Morning, Everyone….

Am I ‘first’ here? I don’t think that has ever happened for me, before:)

Alex…Wharton’s support IS a big deal! I’m proud for you! I can’t watch the video:/ dial-up, you know..but perhaps I can go visit a friend who has DSL and see it sometime in the next week or so:)

Raining here this morning…light rain and outside, it’s 55 degrees! I think it rained most of the o’night hours, too:) Shudder to think of the temperatures up the hill though, and all those summertime campers with little chilluns…oh my….2011 season of camping will be one they won’t soon forget!

Here’s Joe for Wednesday:

Wednesday, June 29th… From a Facebook friend I found out about Checkers, a bay gelding with a racing tattoo. Checkers is 300 pounds underweight. Yesterday in pouring rain Checkers made the long walk up our driveway. Checkers is only 6 years old. He looks 26. Checkers comes with neglected feet, and he is lame. Right now his road to recovery remains uncertain. Checkers has youth on his side. A major plus.

On Sunday there were 8 phone calls, asking if Tb Friends can accept horses. On Monday 4 calls. Yesterday 4 more calls. A new month is coming, and many of the callers cannot afford board.

Since Sunday there have been 5 phone calls from race horse trainers and owners. Can we accept their horses?

Checkers has the now factor. Horses who suffer because of current conditions. And is it just me, or has the world spun out of control? Sacramento wants to spend 500 million to keep a basketball team. Yet teachers and fire fighters continue to be terminated. 500 million for a basketball team. But no money for homeless families and suffering animals.

Checkers knows the winner’s circle. He won 3 races, and holds his head high. Many starving horses keep their head to the ground. Checkers is way up there.

Plugging along (pun intended) and the rain has stopped. Our yard is a lake. We will dry out fast, as hot temps are coming. You can practically smell the 4th of July barbecue. Flies rubbing their tiny little hands together…

Joe
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Joe is right, re: the world spinning out of control, I think! The basketball team he is referring to is the Sacramento Kings and their owners want a new venue. This argument has been on-going now, for at least four years that I can remember…and once again, it’s money! The team brings dollars to Sacramento…the fans spend lots and lots of money to see the games! And yes…meanwhile, teachers and law enforcement officers, along with firefighters are being laid-off! Sacramento has numerous fire departments in the city as well as the county….and like so many other cities and counties in this terrible economy, there are those fire stations which are closed in a sort of ‘rolling brown-out’ fashion…I haven’t had enough coffee yet this morning, sorry! In other words, all the stations take turns of being closed for a day…which sadly then sets up a scenario of it taking longer than it really should, for a fire truck to arrive at a fire!

I grew up in Sacramento and yes, I’m old now…but the crime rate in Sac is bad these days and yet, they are laying off law enforcement officers because the budgets are so slim. So many homes in CA have gone into and are still going into foreclosure, so the property taxes aren’t being paid like they should be..that is happening here in the county I live in, too…I guess it is happening everywhere. People are desperate for dollars, hold-ups are rampant, even the mom & pop store in my little town has been hit recently…and when the owners called the Sheriff’s department to come take a report, they came the NEXT day! They were busy the night of the robbery with another assault call. I don’t know…it seems to me the bad guys have it pretty good right now and those of us who abide by the law better stay indoors after dark!

Meanwhile, the teachers are being cut loose and apparently no one of the ‘powers that be’ have given thought to the fact that today’s youth are tomorrow’s leaders?!

Well….by now, I’ve dallied long enough here, I will surely NOT be the ‘first’ to post on this page…LOL!

Here’s the link to our Whitehouse for Wednesday:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

Everyone have a great day:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

🙂 Robyn: I agree w/you re: the photo of that horse Alex put up this a.m.! I wonder if maybe his other ear isn’t getting a ‘good skritch’? And his/her forelocks look quite ‘frizzy’ maybe because of the humidity? 🙂

I’m lonely here, Family! C’Mon…come play!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Morning all…

Cool and crisp here in San Jose this morning…
Today, my daughter’s boyfreind and his family leave for two weeks in Hawaaii. Tomorrow, Mark my husband leaves for a week in Wash (Sumas)right on the Canadian border) at his mom’s house. Erin, my daughter will work, work, work as will Nick, my son. So I’m going to bring out the weed wacker, and hedge trimmer and go to town…Yes sir ree, I’m a fixing to have me a good ol’ time. May even wash a window or 10 (inside at least) It will keep me busy, doing constructive things and away from the stores where I might spend a dollar or two.

I will visit with the squirrels, stay away from the bees and clean up cat poop…Must be Tibby cause Boo uses one of the litter boxs in the garage, and the boys, Skit and Skat have always covered there droppings like crazy…Tibby is just lazy I guess.

Well folks I better get going…please take care and have a grand day.

((((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S GRAND FAMILY))))

oxoox
carleen in ca

##Lynne, I’m here, Alex changed the page at my post from this morning. Kinda startled me.
It’s been pretty quiet here. I guess people are enjoying nice weather or fighting the weather. I’m sorta busy here so I’ll pop in again in a bit.

Judy

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Hump Day…and here we are…

pray for each other and our country…we are in a mess…this economy has to change…if jobs were available…our horses and furbabies would be taken care of better.

please call, fax, email…read the db and help.

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have a good day Alex

Hay faithful Frens All,

Isn’t it nice to come home to a clean front porch today?

