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15087. Macnas - 5/24/2005 9:55:08 AM Morning Mago 15088. Hobbes - 5/24/2005 10:06:49 AM Hello, Mote.
Oh, it's just not me, Mago. Worldcrossing seems to be on the blink. 15089. Macnas - 5/24/2005 10:13:12 AM I had a nice time last weekend. We went to a local “show”, or what Americans might call a county fair.
Lots of horses, ponies and draught, jumpers and hunters, dogs of every kind being walked and ran, cows being judged, big boned friesians, glossy black angus, docile Herefords brown and massive, handsome charolais with pale fawn coats and curly mops, big butt belgian blues, calves and springers, ducklings clattering around a water bath, bonamhs tucked in together sleeping in straw, four showers of rain that cleared the field each time, fish and chips and vinegar smells, hawkers selling, tall slides to watch my kids shrieking with glee on, mud and grass sticking to my boots, 4 wheel drives everywhere, police horses on show like rock stars, meeting neighbours and old friends, buying a tweed cap for my daughter who now won’t take it off, squinting at the sun when it showed itself, holding hands with my wife as we stroll around, and somehow, both of us feeling very much, at home.
15090. Magoseph - 5/24/2005 1:14:08 PM Hello, Hobbes, nice to see you.
Mac, I was going to ask about your weekend, but I decided against doing so, not wanting to bother you again. What a terrific description you give us--I could see everything, I really could. 15091. PelleNilsson - 5/24/2005 1:27:09 PM Yes, Macnas has the gift, no doubt about that. 15092. Magoseph - 5/24/2005 1:29:18 PM Well, Arky, let us know how Doby is getting along. 15093. Macnas - 5/24/2005 1:35:37 PM Well, I'm glad you like it.
Have ye ever seen belgian blues? They must have the biggest arses in the entire bovine world.
15094. alistairconnor - 5/24/2005 1:39:53 PM How's the agricultural world coping with rising living standards, rising land prices and all? Keeping up? 15095. alistairconnor - 5/24/2005 1:40:28 PM (I decided against casting aspersions about your attraction for big blue Belgian arses) 15096. alistairconnor - 5/24/2005 1:42:43 PM I'm familiar with the other breeds you mentioned, but I've never heard of a Belgian blue. Unless it goes by another name around here.
Does it give blue milk, for making blue cheese? I might fancy one myself. 15097. Macnas - 5/24/2005 1:48:10 PM Thanks for that kindness Conner.
Small farms in peril, big farms doing fine.
A show like the one at the weekend is mainly to do with the hobby farmer, the ones interested in particular breeds and having only a few stock at anyone time.
Horses are more popular now than ever before, everyone seems to have a few.
I do love going to these events, if only to eat the fruitcake for sale in the tea tent. 15098. thoughtful - 5/24/2005 2:11:27 PM I see what you mean!
 15099. thoughtful - 5/24/2005 2:14:47 PM Mac, there's a new england fair every year called the big E or the eastern states exposition...your description reminded me a lot of it...all kinds of fragrances of a wide variety of foods as one walks around...animals galore...people galore...side shows and hawkers of everything under the sun from a ladder with 37 positions to velvet art. We don't go every year, but every few years we get our fix of vermont apple pie with ice cream and the maine baked potato and aunt millie's pierogis...and always watch the parade with the budweiser clydesdales going by. A real classic. 15100. uzmakk - 5/24/2005 2:32:12 PM Our big one is the Bloomsburg Fair. I have not been to it in over 10 years but told myself last year that I would attend this year. Macnas has reinforced this resolution. I am making plans and I am going for a leisurely, carefree, and time contraintless experience.
I met a very nice woman on my forum involved in
this business. Ace was mentioned very briefly on the radio this morning in a brief list of right wing nut jobs.
I am certain that "the on air talent" checks in on the Mote.
15101. uzmakk - 5/24/2005 2:56:04 PM Btw, thanks wabbit. I have passed the info along re: teak furniture. .................and why shouldn't they check in on The Mote, its the best forum on the internet. 15102. Macnas - 5/24/2005 3:15:14 PM "vermont apple pie with ice cream and the maine baked potato"
Jaysus, and me after skipping the lunch. I'll eat the plate when I get home. 15103. Trillium - 5/24/2005 3:35:57 PM Arky, congratulations on the new canine in your family, and condolences on the passing of the old one.
I get a few minutes to log onto the computer and find that WX has an "expired license"? This is disturbing... usually when they go down the message is just that they aren't available. Will I have to go through WX withdrawal?
[shaking, tremors]
If the Mote disappears too, I will have to face my messed-up garage already. Please don't abandon me to this. Please. Not yet.
Very fine picture of a bovine upthread. Thank you. 15104. alistairconnor - 5/24/2005 3:45:09 PM It's about time Psychpro turned up isn't it?
All WX refugees, welcome to Moteland. Mind you, there is the question of quarantine, and mandatory testing for tuberculosis and syphilis. 15105. Macnas - 5/24/2005 3:47:03 PM Open the borders I say. 15106. PelleNilsson - 5/24/2005 4:46:55 PM One of WX's servers is up now. But a downtime of >8 hours indicates that they tapped a rich vein of incompetence when recruiting sysops.
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