SHORT DOGGIE
FAMILY BEGINNING TO ARRIVE-- I AM TOLD WE EVEN HAVE ENOUGH CHAIRS!!
STRIKES ME... MAYBE WITH THE COLD TEMP THAT SKIPPING ROPE OR STILT WALKING IN THE YARD MAY NOT BE THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE DAY...MAYBE MAKING MONKEY FISTS AROUND THE TABLE MIGHT BE MORE TO TH E POINT OF EVERYONE IN THE SAME ROOM DISCUSSING HOW MANY ANGELS FIT ON THE HEAD OF A PIN..
ENTERTAINMENT WITHOUT BEING TOO ENTERTAINING...
GET FIRES GOING AND HEAT IN THE TRAILERS--
THE ONLY BIT of INFO I Hve to pass on about the trailers is they don't draw much electicity-- only to recharge the batteries.. everything in them is 12 volt.. so all my worries about overload was unnecessary. as was my purchase of a few heavy extension cords...
i don't believe janine will be riding in the t'day hunt too darn cold...20 degrees forcast -- on a nice day it is fun to watch teh 50 or so riders all dressed in black with polished horses- take off over the fields of the appleton and winthrop estates.
there is a DD topic,,, horse shoes---
she had arrainged to have lincoln get his "ice shoes" on today-- just in case- but 20 degrees????
what's ice shoes?? it is the normal shoe with 4 little ?1/4 inch spikes welded or screwed on.. in my world they were borium which also kept the shoes from wearing out. ( yes iron horse shoes do wear out -- janine's pony needed new shoes in less than 8 weeks as she was into trail riding, and went miles)
thank heavens she is into donkeys now-- much tougher feet don't need shoes.
the only shoe on a donkey i know of was for the donkey basketball games when the donks were shod with mens ?neolite" heels to keep them from =scratching the gym floors.
i don't have too many horse shoe stories..
there is no such thing as an old, tall blacksmith-- tall men's backs give out bending over the horse shoeing business--- a lot of young men jump into the horse shoe business, but before very long they have a young "assistant"..
i have told of the kriz family from conn-- they shoe teh budweisers-- grandpa, father and 2 sons- all just over 5' tall.
all of that may boil down to teh amish saying "in a good work animal the leg is half the height" which is the shape of dogs we try and breed...
i suppose it could apply to men too....
i dunno....