Sorry to have been absent. Many things are happening, on the hime-front, and I am in the middle of writing Chapter 9 of the book.

Also, I have determined to systematically write to as many FOBs on my old mailing list, (many from the TWR days), reminding them that we must NEVER allow BARBARO’s glory to fade.

It is my hope that we will once again, see his famblee, as thousands strong, visiting daily, in trubute and fellowship…and hoping that there will again be many hundreds (as on the occasion of the first 2007 gathering), who are able to make it to the gathering that is planned for the 2012 April 29th BARBARO Birthday Celebration.

More news to come, later. In the meantime here is something very important, that is connected to BARBARO’s Legacy:
http://www.americansagainsthorseslaughter.com/Work.html

I know I am preaching to the choiro, but I have been in contact with Deb lately. AAHS REALLY needs donations and promotion of their movie, to help spread the word about the disgrace and tragedy of horse-slaughter, to the whole country. PLEASE…add this to your list of wonderful kindnesses. Thanks from the depths of my heart.

Loving BARBARO. Loving all of you.

Your FOB Fren, O

PS: Here is another that is of interest for the cause:

Call to back film on saving America’s horses | Horsetalk.co.nz – International horse news
www.horsetalk.co.nz

Your FOB Fren, O

### Robyn and Judy

I have buddleia in my garden. Judy, perhaps you may know it as “the butterfly bush”? It grows on any rough patch of ground and was widespread on bomb sites in Britain after the WWII. It originally comes from China but is named after the Rev. Buddle, an 18th century English parson and naturalist.

### Robyn

Aaah, I have just read what I posted…. I’m not implying your garden is like a bomb site! Mine, however, is a different matter.

##Liz UK, LOL that was cute. Mine too not so much pristine but battle weary. Yes I recognize it as the butterfly bush and they are blooming profusely here as well. Thanks for letting me know.

Have a nice evening.

Judy

Steven Spielbergs War Horse comes out Dec. 2011

Am here and checking in, too. Some bumpy, busy last several days, summer is not my best season.

I did see the first “lightening bugs”/”fireflies” the other evening :).

My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd . . . for each of you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding hands, hooves, and paws with the entire Barbaro Nation!!!

Prayers going out to ANIMAL KINGDOM for his surgery, and, of course, we know he is in THE VERY BEST of hands with Dr. Dean Richardson, bless him.

And prayers for all walking the especially rugged path just now.

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JUDY, LIZ, ROBYN . . . . I have buddleia, “butterfly bush”, too! One large, one smaller. I had not seen buds yet but I must make my way down there to check this week. Ours are usually later July and August. I could watch the butterflies alight on them for hours! 🙂
The yellow and black Tiger Swallowtails are among my faves. The blooms have a delicious scent, too!!

Peace and hugs to all,
Lou Ann

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OTHERLYN – So very good to see you here, I was getting worried :(.
Have you seen your resident woodchuck yet this year??

Hugs, love, and peace, Lou Ann

SANDRA is very much longing to be back here with us, too. Her niece should be back in several days and be able to take a look at problem.

Do keep her in your hearts as she is dreading JULY 3 once again, two years for her soulmate, CHIEF.

MARGIE NM – Thinking of you and the doggies and praying you all are safe!! XXX

JOAN – Hugs and kisses to PEACHES AND PIERRE, please!!

Prayers for all walking the rugged path.

Hugs and thanks,
Lou Ann

### Dear Fren Lou Ann,

Yes, many Chuck sightings this year. He seems healthy and as lively as ever…still diving under cover with amazing speed if people get too close. That agility is quite remarkable for an older gentleman, who must be be about 6 or 7 years old, although it seems longer…more like 8 or ten. He has lived in his burrow beneath the big yew, and under the rock wall, in peace, for many safe happy years.

If I must move this year, I will leave a letter, asking the next owners to please let him live out the rest of his years un-molested. He has never caused any damage, or hurt anyone. He leaves in the early morning, and returns around 5PM every day.

He must be streetwise, although, because we live at the end of the road, there is very little traffic, with the exception of in the parking-lot of the apartments complex, on the otherside of the tree screen. He is too large for the hawks and eagles to molest, but there HAVE been coyote sightings in the area on occasion. But he is wise and fast. I think that he has established a very safe territory, and if people just leave him alone, while he is at home, he will be OK. I DO pray that he will be allowed to keep his welcome.

Chuck is high on my list of concerns in this foreclosure business. My otherconcern is the flock of sparrows who have raised generations of babies in the vines that prolifically grow under my eves. I like the vines, but somebody else might not, and may rip them down, thus destroying the sparrow-miniums.

I guess I will just have to leave them all in otherhands …let go and let God. Yes?

Your FOB Fren, O

Hiya, FsOB! Because the page was turned this AM, folks probably didn’t see that I had been on early this morning.

What a lovely evening it was, I left work early because I participated in a continuing ed Webinar from home tonight. That meant that Brent, Nikita, & I had the chance to enjoy our pre-prandial walk up to the Revolutionary War battlefield that is on the river bluff which rises over the Thames. We even had the chance to enjoy a simple meal on the deck of our Japanese Garden.

