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Mosquitoes When It’s Wet…Flies When It’s Dry

Mosquitoes When It’s Wet…Flies When It’s Dry

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…that’s the story here right now….. Here in our little Swamp…it’s normally wet…very wet…squishy & soggy wet….. …..and we have more than the average share of mosquitoes….. But when it’s such a huge drought…(like what we’re in the middle of right now)….. …..we have flies….. …..nasty biting flies….. There are big flies…little flies…black flies…yellow flies…and flies with neon colored swiveling eyes….. *****(Biting Flies–And What To Expect)***** And they all bite….. It’s because everything…

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~~~He Came Back!~~~

~~~He Came Back!~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well this IS good news….. Our new blacksmith actually returned for the mare’s second trimming!….. He seemed committed last month when he first came to trim the girls….. But you never know where blacksmiths are concerned…especially when it comes to trimming the big horses….. As I’d posted before…Montana quit on us…and from the horse-gossip I’ve recently heard…he’s quit on blacksmithing entirely….. However…we were able to find and hire Arizona as our new farrier……..

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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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Technology and the Hag

Technology and the Hag

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** ~~~We’ve already established that Technology doesn’t like me…and I don’t like Technology~~~ We mutually don’t understand and/or have patience for one another….. As far as I am concerned…technology is a four-letter word….. And yes…maybe that’s a rock pounding…knuckle dragging attitude….. My most recent experience at coexisting with small things in plastic boxes…was my cell phone’s attempt to kill me….. I was told I had to entrust it with my contacts…my photos…my personal data……..

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*Riding Lessons*

*Riding Lessons*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** My daughters had a riding lesson with Mary Constance….. It’s a good start to the New Year….. But there’s a very dark side to riding lessons….. …..the screaming agony of the previously unused muscles….. I don’t envy my daughters the excruciating muscles which are guaranteed to follow…they are assuredly going to limp around with tears in their eyes….. Why is it…if you stop riding…even for the shortest period of time…you end up with…

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And Now…For The Rest Of The Story

And Now…For The Rest Of The Story

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I need to make a disclaimer….. …..!Kids…Don’t Try This At Home!….. Remember my post about bringing Pepper home from the recent Hunt(?)….. And Remember I mentioned that there were a few “hiccups” in getting her home….. …..well…there were….. We ran into a bit of a snag when we were loading Pepper into the trailer….. …..we had known there was (a little bit of) a problem with one (a couple) of the welds on…

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~Pepper Comes Home~

~Pepper Comes Home~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Finally….. After such a long time….. I have a Hunt horse again….. I can’t tell you just how happy that makes me…I can’t stop grinning….. Mary Constance has been Hunting her for me…giving her experience…and mileage….. She told me that she even requested one of her lesson students to get on and off Pepper fifty times…in the clumsiest way possible….. …..the young lady dragged her foot over Pepper’s rump…poked her in the ribs…hung…

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The Hay Delivery

The Hay Delivery

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Alfalfa bales can go bad quickly in Florida’s Humid Hot Summers….. I had purchased what I thought Brave and Pepper would need here for the month of September…and it was delivered on Labor Day….. Which was all fine and good…if things had remained dry here…but…things didn’t….. It’s always a crapshoot in Summer in sunny subtropical Florida…well honestly…it’s not even that….. It’s more of a guarantee that it’s going to be soggy and humid……..

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~So Close~

~So Close~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I was planning on picking up Pepper at Mary Constance’s and bringing her home….. Everything was so friggin’ close….. So close….. But…I just discovered that the pasture where I intended to keep Pepper…is now totally wet and holding water….. I went out yesterday to pull some last minute weeds (the less than desirable fennel and burrs)…and I sank….. Pepper is the Clydesdale mare who is coming here and who I plan to ride……..

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Horse Flies

Horse Flies

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** You’ve got your common house flies…and gnats…and no-see-ums…and fruit flies….. *****(Information on Horse & Deer Flies)***** …..but the Big Mama’s of the fly-community are the gargantuan horse flies….. They mean business…they are Humvees with wings…and an oil rig drilling proboscis….. It usually takes more than a few slaps and a well-placed stomp to take them out….. …..(along with some ever-ready chickens to peck them into oblivion)….. Normal flies are annoying…some bite…but mostly they…

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