Oh shoot, I was going back through the posts to see if I missed something and missed this! Very sorry! Thanks for the kind words! My computer got to where I couldn't ever do anything on this site for some reason. I still have problems....especially if I try to do anything very often on here. It gets to where I can't post a reply, won't quote anything and won't post the reply or pics I'm trying to post. ??? I I don't remember which from the saddle pics I've posted on here but I'm pretty sure I have...I have lots and have taken some recently even that I may post. ...been spending a lot more time out with the herd."3" I went back to the very beginning of this thread and so far read the first 100 pages - you were very active then, and I didn't remember your sense of humor. You are(were?) to hard on yourself. Your pictures were stunning from the beginning. I used to email them to everyone who was sick of chicken pictures. I found out how "3 acres," is really big enough to have camels, and zebras and buffalo , and cattle, etc. That's okay when I raised dogs - I used the Golden Acre prefix, in the beginning we had a 35' city lot in Chicago. The only gold was the dandelions.
When we moved out 46.5 years ago, we blossomed to 1/3" of an acre- which seemed HUGE to us.
PS don't see as well as I used to but, I didn't notice you "from the saddle", maybe I imagined it all. Or the next 100 pages might reveal it. I always thought that was so cool & mysterious.