The small things really do mean so much, don’t they? I learned that from Barbaro, believe it or not. How much he loved his outings at New Bolton Centre with Dr. R. and with Alex, to have what Alex would term Barbaro’s “pick of grass”. I get tearful just thinking of that…. Peace, Robyn

#### To Judy: The butterfly bush is also known as “buddleia”. I think but am not certain that multiples are “buddleiae”. We bought two from White Flower Farm with a gift certificate following our marriage in 2007. Despite this past harsh Winter, they are quite lush and filled with early blooms. I think your would find the local battlefield very intersting and quite moving, Judy. Do you have big plans for Victoria Day?
To Lynne: Wasn’t the horse adorable? I am sorry to see that the local policing has been affected by the terrible economy.
To Carleen: Sounds like you’ll be keeping yourself quite busy on the home front this week. I hope that you can spend the Fourth with some friends, Carleen.
To Otherlyn: Goodness, you are writing a book? How wonderful that book will be! I can’t wait to purchase a copy, Otherlyn. I do hope that you don’t have to move, unless you decide that a change of scenery is what you want. You are a good friend to Chuck. I saw our “Gophie” earlier this afternoon. Brent says that I am making Gophie fat from all of the sunflower seeds. He says that I spoil all of the critters because I want to turn on the fountain in the Japanese Garden while we are at home during this season, so that the birds and other wildlife can enjoy the sound of moving water.
To Liz: Too funny, you cracked me up (no pun intended), I didn’t think that you were suggesting that the yard here is like a bomb site! Not to worry. Isn’t it wonderful how Nature can restore life to a place that has been injured by humans? I had no idea that the buddleia were planted at bomb sites in the UK. Very poignant.
To Debbie LA: War Horse sounds like it will require a small box of Kleenex for me. ####

Holy Cromoly, Family! Alex has been nominated for “Unsung Hero” via Thoroughbred Times…by none other than Gretchen Jackson:) You can see/read here:

ALEX BROWN NOMINEE FOR UNSUNG HERO

Lovely article…absolutely lovely! Makes me so proud for Alex and I’m sure yole will feel the same, too:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

LYNNE – Thanks for alerting us about this absolutely wonderful nomination from Mrs. Jackson for ALEX!!!! God Bless our Alex!!!
And oh how I will always love that photo!!!
Thanks, Lynne, for the alert!!
Hugs, Lou Ann

A lovely morning. I have just seen a fox trotting about in the field.In the distance many young rabbits are scampering about unconcerned. The joys of youth!

### Robyn. The buddleiae escaped from gardens as tiny wind-borne seeds and found the devastation of the bomb sites of London and other cities a perfect new home for themselves. Nature mends better than humans, doesn’t it?

Hiya, FsOB! I am running late on this sunny, birdsong-filled “Friday Eve”, AKA Thursday. The Thames is a gleaming sapphire this morning. The seeds have been placed and the fountain turned on in the Japanese Garden.

Alex, even the dirt at Fiar Hill Farm looks clean! I love the photo from today. How wonderful that Mrs. Jackson has recognized you as an Unsung Hero in the TB Times! In reading that blue-link, I clicked over to the story about Animal Kingdom. Apparently he is having surgery at New Bolton Centre with Dr. Richardson as his surgeon. Isn’t it time to call the FsOB to action, to send some cards to Animal Kingdom???? Let’s get busy, OK? Peace, Robyn

#### To Liz: Nature is a healing marvel, indeed!
To Lynne: Thanks for the blue-link re. Alex’s recognition.
To Barb in AZ and Margie in NM: Hoping that you and your communities are safe.
To Dee: Rainbows to you, our Resident Angel! ####

Alex, Gretchen’s nominating you is SO DESERVED. What you have accomplished here, the spirit of what we do, the love, the committmment and our moral conviction to doing what is right has been so well represented by this sight. This group is unstoppable and will be for a long time to come.

I have to laugh – Sight should be Site!

Good Morning all. Another bright cool morning with gentle northerly breezes again. However the dreaded humidity is to come back this weekend.

##Robyn, I love the sound of moving water and have a small pond in the back and a little table top on the front porch. Very soothing and the birds love it. Last year a frog took up residence but alas the cold came and he perished. My cats still look for him. No big plans for Canada Day. The arrival of the royal couple today will be the top of the news of the weekend, so I will enjoy reading of their visit. Have a wonderful weekend.
##Lynne, thank you for the link to Alex’s nomination.
#Alex, what an honour Mrs. Jackson has placed with you. We’re so proud of you.
##Liz, a lovely scene of serenity you gave us. Thank you.
##Carleen, be sure to enjoy some time for yourself and not to overdo.

Have to scoot now, will check in later.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

Morning, Everyone….

Happy *FRIDAY EVE*:) Yipppeeee! For many, this weekend will be long and some even begin tomorrow…more Yippppeeeeee’s:)

Yes…so exciting re: our Alex and his nomination! I wonder how the decision is made? I will check that out later today….if voting is involved we can all get our fingers ‘sharpened’:)

Cool overnight…makes for lovely sleeping under a blanket,even:) Our warming up begins today, though, and by Sunday it’ll be not so comfy sleeping nor will a blanket be necessary…well, it IS the July 4th weekend:)

Here’s Joe for Thursday…big doings…people zooming here/there/everywhere for the holiday:

Thursday, June 30th… Our friend Judy has been a big supporter of Tb Friends for many years. Judy has recently been involved with the claiming of older race horses, in order to provide them with a good retirement home.

