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Subject: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Pseudolus Date: 07 Feb 01 - 10:39 AM Every now and then I'm dying to tell someone about my kids and what's up with them lately kinda thing. My co-workers are a little tired of it!! Posting a thread about just my kids seems a little self-serving but we all must have someone we're really proud of, ya know, kids, Significant Others, Pets, Neices, Nephews, brothers, sisters, parents, etc. etc. Let's hear it! Don't hold back....uh, ok, I'll start. About a year and a half ago I told my oldest daughter that if her report card improved two times in a row (Nothing goes down, at least one subject goes up) that we would buy her a guitar that she had been asking for. (See, it's a music thread, sorta..) Anyway, each report card since has been ok but it either stayed the same or one subject went down. Because of a problem with reading comprehension we got her a tudor, and not only did she earn the guitar, she earned second honors for the first time ever (all A's and B's)!!! We got the guitar Saturday and now I'm teaching her everything I know.....should be done by this Saturday!! So what makes you proud???? Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 07 Feb 01 - 10:43 AM I have no kids cuz I'm only 22, but I do have a fat fuzzy calico cat named Boo who's the cutest kitty in the world! --Matt |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:00 AM My granddaughter, Lauren, who is 5 months old (born on John Freeman's birthday) can say "Grandma." So what if I'm the only one that can understand her. She'll be singing soon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: SINSULL Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:41 AM mY KITTY lIZZIE (FORMERLY eLIZABETH) ENTERTAINS ME BY RUNNING DOWN A LONG HALL ON HER BACK LEGS. pOSITIVELY DEMONIC! aND WHERE, mr. smith,. IS OUR UPDATE ON MY NEPHEW bRENDAN? hOW MANY TEETH? cOLLEGE DEGREES? pOUNDS AND INCHES? |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:47 AM DAMN CAPSLOCK!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: MMario Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:53 AM that smith guy is certainly close mouthed, isn't he? I did get a little info a while back by whimpering in PM's. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: mousethief Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:59 AM Um, Matt, being only 22 has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not you have kids. Plenty of people under 22 have kids. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Kim C Date: 07 Feb 01 - 12:00 PM I said before in another thread that Mister is the smartest man I know. He can fix just about anything, plus he is a great guitartist and singer, although he won't admit it. Zenith the Mighty Viking Dog, Belle the 52-lb. Lap Dog, and HRH Thumper, King of the Hill, can all be seen at my photo album: Click here My friend Carrie has the cutest baby in the world, Miss Caileigh. She will be 2 in May and is just a hoot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 07 Feb 01 - 12:03 PM Yeah Alex, but not many people under 22 have under 22 kids! hahahhahahahah! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: mousethief Date: 07 Feb 01 - 12:04 PM Kids. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: InOBU Date: 07 Feb 01 - 12:06 PM Had a wee mouse, Bongo Knock (broken nose in Romaness - Gypsy). He was a great old pal, lived about 2 and a half years. I saved him from an infernal glue trap placed untinkingly in his path when he was a scant few weeks old... I wont have the things in my house. He lived in a six room sweedish environment, quite happy, comeing out of his cotten igloo every night to hear Genie and I sing to him before bed. He died a few months ago, and was burried in an oak coffin in the back yard. His funeral was quite a formal event, attended by the great fluter, Cathal McConnel, who said of him, "Och he was a great wee mousie" In deed he was, Lasho Drom, Bongo Larry |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: SINSULL Date: 07 Feb 01 - 12:18 PM DAMN GLUE TRAPS!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Pseudolus Date: 07 Feb 01 - 12:27 PM Just goes to show ya what a diverse group we are. So far we are proud of two daughters, three cats, one granddaughter, one nephew, one Mister, two dogs one friends baby and terrific mouse! Awesome.... Matt, I would venture to guess that most folks under 22 have under 22 kids, anywhere from 0 to 21!!! Frank P.S. Keep 'em coming!