Christmas is Coming!
But why wait? Bill found a really great site and he made the mistake of sending me the link. It’s called Cafe Press and they have a really neat concept. You find a design you like (they have over 23,500 designs for “horse lovers!”) and put it on a choice of items, such as T-shirts, hoodies, coffee cups, tote bags, calendars, journals, clocks, ornaments – dozens of choices that vary with the design you choose. Their prices are reasonable and the designs are just great. Some are beautiful, some are funky, some are witty. I like the witty ones myself, such as “I do my own stunts” with a cartoon silhouette of a rider thrown from his horse (see below). These were also my favorites, although I certainly haven’t viewed all 23,500 – yet:
“All I Need to Know In Life I Learned from My Horse” (you have to read that one)
“If this shirt is clean I haven’t been to the barn yet”
“Horses are only afraid of two things – things that move, and things that don’t.”
“Thank you for flying Air Amateur…” (you have to read that one too!)
“I’m being raised in a barn” (for kids, of course – or not)
And my personal favorite (click for products with this image):
Good advice, there!
And here is Bill’s favorite (click for products with this image):
Bill: “I have been there! It’s funny because it’s true. I’ll write about my stunt incident sometime soon.”
What’s your favorite? Happy shopping!
We like bringing treats to our horses and usually that means an apple or some carrots we buy in bulk. But one treat they’ve been craving is something I just refuse to give them…my fingers. Well actually there is a list: fingers, hands, arms, ears and sometimes feet/shoes. My horse, Moonshine, is very gentle and uses her tongue a lot so it seems like she’s kissing you. “Aw, how sweet…HEY stop that!” I’ve found that keeping my palm open towards her keeps her from being able to vacuum my fingers into her mouth but I keep thinking, horses are herbivores, right? I mean they don’t stalk and eat small animals, that I’ve observed. Come to think of it, I almost never notice any small animals in our pasture. Oh well, I suppose my fingers are so interesting because they just held an apple or carrot. But since when did apples and carrots wiggle and move around so much, huh? So if you end up with your own horse, watch those fingers! Those of you with horses already know this I’m sure.
“I should have been a cowboy…just like Gene and Roy,” as the country song goes (Toby Keith). A few weeks ago we found ourselves in a little country diner in east Tennessee, seated at a table surrounded by memorabilia from the 1950’s and earlier. For 10 minutes while I waited for my lunch, I marvelled at all the old stuff, especially a poster about a Gene Autry western called “
I just found a nice horse background/wallpaper photo I’m going to use on my PC desktop (also works on MAC and Linux) and thought I’d share. This site offers tons of free backgrounds but the horse one really caught my eye. You’ll have to suffer through some ads on the site but it’s understandable since the pics are free for personal use. They offer a variety of sizes for almost any common monitor or LCD screen including widescreen sizes. I have nothing to do with the site, just wanted to pass on something neat.
I was out of town for twelve days and left poor Bill to take care of the horses while I was gone. I returned with my dad (my mom arrived when I left), so we wanted to take our company to places around our cool new hometown. Some of those places are a “fer piece” from our homestead, so it brought up a question we’ve been skirting around since the arrival of our equine adoptees: What to do with the horses if we’re gone overnight?