BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: GUEST,Melani
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 06:18 PM

My son Daniel skied (skiied? whatever)a couple of miles earlier this week (cross-country). This is a major achievement for someone with balance and coordination problems who couldn't even stand up on skis a few years ago.

My daughter (who wishes to be known as Wharf Rat) will probably graduate from high school without having a nervous breakdown.

We have two rats, Olivia and Bianca. They like to eat spaghetti (we give them each an end of the same piece!) and dive down the neck of your shirt.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: MMario
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 03:24 PM

*chuckle* Matt - not that I would advise it; but the problem is you keep thinking with your brain - which is actually a rare condition for us males at your age.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Matt_R
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 03:18 PM

I think it's a little of both, Mario. But dang it pretty hard to think this stuff up!

Ella, I'll see you as soon as I get my swimming goggles.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:52 PM

*G*

Well Hardi does like photography, but.... no, not going there, better clear entries... where's zat button to clear, oh yes, there it is, boy when I get the new glasses this will all be so much easier...

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Pseudolus
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:23 PM

Oops, sorry about that cheesecake comment, although it's more fun to keep 'em wonderin than to explain so I'll just leave it at that!!! We know better and that's all that matters.... :)

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:12 PM

Frank, we'll cake-decorate you into the schedule. People may misunderstand your cheesecake comment BTW. I AM a pastor's wife you know. Tame that tongue! You gonna do mewzic with me for Saturday night service then? If so we need to collaborate on tunes. You pick six and I will, then we can run through them and see which ones work when we do them together, for a final list of 3-5 items?

Matt, Mon is OK, real bizz. She is here each Weds. evening. Maybe we phone you sometime and sing for you.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 09:10 AM

lol MMario... me too... funny!

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Pseudolus
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 09:09 AM

OK Matt and Ella, get a room!!!! LOL!!!

Susan,

It may not be until April because of a couple of committments and a gig or two but right now the third weekend in April looks real good....I can taste the cheesecake already!!!!!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: MMario
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 09:08 AM

I've never been able to decide if Matt knows what he is saying sometimes and chortling merrily at his keyboard or if he hasn't a clue. Either way - I'm usually glad he's around

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 08:51 AM

ooo oooohhhhhh.... hmmm! erm... ahhhhh

oooo biting my tongue, going to remain good going to be good... can't say it...!

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 08:48 AM

Hee hee...onward and upward!

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 08:46 AM

lol - Matt.. a persistant wee chap arn't you... ha ha ha...

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 08:40 AM

That's ok Ella, I'll settle for "live-in boyfriend".

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 08:34 AM

Lol... Matt - whoa there!!!

No - it's my neices who think I should be married, not me... I think I am far far too independant to be married.. .lol

Though I do wonder if I am ever going to grow up.

And any ways... taming of the shrew has NOTHING on me...

Lol - once (and then some) bitten twice shy!

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 08:19 AM

Oh Ella...you're looking for a husband, eh? I better start swimming fast!!!

Susan, I haven't heard from Mon in a while...how is she doing?

--Matt

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Morticia
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 05:42 AM

David, that was a powerful story you're daughter wrote, please pass along my congratulations to her....I was deeply moved and delighted to know there are such journalists still in the world......as for that poor family, I wish there was something we could do.Is there?

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 02:41 AM

LOL

2 boys did navy nuke school and took fleas to active duty, 1 sub and one carrier, and the carrier one, my stepson Mike, is in port for the first time in 4 months and called us first, tonight. The other, Hardi's stepson David, has a plan for regaining custody of the boat he was on before being pressganged onto a rival sub. AND they are not in jail!

1 daughter overcoming her third round of mono to be a college frosh on campus 10 minutes away, and brave enough and smart enough to fail a class rather than make herself sicker, while getting great grades in the rest of the classes, all honors level.

1 cat who gave up catatonia (not kidding) in favor of lap occupation and such, my son's cat who has adopted me finally after going into shock when he left.