Judy is the Artistic Director and founding member of AXIS Dance, which is based in Oakland. The dance company goes on tour, and tonight they perform on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. This is so exciting. I have to hurry with evening chores. Get out the popcorn.

Our little friend Allison is spending the long holiday weekend on a camping trip with her horse Champ. I mention this because it was 4 summers ago that Champ was near death. Starving and depressed, Champ had tossed in the towel. Allison was an all the time visitor, and she spent hundreds of hours coaxing Champ back to good health. The two love sleeping under the stars. Cold mountain air and the sounds of a rushing stream. Allison calls it heaven.

Our friend Kara gets on a plane tomorrow and goes to Boston for a symphony and fireworks. Kara is a big helper with our Tb Kids program. This is her second time on a plane. Kara’s dad is treating the entire family. I wonder if the Red Sox are in town?

Our friend and horse hauler Sheldon is spending the long weekend with a mare called Dots. Earlier this week Dots was rescued from the feed lot in Wilton. She is an appy, with dots on her butt. Sheldon is delivering
Dots to her new home in Olympia, Washington.

Suddenly I am feeling like that guy on the TV show Soup. Keeping you informed of all the latest news.

We end with a note from our little friend Aubrey. This is the hearty part of her e-mail:

I saw on TV how women and kids are treated in other countries. There are kids who are not allowed to talk. They have never seen a movie, played a video game, or ridden a horse. It makes you stop and think. Joe I feel like an idiot for complaining the other night that my cheeseburger was cold. Just think of all the kids who would give anything for my cheeseburger and fries. I am so blessed to live in America.

Enjoy your last day of June Thursday, and be sure to hug your horses. Neil Diamond on the oldies station…

Joe
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Aubrey is right! We ARE blessed to live in America! She may not be exactly ‘perfect’ but that is only because ‘hoomans’ are running it:)

I wish Kara’s dad would adopt me and I could go along to Boston, too!! Years ago, mid-to-late 90’s and even into the early 2000’s, A&E; ran that show…*POPS GO THE FOURTH* Boston Pops in a big park near the Boston Harbor…playing great music. My fave part was the Wm Tell Overature and those cannons being set off…well:/ somehow A&E; must have lost the contract or decided enough was enough:( because now, one of the ‘big 3’ carries it except they pick it up as the cannons are being shot and it’s such a let down…no ‘building’ to the end..none of the guests and their music…not so much of the crowd being shown, either! I wish they’d have just left it as it was, so those of us not able to make our way there could still enjoy the entire production! I’m pleased for Kara and her family to be able to be there in person:) Wheeeee!!

Here’s the link to our Whitehouse for today:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

I must zoom early to town for provisions, trying to avoid the onslaught of people which will begin ‘landing’ here tomorrow….campers making their way ‘up-country’ for the long weekend! Town gets more than ‘Friday Crazy’ on long weekends!

Everyone, have a ‘dine&fandy;’ day today…and if you don’t check in again until Tuesday, then have fun out there but be safe!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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send us rain…we need more…please…

another hot day here in Texas…and other parts of the country are suffering in some fashion…BUT our horses and animals are too…and THEY DEPEND ON US.

please call, fax, email…please…we are still looking for that brave starfish…

and read the db…and help

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Alex…great news..you deserve it…

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Please light candles for Barbaro and all of his heavenly frens….

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thank you LouAnn…hope Miss Minnie, Miss Pickles, Miss Sweet Pea…and Sarah and all the others including you are fine and dandy….too.

Morning all….

Judy you asked if we are still looking for our next home..we haven’t even started yet. Our proceedings are taken a long time..but at least we have our home still. For how long??? time will tell.

Prayers going out to dear Animal Kingdom..I hope he heals well and lives long.

Otherlyn, it is so good to see you here. I wish you good luck with your proceedings as well as with ours…

Alex-I watched your interview and appreciate all that you have shared with us and helped us accomplish even more…Congratulations!!!

Lynne, Sandra, Miss Dee, Joan, Robyn, Debbie, Bobbie, Liz and all Barbaro’s Wonderful Family, I wish you a grand 4th of July and a safe one!!!

Take care all….

((HUGS))

oxoxo
carleen in ca

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Carleen..my grandmother always said look up…God is there…and you all have a lovely safe 4th…

My sister Gloria Davis is very ill, The Dr. is saying this blood disorder is developing in to leukemia. They will send her home and start
Hospice. Said we are looking at 6 months at the most. I don’t think that long myself. Prayers for no pain and some happy days together.

Good morning all. There is a bit of a mackerel sky, which is supposed to presage rain, but I hope if it does come it will only be a few light showers. There is certainly enough blue for the sailor’s trousers.

### Debbie, I am so sorry to read your sad news. Best wishes to Gloria, you and your family.

Hiya, FsOB! You guessed it, it couldn’t have come soon enough: It’s TGIF! And what a lovely Friday it is here on the banks of the Thames. The river is gleaming and dappled with tiny wavelets. The birds are singing, the seeds have been distributed, and the fountain is ON in the Japanese Garden.

Alex, how fitting that you have been recognized by the TB Times as one of racing’s “Unsung Heroes”. And to have been nominated by none other than Mrs. Jackson!

Does anyone have any news about the outcome of Animal Kingdom’s surgery at New Bolton Centre? I plan to buy him a get well card and send it to NBC this weekend. Having actually seen him on the day of the Belmont Stakes makes his recovery even more essential for me. He is truly a gorgeous, tall chestnut TB.

