Number of posts : 457 Registration date : 2010-10-14
Subject: This is our life and our way Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:10 am
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RetiredName Four Star Member
Number of posts : 859 Registration date : 2008-12-29 Age : 55 Location : The Hub of the Universe
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:12 pm
Teh cool!
James Four Star Member
Number of posts : 457 Registration date : 2010-10-14
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:51 pm
Greetings zizban,
Raising and training the horses for trail-riding has been a wonderful experience. My wife does the riding and I do the barn work.
She has 14 trophies for cross-country accomplishment.
I'll look for your novels - as I love to read.
Take care and Happy Trails
RetiredName Four Star Member
Number of posts : 859 Registration date : 2008-12-29 Age : 55 Location : The Hub of the Universe
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:26 pm
Thank you!
When I first saw the horseman in the RSS feed I didn't know what to expect. Pretty cool.
James Four Star Member
Number of posts : 457 Registration date : 2010-10-14
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:06 pm
Hello zizban,
Sometimes I'd go up on the trail rides and jump the rig. That means I'd move the truck/trailer/camper and my wife would ride the trail. That way the camp was set up when she rode in.
Interestingly the horses speak to one another when one is as far out as 3 - 4 miles. They'd whinny back and forth - and when my wife would enter camp she'd give her horse it's head and it'd know where I'd parked.
There were as many as 300 rigs sometimes so finding where I'd parked would not have been easy w/o the horses communicating
James Four Star Member
Number of posts : 457 Registration date : 2010-10-14
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:05 am
My wife went on a 10 day horse safari in the Serengeti National Park, Kenya, Africa. These are some of the pictures she took (or were taken of her)
James
James Four Star Member
Number of posts : 457 Registration date : 2010-10-14
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:41 am
Earlier this Spring my wife Patty and I were at the breakfast nook table watching hundreds of Robins on our front lawn. Suddenly she said, "Jim look a really big Robin is sitting over there on the fence post."
On closer inspection, Patty’s really big Robin turned out to be a red shouldered hawk.
This morning I was out mowing the lawn and Patty’s really big Robin came by and sat on a fence post not 25 feet from where I was. I kept mowing - but it paid me no mind.
That was neat!
James
alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:16 am
Well done, James.
You lived in Michigan, whicih part? Our daughter lives in Berrien Springs.
joefrank Five Star Member
Number of posts : 8210 Registration date : 2008-11-04 Age : 75 Location : Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:32 am
3/29/2011
James..
Here's a Hawk I captured last week on film in my garden, sitting in the pine tree, I don't know what kind he is but he was beautiful !
Cheers..Joe
dkchristi Five Star Member
Number of posts : 8594 Registration date : 2008-12-29 Location : Florida
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:45 am
I lived in Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Rochester and West Branch, Michigan. The lakes and rivers are very special there. It was a great place to be a child or an adult who loves the outdoors.
Shelagh Admin
Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:46 am
I love the photos of the hawks.
joefrank Five Star Member
Number of posts : 8210 Registration date : 2008-11-04 Age : 75 Location : Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Subject: Re: This is our life and our way Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:19 pm
3/29/2011
Shelagh..
It's funny I haven't seen him since, thank God Dusty wasn't out at the time, I don't know if he would have attacked her ! The day before an owl showed up sitting on the fence, I wasn't quick enough to get my camera and get his picture...
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