Horse Trailer

Posted: 11 April 2010 – 10:06 pm

trailerA couple of months ago I purchased a horse trailer.  Been a long while since I have had one in my possession.  What a different kind of feeling it has made.  Kind of hard to explain if you are not a farm/rancher type, but I am going to try to just a bit… but first a bit of background is order.

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Horse Market

Posted: 5 November 2009 – 9:30 pm

down_graphA few weeks back as I will sometimes to just for an afternoon of fun and entertainment I went to the local horse auction.  A few clarifications are in order there to begin.  First, I was only casually looking, having a half a thought depending on prices and such of maybe sometime in the very near future pursuit of a draft cross for jousting.  The local sale is not really all that local, but at about an hour away it is not bad of a drive.

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Farrier Freedom

Posted: 12 April 2009 – 6:00 am

FarrierAs an aside, the word farrier is in the spell checker I am now using and is recognized as an acceptable word.  You realize I have been using that word in various documents since at least around 2000, maybe slightly longer and none, not even the Microsoft Word dictionary, has contained that word. So my hats off to the folks doing this open source dictionary that I am using.

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