Best wishes to all of our Canadian FsOB contingent, including Judy! May your Canada Day celebrations be festive and safe. I can’t wait to see all of the photos from the trip being made by Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge!

May everyone have “ACD” and once more, thanks to Alex for all that you do to maintain this site! Peace, Robyn

#### To Sandra: Missing you here. You are always in my thoughts, but shall be particularly so on July 3rd.
To Debbie LA: I am so very sorry that your sister Gloria Davis has been given such a diagnosis. Didn’t Gloria check in here on your behalf when you were on the Continent a few years ago? I remember how engaging your sister was.
To Carleen: Wishing you a happy Fourth!
To Stu: Please let us know when your dates for the trip to New London become firm.
To Joan: If a rain dance would help TX, then I would be in the dance party, to be sure.
To Lynne B: Wasn’t young Aubrey from Joe Shelton’s site right on the mark? ####

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we would gladly take the rain and rain dance…Robyn….

please call, fax, email..please…

and read the db..and help please…

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have a Happy 4th of July…be safe…and be so thankful we still have Independence Day!Q

Morning, Everyone…

Happy Friday…the beginning (for many) of a long and hopefully fun/safe weekend…celebrating the birthday of America!! Wheeeee:)

Debbie: I am so sorry! I hope you and your sister can enjoy some quality time together and I’ll keep her close in mind/heart for peace/comfort, too. We love you, Deb!

I saw a Doe with her two babes early this a.m.:) Mom was grooming one of them and the other one wasn’t far away….just checking things out…one eye on ‘things’ and the other on Mom:) I have never seen the triplets again…but did see that Mother with two babes….so, perhaps the third one wasn’t hers after all…I’m still watching though:)

Our skies are blue and the sun is just coming up now…it’s warming a little each day as we climb to just over 100 by Sunday/Monday, hover there until next Thursday, when we ‘cool down’ to just 96…it’s July in the foothills:)

Some projects on-going here, today the back porch floor is getting a coat of solid stain..called Ebony…it’s just beautiful! The rails are all done and so are the steps, so it’s time to bite the bullet and get the floor done:) The birdies and squirrels will be FAR less than enchanted for a few hours today, as I’ll need to take their seed feeders down from the railing…can’t have empty seed shells fall onto wet stain! I’ll hurry/hurry though and put them back by early afternoon so the little darlings won’t starve!

I heard on news last night, William and Kate will be in Santa Barbara while here in CA and many high-profile people will be in attendance, I think it is to do with a Polo Pony competition…Oprah is slated to be a guest, along with others whose names/faces escape me for now…Santa Barbara is a beautiful place! I’m guessing Yosemite isn’t on their list of stops and am sorry for that. Yosemite is always beautiful but this year, the water falls are especially breathtaking because of all the snow melt…they got ‘alotsa’ snow in Yosemite this last winter! The Merced River is running so high right now, some of the campgrounds are closed due to flooding and the meadows must be as green as fields in Ireland this time around…Wow!

The lake I live next to, New Melones Resivoir, is at 95% capacity right now:) last year this time, it was at just 77%! We got LOTS of rain/snow here, too:)

Here’s Joe for Friday:

Friday, July 1st… Earlier this week I wrote about Maddie, who gave money to a girl that bought dog food for a stranger. The girl has received dozens of other offers. Including an all expense paid weekend for the girl and her mom at a fancy resort in Monterey.

And now there are offers of gifts for Maddie. A lady in Ohio wants to pay six months board for Maddie’s horse Leo. A young girl, also with autism, wants to give Maddie one of her favorite Breyer horses, to add to her collection. A family in San Diego, with two autistic kids, have offered to pay Leo’s farrier work for the rest of his life.

It is humbling. The number of giving people who read my little website.

Yesterday the girl and Maddie were able to meet. Both girls want everyone to know how grateful they are. I have forwarded all of your e-mails, and relayed the dozens of phone messages. The girls have been busy replying to you.

They ask that your money instead help a hungry kid. A hungry horse. Or a contribution to you favorite animal shelter.

The girl did accept one gift. She and her mom have little money, so dining out is rare. The girl has always wanted to eat at Olive Garden. Mom and daughter were treated to a huge meal. When dinner was over, Olive Garden gave mom and daughter large sacks of food to go. They have been eating Olive Garden dinners all week.

As this long holiday weekend gets underway, I would like to thank everyone for taking the time to read my website. Your response to starving horses, or kids having difficult times… to be truthful it rocks my world. What a high. Thank you for your continued support.

I will return early Tuesday morning, to share with you life on a hot and dusty rescue ranch in Woodland. Have a safe weekend. God Bless America.

Joe
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Good one, huh?! 🙂

Holiday Weekend in DC…Link to Whitehouse again beginning on Tuesday…and if you wish to write them in the meantime, just page up and find my links…I hope everyone has a great/grand/wonderful Friday.

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Thank you all for your life/weather descriptions. Congratulations to Alex for his “Unsung Hero” recognition. Well deserved!
Happy Fourth of July Weekend to all.
evy

Morning all….

