04-24-2013, 21:54
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#1021
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Driving the Texas highways
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Thanks Gypsy, Stargazer and Mr P.
Sdiver, you're hopeless. 
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04-25-2013, 19:12
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Well I'm sure it would help if one were Hung Like a ...... errrr ..... Never mind.
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He's a gelding. Not something I'd be jealous of. 
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04-29-2013, 11:20
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#1023
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Join Date: Jan 2013
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Daughter on the way to Hospital as I post.
Looks like I'll be a Grand Pappy again very soon. 
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04-29-2013, 13:35
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#1024
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Young dude turned 9 today...days that is!
Loved the "old dude" story so much, thought I'd share my own. I can understand how Orion feels, as I had a retired therapy horse given to me to care for when she was 23 years old. Her name was Bess and she was an Arabian dressage horse for many years and was then retired and "worked" as a therapy horse for young children with physical disabilities. Bess came to our farm to finish out her days in true retirement. We figured she would only live a few more years...but she finally passed on at the age of 34! She gave the world a lot of joy in those 34 years.
On to the gist of this post that is alluded to in the title. For those of you that know Quarter Horses, Zippo Pine Bar was and is regarded as a very good breeding line. I have the last of his sons and a Foundation Quarter Horse mare out of the Zippo line as well. April 20, 2013 we were blessed with the birth of a direct granson of Zippo Pine Bar. Tentative name will be Zippo's Flashy Legacy. Welcome to the world "young dude"!
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04-29-2013, 14:04
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Originally Posted by uspsmark
For those of you that know Quarter Horses, Zippo Pine Bar was and is regarded as a very good breeding line.
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That is quite a pedigree.  Nice looking foal. My last horse was a quarter horse of the Skipster line.
Not sure if you caught the movie, "Buck"... but he had a number of great quotes that resonated with my own love and passion for horses.
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If you got a taste of it, if you got a taste of what I’m talking about, you couldn’t get enough of it. You’d rather do that than eat. - Buck Brannaman
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04-29-2013, 16:07
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Originally Posted by uspsmark
Tentative name will be Zippo's Flashy Legacy. Welcome to the world "young dude"!
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With the poor economy, and people grossly in debt, there are thousands of horses turning up "in the system", severely underfed, feet so long they curl under, teeth so messed up they can barely chew.... I look at your wobbly little dude, with his whole life ahead of him, and hope he always has a dedicated owner, a kind but firm hand, and a long, happy life! Who knows what his world, our world, will look like 30 years from now......
Stargazer, this is one of my favorites:
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There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. ~Winston Churchill
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04-29-2013, 17:06
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Undisclosed Safehouse in South Texas
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I rescued a horse, Cochise, last year. The first picture if from last Feb, the day I picked him up. The second is last May. It a wonder what difference a little TLC and some decent feed makes.
Enjoy!
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04-29-2013, 17:41
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Quote:
Originally Posted by orion5
Stargazer, this is one of my favorites:
"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." ~Winston Churchill
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Great quote. Thank you for sharing!
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Originally Posted by nousdefions
I rescued a horse, Cochise, last year. The first picture if from last Feb, the day I picked him up. The second is last May. It a wonder what difference a little TLC and some decent feed makes.
Enjoy!
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How great is that. Love his name too!
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"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. Doesn't matter if it's true or not.. a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."~ Hub
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04-29-2013, 18:40
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cochise Co., AZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nousdefions
I rescued a horse, Cochise, last year. The first picture if from last Feb, the day I picked him up. The second is last May. It a wonder what difference a little TLC and some decent feed makes.
Enjoy!
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Good work! Great name.
Pat
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04-29-2013, 20:24
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nousdefions
I rescued a horse, Cochise, last year. The first picture if from last Feb, the day I picked him up. The second is last May. It a wonder what difference a little TLC and some decent feed makes.
Enjoy!
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I'm not surprised you filled in his top line in 3 months, but that hip! I would not have thought you could round out his butt like that so fast. Great job! He won the lottery when he got you.
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04-29-2013, 21:17
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I'm not surprised you filled in his top line in 3 months, but that hip! I would not have thought you could round out his butt like that so fast. Great job! He won the lottery when he got you. |
It's a really good thing I understand "horse person speak".
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
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05-02-2013, 17:01
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Happy that the snow held off long enough for me to get the grass cut.
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05-03-2013, 18:07
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My cousin's hubby is home from deployment, via the USS Stennis! Welcome home LT. 
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05-04-2013, 08:17
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Got 3 bricks (555 rounds each) of 22LR @ $0.045 / round.
First I've been able to find this year.
m&c
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05-04-2013, 08:23
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Early Father's Day present arrived - 19.5 hp w/42" cut. "Nothing cuts like a Deere."
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