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by Tarlo Farm
Sun Jun 16, 2019 2:37 pm
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Topic: Happy news for MichaelB
Replies: 6
Views: 5158

Re: Happy news for MichaelB

YAY for them! Congratulations guys!
by Tarlo Farm
Sat Jun 01, 2019 2:44 pm
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Topic: Done deal, I bought a horse!
Replies: 53
Views: 27896

Re: Done deal, I bought a horse!

He looks wonderful! Wow, big weeks for you!!
by Tarlo Farm
Sat Jun 01, 2019 2:41 pm
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Topic: We said "I do"
Replies: 22
Views: 14856

Re: We said "I do"

Congratulations!!
by Tarlo Farm
Fri May 24, 2019 5:03 pm
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Topic: Dear Miss Manners
Replies: 8
Views: 6715

Re: Dear Miss Manners

When I was a kid Mom always plated food. Now as an oldster who entertains quite a bit, I almost always serve family style so folks can eat as little or as much of an item as they choose. I vote for cutting before cooking as Mareless suggested.
by Tarlo Farm
Fri May 24, 2019 4:57 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Karl Mikolka has died
Replies: 12
Views: 10626

Re: Karl Mikolka has died

So sorry to hear this.
by Tarlo Farm
Tue Apr 30, 2019 6:41 pm
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Topic: The Real Rules of Dressage
Replies: 17
Views: 10410

Re: The Real Rules of Dressage

Number 13 made me laugh out loud.
by Tarlo Farm
Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:34 pm
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Topic: My rodent problem
Replies: 52
Views: 25324

Re: My rodent problem

Rats are a whole 'nuther issue, as my mother would say. I had barns at three different farms and never had a rat problem until I built a fourth barn with a cement floor. The neighbors called them "slab rats" and they definitely tunneled under the cement slab. Ick! Went to the pound and ado...
by Tarlo Farm
Fri Apr 26, 2019 1:52 am
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Topic: My rodent problem
Replies: 52
Views: 25324

Re: My rodent problem

OMG, this is one of the funniest posts I've seen in a long time. They are MICE folks! Kill them however you may (IMHO, the stickie traps are awful), but kill them. They are prolific and filthy. They carry diseases. I had field mice as pets for many years running, releasing them to the fields of a ne...
by Tarlo Farm
Sun Mar 24, 2019 3:11 pm
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Topic: In which Walker tries to commit suicide...
Replies: 27
Views: 14864

Re: In which Walker tries to commit suicide...

OH that brings back the horror of my old Tarlo slipping and falling in an icy/watery pasture. I tried and tried and tried to help him up, but he'd keep slipping. I ran to call a neighbor. By the time he arrived, by sheer will, Tarlo and I had slipped/slid him to where he could get literally a toe-ho...
by Tarlo Farm
Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:34 pm
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Topic: Saying good-bye - so hard.
Replies: 18
Views: 11698

Re: Saying good-bye - so hard.

Oh I'm so sorry! Your post brings tears to my eyes. A perfect pony for a perfect little girl. Both were meant to land in your wonderful care.
(I've got one who likely won't see another winter due to navicular. I don't look forward to it.)
by Tarlo Farm
Tue Mar 05, 2019 3:02 pm
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Topic: Do MC and I really have different gripes with Trump?
Replies: 64
Views: 36746

Re: Do MC and I really have different gripes with Trump?

After reading the McCabe book and understanding the rigorous work involved with finding the deleted emails and analyzing ALL the 60K emails, I'm furious with the use of a private server by any public servant. Inexcusable. As I read page after page of the effort needed to recover eight years of email...
by Tarlo Farm
Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:53 pm
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Topic: Michael Cohen
Replies: 12
Views: 10402

Re: Michael Cohen

He spilled so much Thursday behind closed doors, they invited him back for tomorrow (Wednesday). If he had lied last Wednesday about all this stuff that Mueller knows to be true, his sentence would have gone back to 70 years. AND he had/has documents.
by Tarlo Farm
Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:46 pm
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Topic: Why I haven't been riding...
Replies: 24
Views: 14508

Re: Why I haven't been riding...

It's been a very weird and very cold winter. It's now March 5th, ten degrees, windy and snowy. Twenty degrees below normal. I like winter and even I'm over it.
by Tarlo Farm
Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:43 pm
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Topic: HELP: houseguests...
Replies: 26
Views: 14586

Re: HELP: houseguests...

Everything Mareless said. I'd suggest making a spreadsheet now (even done by hand on paper you've turned into graph-paper) of all the housework you and DH normally do. Tuck it into a drawer. Then when you have "houseguests" for any longer than two days, have them pencil in what they will b...
by Tarlo Farm
Sat Feb 23, 2019 3:33 pm
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Topic: Do MC and I really have different gripes with Trump?
Replies: 64
Views: 36746

Re: Do MC and I really have different gripes with Trump?

