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Chit Chat / Re: My last day is today

« on: January 05, 2007, 02:55:15 PM »

Jessica - I'm still willing to hold them for you.  Just let me know and I'll set up another pool for your babies!
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Bad Horse

« on: January 02, 2007, 07:34:44 AM »

Does <GD.R> mean grin, duck, run?  If it doesn't it should! 
Glad to see a halter on the beasty.  But don't leave it on all the time!  She'll manage to get that halter snagged on something, and probably freak out when she can't get loose.  Remember the picture that Joyce posted?  Of the neighbors horse that had the scar across it's nose?  That was from a halter...  One trick's halter all ready looks a little tight.  Time to go buy the next biggest size!
She is a cutie pie! 
Now I'm off to make up horsey food!
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Prayer Request

« on: December 28, 2006, 03:43:32 PM »

Thank you God! That the officers are getting better!  Even now that my husband retired from the Honolulu Police Dept I still get upset when I hear another officer is down... Honolulu lost one last month.  A motorcycle officer went down while part of the president's motorcade.  He left a wife and 4 small kids... 
So glad these officers are doing better!  And hope they make a full recovery!
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Bad Horse

« on: December 27, 2006, 02:00:06 PM »

Uh oh....
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Look what I got

« on: December 23, 2006, 04:54:45 PM »

Nice!  But how come you guys are opening your presents early?   
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Had to send our kitty over the Rainbow Bridge

« on: December 23, 2006, 02:14:52 PM »

Oh, LeeAnne, I'm so sorry  :'( 
Tammie

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Terrestrial Gardening / Re: I see guacamole in my future....

« on: December 22, 2006, 06:55:22 AM »

      Dave!  I thought you were going to say a wild pig came and chased you away from it's food source!  Our avocado tree is still young -3 years old-  and gave 6 avocados last year.  Hubby wouldn't let me pick them till just this past week.  Only one of them ripened right, the others were all rotten.  Of course they were on the tree for almost a year...  The darn tree is huge!  It's broken the water line that goes up the hill to the greenhouse... and it blocks my view when I'm up there.  I'm really starting to dislike the avocado tree...
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Christmas Horse Story (Fiction)

« on: December 21, 2006, 02:43:24 PM »

Sigh... Thanks LeeAnne
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Santa came early

« on: December 18, 2006, 02:21:43 PM »

Ah!  So cute!
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: One Trick

« on: December 16, 2006, 02:07:55 PM »

Silly, silly man!  No pony porn, I told you I'm nosy!  I wanted to see how her conformation was.  Looks good! 
But will you please go get a curry comb and brush that baby!!?  She's starting to look like a moth eaten sheepskin!   
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: One Trick

« on: December 16, 2006, 06:59:37 AM »

I know, I know - the name was in reference to the movie...  But I thought maybe her "trick" was that she could open any gate latch that's been made, or manages to escape from any fence... 
Okay. Here's the deal.  When (if?) you have any problems you have to fly your butt here, to my ranch, so I can show you some "tricks" to teach her.  Then you have to help me repot and fertilize all my lilies!     And you have to bring Darcy too.
One of my boarders has a foal coming, I think it's in May.  If she's smart she'll move her mare to another ranch where she'll have more pasture time.
She is a cutey-patootey tho.  Can I see a picture that shows her whole body, including the entire leg?  Maybe a front and back shot too?  I'm nosy...
Tammie
P.S. - I never said you were a jerk!!
Me

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Chit Chat / Re: One Trick

« on: December 15, 2006, 06:34:40 AM »

Craig, Craig, Craig...  sigh... 
She's a cutie, tho!  This is the 4 month old? 
You probably won't ask, but let me know if I can help.  Gotta ask tho - what's her "one trick"? 
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Hugs for Teresa...

« on: December 14, 2006, 01:53:37 PM »

I'm so sorry Teresa!  No words to make the pain go away, but know that I'm thinking about you!
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Teresa?

« on: December 13, 2006, 08:29:01 PM »

Where is that girl!?  Teresa!  Everything okay?
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Need ideas for inexpensive dog toys/treats

« on: December 09, 2006, 07:42:36 AM »

I was looking for some new dog bowls yesterday and found a bunch of .89 cent toys at www.jefferspet.com
Hope that's the correct link...
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Kleo Crossed Over Rainbow Bridge Tonight...

« on: December 09, 2006, 07:40:10 AM »

I'm so sorry Joyce!  Wish I had words that would help... 
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Need ideas for inexpensive dog toys/treats

« on: December 07, 2006, 06:48:13 AM »

   Viv!  One of our Chihuahuas is a underware feind too! 
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Which card do you like best?

