 posted on 06/14/2002 9:30:26 PM PDT by WIMom

To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Freedom, your pic of ponies is exquisite
I love you
Palo

547 posted on 06/14/2002 9:31:41 PM PDT by palo verde

To: Freedom'sWorthIt

I'm so glad algore invented the internet. It has so much great information. It's a mass library. Do you remember the old days, before the internet and going to the library. I would start research on a topic and get sidetracked. It's worse with the internet, because it's only a click away to check out something else.

548 posted on 06/14/2002 9:33:31 PM PDT by WIMom

To: rwfromkansas

LOL! That's the point. It's just fun. (it's sad, I learned all that in college and never use it)

549 posted on 06/14/2002 9:34:30 PM PDT by WIMom

My problem is the kiddies .. I don't really have family near me to watch them .. except the mom inlaw and I'd rather have my teeth pulled then to ask .. LOL

Plus there is the scout meeting .. choir lessons and well I think you know the routine of driving all over the place

and the hubby works all kinds of hours and I never know what time he'll be home so it is hard to plan things

I figured I'll have my life back somewhere aroung 2021 .. that is if I don't have anymore babies .. fofl

550 posted on 06/14/2002 9:34:41 PM PDT by Mo1

To: Hairofthedog; Freedom'sWorthIt

Hi Hair
come see the ponies Freedom'sWorthIt posted at 529
you will think you died and went to heaven
it is exquisite
Love, Palo

551 posted on 06/14/2002 9:34:52 PM PDT by palo verde

Thanks for the bump!

552 posted on 06/14/2002 9:36:17 PM PDT by WIMom

LOL .. my youngest will be 2 yrs next week .. they do grow fast

553 posted on 06/14/2002 9:37:03 PM PDT by Mo1

I've been in your shoes. It does get better.

554 posted on 06/14/2002 9:37:05 PM PDT by WIMom

My baby is 16. She was born the day after the space shuttle blew up. Can you believe it's been 16 years?

555 posted on 06/14/2002 9:38:16 PM PDT by WIMom

To: Sweetliberty

Check out post #529 ... those are the ponies I was talking about in North Carolina

556 posted on 06/14/2002 9:39:12 PM PDT by Mo1

Wow .. I still remember that day .. I use to work shift work in those days and I had brought the TV into work that day ..

There are some things I will never forget and what I was doing at the time I heard the news .. one is the shuttle explosion .. OK bombing .. WTC ..

557 posted on 06/14/2002 9:42:43 PM PDT by Mo1

It does get better

You promise .. hehe

558 posted on 06/14/2002 9:43:23 PM PDT by Mo1

I was very, very pregnant when the shuttle blew up. I was driving my oldest to pre-school and remember hearing it on the radio. My first thought was disbelief, similar to the WTC when the second plane flew into the building. You knew then it was a terrorist, and you knew it was OBL. Then I thought, that teacher was aboard. Just a lady, like you or me. That's when I really lost it. The poor teacher was so honored to have been choosen. Although I disagree with sending civilians on missions like that. I still wonder if I didn't go into labor early over that. I was two weeks early.

559 posted on 06/14/2002 9:48:19 PM PDT by WIMom

To: Mo1, Sweet Liberty

OH - you mean someone did not believe there were wild ponies out on the Outer Banks of North Carolina? (Shackleford Banks is a part of the Outer Banks - but not the part most people think of as in Cape Hatteras....although I understand there are other ponies there also).

Why, yes, they are for sure there. I have seen them. What a treat!

Here's a little snippet about them:

Late 1400's: Columbus brought the first Iberian (Spanish) horse to the island of Hispaniola and started breeding ranches to supply the conquistadors with mounts for their explorations. The soldier-explorers usually rode stallions but Columbus made certain that mares were included whenever a ship was coming to the New World.

Early 1500s: Lucas Vasques de Ayllon attempted to settle the mid-Atlantic coast. Of the 500 colonist brought from Hispaniola, only 150 souls survived to catch a passing ship back home. The 89 to 100 horses brought by the colonist were abandoned when the colony failed.

Late 1500s: Sir Richard Grenville traded for supplies and animals with the Spanish in Hispaniola and brought horses up the Carolina coast to the English colony at Roanoake. His ship, the Tiger, grounded in an inlet through what is now know as North Core Banks, and had to be careened (rolled over on her side) for repairs. Livestock, including horses, would have either been cast overboard or released.

There are mentions in records spanning the years between then and now of these Banker horses. These descriptions of their size, toughness, temperment, etc., have varied little over the generations and could be easily be used to describe the Spanish stock from whence they came. There are oral histories and traditions handed down faithfully from one generation to another of the coastal people ..."The horses have always been here. They swam ashore off sinking ships".

560 posted on 06/14/2002 9:49:35 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt

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