"Just because an "investigation" didn't find HC guilty doesn't mean that someone couldn't feel that she was 'guilty'." Of course. My question was rhetorical. Our system of law and order is set as it is. For instance, I believe OJ was guilty as hell. However, HC and the investigat...
by Tarlo Farm
Fri Feb 22, 2019 3:32 am
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Topic: Do MC and I really have different gripes with Trump?
Replies: 64
Views: 36746

Re: Do MC and I really have different gripes with Trump?

How is it the lengthy investigation into all the above failed to find her guilty of the charges you present? And by these rightly rigorous standards, you of course, couldn't have voted for Trump, so you didn't vote? Or voted for Stein or Johnson?
by Tarlo Farm
Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:17 pm
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Topic: Ignorance and getting rolled
Replies: 46
Views: 25451

Re: Ignorance and getting rolled

WheresMyWhite wrote:
Tsavo wrote:Same thing


Really, I would have never guessed that 'objective reality' is the same as something which is known or proven to be true. If it works for you it must be the same... :?


Objective = without bias or influence
Reality = that which is authentic
And I like numbers when available.
by Tarlo Farm
Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:09 pm
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Topic: Do MC and I really have different gripes with Trump?
Replies: 64
Views: 36746

Re: Do MC and I really have different gripes with Trump?

kande I really cannot see where Trump supporters are coming from. Oh I can. Just like the rest of us, they look at the evidence and then pick the candidate whose ideas seem to be the closest to their own. I'd feel better if I thought that were true. I think there was a hoard of racists who couldn't...
by Tarlo Farm
Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:03 pm
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Topic: Where to recycle large plastic bedding bags?
Replies: 10
Views: 7706

Re: Where to recycle large plastic bedding bags?

If you are in a farming community, try the places where people buy bulk fertilizer and pesticide and weed control spray for their crops. Those places usually have a huge plastic recycling program where the plastic tubs the spray comes in can be safely washed out and recycled. Try this. I'm on the b...
by Tarlo Farm
Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:08 pm
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Topic: So what are you reading?
Replies: 44
Views: 22313

Re: So what are you reading?

I am reading this now, and bought it based on how much I liked the author's (Amor Towles) first book, "Rules of Civility." I am not very far into "A Gentleman In Moscow" yet, but so far I'm not disappointed. I did just the opposite: Bought "Rules of Civility" after &qu...
by Tarlo Farm
Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:42 pm
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Topic: Courtney King Dye
Replies: 6
Views: 6398

Courtney King Dye

Hadn't heard anything about her in a while and just did a search. Holy smokes! She's got three kids now! Looks like she's still giving clinics as well.
by Tarlo Farm
Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:51 am
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Topic: It’s 14 below zero
Replies: 26
Views: 15379

Re: It’s 14 below zero

Now three days of +30 degrees and rain - followed by temps in the 20s next week. Bleh.
by Tarlo Farm
Sat Jan 26, 2019 2:33 pm
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Topic: It’s 14 below zero
Replies: 26
Views: 15379

Re: It’s 14 below zero

And this next week looks even colder. I'm pleased the long-term weather report I use accurately pegged this a month ago. That report also says this next week is the last of the bitter cold. All of February looks very normal.
by Tarlo Farm
Thu Jan 24, 2019 9:59 pm
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Topic: Crockpot Lasagna
Replies: 9
Views: 6886

Re: Crockpot Lasagna

heddylamar wrote:Jalapeño, pineapple, and onion is the bomb. It makes me look forward to takeout pizza.


:lol: :lol: :lol:
by Tarlo Farm
Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:12 pm
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Topic: Crockpot Lasagna
Replies: 9
Views: 6886

Re: Crockpot Lasagna

I haven't pre-cooked my lasagna noodles in 20 years.
by Tarlo Farm
Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:33 pm
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Topic: Crockpot Lasagna
Replies: 9
Views: 6886

Re: Crockpot Lasagna

No no no no no. The Italian in me refuses to even picture anything called "crockpot lasagna". Just call it Italian Mash or something. I also refuse to eat pizza with pineapple. That is just plain wrong.
by Tarlo Farm
Wed Jan 16, 2019 3:13 pm
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Topic: An Amazing Family!
Replies: 2
Views: 2843

Re: An Amazing Family!

You're welcome. Jan and Ed are pretty amazing. Holden is as sweet as can be - but definitely with issues. The film crew asked him his three favorite places (brilliant idea since he was happy and relaxed at all places) and he listed our State Park, the beach, and my horses!!
by Tarlo Farm
Wed Jan 16, 2019 2:08 am
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Topic: An Amazing Family!
Replies: 2
Views: 2843

An Amazing Family!

Proud to call this family friends. I live next to an adult son - his boys watch my place while I'm away.

About three minutes in, a few of mine make an appearance. :D

https://caseyfamily.wistia.com/medias/lmsqf5a3ii
by Tarlo Farm
Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:49 am
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Topic: 55 horses
Replies: 12
Views: 8367

Re: 55 horses

Tractor envy here as well.
by Tarlo Farm
Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:28 pm
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Topic: So what are you reading?
Replies: 44
Views: 22313

Re: So what are you reading?