« on: December 07, 2006, 06:40:44 AM »

Middle one!
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Waimanalo moonrise

« on: December 07, 2006, 06:38:52 AM »

Thanks all!  I was thinking the same thing Esther!  Great minds think alike! 
Jerry, let me know when you'll be coming to dig those Coconut palms out!  I'll let you borrow the backhoe 
The moon last night was orange!  Couldn't find the camera tho...
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Fowl Play

« on: December 06, 2006, 02:21:43 PM »

Here's one Craig!
http://www.bitshorseadopt.org/seefaa.html
A little Arab girl.  I tell you Arabians will go forever!  They have a "honeycombed" leg bones that a stronger then other horses bones.  Arabians are incredibly smart.  The owner is using a running martingale on her, means she throws her head - most Arabians carry their heads high.  No reason you can't continue to use the martingale on her - might save the grandkids a few bloody noses! 
This is one I'd go look at...
Okay, big butting in nose is leaving now!
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Fowl Play

« on: December 06, 2006, 01:57:40 PM »

Craig it's easier to find the "favorite" horse then you might think.  Kids outgrow their horses.  Not as often as they outgrow shoes, but they still outgrow them.  My daughters first horse was a 15.2h quarter horse - good brain, young enough to progress.  Her second was a 16.2h T-bred.  A little hotter, but still sane.  Her third is the one she has now - 18h Holsteiner.  Super athletic, beautiful gaits.  Unbeleivable horse for what we paid!  All of them have been the "favorites".  The first 2 were used for lesson horses here.  The first one still is.  The second one I retired to his own "herd".  A little girl now rides him a few times a week, and as she says 'When Toffee is tired he just turns around and goes home'.  Perfect for him.  I acually have never sold a horse, except for the foals.  I've always given them away.  That way I know they're going to a good home.  Several have gone to the theraputic horse programs. 
So for all my rambling it comes down to this - yes you can find the "favorite"!  Especially at this time of the year! 
I'm really sorry LeeAnne and I talked you out of this...  Call you local humane society, they usually have horses that have been rescued. 
Donkeys are jerks!
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: "universal" power tool battery charger...

« on: December 06, 2006, 08:03:09 AM »

You know what I really, really want?  I want the Dodge Ram 2500 HEV!  It was suppose to come out this year, to the public.  It's all ready available to the military and fleet guys.  It's a diesel/electric!  The electric generator can run 4 households electric!  That way I can drive it to where I need power and just plug the tools in!  No more dead batteries! 
Wish Santa would bring me one of those!
Tammie
P.S. - You're right - I should have never gotten Craftsman... But you see, I didn't buy it, they were a Christmas gift from my husband!
Me

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Chit Chat / Re: Fowl Play

« on: December 06, 2006, 07:57:42 AM »

We had a Shetland one time named "Baby".  Baby would buck off every kid that got on her.  But if that same kid got back on she would never buck them off again!  Just testing the kid...  One of my kids broke her wrist coming off of Baby.  Of course that was the same kid that had 50 stitches in her leg from some barbed wire in the irrigation ditch, where she was riding Baby.  The same one who had emergency brain surgery after she was kicked in the back of the head - 4" x 2" fracture that went into her brain... Not riding Baby that time.
Then there was "Prince", another Shetland pony.  When he had had enough of the kid he would take off, straight for the hitching post.  If the kid didn't bale off he'd duck his head, run under the hitching post, and wipe the kid right off!  Kind of funny to watch...
I think I have a personal problem with ponies...
Now my daughter has her "baby", Bardo, all 18h of "dumb blood".  He's a sweetie pie!  I'll miss him when they move to Seattle.  Oh, I'll miss the kid too...
Craig, I sure hope the Haf you're going to be looking at isn't the 4 month old.  I'm going to tell you the same thing I tell the parents when they call me, looking for lessons.  Yes, your daughter is going to get hurt.  Let's just hope it's not serious.  She will get bit, horses have teeth.  She will get stepped on, and kicked, horses have hooves...  She's going to fall off.  Horses do have brains, they're not machines.  We do everything we can to minimize the risk - everyone wears safety helmets, closed toe shoes, kids are never left unattended while grooming the horse, they're on a lunge line with the instructor controling the horse for at least 6 lessons.  Ect, ect. 
All of my lesson horses are over 17 years old, none have sway backs...
Okay, I'll get off my "hay bale" and take my big old nose out of here!
And how is Miss Molly doing today?
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Fowl Play

