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Found this sort of interesting <G>:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/h ... ily-steed/

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"Thermal Lag" It's why the hottest days are in July and August, not June. As to the rest of it, patience Grasshoppers. Pay special attention to number three and four: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/12/21/winter-solstice-2017-five-things-you-should-know-ab...

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And my contribution, this was floating around face book:

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Years everyone.

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Something that occurred to me while reading your latest post is that you may have run into a “generation gap” thing. Those who grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s seem to have a much more developed sense of privacy when compared to the “social media” generation. What is private to you may be of no importan...

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For those of us who live outside a lot, today is an important day, it is the shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year. From this point onward, even though the days may be cold, the amount of daylight will increase each day. The actual length of the day and night are determined by t...

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Literiding, I looked up on google search an employers right to open mail. Still not sure in this case because it was originally addressed to me at my street address. I have a P.O. box and do not receive mail at my street address. Therefore, the checks which were reimbursement for co. expenses were ...

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Be careful!!!!! As a long time executive, we need to distinguish between bad management and unlawful. Anything addressed to you in your capacity as an employee regarding company business actually belongs to the company and is not considered legally as your personal mail. The company is perfectly wit...

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Answering the original question, I've been lurking. My physician(s) have been trying to kill me and after getting sicker and sicker, my cardiologist finally declared I'm statin intolerant. So it may be a bit before I'm posting again. I have had a couple of opinions and did the basic research, but it...

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So carts are pulled and trollies are pushed. Makes sense. But why call a horse trailer a “float”? Or a truck a lorry? Ok, being a person who only speaks one foreign language, English, with a modest degree of command, what is the difference between "trolly" and "tram?" I've heard...

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Well I don't exactly pull the cart across the aisle sideways...it seems to me like my method is less disruptive and faster when I'm grocery shopping with kids, but I guess others disagree. If a cart (shopping or stocking) is in my way I just move it as needed, and am thankful for wheels. There is a...

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I boarded for 20 years before I bought my place - military duty. I moved every 18 months for the 20 years I was in the U.S. Navy. I’ve boarded in small barns, big barns and in-between barns. I bought my little five acre farm and initially was set up as a co-op with a lady who was an accountant. Her ...

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One of the things I would obsess over is "snow load" on the indoor in your part of the world. There should be a building code that specifies how much snow, probably measured in Kg per square meter, a roof needs to be able to hold up. So questions about was it built to code, was it inspecte...

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I'm a fan of the "Driza-Bone" riding rain coats. I got one in a "buy-out" of another rider's horse equipment. That was in 1986. I've been using the rain coat ever since them and just came in from feeding in a "gully washer" down pour wearing it. They're a bit pricy, but...

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I was employed by a “property management” company that provided condo and home owner associations with managers and purchasing support . . . for four months - it was that bad! It would have been only three months but I didn’t want to ruin someone else’s Christmas Holidays. I managed four “properties...

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Many many years ago, the BO of the barn I boarded at related a story in the barn at the end of a long summer's day. He lived in an 19th century two story farm house and was getting ready for bed upstairs when he looked out the window and saw one of his client's horses laying in the county lane out s...

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WARNING -- Pet peeve So far, as best I can remember, every mass murderer in the 21st century that has been reported in the press has seen a mental health professional in the period prior to the event. What did the mental health professional do or not do? While guns are the tool of choice for enactme...

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I think the word that Chancellor is looking for is "narcissistic:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism

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Don't do GOT. Next sign, the humming birds are all gone - probably to Mexico. Thursday, the four or five I've noted drank nearly half of my feeder's supply. Refilled on Friday and then there was only one hummer feeding on Sunday. Level hasn't dropped since Saturday PM. I use to think they were nice ...

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When sharing an YouTube video, on the right side below the picture and above the comments is a box, "Share." Click on that and it will give you sharing options for various other social media but it also has a text URL that is highlighted in blue. Copy that text with a right click of your m...

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I've not been posting because I'm busy getting ready for Erma: 175630_earliest_reasonable_toa_no_wsp_34.jpg I live in the area just north of where Cape Hatteras juts out into the Atlantic. The local NWS station hasn't started to panic yet but many others have. Below is the latest model runs: storm_1...

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While there is still great uncertainty, another "I" storm is looking to be a problem:

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Irma is a big storm and even if the track shifts to the east, it could sock the eastern seaboard.

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So is he pink and naked like my leopard appy at the moment? (He's getting downy, like a baby mouse.) No, he's quite sensible about the change of coats. The winter coat comes in at the same rate as he loses his summer coat. So he goes from silky smooth summer coat with the fur being about 1/4 inch l...

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My mini has shed his summer coat and his winter coat is coming in.

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Trying to white wash this began right after the Civil War ended, revisionist history began early and continues until today. I'll not irritate you by saying something you cannot agree with. The Civil War was begot in hatred and 152 years after it ended, the hatred lives on. It was a total waste of l...

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I don’t think our positions are all that different, just we’re operating on different levels of understanding. In the beginning of my post, I mentioned there is a difference between popular history and academic history. Popular history is content to get the events in proper chronological sequence an...

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Technically yes, but . . . . . . From my long ago days as a “History Major,” one of the traps that an academic historian (as opposed to a popular historian) must avoid is trying to interpret and analyze the actions of historical figures with a “modern” mind set. You have to get into the person’s of ...