So damn many books, so little time.
by Tarlo Farm
Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:27 pm
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Topic: So what are you reading?
Replies: 44
Views: 22313

Re: So what are you reading?

My new favorite book: "A Gentleman In Moscow" begins right after the Bolshevik revolution. A 28 year old count is put under house arrest in an elegant hotel right across the street from the Kremlin. Now I would NEVER have picked up that book on that description, but it was my book club rea...
by Tarlo Farm
Wed Jan 09, 2019 2:55 am
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Topic: I need help with a sale ad - UPDATE!
Replies: 54
Views: 25102

Re: I need help with a sale ad - UPDATE!

The PPE has NO value to you. Don't think twice about giving it to her. Continue to be grateful for a good home for the mare and a good future if she learns to settle down and become more rideable.
by Tarlo Farm
Wed Jan 09, 2019 2:52 am
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Topic: So what are you watching?
Replies: 166
Views: 74468

Re: So what are you watching?

Almost anything on PBS. Especially the new dramas starting their new seasons Sunday night.
by Tarlo Farm
Thu Dec 27, 2018 3:10 pm
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Topic: Another archaeological horse find - Pompeii
Replies: 2
Views: 2738

Re: Another archaeological horse find - Pompeii

Thanks for the article. Heard it on the radio, then got lost in the holiday clutter. I was in Pompeii in 2001. Fascinating place!! I recommend it to everyone who has the chance. Just some background info: It was ash that covered and killed people and critters, not lava. They suffocated. Most of the ...
by Tarlo Farm
Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:34 pm
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Topic: I hate colic-Round 2, different horse-good update
Replies: 67
Views: 31910

Re: I hate colic-Round 2, different horse

goldhorse wrote:He's 18. A retiree. My heart horse. My DH and I are having a hard hard time letting him go. I just want to get him back to his pasture mates for whatever time he has left.


I'm so sorry.
by Tarlo Farm
Fri Dec 21, 2018 2:24 am
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Topic: I hate colic-Round 2, different horse-good update
Replies: 67
Views: 31910

Re: I hate colic-Round 2, different horse

How old is he Goldhorse? What is his future? :(
by Tarlo Farm
Tue Dec 18, 2018 6:34 pm
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Topic: Ready to call it a career...
Replies: 5
Views: 4644

Re: Ready to call it a career...

I'm guessing you're not even 65 yet, right? There are A LOT of years left in you. And your horse. Funny, I'm sure my situation with three and a half horses, only one of which is ridden fewer than probably 60 times a year, would seem untenable to those who ride often, year-round. But it's fine for me...
by Tarlo Farm
Tue Dec 18, 2018 6:27 pm
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Topic: Bobcat on my trailcam (video!)
Replies: 242
Views: 127198

Re: Bobcat on my trailcam (video!)

Snowhorse, I love these! Man, you have a MOST aggressive magpie in your neighborhood! What's it trying to take from the squirrel about two minutes in?
by Tarlo Farm
Wed Dec 12, 2018 6:30 pm
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Topic: Ignorance and getting rolled
Replies: 46
Views: 25451

Re: Ignorance and getting rolled

The whole election is tainted and was corrupted by the Russians and should be rolled back - as well as any appointee or executive order that occurred during this time. I think we first need a good definition of what is a fact and what isn't. And facts often have numbers and can be measured. And some...
by Tarlo Farm
Fri Dec 07, 2018 10:22 pm
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Topic: Bobcat on my trailcam (video!)
Replies: 242
Views: 127198

Re: Bobcat on my trailcam (video!)

I must have missed it - do you have several cameras up, or are you turning one to get different angles?
by Tarlo Farm
Fri Dec 07, 2018 10:21 pm
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Topic: Bobcat on my trailcam (video!)
Replies: 242
Views: 127198

Re: Bobcat on my trailcam (video!)

I added a new set of video clips, the bobcat shows up a few times among the other wildlife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S_XY5ytwDs I could spend half a day watching these! Love the coyote at about the 2min mark. He/she slips and looks back as if it was the fault of something else. Wonder what t...
by Tarlo Farm
Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:27 am
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Topic: When you condone the torture-murder of journalists
Replies: 11
Views: 10093

Re: When you condone the torture-murder of journalists

Did you see the high five by Putin and MBS at the G20 summit?? Deplorable.
by Tarlo Farm
Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:11 am
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Topic: Chess Pie
Replies: 7
Views: 5837

Re: Chess Pie

Moutaineer wrote:

I cut the amount of sugar in the recipe in half though as I'd like to sleep sometime in the next few days.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
by Tarlo Farm
Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:48 pm
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Topic: I said YES!
Replies: 28
Views: 15027

Re: I said YES!

Lovely!! And one knee...you rock!!

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