1 cat who has found every possible spot in my house to pee, poop, amd spit up on, who looked SO cute when he got a 6" styrofoam ball stuck on, with burrs, to the fluffy underside of his gray plumy tail... bouncy bouncy down the stairs, funny sight-- but who has accepted incarceration with grace (Grace is happy too) and who escaped an attempted catnap, no a kidnap, today by marauding cat-needers who came by to take him away...

1 dead wild bird in the burnt storage addition of the house, half eaten by...

numerous barn rats who have moved into same area again this winter despite roof being open to the rain and snow and wind, DUMB rats...

I can't claim the dog, a tiny red dalmatian. We feed her and love her, but she belongs to MMario AND HE KNOWS IT. Little Ruby Hoobie Dooby. She's OK for a soul-scarred kennel rat from a puppy mill who had never been touched by a human bean til she was liberated at 8 months by the SPCA, never saw a door open and close, never been in a house, never been on a leash, everything terrifying-- she plays and snuggles and then lurks in her corner, it all being much too much for her... Oh she has her own computer chair now and was "at" Mudcat with me the other day for about a half hour, holding hands. Dogs at PalTalk. I'll give ya a Pal! Man's best friend that's who! Give her an admin button...

And fleas.

OH AND THE CLUSTER FLIES, billions! Come on-- who has cluster flies???

(Yo, Frank, you still coming over????)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Feb 01 - 12:55 AM

Daviddw, thanks very much for the link. That is a fine and powerful story. I hope the attorneys are successful for the widow. Monica really captured the stark realities tinged with such odd bits here and there of colour...the marigolds, candle, incense...no wonder you are so proud! Wow, she's only 27?! That's just wonderful!!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: MMario
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 08:02 PM

KIm - bless you, but I am 46 - and the picture is less then five years old.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: campfire
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 07:59 PM

No kids; all my dependants have four feet:

Bentley, the Labra-Dane, who is the best dog in the whole world.

Buddy, the elderly Basset hound, who recently got his Therapy Dog certificate. He doesn't think its a big deal, he just sits there and gets petted lots and lots. But the seniors really enjoy him.

Jack, the huge orange tabby. Knows how to say "FEED ME" in six languages, all of them annoying. But he comes when he's called and fetches.

Bones, the not-so-large black cat. Survived being run over (before I knew him) and three months in a body cast. Now he can jump my six-foot stockade fence without thinking twice about it (which is why he doesn't get to go outside anymore!) No mouse lives that he can't catch (another reason to keep him in - he only eats the heads and leaves the poor headless bodies as "presents" for me). Can't sleep unless his paw is entwined around my ankle.

Three box turtles; the sexual prowess of the male is documented on the Turtle Mating thread.

campfire

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: ddw
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 07:15 PM

Kat — The story that Monica won for and that is nominated for the Pulitzer is here, I hope. Also hope your screen shows it better than mine does. When I called it up the whole right-hand side was cut off.

david

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: kimmers
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 06:37 PM

One wonderful hubby, two delicious cats. No kids of our own but lots of kids in my life, through work and church, that I'm proud of.

I'm not sure who is higher maintenance, though, the hubby or the cats. Both yowl when they're hungry. Neither seem to be capable of cleaning their own bathroom. Both leave piles of hair lying around, and sleep a lot. But they're all warm and cuddly on cold nights... and none of them snore. Well, Lucy snores a little if her head is pushed into the pillow.

Lucy the Obese Calico is 17 pounds on a little body that should weigh 7 or 8 pounds. She most resembles a wallowing harbor seal. Simber the Long-Haired Red Tabby is a large and muscle-y creature, fearless when stalking pieces of paper but terrified of the door buzzer. Kitty the Weird and Skinny Maine Coon, rest her furry little soul, died last May from FIV. Thankfully, neither of the other two have shown any signs of it. I haven't had the heart to have them tested, as they are devoted to one another and I couldn't bear having one infected cat put down if the other was negative. May as well let them live in happy ignorance, poor little creeters.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Kim C
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 05:53 PM

But aren't you only 29? Sure looks it from your picture. ;)

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: MMario
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 04:28 PM

you should see them in their matching sweatshirts - the ones with "parents of" and all the "kids" names on the front- and on the back "grandparents of" and all the grandkids names - colour coded to the parents name. It wasn't easy fitting all the names on the sweatshirts! (I am one of nine siblings) But they like them because they are great ice-breeakers when they are meeting new people. (Not that either of them has ever really had a problem with that.)

