Good Whiskey, Fast Horses. And Beautiful Women

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Well, after all I do live in Kentucky! And, today I experienced the fast horses.

We left the property this morning owning one horse, we returned this afternoon and saw double. Rowdy is a gelding, so it was not a foal that had been born.

A white horse was racing around the pasture with our palomino. No idea how it got there! The fence was intact and the gate was closed. None of our neighbors have horses. So,I’m thinking someone must have dropped it off, like a dog or cat! Heck, I didn’t know what to make of it.

First, I called our old farmer to see if he had brought it over, since he raises horses. Not him! Then I called the neighbor to see if they had gotten any horses recently. They hadn’t, but another neighbor had and was looking for her white horse!

Mystery solved. Neighbors came and rounded up their wayward stallion.

Only in KY.

The good whiskey Nick had while I was out of town. He always misbehaves while I’m gone.

The beautiful women….actually beautiful people, inside and out…. were at our organic gardening club picnic on Sunday.

So, looks like we covered all three this week.

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

Answers

Wow! How weird to come home and have a strange horse hanging around. I thought it was weird one time when a strange *rooster* showed up at our place! Too bad you couldn't keep it since it sorta followed you home...

My dad used to have an old 78rpm record of a song that I believe was titled: "Cigareets and Whusky and Wild, Wild Women." I don't know who the artist (cough) was and I haven't heard it covered by any bands lately (unless Jim knows of some. He listens to artists I have never even heard of! hee hee) Anyway, the title of your post made me think of that stupid song. Now I'll be gardening and singing that instead of "Rock of Ages" or something... ;-) Guess better than old Osmonds songs, though!! ROFL

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001


back in 1996 I moved into an apartment above a horse barn. About a month or so after I moved in I found three horses loose in the driveway. I thought they were the ones from the barn I was living in, so I lead them into the padock and went to look for open gates. I didn't find any gates amiss and was talking to one of the neighbors about them when the lady who rented the horse part of the barn pulled in.

"Who the H***'s horses are in my *^^&& paddock?" came out before even a hello or good morning. Turns out the lady who rented the lower end of the farm was on a drinking bing the night before. The horses must have come up the road and down the driveway--over a mile.

Then there's the time I found a whole herd of cows. I locked them in a pasture to keep them off the road, but it took two days to find out who owned them. Never did figure out how they got from where they should have been to where they were. There were several fenced fields in between, some without gates.

==>paul

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001


Well, y'know, I used to get ALL the calls in the middle of the night to come get my horses off the highway. After numerous mid-night roundups of other people's stock, I would eventually ask the caller or police to describe the horse(s) to me and tell them what number to call.

Isn't there some law like 'possession is 9/10ths--' and you could keep the horse?

Oh well, in most cases, you don't want 'em anyway. It always seems like the ones that turn up are more trouble than they're worth. The good ones just hang around your back door waiting for you to come out to feed them.

All I found this week was a rabbit...well, that and the rescue re- homed guinea pigs went from 2 to 7....

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001


My mom woke up one morning and found a peacock on the front porch. She lives in Michigan, so peacocks aren't exactly a daily occurrence. She took a picture of it because she knew we wouldn't believe her. Turns out it belonged to a neighbor a couple miles down the road, I guess it was quite a sight to see them chasing the bird around and getting it in their car to take home again!

-- Anonymous, June 04, 2001

wow Sharon.... I have had a similar version... but a different twist to the whiskey... fast horses and beautiful women...

the eldest son (20 years old) took me for a "fast" ride in his 1980 something "Mustang" that he rebuilt, last night... and has spent weeks on getting to run in spite of the wrong parts coming... btw the guys... he can go zero to 90 by 4th gear and the tach hasn't moved much... and no I wouldn't let him go that fast with me in it!!!!! cluck, cluck, cluck

the beautiful women are... the fellow women janitors that I work with at our local school who will lose there jobs if the referundum don't go through to keep our school running... tho they don't want to vote for it.. yes, it would mean they would lose their jobs.. they want the school board and administration to be accountable for screwing up the funds... anyhow... they are keeping this school clean in spite of the turmoil for over 1000 people each day..

the whiskey was a cheaper version... beer I bought tonight that I can drown some of my misery... see I'm confronting the school administration on the misuse of funds... and the taking of jobs at students and employees expenses... I have been finding numbers and information to prove the point... however, I can't (no, I'm scared) to use the info due to the fact that the school administration might make it hard for my kids... have a freshman and junior in school yet...and make my life miserable... cuz in Wisconsin... the district administrator is our "boss" per say over us homeschoolers... I have a 7 year old I homeschool... and I'm in this "catch 22" situation... and I hate the fact that I have to be "quiet"... and I was told by administration to "shut up"... eeeeerrrrrr

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001



Sheepish and Julie-I too figured I should be able to keep that horse.Finders Keepers!

