older daughter--- Gwen has passed on a suggested reading--- i have not read it  enough to know  which mushroom the writer is sitting on...  but i did read the "credits"  at the bottom-- and whatever she said, it is well documented-- and by all appearances it looks to me  like she can spell. --- Heather Cox Richardson--

"well documented" in this internet world is enough to make me at least sit up and take notice-- and maybe pay a bit more  attention- so yes.... i do have more investigating... but what floored me is the pure volume-- she puts out one of these things a day !!-

so do i..... but her's are so well thought out where mine are purely the drifting of a half awake bleery eyed ancient, with reading glasses that do not read and hearing aids that do not hear.

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to buy or not to buy-- that was the question.last night when i sat with janine, elizabeth and a  huge plate of nachos to watch the horse auction at 4:30pm. 

i had watched the preview at 1:00 and made a list of 4 interesting beasts ...purely  on the visual-- not being able to hear the description...---- ....a horse would appear in the auction ring--- janine and eliz would  decide what the beast would sell for-- with amazing accuracy and then decide if they  ERN  had enough money-- or people interested in such an animal-- janine poked at her cell phone and announced that she did actually purchase one of the ones l  liked... an andalusian..  which is sort of a  smaller draft horse..... known for it's work ethic????

 

what fascinated me   was  the absolutely  beautiful high stepping   17 hand ( tall)  jet black dutch harness horse--- with papers... went for $4000. which i thought was cheap for it.... and janine should buy- but her comment -- "pretty  but no one but wallace could ride that horse" and elizabeth added " besides...he would eat a bale a day himself..."

ok......

the super high priced -- over $10,000  were the smaller to average height. 15.2 hand.. solid.. leg in each corner.----. very obediently exhibited  by some 8 year old kid.. in other words... at least in the horse world   "handsome is as handsome does" ... 

 

which is sort of the shape  of danes we hopefully breed for use as service dogs. a leg in each corner..... lachey !!!

 

do I dare.??? ...... cross your fingers..... Sir Richard and Cici ( aka Capri)  managed a 26 minute  serious date( tied)  on Wednesday...  with no second tie  as of last night.... all this may mean that last week’s drips were the end of the red--- and  Tuesday Wednesday would then be the fertile.  Rumor has it..... and you all know how accurate rumors are—that toward the end of the cycle  the female is most fertile--  most certain to “take”  with a larger litter...

so mark your calendars. 63 days from  last Wednesday.  Which means 56  to 70 days... and we might get an educated guess by day 25 to 30—Dr. george’s fancy fingers—

if she could just give us another litter like her last—there were some super pups there.