As you know, I've been dragged into my wife's horse obsession.
One thing I started doing is following a horse rescue about an hour north of me, both on Youtube and Facebook. Some times it's hard to watch. A lot of the horses they take in are in pretty rough condition, and for some the only thing they can offer is a last act of kindness. This episode was different though. A couple weeks ago they offered a free adoption weekend. As long as you passed their screening, you could take home a horse.

One of the adopters was this young man. He's 10, but he knows his stuff. I'll post the link to the video below the picture. The pony's barn name was Shady, he's going to rename him to Western. Shady came to the rescue almost two years ago, unhandled and afraid of everyone and everything. They've worked hard with him over the years, getting him to trust people, and eventually getting a halter on him and teaching him to accept a human's touch. He still has a long way to go, but I think he's found his right person.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl7n_kWB7yc

^^^ awesome.

This could be useful ....

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This story and the video behind it warms the heart. I never trust anyone who dislikes animals. My experience is that animals can spot humans that are indifferent or mean them harm.

The chatter about geography on another thread got me thinking about an exchange I had at the interpretive center. I asked a visitor where home was for him. He said BC, east of Vancouver. I suggested some towns in the Fraser Valley and he responded, "farther east".
I asked if we were talking the Okanogan Valley and when he confirmed he was from there, I started listing towns from south to north.
He finally said,"Vernon." and I asked if the Italian Kitchen was still open as my wife and I had dined there a few years before.
When my son was working in Calgary, we used to visit him then drive through the Rockies and catch a ferry to visit our friends on Vancouver Island. We saw a bit of the interior of Southern BC .
Good memories.
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Les

The chatter about geography on another thread got me thinking about an exchange I had at the interpretive center. I asked a visitor where home was for him. He said BC, east of Vancouver. I suggested some towns in the Fraser Valley and he responded, "farther east".
I asked if we were talking the Okanogan Valley and when he confirmed he was from there, I started listing towns from south to north.
He finally said,"Vernon." and I asked if the Italian Kitchen was still open as my wife and I had dined there a few years before.
When my son was working in Calgary, we used to visit him then drive through the Rockies and catch a ferry to visit our friends on Vancouver Island. We saw a bit of the interior of Southern BC .
Good memories.
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Les

Another BC story:
On our first trip to see the interior of the province with our friends in '78, we stayed at an old edifice called the Revelstoke Hotel.
A month or so later, visiting my folks, when I mentioned the hotel by name, my mother got an odd expression on her face and said, " You're uncle,Slim was killed there."
Turns out around the time of the First World War, he worked in the hotel and was shot by some guy who was drunk and fighting. I knew my mother's half brothers were a bit older, I was shocked to learn of his violent death.

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Les

I was out in the yard the other day after a heavy rain and at the edge of the woods I saw what I thought was a root, but when I looked closer, I found the object to be a lug wrench. I pulled the thing out of the ground, but it had some TV cable and electrical cords around it that kept me from pulling the thing completely out of the ground. Today, I had some time and cut the cables and excavated it from the earth. I also pulled all the cables and wires out of the ground and properly discarded them in the trash. A previous owner of the property obviously used the edge of the woods as a dumping ground. Anyway, yeah, I found a lug wrench. Why would anyone just bury a lug wrench?
But wait, there's more.
When I was patting the dirt back down, I saw some little wheels sticking out of the ground, so I dug around with a small shovel and found a Tootsietoy Armored Car, and it was intact. I cleaned it up a little, and I plan on restoring it. I wonder how long it has been buried also? I was amazed that the plastic chassis had not deteriorated. So today's piddling in the yard became somewhat of a treasure hunt. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...62b023728b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...fecbdb7085.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9affdddf64.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...cf456f3198.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...915143f0bb.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...705611872e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...028f22dca1.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...02fec6fcd7.jpg

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Horses are amazing animals. I occasionally see posts on FB from some woman that rescues horses. The horses often are not trusting of people and she works with them. Amazing stuff. It's shocking seeing videos of horses that are skin and bones or horses that have insane hooves that can barely walk. Fortunately, I've only seen videos where the horses are rehabilitated, at least, that's what the videos portray.

This is cool. Scientists have managed to allow a handful of folks to see a completely new color.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-say-theyve-discovered-a-new-color-an-unprecedented-hue-only-ever-seen-by-five-people-180986473/

Hex Shank Drill Bits!
 

Where have these been all my life? I have struggled with the keyless chucks since their introduction. I just can't get them tight enough and I end up having to wrestle the smooth shank bit out of the wood.

Harbor freight had a small set of the hex shanks on sale. Oh sweet relief!

Someone gave me a set of those maybe 25 years ago. There are basic sizes of twist drills, augers, forster bits, counter sinks and hole saws. Maybe not the best quality, but once I got a 1/4 inch impact driver, I started using them more as they have the notch in the shank so they lock in.

If you use the drill bit with the hex, make sure they are the one piece. I’ve used a few, where they have an aluminum or cheap metal base and the drill bit wall twist out of the hex.