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Hope everyone rode the storm out without issue. I was in the path of Isabel in 2003 with myself and three horses and some of the lessons I learned follow. It was two days of intense rain and wind. The storm was pretty straight forward, reasonable preparations made it nothing more than typical bad we...

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These were taken with my Canon 30D 8 megapixel (?) CCD mounting a 100 - 300 mm zoom lens and a polarizer on it. These images have been cropped while the images above are as they appeared on the CCD. All images have been reduced in width to 800 pixels. IMG_0410_mod.jpg IMG_0425 mod.JPG IMG_0428 mod.J...

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Some of my better shots. The moon's apparent motion is from right to left and leaves a sliver of sun visible on the bottom. 86% to 87% of the sun was covered. Camera was a EOS-M 12 mega pixel with a 35 year old Canon 400 mm telephoto, tripler and a 4x neutral density filter giving an effective focal...

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Cool photos and great vid Literiding! That vid was pretty full on, do people do anything like that these days? That was a pretty unusual group even for the mid-60s. The 10 to 1 proportion of young ladies to young men in the horse world was true then, so having 30 to 40 adolescent (you had to leave ...

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Wow, neat photos and video, Literiding! Thanks, events of ~50 years ago seem like from the Star Wars crawler, ". . . long time ago in a galexy far far away." While "Flight" and you were taking your first rides beginning your equine journey, I was the Operations Officer aboard th...

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Big old puffy cumulous cloud parked it's self over the sun right for the five minutes of maximum coverage of the sun (86% - 87%). So here's a photo through the cloud: IMG_0401.JPG Knowing the likelihood of not getting anything is why I didn't spend any money on to get a better setup. But I saw it, I...

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Youngsters all!!!! Here I am on my the second horse of my life in 1966: Trooper.jpg In 1972, showing in a Class A Hunter class Frog over post and rail.jpg And when you all were just getting started, I was trying out a "Desert Schooner:" Literiding & Camel sm.jpg And to raise the an...

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Repeated from above! There were some light clouds at the time of the photo and you can see them, particularly after some post processing: (For reasons unknown, I can't get this file to upload!) IMG Mod.jpg Still very bright. I downloaded an image from the NASA SOHO site and discovered there are som...

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I’ve experimented and finally have a pretty good pin hole view. Used a wrapping paper tube with a pin hole in foil at one end and parchment paper (baking) on the other. But since the weather is forecast too be pretty good I decided to see if I could get some photos. Started out with a pin hole on a ...

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IMHO, (the standard Internet warning that trolling is about to occur) the problem is there is no integrity in the field of journalism. All news sites editors have allowed the need to garner income producing “clicks” to supersede the need for honesty and truthfulness of the stories on their sites. Al...

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Here is a good example of the difficulty of an idea (horses as food) making it to law: https://pilotonline.com/news/nation-world/national/horse-burgers-congress-considers-putting-horsemeat-back-on-the-menu/article_9e4f9ae2-1b4d-5b7f-b887-c38b6997450f.html If you had any doubts, just follow the convo...

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Those stars are among the 58 stars of the heavens that were/are used to navigate on the high seas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selected_stars_for_navigation Now days, very few navigators know how to swing a sextant arc to determine the height of a star leave alone do the calculations to es...

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Sex hormones are an extremely complicated process and not all confined to the gonads. In the normal course of affairs, the adrenal glands also produce small amounts of testosterone which can be the culprit of stallion/male behavior if the adrenal gland is over active. So I would suggest a test of ho...

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Just to provide a little bit of “internet trolling,” retirement age is approximately the age where half (as in one out of every two) the individuals born in a given year have died. If we consider retirement as a destination, would you buy a ticket on an airplane that had a 50% chance of killing you ...

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I'm pretty old fashion, I tied my first horse when the "Bay of Pigs" invasion failure was still in the news and JFK was still President of the U.S. Living in the west, many of my early horsemanship instructors were use to riding in "open range" country where a loose horse may not...

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Perhaps TMI, but this is how tires are described:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_code

Easiest thing is to match the codes on the current tires and buy a rim that is the same as those installed.

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You might want to keep your eye on the "Foundations for Pure Spanish Horse" calendar. Right now it covers through April:

http://www.prehorse.org/Events/calender.lasso

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I'm a guy but I discovered that aging is a logarithmic "degression." In my 40's, I'd come home from my paying job and work two or three hours on the farm, grab a bite to eat and then work two horses. In my 50's, I'd come home from work and would have to decide to either work the horses or ...

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I'm not sure I understand your point. The distinction was the context in which she was let go as explicitly stated by both me (and him. . . ). Please note that I said "usual rollover" which your point seems to go to. In the Federal government there are positions of "trust." For ...

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No, but the context in which she was fired (and which was explicitly stated) is not the same as the usual "rollover". The usual rules do not apply to those some 7000 plus positions listed in the "Plum Book." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Government_Policy_and_Sup...

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I think the one rule that applies in this age is that anything seen in the press needs to be verified. I've read both of the Executive Orders and based on my "non-expert" reading, Trump's intent is to rigorously start enforcing the EXISTING laws that regulate immigration and boarders. Exec...

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Many years ago, I boarded at a barn that had a soda vending machine. It was an open secret among the regulars that if you pressed the button marked, "OUT OF ORDER," you would get a can of beer, brand as preferred by the barn owner. <G>

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Crossed, some states actually require the chains to be crossed under the hitch and you can get a ticket if they aren't. The logic behind the crossing the chains under the hitch is should one of the following circumstances occur: a) the transverse pin that holds the carrier in the receiver fail or fa...

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