Debbie, L.A. – Prayers and comfort wishes going out to you and your dear sister…

Lynne, we need to get our chores done early in the AM so we don’t melt so much in the PM…
I have to trim my bougonvilla. Those thorns are so nasty and Michael (my daughter’s boyfriend stepped on a long thorn just before he and his family left on vacation…epson salts helped though. My wisteria never did bloom this year..I was hoping to see it climbing the telephone pole in that beautiful shade of lavender one more time.
Joe showed a picture of Radar…a little filly he and Cathy saved a few years back..she has been adopted by some really fine folks…and I just loved her ears..so tall and listening to everything. What a sweet little lady!!!

Well folks what ever you have planned for the 4th, please be safe and enjoy the day..we really to have much to be thankful and greatful for even in these stressful times.

((((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S GRAND AND WONDERFUL FAMILY)))).

oxoxo
carleen in ca

As we celebrate this nations birth I also celebrate all of the accomplishments that have occurred here since we started. YOU GUYS AND ALEX ARE THE BEST! The fight continues and we will confront the evil’s that beset our animal friends.
Happy 4th!

((((Sandra and Chief))))

oxoxoxo
carleen and Bud

Morning, Everyone…

Happy Saturday! Is it HOT where you are? It’s a bit HOT here:) O’night ‘low’ was 70 I think. Outside on my backporch this early a.m. at 5:25 it was 70…this day will be on the ‘almost too warm’ side, I think. For sure, there will be water given to plants/flowers and soil moistened later on, for the squirrels to lie down on in their ‘pancakes with tails’ position:)

I love these early mornings, up just minutes before the birdies begin singing and or moving about:)

The painting/staining of backporch was accomplished by noonish y’day, thanks to my daughter:) Today, she and I will put it all back together again like it never happened, except of course, it looks so much better now:)

The feeders were removed and the little compost can which holds ‘almost’ a full 25# bag of sunflower seeds was placed on the steps leading up to the porch. The birds/squirrels were coming to eat, of course they were…but ‘waitaminnit…where’s da fud?!’ By late y’day afternoon I heard the lid to the compost can bite the dust….and daughter was quite gobsmacked, as she’d placed the door mat on top of said can! They are resourceful and hungry though…so no heavy, made from recycled tires door mat was going to discourage them from eating! LOL! By around 5p, I replaced the feeders on railings as I knew the Dove would be wondering, too, what was up in the feed department! I have many Dove come each morning and evening for those coveted seeds…they line up on the hand rail leading to the dishes..they line up, one after the other, after the other, each trying to be patient in taking turns at the dishes…sometimes it gets WILD though..and I’ve always thought of Dove being the sign of ‘peace’ but let me tell you, when it comes to eating seeds there is absolutely NOTHING peaceful about their behavior! They use their wings as weapons to knock others away and Heaven help the Dove who decides to come join in, if they aren’t part of the flock…I’ve seen Doves chasing other Doves not just away but ALL THE WAY AWAY, as in even under the wire fence of my yard! They gang up on the one/s they don’t wish to share space with and let them know it’s UNACCEPTABLE for them to be there! Doves are beautiful birds but they can be downright mean to one another!

I hope everyone has a good day today….and just think:) you’ve still got another TWO WHOLE days off if you’re one of the lucky ones!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Morning all….

It’s sure quite here today…everyone must be soaking in the sunshine, playing in the water or working somewhere…

Lynne our doves in the backyard share seeds and such with the squirrels and little tiny birds that live in the oleander tree. The only time I have seen a fuss is when the cats mossy out into the back yard. Then feathers and fur fly…the cats look around like “what did I do”?

How are Miss Lucy and Seymoure doing during this hot spell? All the cats here just find a cool spot and snooze away the day. Sounds like a good plan.

Prayers to any and all horses that will be racing in this heat today…I hope the tracks will think about not racing in 100+ temps. Not good for horses or jockeys!

Anyway, off I go to pull a few weeds and water a few plants.

Please take care all and have a wonderful day.

(((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S FANTABULOUS FAMILY!!!)))
oxoxo
carleen in ca

🙂 Carleen….I’m guessing ‘city Dove’ are kinder/nicer-more refined, if you will, than the countryfied versions…because I tellya, Carleen..it’s dreadful the way they treat one another sometimes! :-O

Lucy and Seymoure are doing just ‘dine&fandy;’..Lucy has been EXTRA busy this day, bein’ ‘Chieftress of Homeland Security’! Lots of visitors in the hood for the weekend and she’s not used to ANY of them..she’s letting them (and us) know…”I AM HERE….AND I AM DOING MY JOB…SO JUST BE AWARE!” lol…Poor little thing, she’ll be exhausted by day’s end!

Got the back porch all put back together, finally..and gosh:) it all looks so nice, I can hardly STAND it! Whoddathunk a coat of solid stain called Ebony would make SUCH a big difference? Not me, that’s for sure!

As outside watering earlier today, I came upon a pretty good sized Toad:) I picked him up and put him into the Hydrangia barrel I’d just watered…I uncovered him when I picked up that compost can lid the squirrels took off y’day afternoon…and:) I saw some other itty-bitty tree frogs out there, too! I love the ‘fwoggys’ and am pleased as can be to see so many, too, ’cause that means that at least for now, there’s no rattlesnakes in my yard! They eat the frogs:/ The squirrels are taking advantage of the moistened soil and the fresh water in their ‘pond’ too…so, all is good so far this hot day!

