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MAY 2008 |
1. Saturday & Sunday, May 3rd & 4th. Fox Hollow Spring Ride in LeSueur, MN. More Info... |
2. Sunday, May 11, 2008, 8:00 a.m. St. Croix Riders Annual WSCA Mother's Day Horse Show. Baldwin, WI Info: call Kelly 715-778-5776 or stcroixriders@yahoo.com |
3. Saturday & Sunday, May 17 & 18, 2008 LeSueur Saddle Club Overnight Trail Ride. LeSueur, MN. More Info...
4. Saturday, May 24, 2008, LeSueur Saddle Club Open WSCA Horse Show, LeSueur, MN. (Mid-State Points Show). More Info... |
5. Saturday & Sunday, May 24th & 25th, 2008 MN National Barrel Horse Assn. Memorial Weekend Barrel Race at Stoney Ridge Stables, Mankato, MN. Added Money, Both Days! More Info... |
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Send Us YOUR Stories....life's a journey and we'd like to hear about how a horse or horses affected your journey...just e-mail the webmaster. Here's mine..
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ONLY HORSE PEOPLE...........................
* Believe in the 11th Commandment: Inside leg to outside rein.
* Know that all topical medications come in either indelible blue or neon
yellow.
* Think nothing of eating a sandwich after mucking out stables.
* Know why a thermometer has a yard of yarn attached to one end of it.
* Are banned from Laundromats.
* Fail to associate whips, chains and leather with sexual deviancy.
* Can magically lower their voices five octaves to bellow at a pawing horse.
* Have a language all their own ("If he pops his shoulder, I have to
close that hand and keep pushing with my seat in case he sucks back".)
* Will end relationships over their hobby.
* Cluck to their cars to help them up hills.
* Insure their horses for more than their cars.
* Will give you 20 names and reasons for that bump on your horse.
* Know more about their horse's nutrition than their own.
* Have neatsfoot oil stains on the carpet right next to the TV.
* Have a vocabulary that can make a sailor blush.
* Have less wardrobe than their horse.
* Engage in a hobby that is more work than their day job.
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My Wife and Her Horse...
My wife she has a horse, with flaxen mane and tail.
She thinks he is the finest thing that ever jogged a rail.
She calls him Dandy Darling, and if the truth I tell,
That fancy pampered horse has made my life pure hell!
My wife used to cook for me, and serve it with champagne.
Now she’d rather feed that horse and mix his special grain.
She rides him every morning, and grooms him half the night.
The last time that she kissed me, it was just to be polite!
He dresses better than I do, with matching wraps and ties;
My wardrobe is so neglected now that I attract flies…
One day my wife was shopping. She was at the mall,
and fancy pampered Dandy was just standing in his stall.
He looked so smug and sassy, that I began to grin.
I’d saddle that spoiled sucker and take him for a spin.
I’ve wondered since if cues I gave he might have misconstrued,
For when I climbed aboard that horse, he rightly came unglued!
He bucked and spun and snorted fire, and threw me through the fence.
I saw big stars and there are teeth that I ain’t heard from since!
My wife came home and saw me just a lying in the dirt.
She rushed up to her HORSE and asked him, "sweetheart are you hurt"?
He’d scratched his nose a little bit, and the memory galls me yet.
She left me lying in the mud, and ran in to call the VET !!!
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Your History lesson for today....
Subject: The truth about manure
Pay attention, you may learn something.
Manure: In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be
transported by ship. This was before commercial fertilizer's
invention, so large shipments of manure were common.
It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than
when wet. But once water (at sea) hit it, it not only became heavier, but
the process of fermentation began again, of which a by product is methane
gas. As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can imagine what
could (and did) happen. Methane began to build up below decks and the
first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!
Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined
just what was happening.
After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the term
"Ship High In Transit" on them, which meant for the sailors to stow it
high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the
hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.
Thus evolved the term "S.H.I.T.", (Ship High In Transport) which has
come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.
You didn't know the true history of this word did you.
Neither did I.
I had always thought it was a golf term.
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