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: katlaughing Date: 07 Feb 01 - 12:46 PM My 2.5 year old grandsons have started picking simple tunes out on the piano..the other night it was "Jingle Bells." |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Wesley S Date: 07 Feb 01 - 12:59 PM Well Sinsull and MMario I'm waiting on a phone call from my Mrs for the results of Brendans checkup. News at 11. He's a cute bugger however and seems to enjoy Jimmie Rodgers "Miss The Mississippi And You". Even when I sing it at 1:00 AM. And Matt - about children - I know a social worker here in Texas that had a case involving a 24 year old GRANDFATHER. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Kim C Date: 07 Feb 01 - 01:03 PM I used to have a budgie named Cactus who enjoyed cowboy music, specifically Michael Martin Murphey's Cowboy Songs album (the very first one). I'd put that on and he'd just chirpchirpchirpchirp. Sadly he went to budgie heaven a couple of years ago. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: jeffp Date: 07 Feb 01 - 01:15 PM Thanks for starting this thread, Pseudolus. It's the perfect place to announce this news. Some of you are familiar with the difficulties my stepdaughter Emily has had. She was part of a long, nasty custody battle and spent a few years living with her dad, who was emotionally abusive (that's why my wife left him). When she came to us, she was angry at the world, and especially herself; had already flunked her 9th-grade year; and couldn't see beyond the moment. Well........She wound up dropping out of school when she turned 16 and basically screwed off for the next year. Last fall, she decided to go live with her father for a while to take advantage of a free GED program in Virginia (we live in Maryland). She called us last night with the results.
She Made It!!!!!!!!!!We are so proud and happy for her we could just explode. She set her sights on her target and accomplished it. She worked hard and even managed to put up with her father at the same time. Emily is so pumped about this that she now realizes that anything is possible. She told us, "I had to go back to school to find out I'm not stupid." Thanks for the opportunity to share. jeffp |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: mousethief Date: 07 Feb 01 - 01:16 PM I had a rat named Izzy who was a delight. I had a ferret harness she would walk about in, and I would take her to the park and the little kids would flock around me like I was the Pied Piper. Their mothers all stood back in a ring about 20 feet (ca. 6m) in circumference, yelling in to their kids, "When you're done looking at that -ugh!- thing, I'll be right here." She would ride atop the hood of my sweatshirt, right against my neck, and fall asleep. If you held her up to your face, she'd kiss your nose. Alas, she is gone, and my stepdaughter's athsma makes it unkind to get another. But when she moves out..... Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: MMario Date: 07 Feb 01 - 01:17 PM Now THAT is fantastic news! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Pseudolus Date: 07 Feb 01 - 01:23 PM That's awesome Jeff!!!! And congratulations to Emily!! That is truly great news..... On a side note, and I hope I say this right so as not to offend, but I'm really proud of you too! Sometimes it's difficult to let someone go do what they need to especially when you know the road will be tough. And it's doubly tough as a step-parent. My wife loves my kids and has taken a sincere interest in their lives and I love her for it. Unconditional love from a step-parent is a special thing. Emily is a very lucky girl..... Frank |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: jeffp Date: 07 Feb 01 - 01:36 PM Frank, you're not going to offend me by telling me you're proud of me!! *BG* I've found (or discovered) that sometimes you have to let them find their own way and just be there to help pick up the pieces when they stumble. There's a lot of breath-holding involved, though. It is sweet though, when you realize that some of what you've tried to teach them has actually sunk in. Maybe some parent of a troubled teen will take heart from my experience. jeffp |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Sorcha Date: 07 Feb 01 - 01:42 PM I am not sure you really want to know........Hubby is in the midst of a serious Mid Life Crisis. Bubba is very busy being a typical 22 yr old male----Hormones and Cars and Motorcycles.......