I lost the high-speed on my evaporative cooler though….still have low, which is certainly better than nothing…must call someone to come replace the motor for me on Tuesday! Wouldn’t you know..on a long Holiday weekend it decides to die:/ That is nothing compared to the frige dying three Thanksgivings ago though…that was SRSLY BAD! I threw away so much good food that year:( Dreadful time for a frige to die! I was able to salvage the turkey by keeping it in the freezer..at least that was cold enough but too cold for such things as mayonnaise and the fruit salad….by the time I caught on to the frige being ‘not quite right’ too many things which need keeping srsly cold were not srsly cold…too afraid to chance eating them. Fortunately, Sears repairman came on Friday and fixed it for me. Would have been nearly impossible to limp along without a working refrigerator for five full days!

Well…I have put together a dozen enchiladas to bake tomorrow afternoon…and swiss steak is done for dinner tonight…daughter is in charge of the mashed potatoes:) The dishwasher is running now and before I go to bed tonight, I’m making some white choc chip and dried cranberry cookies…with oats and other yummy ingredients…I can already hear the window a/c running it’s heart out as the heat continues to build in the house…but company is coming tomorrow and I want to serve the cookies with strawberry ice cream:)

Hope yole are having a fun day:)

Alex: I’m on my way now, to read the latest review of your book….*THE BOOK*:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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Debbie, So sorry, You and your sister are in my prayers….many thoughts going out to you.

(((Sandra and Chief))), I know Chief is in the extra special FOB furbaby section of hevvin, toting around his brick in their Fourth of July celebrations. He’s right there with all of our heart dogs and cats and horses and other beloved animal companions. Mine is there with him right at the front of the parade! I BELIEVE

Morning, Everyone….

Sandra: I echo Linda’s sentiment….Chief is a *STAR* today at Heaven’s Gate Farm spending time with so many cherished and missed….having the time of his life and he’ll be waiting for you, whenever it’s your time, too:) As will Murphy and Bud and Kaiser and Lucky and Jessie and Steffie and Coopster and so many others…

Hot here! 🙂 Could be worse, but it’s still HOT!

I hope everyone has a ‘dine&fandy;’ Sunday and I am hoping Nadal has captured the prize at Wimbledon:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Well…I see Wimbledon is ‘real time’:/ and I can’t sit/watch this morning…Goooo Nadal!! 🙂

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

### Hey Fren Lynne Brown and Frens All; With Wimbledon in mind today:

WIMBLEDON (USA) gr/r. H, 2001 DP = 5-3-4-0-0 (12) DI = 5.00 CD = 1.08 – 11 Starts, 2 Wins, 3 Places, 2 Shows Career Earnings: $443,818
Owner: Clarence Scharbauer, Jr.
Breeder: Sabine Stables
State Bred: KY
Winnings: 11 Starts: 2 – 3 – 2, $443,818

Louisiana Derby-G2

Foaled 2/28/01.
Entered stud in 2006 at Valor Farm near Pilot Point, Texas.

^-,^ Your FOB Fren, O

Morning all….

Lynne, dinner at your house sound really fine!!
Sorry about your cooler though..just means most cooking should be done early in the morning or after it cools off at nite..(hopefully it does cool off!!)

We have one of those house fans that sucks in the cool air…in the morning before it heats up and in the evening after it starts to cool off. It sure helps though…on days like these…HOT…I love the barbe-que.

Doing some ribs for today and saving the hot dogs for tomorrow. It beats heating up the kitchen which then heats up the whole house…I wish it worked that way in the winter…

Erin’s boyfriend Michael and his family are in Hawaii for two weeks.. Erin is house sitting for them and taking care of two dogs, Siss and Spike and three cats, Lilian, Louie and McClure.
McClure, was found and saved at Lake McClure. Poor little kitten was stuck in a bathroom wall and Erin with some food and luck got him out of the wall…hense the name Mcclure…he’s a cutie though..long and black with white decorations…his ears, his nose, the tip of his long tail…anyway when Erin comes home she brings the dogs with her…Skat and Miss Tibby don’t mind their visits but Boo and Skit find the nearest whole in the wall and stay there…Miss Boo is actually right behind my computer. I can make sure she has food and water.

Our cats have not been around a dog in the house since Bud…and they all got along well.

Sandra, I know you miss Chief so much but like Lynne said, today he is the STAR…and he would love to be with you, but he has lots of company, Bud, Murphy, Dad Louie, Barbaro and lots of other beloved members of our family who have left us.

I send you good wishes and happy thoughts and to all who visit here.

Take care folks and stay cool if you can…

(((((( H U G S )))))))

ooxxo
carleen in ca

If you saw the Sunday Morning excerpt with Bill Geist this morning, you are probably as upset as I am. It was titled “Just for Kicks” and was about the annual bucking horse sale in Mile City, MT. Mr. Geist blithely spoke about the horses who sell for $300 to $4,000 without mentioning that the reality is the “$300 horses” are shipped on double-decker buses to Mexico and butchered and skinned alive. Please write to “Sunday Morning” to enlighten them that this piece was not a piece of light-hearted Americana which Mr. Geist typically reports on. It was based on ignorance and perpertuates the evils of horse slaughter.

Rosemary: Thank you for the information and I will send an email early this coming week. So sad that people with the power of great audience numbers either choose to ‘ignore’ the problem or as you said, may be unaware….education..knowledge is power.

Carleen: I have no choice really, I must turn the oven on this late afternoon for about a half-hour to bake the enchiladas…got lots of cool drinks though and am hoping it won’t be too unbearable as we then sit down to eat.

