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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
What are you trying to do, make my brain explode????
Before I scrolled down far enough to see who posted all that scary math, I knew it was you.
My oldest daughter is smart in math, too. I’m a dunce.
You expecting any bad weather today?
I don’t know, am I:)?
The only thing I’ve heard is a pretty good chance of rain. As humid as it is tho, and as warm as it its getting, it could kick off some good storms. I haven’t heard anything tho.
Becky
There are some good storms firing up in Oklahoma, don’t know if they’ll make it all the way to your place.
After all the tornadoes in Kansas, I’ve been keeping a closer eye on the weather. It’s very warm, humid and unsettled here but our biggest chance of storms is tomorrow.
A couple of weeks ago we had a record flood in my small town. I had the horses in the barn, Tuffy isn’t wearing shoes right now, he’s wearing Boa boots. Anyway, I was thinking how lucky it was I had put the horses in the barn so Tuffy wouldn’t be standing around outside with his feet soaked in those boots. I ran out to the barn to check on them and they were standing in 6 inches of water. My barn completely flooded, stalls, tack room, everything.
Wow...
Feast or famine, huh.
I wasn’t paying that much attention, till you mentioned it, but our weather does feel like pre-stormy weather. Very humid, and very warm, and windy. It’s partly cloudy too.
Becky
Feast or famine is exactly right. I need to take some pictures of my tank to show you. Remember last year it was completely dry? It’s full now. All the lakes in the area are full, too. They were so low last year that some of them had to close to boating.
Currently, I have ten. I live near lake Tenkiller
I could write a book about my horses. I’ll give the abridged version. Dont want to bore everyone.
It kind of started with my wife and I deciding to come back home for a simpler life. She has ridden English for most of her life, and she wanted to get back to her hobby. I just decided that I had enough of big cities and urban law enforcement.
So, we bought a farm that was formally used for breeding Shetland ponies, and brought in a couple of horses. Spent all of last year trail riding and getting used to the place. Had a blast.
We were always partial to Arabians, and found a registered half Arabian for sale and bought him. He turned out to be an excellent horse, and we have a lot of fun with him to this day.
Then we found a good Morab mare, with excellent lines, and bought her for a steal. After that, we found an Egyptian Arabian stallion out of state and brought him in. The the Morab mare gave birth to a filly last month ( she had been backbred to an Egyptian Arabian) and after all of this, the total was 4 Arabians, 2 QH, 1 Walker.
We decided to raise Arabians, Morabs, and half Arabians after that. We are still in the progress of getting started, and we dont intend to do it for a living. Instead, we want to raise them for the pure pleasure of it.
The draft horses are a different deal. We have three of them. Two mares and one filly. The mares are rescue projects.They were mistreated and almost criminally neglected when we got them. We rehabilitated them, doctored them, and returned them to health.One of them had a filly at her side, and we rehabilitated and doctored her too.Took almost 7 months to return them to health.
One they returned to health, we had to figure out something to do with them. They were so attached and bonded to us that we couldnt get rid of them, and we couldnt have done it if we tried.
One of the draft mares is goin out today to start training in dressage ( the goal is freestyle dressage). She is a beautiful animal, with great confirmation. She stands 18 1/5 hands tall, and my wife is in love with that horse. She intends to use her to compete.
We also decided to breed the drafts with thoroughbreds and raise the babies as prospective performance horses. So I guess the draft cross area is in the future.
Thats the story. Just one happy little horse farm here.
18 hands....geez...does she have to use a step ladder to get on:) I have trouble getting on my 15.3 horse:)
We love pictures here, be sure to get some to show us all your horses.
This is my boy Harley. I do Competitive Trail Riding, and just today, put my entry form in the mail to go to this same ride that this picture was taken at last year. He is an 8 yo, QH, gelding.
Becky
I'm am Arab gal myself. Showed them in high school, but that's a long time ago now :~) Now my 26 year old Arab ride trail, mostly, with my husband and his 1/2 Arab/Mustang mare.
Here's my Bay with our bad pony :~)
And here's my husband and his horse, Cyn:
Are you back from the alpaca show?
Becky
No - we haven’t gone yet... Just been having a lazy day so far. We’re gonna head down there in a bit. She can’t leave till after five, so we want to go a couple hours early, but not ~too~ early.
OH, I thought you had said earlier you were going early.
Becky
Well, we thought about it, but that was before we had such a lazy day :~)
We’ll get it together here now and go, so we don’t miss all of it :~)
If interested go to AOL and look at the unusual calf (and other animals). I don’t know if linking is allowed.
This is the 18 1/2 hand tall draft mare. I'll send more pictures of them soon
So - you all remember CJ?
See CJ now :)
Good heavens...that is incredible.
Becky
It looks like she’ll keep the black points so I expect in another year she’s going to be really flashy. Right now even I have to stop and look - the coloring is so amazing to me (and I watched Prez and Fanny do this).
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