I'm so old I Remember when:

[Ponypoor]

Sounds awesome! Brings back memories... My Dh#1 and I joined a little religious group traveling through Manzanola, CO in 1974, and they had a unicorn hitch. Traveler was the lead horse, an American Saddlebred if memory serves. King and Mr Ed were the wheel horses. I learned not only to drive that team, at age 21, but to harness them as well. We travelled through five states before I suffered a miscarriage and became too ill to travel, ending up in Hamilton, MT. What an experience!

Sorry about your loss, that’s rough.

But glad you enjoyed the horses and learnt to drive them - a unicorn hitch can be tough to learn to drive!

 

[Ponypoor]

This is right now in our backyard.View attachment 3703072

Lovely

I awoke to this

I remember when we had snow so deep it was over those fences, the horses could walk over top where it was drifted and piled up.

We don’t get snow and cold like that often anymore. Though 2013 and 2014 were brutal normal winters.

Gosh did I just jinx myself

 

[Ponypoor]

I remember when as kids we made a lot of our own toys to play with and one of my favorites was what we dubbed our racing tractors. Very cheap to make. A wooden spool, a rubber band off the news paper, a match stick, and something on the opposite end of the match stick so it could be wound up. We could line them up at the starting line and at the signal of go they were off and going for at least a couple of yards. We didn't need hundred dollar toys to amuse ourselves back then.

A sheet - and a couple chairs and presto! Make believe time in a tent castle

 

[azurbanclucker]

It depended some on how much time they spent in the pasture versus the barnyard during the day. Sometimes we had to chase them to the field and at other times they went on their own.
In the summer it depended on how bad the flies pestered them and so forth.
The ability to read the animals comes from spending years in daily close proximity with them.
When you asked how do cows predict the weather, I was almost at a loss on how to describe it because it's more of a mental acknowledgement than an expressed definition.

I think you did a pretty good job here. I fully got what you were saying.

 

[Debbie292d]

Remember when groceries came home in ... wait for it ... brown paper bags? Mom would give us crayons and let us draw faces on them. Then she'd cut out eyes in them, and on the sides she cut scoops for our shoulders. We'd put them on and chase each other around for hours, playing "monster." What fun! That was for rainy days. Sunny day fun involved cardboard boxes and forts made of plywood and lumber scraps and bricks dad brought home from his construction jobs. We were rich, nobody else had toys like ours!

Oh my gosh, I forgot about the paper bags. That had to be 55-some years ago but I remember now. Thank you!

 

[azurbanclucker]

Oh my gosh, I forgot about the paper bags. That had to be 55-some years ago but I remember now. Thank you!

Winco and Aldi both offer paper. Only matters to people with Winco or Aldi's near to them though.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember when those paper bags were in use that meats and ice cream were double bagged in paper. And unlike shopping at big box stores your cart got take to your car and unloaded for you.

 

[Debbie292d]

Winco and Aldi both offer paper. Only matters to people with Winco or Aldi's near to them though.

Our local grocery store still says, "paper or plastic." We always go with plastic as the bags we use to line the bathroom garbage can. I suppose we should be more environmentally conscious and ask for paper though.

 

[troyer]

Lovely

I awoke to this
View attachment 3703087

I remember when we had snow so deep it was over those fences, the horses could walk over top where it was drifted and piled up.

We don’t get snow and cold like that often anymore. Though 2013 and 2014 were brutal normal winters.

Gosh did I just jinx myself

It looks great at your house!

 

[NanaK]

Lovely

I awoke to this
View attachment 3703087

I remember when we had snow so deep it was over those fences, the horses could walk over top where it was drifted and piled up.

We don’t get snow and cold like that often anymore. Though 2013 and 2014 were brutal normal winters.

Gosh did I just jinx myself

Looks beautiful at YOUR house.

I'd really rather it not here. It melts quickly into a muddy mess here.
It is beautiful while it lasts though!