~~~It’s Halloween Tonight~~~

~~~It’s Halloween Tonight~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s here….. Halloween is a fun Holiday…and I’ve discovered I can get a lot done during this twenty-four hour period of time….. It probably because of the excessive levels of sugar spinning through my metabolism….. It’s an annual internal battle that I have with myself….. Do I eat the Trick or Treat candy?………….or Don’t I?….. During August and September…I always say that I am NOT going to over-do the refined sugar intake (again)……..

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We’re Tired~Happy~But~Exhausted

We’re Tired~Happy~But~Exhausted

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* But we did it….. One more Halloween Hunt Club Tea under our belt….. There were about forty people at our Guest Hunt event last Saturday….. I believe a good time was had by all…but honestly…I’m still cross-eyed tired….. But we got everything down to the host’s ranch ahead of time in the morning….. We were set up before the field came back in….. I think they got on a coyote run…but I’m really…

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~Hunt Club Halloween Tea Prep~

~Hunt Club Halloween Tea Prep~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Today my daughters and I are in a whir…baking and cooking….. Tomorrow is our Halloween Tea at a local ranch where we Fox Hunt….. It’s a Guest Hunt…so there should be more riders and guests than usual…maybe around forty….. …..it’s a little hard to estimate the amount of food to prepare and bring….. …..so it’s better to over-do rather than under-do………….too little food & drink is just a bummer….. We’re going to have…

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I Never Want To Talk About Dog Fennel Again

I Never Want To Talk About Dog Fennel Again

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* …..and yet…here I am….. The big towering dog fennel is mostly mowed down now…and little new fresh sprigs are thinking it’s appropriate to try sprouting back….. I’ll have at it with the bush hog again before the fluffy little sprout-lets can get a foot hold….. I haven’t even had a chance to start on the front pasture…because I can’t shove the gates open wide enough yet to get the tractor through….. The dog…

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~Almost There~

~Almost There~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The Hunt Season has begun….. Pepper is still down at Mary Constance’s…but she’s fit enough to go out on several Hunts already….. She really seems to be enjoying herself…she already knows the in’s & out’s of being a Whipper-In’s mount….. It’s a little more complicated than what she would be doing with me….. My Hunt contributions really cap out at how many flasks I can hide all over myself and in my saddlebags……..

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***Bugs***

***Bugs***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Sunny sub-tropical Florida is known for its beaches…resorts…beautiful sunrises over the Atlantic…and equally gorgeous sunsets in the Gulf….. The peripheral edges of the state…(and Disney World)…are idilic vacation destinations for lots of tourists….. Those of us who live here year round…(Not at Cinderella’s castle…or in a beach cabana)…we live in the interior of the state…at various elevations…usually marginally above sea level….. …..(I think we’re at about thirty-five feet above sea level here)….. We…

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*This Old House (revisited)*

*This Old House (revisited)*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I take electricity very seriously….. I think we all should….. Our house was built in 1980…we’ve lived here since 1992….. All the time we’ve been here…I’ve had a deep-seated uneasiness about its electrical wiring….. There are outlets that don’t work…some have never worked…some recently decided not to work…some work sometimes…and not other times….. …..it’s a craps roll….. If you put the blender on in the kitchen…(and you have Christmas tree lights on)…then the…

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Let’s Talk Peanuts

Let’s Talk Peanuts

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I know I’ve done at least one post in the past about peanuts….. …..particularly…boiled peanuts….. But because they’re so good…I thought they warranted another go-round….. …..I love those slimy little things…they’re addictive….. My northern Ohio relatives think I’m crazy…(for a lot of different reasons)…but specifically regarding the boiling of raw green peanuts….. They just don’t get the wonderfulness that is the boiling of a peanut…and the savoring of its innards….. It’s a Southern-thing…

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Horse Health Re-Visited

Horse Health Re-Visited

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We brought Pepper home this last December….. She had been at Mary Constance’s farm….. When we brought her home…just to be on the safe side…our veterinarian (Doctor Stevie Wonder) pulled some blood for baseline bloodwork….. …..just to keep on file…as a history…to refer to….. Doctor Wonder intended to compare her blood again…in about six months time…for any changes….. Well…that was the plan….. This last April…while Pepper was getting her annual shots (West Nile…EWT…etc)…and…

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~Imelda Update~

~Imelda Update~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I thought it only fair to give an update on Invest 94-L….. Here we are on the last day of September and Invest 94-L did become Tropical Storm Imelda….. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team of storms running in tandem like Imelda and Hurricane Humberto….. At present they are staying off our eastern coastline…and they might just stay that way as they run North by NorthEast….. But it’s not a guarantee……..

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