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Bottom Feeder said:
Wow Taz, you had a hundred head of horses?
After the collapse that would have made you a very rich man.
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yes....when my FIL was living we had a horse breeding setup he was a expert and ran things etc. obviously the herd count fluxed as we had fouls and sold animals 120 was about the most we had at any one point ..... lot of money in high quality horses even now........ we used to get a chuckle when the Stud horses would get excited when they heard a horse trailer coming down the drive to bring a mare ....

people wouldnt belive all the things my/our family is involved with i have a very very eclectic knowledge base LOL
 
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We bred three registered warmbloods. But we had to use AI. The insurance companies for the stallions wouldn't allow live cover and half the time, the stallions were on the other side of the country competing anyway. Never had any trouble with the AI, but I sure got some funny looks shipping back the insulated semen containers.

That horse in the photo above was born on this property. Somewhere in a box I have the photos of she and her siblings getting the ISR brand. You put them in front of the judges when they are about a year old and, of course, they are all braided up and covered with Show Sheen. Well, when that hot branding iron hits that Show Sheen, you get some decent flames.

Here's a photo of her half-brother and She Who Must Be Obeyed during conformation. He isn't even full grown here and already a beast. He ended up being 18-1 hands. The judge is the one with the clipboard.

 
great looking big mare ......

we bread gaited Missouri fox trotters primarily used for trail riding did a lot of training also ....... some were shown by clients but there is so much politics in showing it just wasn't worth the stress for us
 
Ttazzman said:
great looking big mare ......

we bread gaited Missouri fox trotters primarily used for trail riding did a lot of training also ....... some were shown by clients but there is so much politics in showing it just wasn't worth the stress for us
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That's a gelding. I called him "Butthead". He thought it was funny to pluck 16' fence boards off the posts and go running around with them.
 
CiscoKid said:
That's a gelding. I called him "Butthead". He thought it was funny to pluck 16' fence boards off the posts and go running around with them.
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non horse people have no clue the range of personalities and behaviors horses exibit
 

Punxsutawney Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter for 2026. How often does the Groundhog Day icon get it right?​

  • Punxsutawney Phil called for six more weeks of winter on Groundhog Day 2026
  • Out of 19 weather-predicting creatures studied in total by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Punxsutawney Phil has one of the lowest accurate prediction rates, despite being the forefather of the holiday
  • His call for 6 more weeks of winter in 2026 remains to be seen, but NOAA predicts that the majority of the U.S. will experience above-average temperatures for February, March, and April 2026
According to Punxsutawney Phil, winter isn't ending any time soon.

The legendary groundhog's 2026 prediction called for another six weeks of the season, according to AP News, CNN, and Fox News. The tradition, which began with the first recorded Groundhog Day at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Penn. in the 1880s, has stood as the symbolic marker of the seasonal shift to many Americans for almost 150 years. Though the tradition's prevalence in the modern day begs the question: how accurate is the age-old method of gauging the weather?

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...con-get-it-right/ar-AA1VvTyH?ocid=socialshare
 
It was 26*F on the beach a couple days ago. Finally warmed.up into the 60s today.
 
We don't have groundhogs out here.

And this year we haven't had winter, either.
 
Saw a friend tonight. He was walking around wearing t shirt and no jacket. No big deal but it was 30 deg outside. I asked "why"?. He said all week it's been between 0 and -20. This is like a heat wave. He's from NY up around Fort Drum.
 
MrLucky said:
Saw a friend tonight. He was walking around wearing t shirt and no jacket. No big deal but it was 30 deg outside. I asked "why"?. He said all week it's been between 0 and -20. This is like a heat wave. He's from NY up around Fort Drum.
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Been there.

I mean the temperature spread...as well as the Vampire State, which, once you get away from NYC and the harbor, has pretty-extreme temperature swings. March 1978, I was on the back of the village garbage truck one morning, when the temperature was 34 below. A record for that area. BEAUTIFUL clear morning - the village tennis courts, surrounded by a chain-link fence that was frosted by the frozen dew...looked like sugar.

Burned like hell. Four hours, once a week, was how long it took to run trash in winter in our Summer Resort community; but that was a long time in that cold. Insulated one-piece suits weren't cheap and I hadn't bought one. Maybe just as well, since I'd only had to work outside in maybe four such cold snaps in five years.
 

Ice is building on Philly’s waterways as the snowpack persists and the cold intensifies​

Accompanying one of the more-enduring snowpacks in the period of record, ice has continued to build in the Philadelphia region’s waterways, and all indications are that it’s going to intensify in the next three days, perhaps significantly.

With temperatures expected to fall to single digits by Saturday night and wind gusts up to 55 mph, the region is about to experience an assault from a “cold air gun,“ said Alex Sosnowski, senior meteorologist at AccuWeather Inc.