Last summer Mom was bewailing the fact that her "baby" is over 35. (and a good thing, too, since his older daughter is going to be a HS senior this year!)

And that as of july he will be the only one of her children still under 40.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Pseudolus
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 04:20 PM

Shhhhhhhh, don't anyone tell MMario's parents that they're over 80!!! They apparently don't know!! And that's a good thing!!

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Kim C
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 04:20 PM

MMario I want to be like your parents when I grow up...

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: MMario
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 03:57 PM

So could I, Sorcha, so could I!

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 03:51 PM

Good heavens, Mario! I could use some of their energy!!

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: GUEST,Nancy King at work
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 03:43 PM

My kids are both grown up and moved out on their own (though one is not really an "empty-nester" until they get their stuff out of the house...). Actually, some 'Catters may have met one or both of them at Getaways and elsewhere--they're both fine folksingers. The oldest, Ken Schatz, is an actor and acting coach in New York City, and one-half of "The NexTradition." Dan Schatz is a Unitarian minister in New Hampshire and a multi-instrumentalist and singer of traditional, "new folk" and original songs. Little kids are cute and fun, but the real payoff comes when they grow up to be perfectly nice people you enjoy spending time with! I also have a silly gray cat named Roscoe, though Dan calls him "Underfoot," because that's where he usually is.

Cheers, Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: MMario
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 02:04 PM

well - might as well brag about my parents while I'm here - Mom will be 81 in May - Dad turns 84 this month. since September they have:

1) Flown to St. Petersberg and taken a river cruise down the volga - ending up in Moscow before flying home. (September)

2) driven from Cape Cod to Seattle (October)(via florida, georgia, texas, california and oregon)

3) Flown to china and taken a tour down the Yang-tze (November)

4)- spent a week in Auckland

5) toured Australia - a whirlwind month! (December)

6) and are currently traveling back to Cape Cod from Seattle - via California, Texas, Georgia, New York. - by car mind you...

They already have their next trip - a tour of Nunivat - planned and signed up.

They do check in every couple of weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Manitas
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 01:52 PM

100% on a Psychology test? I'd be very afraid!

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Bardford
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 01:25 PM

There's a cat, but no kids at our house. I work in a children's hospital, though, so am reminded daily of the spectrum of possibilities. It is very instructive and humbling to see these people who exist effortlessly in the present. When does that ability evaporate? When is it that we become focussed on the future? Is it when adults start asking us " What are you going to be when you grow up?"

I teach a night course to 9-12 year olds. "Anybody here have a job?", I ask. A 12 year old girl puts up her hand. "My job is being a kid." Brilliant.

Our cat is called CSIS, (See-sis, after the Canadian government spy outfit}. Aside from the normal cat activities (inactivity) she enjoys jumping onto the dining room table (forbidden) and breakdancing to whatever is playing on the stereo. No kidding. She lies on her back and squirms like a salted slug. She's partial to fiddle music. Perhaps some atavistic connection to her ancestors and kinfolk who sacrificed their abdomens to music.

Here is the first poem I remember writing, about a cat we had when I was a kid. She was orange/gold and was a consistent part of my childhood, from kindergarten til I left home for college. This poem from grade one or two:

We have a cat called Nugget.
My mom won't let you bug it.

Cheers, Bardford

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Morticia
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 01:19 PM

This is a great thread....congratulations to all the proud parents out there and I'm thrilled to hear about little Brendan.Please note that the Bratling is my god -daughter so I'm sharing kudos on that one :)My house is now devoid of children as my daughter is at university ( just got 100% on a psychology exam.....could I BE more proud?) My son lives with his dad.....I miss them both....a lot.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Pseudolus
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 01:19 PM

OK, one more recap.....