But,I think they might just still hang horse thieves around here.We still take our horses seriously.And our drinkin'.And our shootin'. So,I wasn't taking any chances! Mark Twain said when he died he hoped he'd be in Kentucky...bc we are 20 yrs behind the times.

'Course,now, he must have been referring to western and central KY, where Cindy is.Here in eastern KY we are at least 40 years behind the times.:oD

Our guy really whinnied when they took the white horse away.I really need to get another horse for him.He used to stay with friends who got & trained wild mustangs so he had a whole bunch of buddies.Then, he at least had the cows for company,but now it's just him and the dogs.

And yes,yarrow,they will take it out on your kids.I complained very politely to the middle school principle once abt a new really bozo policy.Turned out it was his really bozo policy. Well, I think I did end up the conversation by telling him his policy was stupid, but,hey, he got an attitude with me.He deserved it! Stubborn dutchman met stubborn dutchwoman.

Anyway the boy got treated like dirt by him afterwards.You would think an adult could act like an adult,huh?

Get the info to a higher up secretly.Remember,you know nothing...you did nothing....I know nothing...we all know nothing!

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001


WOW Sharon. Being visited by a White Stallion, surly that must mean something. Are you sure he wasn't a Unicorn? Are you sure it wasn't a dream?

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

Well Cindy-according to Jim,diane,John and Annie,this is ALL a dream. So yep,guess it was! Unicorn? Well it didn't have a horn,but that could have broken off,I expect. This is Kentucky.It's magical here, and lost in time, so the possibilities are endless.

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001

Yes, Sharon, this is all just a figment of your rather vivid imagination, isn't it?

Pretty neat though, white stallion racing around your pastures, too bad you didn't get to keep him!

I once came home to six head of cattle, with small calves at side, roaming our other pasture ( the one with horses NOT in it), I shut them in, and thought, great, now I got 12 cows, they will be pets, of course, cause we sure couldn't EAT THEM, you know!!! After about a month, the owner came to get them, he gave me a wheel of Swiss cheese in appreciation, at least I could eat that!

But, I sure do miss those cows!

I had an Arabian that could clear even barbwire fences when he got the notion, so I bet that's how he got in, some horses have no fear, I know Sonny sure didn't, he was a great endurance horse, what heart!

-- Anonymous, June 05, 2001


Update on White Stallion.He's now another ornament in our pasture.Seems these two guys won't leave each other.

Last night our horse,who never gets out,did, and went down the hill, got the white stallion to escape and led him down the road to another farm.When we tried to take them their seperate ways,Rowdy winnied and the white stallion answered,and abt.tore his owner's arm off trying to get to Rowdy,breaking his lead.

So, we all decided to bow to their greater wisdom and left them together,here, for now.

Seemed like the best thing to do.

-- Anonymous, June 06, 2001



That's odd Sharon. I've worked with horses for years, and that's odd. Does the White Stallion "talk" to Rowdy, you know, like a stallion? Rowdy deceided since you had your party, he can have his sleepovers too! If the stallion is young, he might be just seeking others like him. Do they have other horses? But Rowdy, naughty boy, should stay home and not go for walkabouts in the dark! I didn't even know you all had a horse untill you posted this.

When we take Rosco, the donkey, out of the field to work, Spirit, the orphan pony girl, runs and screams like it's the end of the world. She gets the dogs all upset, gets herself all upset, tosses her head allot and just is mad. She's a spoiled rotten thing. I can't put her in the goats pasture because she chases the babies around and bites them in the butt. This is her farm. When she is in the front pasture, and anyone is comming up the road, she runs to the far corner and chases them all the way here alongside her side of the fence. And she bucks and kicks and acts all tough. The meter reader could not come in our yard when she was a baby and lived in the front yard! She's 2 now, and I am still her mama. She still gooses me looking for milk! Keep us posted on the stallion.

-- Anonymous, June 07, 2001


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