Years ago, we were building in our neighborhood, and we had a laborer working for us. Along the wood line towards the entrance, we told him to grab an old wheel and tire and throw it in a dumpster. After a while, he comes to us and tells us he couldn’t throw the wheel away, because it was attached to a car! We left it there.

Wow, that's crazy!!!

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Out to dinner with the wife tonight, and I saw one of my former co-workers at another table. When we were done, I went over to say "hi", and he said "I was just going to text you. You need this for your car." He pulls out his phone to show me a picture of a license plate frame he saw in the parking lot. It says "My other ride is a spoiled rotten horse". Yeah, that's my wife's car.

This is cool. Folks in the past were pretty darn smart. It always amazes me when current scientists don't give folks from the past the benefit of a doubt.

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Milk is good for staying hydrated. Who knew?

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/americans-told-avoid-coffee-extreme-heat-warning-3-states

chocolate milk is very popular as an after ride drink (not sure if that's before or after the beer).

I would not restore it. Its condition and your story behind it gives it a charm that would be lost without the patina.

I've been preparing all my life for this
 

My son was telling us his girlfriend's son brought home a toy light sabre after spending the weekend with his dad. Never having seen any of the Star Wars movies, he didn't know much about it and asked my son. As he learned a bit, the questions started coming fast, one after the other. As he was satisfying the kid's hunger for light sabre lore, my son thought to himself, "I have been preparing my whole life for this!". Nerd to the bone.:D

Wow. I’ll bet that met with a stunned silence.

That's putting it mildly. I never knew my mother's half brothers as she was the product of marriage of two widowers whose children were grown. Then I was born when she was 45. That being the case, those family members were history by the time I was old enough to get a handle on who was who. My sister, Evelyn would say it was no coincidence that we ended up staying in that place.
The next time we stayed in Revelstoke, the old hotel itself was only a memory.
I had encountered the multi generational space in the family connections previously. When I was applying to university in '72, one of the questions asked if any family members might have attended that institution. I knew of none, but when I mentioned the question to my mom, she advised me her half brother, Ralph was class of '22. These were soldiers returning from WW I, who were encouraged to complete their degrees.

Anti-biotic two step....or dash
 

The two step can really put a crimp in your day!

Well, I have a UTI and the anti-biotic needed to cure the condition.... oof

So, I've upped my pro/pre-biotic intake and I'm on the BRAT diet.

Unpleasant to say the least.

His Amazon Logo does also.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1753038435.jpg

Looks like Peyronies disease

Close call between a Delta flight into Minot North Dakota and a B 52 yesterday. Minot tower had given landing clearance, but they have no radar and are next to a USAF base. Delta pilot avoided with "an aggressive right turn" and, upon landing apologized to his passengers.

That would be exciting just to see a B52 and to live through evasive maneuvers in a passenger jet.

This is cool.

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Feel better, fella!

All betta thanks!

Now, how about this? :eek:

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I thought it was snake oil...but it works
 

I have chronic colitis and it truly wreaks havoc on my GI system. It makes toileting more than a little inconvenient.

I started using a product called Culturelle pre/pro-biotic capsules. It has really made a difference. No, it doesn't treat the UC but it has made a difference in how my GI system is coping.

On a related note, the anti-inflammatory med I've been taking for decades used to cost $299 per script. It has been steadily decreasing in cost and is now at $85 per script! Nice!

HOLY SHEIßE!
I've been very lucky to have been born with an efficient GI. My wife's is the opposite.

Score on the cost reduction!

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For the math nerds or mass curious. Have your mind completely blown!

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Kind of like the video above, this one will tittie twister your gray matter.

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Original Woodstock 55 years ago this week

https://www.bethelwoodscenter.org/museum/55th-anniversary-weekend

I found this interesting. On the surface, the answer seemed so easy but once you get into it, it all changed.

Fire in south west Nova Scotia. Started two days ago with a lightening strike several miles back in the woods. Once the water bombers were freed up from the Halifax area fire, they showed up here. In the image, one aircraft has just dropped below the trees to scoop up water from the Annapolis river. The one in the image is less than 60 seconds behind.

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The river makes a couple of turns here. They are picking up water from a stretch less than a half mile long and maybe a hundred yards wide.
What you see above the trees is all smoke.

The fire has grown to 30 square kilometers. We had some rain last evening, but nowhere near enough. Today 4 Airtractors are working the fire. They can carry about 2 tons of water each and the flight, in line astern, are cycling in 12 to 15 minutes. They are picking up in front of our place.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1755545888.jpg

You can see there's a lot less smoke in the background.

Less smoke is good assuming it's not just because the wind is blowing a different direction or all of the fuel has been burned up. At least you're seeing from the far side of the river. I've heard about the fires, and then some floods in the US up north. I'm not sure if Mother Nature is grumpy or if the Internet has just made everything so much more widespread and common knowledge.

A week ago, Environment Canada advised that the total area in Canada consumed by fire this year was equivalent to the province of New Brunswick, (or Maine for those not conversant in Canadian geography). No wonder there has been smoke!.

From by B.C. days, talk about smoking a fat one!