So far this thread is proud of eight daughters, seven cats, 3 barn cats, one granddaughter, one nephew, one Mister, eight dogs, one friends baby, one terrific mouse, one son, two grandsons, one Brendan, one fondly remembered budgie, one stepdaughter, one rat, one husband, one wife, one set of twins, three Skye terriers, one bratling, one peeing cat, two hayburners, one Palimino, one burro, some sheep, some geese, some chickens, an infinite number of rabbits, two Jersey Bull Calves, two wild boar sows, some kids, some grandkids, some cats, some dogs, some rodents, one seven year old gifted pain in the ass (not my words), one 1st Lieutenant, one Pulitzer Prize winner, one connemara Mare, some Geldings, some flea-ridden kids, eight goldfish, two nieces, one Monty Moo, One overweight Tigger, fifty babi Koi, 25 Shubukin, 112 fall babies, and a Porch Band......

......and a partridge in a pear tree.........

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: JulieF
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 12:58 PM

One Daughter - 15 now. The last few weeks have brought a new diversion - she has aquired a young man. The game now is to find out about this young man - so that every time she decides to tell me something - I already know ( please note this is a game for two players - Tim and myself - when she tells us things - we act surprised and also note - we stay out of her room). It is a really funny feeling , having a daughter who is dating. My brothers have promised to come round and be intimidating - big lads , my brothers .

As for pets - we were reduced to mice as I'm somewhat allergic to cats, dogs etc. They were fun. We had two male mice - Gandalf and Bilbo. When they were young they kept getting out of their cage and we had to have a net curtain nearby to throw over them as they scurried past. I came home one day to find a very round mouse fast asleep in the food bag. However, when they got older all they did was fight viciously and we had to separate them.

All the best

Julie

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: MMario
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 12:42 PM

Goldfish? lessee- theres the 50 gallon tank with the 50 baby koi, the 50 gallon with the 25 shubukin and about the same number of red and white comets; the 30 gallon with the mixed 2 year old "babies" from the pond, the 30 gallon tank with the dozen or so "fall babies" from the pond - plus a couple leftover from the spring, and the 12 x 12 x 2 tank in the next room with 100 + babies from this fall.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 12:00 PM

K?? K he asks?

U better!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Pseudolus
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 10:57 AM

Susan,

I love a distortion-pedaled bass a much as the next guy (maybe more!) but I think I'll stick to what I know! :)

I will find out what you meant (in person!) when Karen and I come up to visit your neck of the woods probably in April.....I'll keep you posted. Don't forget you promised I could annoy your parishiners with my dulcid tones when I come up.......k?

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 07:16 AM

Tigger also got his lardy arsed butt stuck in next doors cat flap...

How do you put a cat on a diet?????

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 07:10 AM

have not got any childers... but got two lovely neices, who I adore and are great fun... even if they do nag me about hurrying up and finding someone to marry, so they can be my bridesmaids... I keep telling them.. I would rather have a huge party than spend loads of money on frivolities... invite a load of musicians, have a marquee on an aunts farm... clean up the barns... for camping space... have a ceremony of sorts (not religious) at my fave quiet spot... and then play great music till the wee small hours.... lol...

My neices are 10 and 5... the ten year old is a proper miss... and the 5 year old is a right tomboy... and has the same sense of humour and adventure as her aunty... But the 10 year old is as prone to worrying about allsorts just like her aunty too..

I have two puddy cats...

Monty Moo - the daft wild cat, now tamed (sort of) and rescued out of a river - he was thrown in with his 3 other kitty brothers and sisters. He's naughty, a pest to my other cat, but capable of being really loving too... he likes micers, birds and rabbits... and is really interested in Hodge and Heg... the gardens two hedgehogs.. he also can be found in next doors house.. as he has taken a fancy to the two girl cats there...

Tigger Thomas, is the rather rotund counter part... he is lazy... exerts himself, only when he has to - can't catch much for toffee... apart from Moths and Butterflies... and he likes to lick their wings....

he is often the brunt of Montys over playful attacks and can usually be found hiding from him.