(mom is of course, his Personal Slave), Kate has not been Truly Well for a long time and we are on the Diagno$tic Trail......if it weren't for the Corgi's, I'd go stand in front of a train. Little Beggarman (Ghillie) is a 3 yr old red male heffalump who weighs 35 lbs. RagTime Annie (the Queen of the World) is a 1 yr old sable female.......Corgis RULE!! 4 cats, but they are all pretty normal, for cats, except Miss Millie, who is a paranoid schizophrenic....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Mrrzy Date: 07 Feb 01 - 01:46 PM The younger of my twins does a lot of inventing songs, about whatever he's playing with/thinking about/doing at the time, kind of rambling and folksy, but he does have rhyme and meter... and last night he told me (no prompting) that he wanted to be a songwriter when he grows up! He'll make a doozy, if he does! And the elder one has just set some kind of record, three weeks in a row where he got to school on Monday, then got sick and was home the rest of the week. Luckily I can work from home if I have to... And Jeffp/Emily, Congrats Big Time! Where in VA, says the Charlottesville denizen? |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: jeffp Date: 07 Feb 01 - 01:54 PM Mrrzy, her dad lives in Dale City, in Prince William County. It makes visitation difficult, as we have old vehicles and it's a 3 1/2 hour round trip on a good day (and I-95 has very few good days). Fortunately, the kids are now adept at riding the Metro system, which involves a 1 hour round trip at either end, saving a lot of wear and tear on both the vehicles and the parents. jeffp |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Cobble Date: 07 Feb 01 - 03:26 PM Cobble and I are owned by three beautiful Skye Terriers, Kilty and her babies, Liusaidh and Somhairle. They have all been exhibited at Crufts and frequently represent the breed at the Kennel Club's( UK ) Discover Dogs exhibitions, which promotes responsible dog ownership. We are so proud of them. Liusaidh and Somhairle have a lovely sister who now lives in Ocean Springs, Mississippi , she became a champion last year. How we love 'em!!! Mrs C |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Liz the Squeak Date: 07 Feb 01 - 03:33 PM My little bratling came home with a certificate today saying she'd come into class on her own!!! As I have had several days when I didn't get away from school until 9.30am, and the childminder has had to haul her baby in as well, to make sure she got into the class, this is an enormous acheivement!! I'm so proud of her..... The cat on the other hand has peed on the wrong side of the litter tray, eaten half my supper and is now asleep on the monitor with her tail hanging over the screen.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: GUEST,aesop Date: 07 Feb 01 - 03:39 PM My son just got accepted at the Rhode Island School of Design, and I am so proud! He wants to be a animator, and he's done sculptures of the man-eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors, a Martian, a robot, and he's working on a T Rex. When he graduates I bet he'll get a job with Spielberg or Disney. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: mousethief Date: 07 Feb 01 - 03:46 PM Cool, Aesop! More power to him! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Pseudolus Date: 07 Feb 01 - 04:01 PM LtS, It could be worse, she could have slept on the wrong side of the litter tray and peed on your monitor!!! aesop, Disney World would be a great place for a stop on the Mudcat Touring Road Show!!! We need him to graduate soon!!!!!
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: katlaughing Date: 07 Feb 01 - 04:09 PM LtS, my cat does that tail thing, too. I am thinking of marketing a small attachment which one could put at the top of their screeen, a sort of barrier, which would attach with velcro. At the mo', I have stiff cardboard about 2-3 inches high, taped across the top, so that he can not drape in that direction.:-) Tell your bratling I said "You go, gyrl!" That is wonderful news, Jeff!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Liz the Squeak Date: 07 Feb 01 - 04:09 PM Pseud - been there, done that, got new computer. And a bigger litter tray. Now if only the child would stop peeing in it..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Pseudolus Date: 07 Feb 01 - 04:09 PM And the numbers are growing, we now have two daughters, seven cats, one granddaughter, one nephew, one Mister, two dogs, one friends baby, one terrific mouse, one son, two grandsons, one Brendan, one fondly remembered budgie, one stepdaughter, one rat, one husband, one set of twins, three Skye terriers, one bratling, and one peeing cat....phew, just makes ya proud don't it?????
