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Oh, yeah. Just been through all of that looking for a new office manager. And now I'm sitting here composing an ad for a new designer that I expect will reap me the same results. These are responsible, well paying jobs in a decent environment. We are attempting to hire educated grown-ups. It's just ...

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I'm sorry. That's got to hurt, to say nothing of being incredibly inconvenient. I just hate ice.

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I leave for England on Saturday. I've been summoned home to my father who is very ill. I'm hoping he will know me, but there's no guarantee. He's been in and out of hospital--more in than out, since his ill-fated first admittance with pneumonia 8 weeks ago. He now has sepsis that they don't seem to ...

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I need a little waah, I guess. The weather has been impossible here for the past three weeks, so we've done some lunging and that's been about it. Now I have to make a sad and unplanned trip home to England, so the rest of this month is pretty much shot. He's getting turned out all day every day and...

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Boots, don't worry, already taken care of:)

I'm just hoping this one will be pony mad... Her mother used to ride, so I have a better chance, I think!

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Welcome to the world, Viola Alice!

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Could well be ringworm or some other fungal infection. A little Clorox will clear it up quicker than the fancy creams if so. (I caught ringworm from a rescue horse about 2 weeks before my wedding...)

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2016 is going to be the year of throwing crap away in this house.

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Ugh. Sympathies and Jingles to you and your herd

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We live in a fairly isolated area up a mountain. Above us is a cabin community that consists of some full time and some part time residents, some holiday rentals. We don't get services like garbage collection but we do have a set of dumpsters in the parking lot at the bottom of the mountain for our ...

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Lyons. Best food in the world, interesting city, walkable. Not a big trip from Geneva.

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Beautiful!!

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Thank you, Chancellor!

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Such a nice parcel

Kitties are happy, husband is happy, my feet are ecstatic!

Thank you so much!!!!!!

Merry Christmas to you and yours from a very snowy, cold mountain. I have some serious California coast envy at the moment...

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Holmes is 15 now and he still gets occasional urges to sculpt the toilet paper, I'm afraid.

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Coq au vin simmering gently on the stove as I sit here in my log cabin, fire and Christmas tree lit, snow pouring down outside, husband practicing music for Christmas Eve services just far enough away to be charming...

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I think this sums it up, really...

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Following along and jingling.

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You are so very welcome. I hope you like the training tricks book. It's a bit of a period piece and you may have to adapt to more PC methods, as the introduction says!

Happy Holidays to you!

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How excellent that you live in Independence...

Happy New Life

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My Christmas tree is wired to the ceiling and has unbreakable ornaments again this year--the heirlooms are packed away as Sage does love to climb... And no houseplant or bunch of flowers is safe from Holmes, so we don't do them any more... too worried about him poisoning himself, to say nothing of t...

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Yes, jingling here too. And while we don't have turtles, I will feed Button and Donald the porcupines an extra apple in her honor this evening.

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Oooh, I just got a gift certificate and notification that "something" is on it's way from Smartpak

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Damn, Dasher! Well, I hope you at least got the hay out.

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My year has been spent getting to know my new horse. He has some training holes of course, and some idiosyncrasies, and he's a lot more horse than I've ridden before, but he's a good egg and he's teaching me a lot and improving the quality and precision of my riding no end. The depths of winter are ...

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Well, boo hiss. Feel better soon!

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True, this. I'm sorry. It has kind of snuck up on us all at once, I feel.

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It's a chilly night here and I am sitting in my house wearing my Bromonts to break them in a bit before I ride in them tomorrow. they are actually very comfy though need to drop a bit so they don't grab the backs of my knees. My feet are so glowingly toasty I may wear them to bed...

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It's amazing, Rosie B. It's like Mother Nature specifically targeted the barn area to dump on. We only had about 9" at home, in the mountains, where it's supposed to be...

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Well, our ring disappeared under 17" of snow yesterday... May be a while before we get back to regular work!

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Me. I've got to fire someone tomorrow, and even though I have good and sufficient cause, it makes me feel ill.

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Ah, I'm so sorry. You must be feeling very lost.

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It has been too warm to try my Bromonts out yet! (I got the field boots--the dress boots were going to be so much more expensive, and I'm happy enough with the field boot look...) However, it is snowing insanely here this morning, to the extent that I am working from home today. So I suspect I will ...

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Shortribs!

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Interesting. That would explain why most bread machine bread tastes like cotton wool.

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No, not normal. Mine (2000 Dodge 250 diesel) sits for weeks outside covered in snow and not plugged in, and the batteries last as long as I would expect them to. It has many faults, but draining the batteries is not one of them!

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Mine is wool, for that very reason.

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I will take a picture of the bromonts so you can see what they look like. Trainer has the Middleburgs, not pretty, but she reckons warm.

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Jerome is far nicer than Sedona. El Tovar is Ok, but very touristy. We like the North Rim, but that might be a bit of a trek from the south.

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I just received my black Friday Ariat Bromont tall boots from Sheplers. $219 on sale with free shipping

They are really nice looking. I have yet to try them in anger, but others I know who have had them find them quite cosy.

I will report back once I've given them a try....

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Yes!!!

So pleased for you!

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I'm glad everyone got home safely. Elk are hell on fences. We have a large herd here that just walk through mine on a regular basis--very annoying. The horses aren't scared of them, however, but moose produce freak-outs of epic proportions. Mine did this last winter through a hole the elk had made. ...

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My knee jerk reaction was horrified, but then when I think about it, I believe that's a sighted person's thought process. I'm inclined to agree with Abby on this one.

I will have to ask my para friends what they think.

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Home, to them, is you. How nice!

For me, this is my home now. I have lived here for 17 years and it's my perfect spot. My "Blue Castle."

My father moved from our family home years ago and his new home is not my home.

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Here's to no drama! I had a lovely and drama free ride today, too.

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Hot4Spots, my horse is entirely more sensible outdoors in an ear bonnet, even in the middle of winter--there are a few of us at the barn who have found this to be true. (We board in a strange little oasis that is surrounded by buildings with weird noises emanating from them and crazed neighbors, and...

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How utterly tragic. I'm so sorry.

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I am so sorry, Sunshine. What a hole in your life and heart.

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I think what Steff is saying is that you might want to check you aren't opening a giant can of worms for yourself before you persue this further.

(Not that you don't have a legitimate beef against these people!)

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