He is a pest in the middle of the night, and wakes you up for cuddles...

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 06:07 AM

No kids and no pets unless you count the 8 goldfish (at the last count) in the pond in the garden. I haven't bought them any musical instruments, they'd probably show me up!
RtS (but the house is full of inanimate hippos that Herself collects!)

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 03:58 AM

Frank, your opening post is adorable, and there ARE things I could share, but I am going to have to go with my first thought upon reading the thread title. I've tried to hold this in since I first saw it, but it's hurting too much to keep it in!

Now I see this is YOUR thread, and it's even better!

So Thought One was: "THEY HAVE FLEAS."

Thought Two: "You will have to come investigate personally to see exactly what I mean by that!"

I am sure the right kind of music will drive out the fleas. Perhaps you will be the Pied Piper of... no, we are not in Potter County, lessee.... hafta work on that one!

We'll use the amps. Electrric Exterminators. Porch band. Do you want to play the distortion-pedaled bass?

*G*

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 01:06 AM

Even better, David!!**BG** Any links to her winning piece(s)?

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: ddw
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 12:18 AM

Thanks for the congrats, but I had very little to do with either of their accomplishments — just sired 'em, encouraged them thru some pretty good schools (the elder Northwestern, the younger Columbia — both on their smarts 'coz ol' dad sure as hell couldn't afford it) and turned 'em loose on the world.

BTW, Kat, the Pulitzer nominee is a she....

david

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Feb 01 - 12:02 AM

WOW!! A Pulitzer!!! That is fantastic! Congratulations to you and him fo rthe Gannet thing and the nomination!

Wesley, thanks for the update and Happy B-day to Brendan!

My daughter's little 3/4 Arab 1/4 Connemarra mare, who just died this past year at I think it was 30/31 yrs old never took any crap from the geldings or mares. She was smaller than almost all of them, but they never got near her when she ate. She had a wicked and fast hind kick, both feet at once, and used her voice like a mustang protecting her foal. otherwise she was completely bombproof and a very sweet ride.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:51 PM

Geez david!! congrats to you and both of them, but the one gets a nomination for a Pulitzer???? In Dad's field? You must have had to go out and buy new clothes 'cause you had to be bustin' out of yours!!!! Wonderful!!!! My Best to them and to YOU Dad.!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: ddw
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:43 PM

Okay, I've been bustin' with pride since last Friday. That's the day I got pictures in the mail of my younger having his 1st Lieutenant bars (USAF) pinned on and word that my elder had just won a major Gannett Newspaper chain writing award and a nomination for a Pulitzer prize. Not bad for a 27-year-old....

david

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Metchosin
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 10:16 PM

oh jeez pict, my family and my husband's family are many generations removed, mine originally from Dundee and his from the Hawick area, but for some reason or other the Scotticisms? just keep cropping up generation after generation. I'm Canajun now eh.

Sorcha, if there was any way I could give you a ride on my wee beasties, I would. Might look romantic, but it is a lot of damned hard work and they are a sure way to complicate your life even more. More fun at times to view them afar and rent or borrow when you get an urge.

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: pict
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 10:00 PM

My wife is after an Icelandic(but I'm after a Bechstein upright piano)but they're a bit small for me.Over here bombproof means it's been out on the road once and there were no accidents I once saw a farmer grab a Fjord horse by the ear to catch it and then slap it on the face because it wouldn't let him lift its hoof.They give all the Fjord horses a mohican as well it looks pretty mad with the eel stripe and all.

Scots abroad so true the family of my wife(Danish)have given all my kids nicknames because they can't pronounce their real names and my kids think modern Scotland is full of people speaking Gaelic,wearing kilts and battling the English.Where are you from back home Metchosin?

Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc.
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 09:06 PM

I saw a matched pair of Fjords once, a long time ago at the Wyoming State Fair.......they are wonderful!!! Beautiful buckskin ponies, w/ black mane and tails, and a line back! So sweet....but I can't keep horses in town...