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Metchosin Date: 07 Feb 01 - 04:22 PM hey aesop, my youngest daughter is just embarking also, on a Programme in 3D computer animation in Vancouver this month. She's done some classic animation and her first short placed second in B.C. at one of the major festivals a couple of years ago. Miss her so much, she's been across the pond from us over a year now and I don't get to see her as often as I would like, as the ferry costs are becoming a bit prohibative for frequent visits, so I've resorted to plastering her face all over my 'puter as wallpaper.
Senior daughter now has an apartment in town and returns all the time to do her laundry and partake in Sunday dinners. She's currently, after floundering around at university for a few years and dumping a promising chance for a career in opera, involved in courses in web design, java script, HTML and a bunch of other stuff I don't know much about,
Senior dog Old Wort, has the amazing ability to go downstairs on just his front feet with his hind feet tucked up, which I never considered out of the ordinary until a friend seemed to be blown away by it. What's really amazing I think, is his ability, at the ripe old age of 98 in dog years, to service our unspayed Westie, without the use of Viagra or his testicles. Also have two hayburners in the front yard, without much to brag about recently, other than their ability to stow the stuff and create piles of sh*t. Just stacked a ton and a half of orchard grass single handed a few weeks ago and it always reminds me I'm getting old too. The animals and youngest daughter can be viewed on the Mudcat photo permathread. The animals don't mind, but I have a feeling my youngest daughter might object if she knew her picture was there.
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: MMario Date: 07 Feb 01 - 04:32 PM But what would you do with that hay if you didn't have the hayburners? Our gelding is refered to as the "Mobile lawn ornament" - he is half Belgian, a quarter Quarterhorse and the remainder is standardbred. A red-Golden Palimino in colouration with phantom dapples in the summer - he really is an awesome sight when he decides to prance about the pasture. His loyal companion, Pedro, is a tiny Sicilian burro - who holds his own in eating. We used to have a mare that had to be penned seperately from the gelding because he would not let her eat...the burro doesn't take that kind of guff!
then we have the two 1)their mother was about six pounds - they are about 18 lbs of muscle...each 2) they come when called 3)they will follow us about as we work in the yard 4) they love to have their bellies scratched 5)they are long haired orange tabbies |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Metchosin Date: 07 Feb 01 - 05:07 PM a gee MMario you reminded me, I forgot dear Mao our barn cat who would love to be a housecat if only the dogs would permit it. MMario I wouldn't buy the stuff, as I am currently doing so now......ours are small Arab crosses, bay gelding 7/8ths and a really pretty boy when he is in shape and cranky old chestnut mare 3/4s, with some Appaloosa thrown in, if the spots inside her bottom lip are truly an indication. One of their saving graces is that they are easy keepers. And our gelding too, bullies the mare all the time, but at least when I'm feeding them they are separated enough and he just snaps at her over the rail in the run-in shed. But because of this feeding arrangement they hang out in the shed all the time, especially during the winter and hence all the poo. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Metchosin Date: 07 Feb 01 - 05:10 PM MMari by the description it sounds like you should take up Dressage. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: MMario Date: 07 Feb 01 - 05:12 PM My niece did do some dressage on him, but never competed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: catspaw49 Date: 07 Feb 01 - 05:22 PM JEFF!!! Fantastic news!!!! ..........and Wes, all of us cyber aunts and uncles want to hear about the check-up and all...MORE NEWS MY MAN!!! As for myself, I talk about my kids and our menagerie pretty incessantly around here, so no boring tales at this time........but you all know how we feel about them. I'm really enjoying hearing about others for a change! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: catspaw49 Date: 07 Feb 01 - 05:27 PM Sorry.....I meant to include this link under kids and menagerie but old age is rapidly overtaking me. