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The Fox Hunting Season Continues…

The Fox Hunting Season Continues…

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** This year’s Fox Hunting Season is in full swing….. Mary Constance just sent me the GPS mapping of the hounds at last Saturday’s Hunt….. It was at a ranch just south of us…and apparently they covered 15.5 miles….. Geez!  Louise!………….that was a long Hunt….. But a good Hunt horse can do it…at least the weather was a little cooler…not cold…but cooler….. Mary Constance said the first half of the Hunt was a blank……..

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~~~~~Saint Hubert and Fox Hunting Colors~~~~~

~~~~~Saint Hubert and Fox Hunting Colors~~~~~

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*****Various Saint Hubert Medals***** All my life I wanted to Fox Hunt….. …..from the first stories I heard from my father…..about his father….. …..and the horses that they bred on their farm in Chardon, Ohio….. …..and the ones who ultimately ended up in the northeastern Ohio Fox Hunts….. …..(Chagrin Valley Fox Hunt, to be specific)….. *****Chagrin Valley Hunt History***** …..beautiful horses….. …..and great stories….. …..(I still have the sepia-toned photographs in my wallet)….. …..(horses jumping roadsters…..horses jumping wickedly tall fences…..horses…

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~~~(update): ETA Is Now A Hurricane (1)~~~

~~~(update): ETA Is Now A Hurricane (1)~~~

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…………………Tropical Storm (?) Eta is doing something out in the Gulf………………… Here let me show you….. There….. There…..isn’t that crystal clear!?!….. Occasional early bands of rain splashed over us yesterday….. I actually like that kind of blowing rain….. …..it’s soft….. Right now…..we are on the east side of the storm….. …..that’s the wet side….. …..it scoops up the water….. …..and then it dumps it on us…..as it goes around counter-clockwise….. Everything is drippy….. …..the Runner Ducks love it….. …..but it’s…

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~~~An Etude Of Worms~~~

~~~An Etude Of Worms~~~

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Okay…..parasites probably have nothing to do with music… I was just trying to impress you with using the word “etude”… I was trying to sound cultured… …..I’ll stop now….. But, parasites are a big issue with animals in the sunny/humid/hot/petri-dish we call Florida… Everyone with hooves and paws and claws gets wormed here………….regularly… I think I’ve mentioned before, that when I asked my Internist if we (humans) should be wormed regularly……. …..she just looked at me like I was crazy……….

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Canoodling In The Country

Canoodling In The Country

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Dr. Stevie Wonder made a visit yesterday… He gave us vaccinations for Addy, so that she’ll be well-boostered for her up-coming foaling… We gave the big girl her annual botulism vaccination along with another Pneumabort-K (the name kind of explains the shot)… …………………………………AND…………………………………. Dr. Wonder ultrasounded Claire to see if her co-mingling with Brave has left her in a family-way……. …..and it has!!!!!!! …..Tra!  La!….. Claire has a bun in the oven! Brave………………………..you dog! Claire is about fifty days pregnant……….

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~~~Farm Husbandry…….(with the husband)~~~

~~~Farm Husbandry…….(with the husband)~~~

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This last weekend was productive… Some key projects really needed addressing… They were all a decrepit/rotted mess… …..beyond decrepit… Fence repair is ALWAYS high on the list… Fences are never perfect… Fences always need fixing… Did you know those elves or pixies who live in everyone’s dryer……the ones who steal and/or eat all of those spare socks…….? …..well, I’m positive their second cousins are the fence-gnawing gnomes… I’m sure those beasties live in a dead stump out back in our…

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…….it was a dark and ominous evening in the forest…….

…….it was a dark and ominous evening in the forest…….

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Fox Hunters are game for just about any inclement weather……. Several years ago our tried & true club members were actually Hunting during a small(?) named Hurricane……. …..in all fairness it had just been down-graded to a Tropical Storm at that point…… …..(but there was another one on the way)……. …..to this day (when we Hunt on that Fixture) there are still maturing pine trees that have a right-angle growth pattern (parallel to the ground) where the wind blew them…

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The Horse Psychic

The Horse Psychic

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I’m pulling out all the stops… Yesterday I had a psychic come to our property to “read” my horses and the land… Surprised? Oh…….come on……. …..you shouldn’t be by now! …..and here’s a spoiler…….it’s not the first time she’s been here either… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sabrina came yesterday… (alias…alias…alias) She’s crusty…….I like her… Years ago (2004) she was here to read two of our horses… One of which, we were having a great deal of behavioral trouble with……. Sabrina told us…….all she…

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It’s Finally Cooler…

It’s Finally Cooler…

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The weather has FINALLY gotten cooler…!!! Tra!  La! I don’t know how long this is going to last though… It’s been hot and sweltering and humid for so very long. I’d forgotten what pleasant weather felt like.. …..I’m used to moss and mold growing on everything…..including me… …..late summer here is much like swimming through terrarium-scum….. But I recently had to dust off the heat lamp and put it on Long John Silver (our geriatric Umbrella cockatoo) for the last…

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Go~~~Nads~~~Go

Go~~~Nads~~~Go

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****************WARNING*************** *****************DISCLAIMER***************** *****************This Is A Farm Post**************** *****************Farm “Things” Get Discussed On Farm Posts*****************   Mason has a new purpose, a new career, a new owner, and a new home……. Hopefully everything will work out and just maybe he will become Sebastian’s next Hunt horse…….. Mason needs to learn the basics of being ridden at speeds less than a flat-out gallop and not just in circles. The down side for Mason was…….he had to be gelded……. ~~~~~~~Mason was NOT consulted~~~~~~~…

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