The combination, plus the below-freezing temperatures at least through Monday and the ongoing cold spell that began last month, will not only deepen the ice cover but will make it more uniform by freezing over breaks in the ice.

“You’re going to see the ice-over become more extensive,” Sosnowski said.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...cold-intensifies/ar-AA1VRXCB?ocid=socialshare
 
Around 30 when I got up. Around 10 now, and it may go lower. Wind rampaging through Philly land. Not fit for man nor beast. Sick of this shit. Needs to warm up and rain to get rid of the snow that's been around for the past two weeks.
 
searcher said:
Around 30 when I got up. Around 10 now, and it may go lower. Wind rampaging through Philly land. Not fit for man nor beast. Sick of this shit. Needs to warm up and rain to get rid of the snow that's been around for the past two weeks.
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Take a little trip to a warm area.

You could try Coeur d'Alene, Idaho...beautiful country.

And warm. It's upper forties, right now...no snow on the ground. Sun is shining...reports I read, have the robins already back in the Bozeman area.
 
71° today.

Unusually warm weather for the middle of winter. Been a very dry winter at that!

Rumor has it last time it was this dry was circa 1971.
 
Goldhedge said:
71° today.

Unusually warm weather for the middle of winter. Been a very dry winter at that!

Rumor has it last time it was this dry was circa 1971.
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Oh, my. Fifty-five years.

Practically an eternity, in human memory.

But not even a noticeable blip in all of human history.

I know you know...but, for the Climate Cultists, think of all the WEIRD SCHITT that nobody's ever seen before. Like, I dunno, Mount St. Helen blowing up.

Dinosaurs walked the plains, and glaciers carved the lakes and canyons. We never have seen either.

It's been mild here in the Five Valleys, too. Of course the local sorry excuse for a newspaper (owned by Globalist Financier Warren Gold-Is-A-Pet-Rock Buffet) is doing what it can to promote Climate Panic.
 
Yah. We got an inch overnight - unexpected.

It's not much colder than it has been, though. Should be all gone in a couple of hours.
 
This is the last thing we need around here.

Nor’easter, 'blockbuster snowfall' could be brewing for weekend​

It might head out to sea, or it might be a 'blockbuster" late-weekend blizzard for the East Coast.

As of the afternoon of Feb. 17, top computer models continue to pore through weather data to determine the direction and strength of a storm that's still several days away from the East Coast. At the moment, the models don't agree.

"While confidence in a storm is fairly high, the timing, track, and exact ... weather impacts remain highly uncertain," the National Weather Service said in an online forecast discussion posted Feb. 17 at 2:29 p.m EST.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...wing-for-weekend/ar-AA1WxFF5?ocid=socialshare
 

The Next 48 Hours Will Be Absolutely WILD...​

Feb 21, 2026 #weatherchannel #ryanhall #ryanhallyall
A major Nor'easter threatens blizzard conditions from the Mid-Atlantic to New England Sunday into Monday, with 12+ inches of snow and damaging winds likely along the coast.

9:05
 

AccuWeather: Blizzard Warning for the coast in the Philadelphia region​

Feb 21, 2026
AccuWeather is tracking a Nor'easter expected to bring major impacts to most of the region.
4:23
 

Towns Declare Snow Emergencies Ahead Of Storm - LevittownNow.com

Ahead of a snowstorm that could bring more than a foot of snow to the area, several local municipalities have begun declaring snow emergencies. Bristol Township: Advertisements Bristol Township has declared a Snow Emergency due to a potential significant winter storm Sunday into Monday...
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Glad to see the Yeast Coast getting hammered again.

Couldn't happen to a more smarmy bunch of climate-cultists.

For a change, I'm not wishing for a trip out of the region. It remains fortysomething, was sunny all day. Yesterday we were to have an inch of snow; got maybe five flakes.

Next year...maybe we'll be in the mop-up of the Fourth Turning, and weather won't be anything we think about. That having dispensed with the Church of Climatology, we can just friggin' BURN stuff to stay warm.

Preferably gas. Oil would be okay. Firewood is not bad. Furniture if we have to. Democrats, if we're forced to.
 
Bottom Feeder said:
betcha some of those fat assed politicians (pubs and dems) would burn REAL good.
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A good old fashioned rural picnic.

My corner of Montana was, a century ago, a hub of the new railroad industry. Lotsa old railroad crossties lying around.

Creosote-soaked. My god, do they burn.

So. We take some California-transplant political control freaks (we have plenty, here, now) and tie them to posts, standing on top of those old ties...some cooking oil (a good use for seed oils) and newspaper (the only good use for our local "news" paper) and we have a celebration!

The way they celebrated the lynching and hanging of "Sheriff" Henry Plummer, 130 years ago in Bannack, down the road from me.
 
Here in Virginia, it rained all day yesterday with the temps hovering around 36. Looks like we dodged the snowfall. Have to drain some water out of our pool later today.
 
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