OKAY SP, You Asked For It, Here's the Timeline:
(and I got up too early...)

First: The USPS will conduct two in-house mail fraud investigations...

Second: A 2-year, very expensive, special counsel study to be started, entitled the "Shelbyville Report" about the alleged defamatory use of US Postal System.

Third: Two show inquiries will held at the Shelbyville city council meetings, mostly held in secret, with "witnesses" flown in from FL, TX, CO, TN, VA, OR and even Canada! Expect lots of grandstanding by potential mayoral candidate counsel members when cameras are finally allowed.

Fourth: "Charges" from the city council could be turned over to the DTMC (Doberman Talk Mod Chamber) for possible disciplinary measures. These measures could range from a public rebuke on the Forum to a lengthy WS trip or the ultimate - CT "Double Secret Probation"

The latter punishment is the most severe because the member remains on the forum, but thier personality is essentially eviserated, i.e. brain washed, so they will behave in "acceptable" manor! (ref: "A Clockwork Orange" 1971)

Not mentioned, is the public character assassination, conducted by certain DT members in collusion with the media, before these investigations are even completed!


Yes, My MA Dearest, I Will ALWAYS Place Song Titles Above Music Links...

Meadowcat , I have to say I'm impressed with you = lots of farm girl in yeah But there is so much that the general public has no ideas about where and how there food is raised . Today we have the Organic type group - If were to farm the way these people think - we would have food production equal to a 3rd world country -- no kidding ! A few years ago - we hauled organic corn from western IN to Ohio to a organic chicken farm - I had many calls with the grower as to pick up times , one day we had a general farming talk - I asked what his yields were with the organic corn - he told me around 60 bpa ( Bushels per acre ) we raise closer to 220 bpa ! He used chicken manure - over the top of the plants for N ( Nitrogen ) had to have it trucked in from MI and it was very expensive - that raises cost per acre - he needed 5 to 5.50 a B. where we need around 4 to 4:25 a b. to make it - so picks up that cost ? + there is not much raised - So is spreading chicken manure over the top a safer product ? Doc don't think so

As far as rotation , most try and do this , Yet it becomes a dollars and cents deal . how to make the most with what we have - like corn vs S-beans - btw - I hate to raise s-Beans ! Then throw in what the Gov does - like a trade war - we are the ones taking that one in the shorts !

We need to get that deal done and sooner , not later - Yet Most all farmers believe it needs to be done , The Chinese beat us like a drum , And send there junk over here + look at all the unsafe products they send here - some dog foods come to mind + baby toys . Well better get - Thanks MC for getting me going

Hey Di - Maybe you could get Scott one of these so his feet will hit the ground

We gotta work with what we are provided !
AJ has the hottest feet I have ever seen!!!!
Major meowwwwwwwwwww

LaDi, Why don't you wear one of these to help refresh your skills?

He refuses to ride on the back......no riding this season. So sad

I can't believe only one female chimed in on this...

Fine. I will go haunt the boys.

Lannie , i have not much of a eye for horses , but yours is very Pretty!

In Florida it is so hot that they never develop much of a coat. I have seen pics of ones that were local and moved far North to better pastures and were really unrecognizable with the thicker coats.

Question:
"Butter is 100% fat"? I wonder if some store bought brands have added water somehow? Because I know that some brands I've gotten before sure pop and splatter when they're melting.

Poor me grew up on store-bought milk. When I was quite small and we visited my grandfather's farm, I remember distinctly thinking that the milk tasted like a cow's breath smells. Comments?

Horus is a butterball! My first Arab had his body type.

How tall is he?

What bloodline is he?

He's got beautiful markings.

And, he's looking all innocent in that photo.

He didn't have nothing to do with no gate crashing.

It's snowing!

I just HATE the myth that it's good for the planet...I don't love huge feedlots and it's not good to plant the same crop over and over and over and over...but real farming, with rotating crops, and with animals fertilizing the ground....argh! There was a great article shared by Protect the Harvest that I can't dig up anymore. (If you're on Facebook, I recommend following them...I think you can also sign up for their newsletter if you aren't on FB - really good info!).

Most people also don't realize how insidious the Animal Rights agenda is...(and animal welfare is NOT the same as animal rights). Groups like PETA are well known, but the Humane Society of the United States are working to do a lot of damage, too, and there are a lot of other groups out there doing a lot of damage to farmers, to pet owners, to hunters.... it makes me furious.

Hi LDi...Do you think can ride Scotty on the back of the bike...days do not get much better than this , huh

Ahem...Frank, I don't think we have too many "young'uns" on the CT. Closest is RADAR, who we rarely see, and MC, who likes to hang around with us OG's cause we share lots of food pics and recipes.
Now in LaDi's and SP's own minds, they're still 24, (and man hungry). I have no idea how old AJ is, or even what he looks like, just his feet?

How dare you!



I don't know.

Ma?

Am I on Double Secret Probation Mission kind of thing?

You know, I kind of, sort of need to know if I am.

OMG! That is what I am talking about!

You've got to archive them.

Or, maybe SP's on CT "Double Secret Probation" for conspiring to provide Cuz with Doc's address, to mail defamatory "greeting" card?

You guys got me thinking, so I looked up my dad's home town--Doe Hill, VA.

The house he was born in is for sale! As well as the old country store next door that my grandfather co-owned!!

I haven't been back to that area since I was about 10, and we haven't really kept up with the folks there (family story); also this house is not where my dad actually grew up. His mom was very ill the whole time he was growing up (sleepy sickness) so he was farmed out to relatives a lot of the time. I was never actually in the old house. The country store was another matter. We used to walk down to it for our candy and soda needs when we were visiting.

And there's no farmland attached to this sale--the land my uncle got was from the other branch of the family, I think, and the old home had gone through other hands many years ago.

Anyway, gosh it's almost tempting. But with all of our computer needs, and it appears, only one old bathroom and an old kitchen, I don't know......

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7...94473802_zpid/

The house built in 1905, I see. The bathroom was likely added on a bit later because I know my dad pretty much grew up with an outhouse.

Oh yeah....lots of pictures. Not quite as many from my time there, but quite a few black and white pics of various great great folks that I barely know who they were. I mean, most were labeled, but that only goes so far.

I know you probably didn't think it was, but this was hilarious and had me chuckling (and praying Mocha never gets close to a skunk)