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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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Ttazzman said:
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. :ROFLMAO:

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.

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CiscoKid said:
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. :ROFLMAO:

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.

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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 :cheers:
 

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.
 
searcher said:

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
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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.
 
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