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Monthly Archives: April 2007
We want to show our horses
A friend invited us to a local horse show this weekend where her kids were competing. We are now fairly certain we want to show our horses. We’re not interested in the super fancy dress-up shows, not that there is … Continue reading
Wood chewing habit update
As I’ve mentioned before, Moonshine has a wood-chewing habit. She’ll nibble on our fence, especially after a meal or a snack and then she’d latch on and suck in air. Weird. One theory on why she was doing this was … Continue reading
Au naturel, hairy legs and all
I recently read that horse fetlock hair shouldn’t be trimmed. It seems the fetlock hair we think looks untidy actually serves the purpose of channeling rain water away from the horse’s hooves. Think of it as a tassel. I’m told … Continue reading
Snickers
Here’s a little bit of trivia for you. The Snickers candy bar, first introduced in 1930, was named after the company owner’s family horse. What a cool name for a horse, don’t you think? Maybe our next horse.
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One Year With Valentine
Well, here we are, one year (and then some) after Valentine came into our lives. I can tell you, he has changed our lives in ways I couldn’t even imagine. When we first thought about moving to Tennessee and we … Continue reading
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The predicted extinction of the horse
The other day I came across an article from the Ladies Home Journal, dated sometime in the year 1900. It was an article of predictions about what might happen in the next 100 years. An interesting read, some of the … Continue reading
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