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Wesley S Date: 07 Feb 01 - 05:42 PM OK - Here we go - Bretta says the Doctor told her that Brendan is in the top 75 percentile for weight and height. He's 20.5 inchs long and 8 pounds with a dry diaper. His lungs are in great shape which was a worry for us since he was a preemie. Since his brothers death we plan to give him several tests to eliminate any concerns we have over his health. We've very pleased with his doctor. We asked several doctors who they would take their children to and we all got the same name. Luckly she's on our insurance. She even talks to Brendan and holds him during the exams. I like that in a doctor. She also happens to think that Brendan is a beautiful baby so we have no concerns about her vision. We're having a wonderful time with Brendan now. Our only conflicts are over who gets to hold him. Brendan and I have long talks during his 1:00 AM feeding about how he is expected to grow up to be a liberal. Actually I'll settle for kind, caring, open minded and fun loving. We can decide the big questions like Berklee vs. Julliard later. No pressure. As you can tell I'm enjoying parenthood. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: catspaw49 Date: 07 Feb 01 - 05:45 PM Thanks Wes........I needed a "happy cry" here! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Wesley S Date: 07 Feb 01 - 05:51 PM You big softie you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Wesley S Date: 07 Feb 01 - 05:53 PM Yikes - I almost forgot it's Brendans birthday - he's a whole 2 months old today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Sorcha Date: 07 Feb 01 - 06:08 PM Thanks Wes. What spaw said. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: pict Date: 07 Feb 01 - 06:29 PM We've got 4 daughters the eldest is Slàine 7,Eibhlin 5,Brighde nearly 3 agus Sorcha 8 months I'm going to keep a hurley by the front door for when they start getting interested in boys.We've also got 2 dogs a border collie and a mongrel,on top of that we've got sheep,geese,chickens,lots of rabbits(I've lost count),2 jersey bull calves and 2 wild boar sows I get in with the big sow to give her a big scratch which she lies down for they are amazingly smart animals.We're going to get a boar for her and a Fjord horse for maybe a bit of work and riding plus company for the Shetland only problem is he's a stallion |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Sorcha Date: 07 Feb 01 - 07:17 PM Kids, grandkids, cats Galore!!, lotsa dogs, a few rodents, (haven't seen any reptiles yet) but daughters seem to winning............ |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Metchosin Date: 07 Feb 01 - 07:43 PM ah Wesley you bring back memories of baby smell and wonderful soft heads upon which to brush your lips. You've got me blubbering, cherish every moment, they go by so fast in retrospect.
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: Metchosin Date: 07 Feb 01 - 08:01 PM Yo Pict, Fjords are good! despite the fact one threw my daughter three or four years ago, when it was hit by a rock from a passing bicycle on the old Kettle Valley Railway line, and that in the middle of an Ironman, with them dropping like flies in the heat, the ambulance still managed to arrive post haste, no great damage done, except for hurt pride and the wind knocked out. But it scared the sh*t out of Mum. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: ray bucknell Date: 07 Feb 01 - 08:13 PM I've got a seven-year-old son. He's often a pain in the ass, but they tell me he's gifted in school, and he's what keeps me going at times. He's one of those kids that everybody keeps saying, "Oh, he's such a good kid..." but at home he's the equivalent of Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde. He's a Taurus; so am I. We fight, we argue. He knows I love to sing; he trys to sing but can't carry a tune. I tell him he needs to practice - all hell breaks loose. I would die for this child if he doesn't kill me first. |
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Subject: RE: BS: So, Tell me about your kids, pets, etc. From: pict Date: 07 Feb 01 - 08:17 PM Metchosin I was training one some years ago in a field when this kid came to the edge of the field and let off a firework rocket needless to say the horse threw me and bolted.The kid took off mind you the sight of an over 6 foot,bearded,red haired,furious Scotsman in highland dress charging towards him did help him to make that decision.It never ceases to amaze me how insensitive and stupid people can be about horses.I'm in Denmark so there are a lot of Fjord horses here for fairly cheap I like the idea of a Halflinger or a Friesan but they are expensive and not so hardy. |