30 DAYS HATH EVERY MONTH EXCEPT FEB. HARDLY A DAY GOES BY THAT I DON'T WONDER IN SOME FASHION - WAY BACK 2500 YEARS BC-- BEFORE ANYONE KNEW TO PUT BC IN THIER WRITINGS....JUST WHO LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO OBSERVE WHICH DAY OF TEH YEAR WAS THE SHORTEST SO THEY COULD ARRAINGE THE PYRAMIDS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION OF THE SUN SO THE BODY INSIDE WOULD HAVE FALLEN IN THE SHADE OF SOMETHING IF IT WASN'T INSIDE A PYRAMID????. I AM 80 YEARS INTO IT AND TEH SUN COMES UP AND SUN GOES DOWN, AND AS FAR AS I GET IS TO RECITE "IN WINTER I GET UP AT NIGHT AND SUMMER I GO TO BED BY DAY" WHO DID ALL THOSE CALCULATIONS???AND WHY DID THEY NOTICE IT IN TH E FIRST PLACE-
CNN.... UPWARDS OF 5000 PEOPLE YEARLY GO TO STONEHENGE ON SOLISTCE DAY. Bottom line: If you stand at just the right spot inside the Stonehenge monument on the day of the northern summer solstice, facing northeast through the entrance towards a rough hewn stone outside the circle - known as the Heel Stone - you will see the sun rise above the Heel Stone
I DUNNO-- THAT IS 5000 PEOPLE BUYING COFFEE IN TEH TOWN WHERE THIS HENGE IS ALL TRYING TO LINE UP WITH THE SUN.....A HARMLESS OCCUP[ATON-- GOTTA HAND IT TO THE CREATIVITY OF THE BRITISH WHO INVENTED GOLF AND PROVIDE RECLINING CHAIRS TO POSSIBLY VIEW THE LAKE NESS MONSTER.
WHICH WILL QUICLKLY GET ME BACK TO WALLY AND HIS OWN PRIVITE STONE HENGE PROJECT.. in MICHIGAN.. WHERE JUST FOR FUN, HE STANDS MANY TONS OF CONCRETE UP IN TGHE AIR-- LIKE IN BRITAIN. THIS IS REALLY A MUST LOOK FOR ANYONE MECHANICALLY INCLINED...A LONG TIME AGO WHEN I WAS DOING REALLY FOOLISH THINGS ON MAIL CALL-- MOSTLY FOR THE CLASSROOMS WHO WERE TUNED INTO THIS NONSENSE.. I PROVED IN A VERY SMALL WAY ... IN MY OFFICE... THAT HIS TECHNIQUE IS A VERY VALID ONE... HE MOVES BUILDINGS ALL BY HIMSELF WITH ONLY STICKS AND STONES... WELLL .. MAYBE BUCKETS AND WATER TOO.
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I HAd many comments on horse racing from yesterdays dd-
i have anotehr fact to share... there was..."the racing form" a newspaper totally devoted to the racing industry-- it gave history of every horse entered in all the races at the major tracks in the usa. with details---
like every race it was in ... where it placed in teh bunch as they went aroundg the track- what the betting odds were... etc...
but as i sat there-- time after time.. with nothing more than a great caesar salad to amuse me at suffock downs.. (. i am not a betting person) i started in... the paper also gave the age of the horse, and the lifetime winnings of that horse..
now i knew the cost of hay--- i had all these 4-h kids horses in my barn in lynnfield-- and i bought 30 tons at a time ( which was a really huge truck load from canada) - and i knew how much a horse ate per day... 20 pounds/day was the conservative estimate. so a horse born april 10, 1975 and racing may10 1979 was 4years+ 30 days and one day over for leap year= i think 1491 days old- conservatively lets say 1400 days eating hay ( nursing early on...) 1400 days at 20 pounds per day = 28,000 pounds of hay -- 14 tons at $500/ton must have eaten $7000 worth of hay or it would be dead. just hay.... $7000. so i counted teh number of horses who had even earned teh cost of the hay they ate TO BECOME THE AGE TEHY WERE.......10% paid they hay bill--- this did not include teh multitude of expenses connected with racing-- trainers , hot walkers, pony riders ( on quarterhorse to lead the thorobreds AROUND) , exercise riders, BLACKSMITHS,- VETERNARIANS- JUST THE HAY BILL... THERE ARE USUALLY 10 RACES PER DAY PER TRACK... AND THE NUMBER OF HORSES PER RACE IS ABOUT 10- THERE IS ONE "FEATURE RACE" PERDAY-- SUPPOSIDLY OF TEH "BETTER HORSES" IT IS THAT GROUP OF 10 THAT SOMETIMES PAID at least THE HAY BILL.
INVESTMENT WISE IT IS NOT WHAT YO WOULD CALL "GOLDEN"
TRUE FACT--- ONE DAY I WAS EXERCISING OUR ONE HORSE AROUND SUFFOCK DOWNS-- I WAS RIDING MY QUARTERHORSE "HARVEY" LEADING "XXXX I FORGET his name " BUT A HORSE WHICH HAD BEEN PURCHASED FOR AN AWFFUL LOT OF MONEY--- WHEN I WALKED TEH HORSE BACK TOWARD TEH STABLE I HAD 2 OFFERS TO BUY MY QUARTERHORSE WHICH I HAD BOUGHT AT 40 CENTS A POUND- AND WE COULD NOT GIVE AWAY THIS EXPENSIVE RACE HORSE....
ANOTHER "WHO CARES??"" USELES INFORMATION.... THE THOROBRED REGISTRY INSISTS THAT ALL PREGNANCIES BE ACHIEVED WITH "NATURAL COVERAGE" NONE OF THIS ARTIFICAL INSEMINATION BUSINESS ....THIS IS HOW THE FAMOUS STUDS MAINTAIN THEIR EARNING POWER- NOW I DID HEAR THAT THE FAMOUS SECRETARIAT HAD A SMALL PROBLEM IN THAT HE WAS NOT THRILLED WITH THE REPRODUCTION PROJECT OF CHOOSING A WIFE... MOST HORSES DON'T CARE.... I DON'T KNWO HOW THAT PROBLEM WAS RESOLVED-- BUT I KNOW THAT IT HAD TO BE A "NATURAL COVER" MAYBE IT IS DIFFERENT NOW... I DUNNO... I DO KNOW A LOT OF STRANGE THINGS... FOR LATER
