Washingtonians

[Ogress]

NO he was probablly on deck to help the passengers and slipped and fell over board right into a life raft.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Yes, Clover, what a gorgeous fella. So sorry you had to let him go, but glad he's made a difference somewhere else!

Thanks, and thanks CL too. I emailed his owner right after I posted the pics, and heard back from him already. He's going to send me some new pics!

I've been blessed with a couple pretty special horses in my life, and it's going to take an awful special horse for me to get another one someday.

My horsey history:

First horse I ever rode was a green-as-grass 3 year old Appy gelding. We went off a cliff together when I was 5. He was my 4H horse. Bad pairing to say the least. LOL

Welsh pony mare - brief 4H horse, also not the best for a kid.

Went several years sans horses.

Leased a wacko mare at my friend's barn (this is the wackadoodle that broke my shoulder).

Got one of my dad's horses back when I was still a newlywed. (This is the tree climbing mare, if anyone here remembers that story). She was a Fadjur grand daughter, for those that know Arabs...
Had a psychotic proud-cut Appy/Thoroughbred gelding that was given to me as a "kid safe, lesson horse". 17 hands / 1400 pounds. Massive beast. The day he stalked up behind me in the pasture and I turned around to see him standing over me with his teeth bared and his ears pinned was the day I called the woman who gave him to me and told her she had 24 hours to get her P.O.S. horse off my property before I put a bullet in his head and fed him to my dog. He was gone the next day. (For those that know horse drugs, we have him 6 ccs of Acepromazine orally and he still flipped himself over in the trailer before he was out of my driveway).

Bought my APHA colt, "Ellis" as a weanling. Best horse I ever had. Had SO much potential. Would lead over ANYTHING by 4 months of age, I could do anything to him. DS is only 6 weeks older than the colt was, and I had DS on his back when they both his 12 months of age. No problems at all. He was already driving by then, and was 100% comfortable with a swinging rope (was destined to be my roping horse so I started roping him when he was really little). He was so amazing in so many ways. He was a natural cutter. He LOVED to haze the barn cats when they'd venture through the arena, and he was cat like himself, in that his favorite past time was laying in the sun and taking a nap. I lost Ellis to acute renal failure when he was just 13 months old. I still can't look at pictures of Ellis, and I'm tearing up as I write this...he's a 10 year old heartbreak that has yet to heal...

Tig was his replacement, I bought him just 3 weeks after Ellis died. I probably held onto Tig for too long because he was Ellis's replacement, but I'm glad I waited because the right home really did come along. Lots of people came out to look at him, and I turned them all away, until I met Wes. When he rode him that day, they were two peas in a pod, and the rest is history...

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Beautiful Dog, Robin !
He could be brothers with Quincy.

I am making GF pizza, lunch is late today.

Like to see Pierre eat pizza !

Funnily enough, his name is Quinn (short for Harlequin), so they even have similar names!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Wow, that's some redundantly bad weather out there.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

OK, the only pics I have of my last horse, Tig, were ones that the new owners sent me after I sold him. NICEST people!!!! I need to get an update on him, it's been a couple years...

So, this is Tig, THE most bomb-proof horse I've ever had (and only AQHA I've ever had), I bought him as a 3 year old, and only had him until he was 6. He's 10 this year in April...

(He's the one on the right in the first pic)...


Looking at these pics really makes me miss him a lot, but he has the best home I could ask for, and he's done wonders for their other horse. Selling him improved the life of two horses, that I can never regret....

What a kind and sane looking horse Tig is! I love the shots of him on the beach too.
He will always have a special spot in your heart.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

He's gorgeous! Actually both of your dogs and your silkie were pretty cute.

Thanks Sadie Sue!
Actually, if anyone wants beauty, they should see Sadie Sue's daughter. I had the privilege of meeting three generations of ladies from her family when I visited Vino Aquino in December. Lily looks like a Botticelli angel come to life from a Renaissance painting.

 

[hallerlake]

I LOVE the snow photo - beautiful with the sun!

And Garden Valley is gorgeous too, really up in the faraway food hills.
I mean, FOOTHILLS!

The snow photo was taken by my brothers neighbor. It was SO gorgeous I wanted to share.

(And I agree CR, the ducklings "do" look a little like bowling pins

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ZoiChick
who needs to get moving...
Cheers all.



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Mr H and i honeymooned at Lake Tahoe. Grass Valley was one of the many places to which we drove. It was very pretty. We love those old towns with their old buildings and houses.

 

[Gscott]

Hard to think about Spring coming after this nasty bout of weather. But thinking about raising another batch of meaties this year (I only did it one time), how soon do you folks plan for putting them outside? Or, if I expect to put them out at four weeks or so, when should I have them arrive? Last year I got them late April / early May, and put them out early June. But I saw others in the area had them out earlier than I did. We had a late summer last year, how early is too early? I live in the Olympia area. What do you experts do? Thanks

 

[Chicken Rustler]

THe President is on TV. HE'S on BOTH channels. I'm gonna miss Flipperrrrrrr ! ! ! ! !

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Chase charged my for making a math mistake on a deposit!

I think that is going to change and fast as so many giant banks has driven customers to BECU...we can only hope.
They might get a discount on all the empty B of A buildings that will soon be available for rent.