« on: December 05, 2006, 05:01:38 PM »

4 months old?  Doesn't bite?  4 months old?  Boy, you all do things different on your side of the world...
Gotta say I shouldn't have made a blanket assesment of ponies.  I do beleive that alot of horses here develop bad habits because they are stalled so much.  If they're allowed out to roam, like horses are suppose to be, those bad habits don't start. 
But, a 4 month old that doesn't bite? (okay nip...) Never heard of it.  I imported a stallion from Germany years ago, and have more then 50 babies born on my property.  They always bite!  They're mouthy and have to be taught that they can't do that...
Ah, jeez, here I go again, sticking my big old nose where it doesn't belong... here I go...  Craig, you do realize that nobody is going to be riding that horse for at least 2 years, 3, possibly 4.  2 at a minimum.  And then somebody has to break her to saddle, and reining, all that.  And, yep, most pasture horses don't have shoes, but they still need to be trimmed... Once a year?  Like I said, you all do it different over there.  Even my babies, who were pastured, had to have their little hooves trimmed every 8 weeks, perferably every 6 weeks.  Oh, yeah, somebody has to teach that baby to hold up their hooves for the farrier too.  And hopefully she's halter broke all ready.  Craig, go get a nice, broke, Quarter horse who will babysit the grandkids (and mow the grass).  Dealing with babies is one of the most dangerous things I've ever done.  Especially one that is just weaned from it's mom.  Is she weaned?  Or is the owner "weaning" her by selling her to you?  That'll be fun!  Most foals are weaned at 6 months... I had a few that needed to be weaned early, not many tho.  Craig, my friend, please, think long and hard about this little one.  Okay, I'll butt out now!
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Fowl Play

« on: December 05, 2006, 10:53:25 AM »

Nah...goats will eat the roots of the grass too, make that pasture a dirt patch.  But Craig, you can't get just one horse!      I't will get lonely!  You have to get 2, so they have company!  They're herd animals you know! 
Other wise you'll be back here yelling at LeeAnne and me about that 'D**N equine' biting you or something...
Now go find yourself a good horse shoer and for goodness sakes find a vet that has a portable xray machine! 
Tammie
P.S. - don't know if I should add this... but I never meet a pony that didn't bite. 
Me

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Chit Chat / Waimanalo moonrise

« on: December 04, 2006, 08:41:59 PM »

Hope I remember how to post pictures...
This was the moonrise this evening (forgive me for taking lousy pictures!)
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: "universal" power tool battery charger...

« on: December 04, 2006, 08:39:51 PM »

Shucks!  I had a feeling that was going to be the answer...  Years ago I had a DeWalt "super charger".  I took it in for repairs and the person there told me to keep it forever.  I was the only charger that would charge every companies batteries.  My was stolen from the repair shop, and they had to give me theirs.  Then that one was stolen from me...
My dear Scott, alto I don't use my drill, reciprocating saw, circular saw or even my drill press, as often as I used to, I own a horse ranch.  Lots of repairs.  Some days it's just one thing after another.  I'll forgive you for asking!  
Just pulling your leg, you can ask.    
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Painting stinks

« on: December 04, 2006, 08:51:23 AM »

I HATE painting!  Hate it, hate it, hate it!
I feel your pain...
Tammie
P.S. Tammie - who's master bath still has 2 shower curtains stapled to the shower wall while her hubby and her argue about how the bathroom is going to be redone...

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Chit Chat / "universal" power tool battery charger...

« on: December 04, 2006, 08:49:09 AM »

Does anybody know if there is a "universal" power tool battery charger?  I've killed the 2nd Craftsman 19.2 charger in 2 years...  I should have never bought Craftsman.  Maybe I can just return the 2nd charger, like I did the first one, and get a replacement charger.  I'd just as soon get a charger that can charge the Craftsman batteries, and my Makitas too. 
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Tammie

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Chit Chat / Re: Fowl Play

« on: December 04, 2006, 08:44:24 AM »

I'm really surprised that Molly didn't stomp the @#$&^ out of Rover!  I still think Rover was looking for a little "companionship"... 
I used to laugh at Ginny when she would hide in the arena and wait for my daughter to come by, riding her huge monster horse.  Ginny would charge at Bardo and at the last second dive into the hedges!  Big, dumb blood Bardo would just keep on going...  Then she broke her leg (No, Bardo didn't do it).  After that she just stayed up at our house.
Tammie