Otherlyn: Glad Wimbledon is at stud somewhere, good to know he’s got a safe/secure home!

Alex: I agree w/you completely re: the two stars today on Center Court…I’m guessing it was Center Court they played on…I’m so sad for ‘my’ Nadal to have lost….but even Roger Federer lost a time or few…there is always next year:) And the Williams sisters this time around! OMGosh! I was seriously surprised about them not making it to the finals!

Another fine example of grace and dignity when losing, is Phil Mickelson:) Philly-Mick is always SUCH a gentleman and so wonderful with the fans:)most especially the children.

Must zoom over the mountain for a few forgotten items…wouldn’t you just know?! No matter how hard I tried to be sure I’d thought of every last detail…dangit:/ I forgot some things…Well, it’s the ‘in-between’ day as far as auto travel is concerned, so it should be fine…doesn’t it say that somewhere here?! LOL

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

My heart beats for your heart, BARBARO, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd. . . for each of you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding paws, hooves, and hands with the entire Barbaro Nation!

And yes, IN LOVING MEMORY OF FOB CHIEF, and for his soulmate, SANDRA, today:

Ascension

And if I go,
While you’re still here . . .
Know that I live on,
vibrating to a different measure
— behind a thin veil you cannot see
through.
You will not see me,
So you must have faith.
I wait for the time when we can soar
together again,
— both aware of each other.
Until then, live your life to its fullest.
And when you need me,
Just whisper my name in your heart,
. . . . I will be there.

— Author unknown

(This had been posted here either on the day or just a day or so after Barbaro had “crossed over”. I think the words touch many hearts here, for Barbaro, and for so many of our special ones.)

Our SANDRA is unfortunately still not able to access ABR/Internet(she still was able to access e-mails, however); and her niece has been delayed in returning home due to a family emergency in another part of Texas.
I’m going to try to print the column here with all your lovely sentiments for Sandra and Chief and mail it to her so she can see.

Very quiet weekend here . . . . I did get to spend some lovely time with the neighbor doxies Friday evening :). Three of the four were actually quite rowdy :), and chased Ms. Annie through their kitchen!!

Just picked up some tortellini salad from the deli, and got a raspberry cottage pudding (cake-like) at the farm market. 🙂 I’m not crazy about being on the roads on holiday weekends – the drivers were already getting antsy on Thursday!!

The humidity is horrid so concentrating on some indoor things.
Years back Daddy and I would go to the end of the street and watch the fireworks from the next town over. I LOVE seeing fireworks.
I have the flags out trimming the front border.
Will watch the national celebration and fireworks from Washington, D.C. tomorrow evening on PBS, my new tradition. (Plus Jimmie Smits is the host, too!)

And you can be quite sure the Heavenly July 4th Festivities are in full progress up there – if I “sense” correctly – BARBARO and COMPANY are, of course, up front, and then an enormous very patriotic float with FOB’s CHIEF, BUD, MURPH, KAISER, ALL your BELOVED four-leggeds . . . ., and their pal, LOUIE, and every kind of fave treat imaginable!! (The balloons are anchored to Chief’s “brick”!)

God Bless America!

Hope you all have something yummy and a flag to fly!
Love you all!
And prayers, too, for all walking the rugged path just now,
Hugs, XXX
always, Lou Ann

P.S. LYNNE B. – if the red, white, and blue “sprinkles” are missing from your cabinet, you’ll know who came for them! 🙂

ROSEMARY –
Thank you for the alert! I will join LYNNE and send an e-mail, too!!
Lou Ann

P.S.
I keep meaning to post – an excellent idea our ROBYN had for ANIMAL KINGDOM!! Cards and encouragement from the FOBs!

Has anyone heard if ANIMAL KINGDOM will be spending recovery time at NEW BOLTON CENTER or where is he stabled that we might send some cards??

always, Lou Ann

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Thinking of Sandra and Chief, lovely poem Lou Ann, thank you……..Happy 4th to everyone and prayers to those walking the rugged path. Love to our Angel Dee….

It’s been a SLEW kind-of-night. Has anyone else sensed him, as stars race across the sky and fireflies flicker in the grass?

Sweet dreams all.

Your FOB Fren, O

PS: Sweet BARBARO, run with the great champion, and be his fren.

Happy July 4th everyone —
I know the celebrations are occurring in hevvin like Lou Ann says –
Chief’s brick holding down red , white , and blue balloons … (( Sandra and Chief ))

I’m doing the same , nothing much new to say or tell you , except I hope each of you Barbaroheads
has a great 4th. Please remember all our country stands for , and all who have fought for our freedom …

Bye now ,

##Good morning all and Happy 4th of July to you all. A bright delightful morning here in the North with the promise of very hot temps and “hoomidity” as Lynne would say.
##I hope you all are enjoying a wonderful long weekend.
##Sandra, was holding you in my thoughts this weekend for your beloved Chief. I’m sure he was cavorting with all his friends in that “other place” but he was close to you as always. Take care fren, miss seeing you here.
##LouAnn, thank you for posting that wonderful poem. I hope you are not dashing about too much in the heat.
##Lynne, lucky your dinner guests enjoying such a wonderful feast. Your new porch sounds wonderful. Amazing what a coat of paint/stain can do isn’t it. I hope you’re resting today after so much doin’s. Poor Lucy, she must be worn out now with all the security alarms she’s posting. What a sweetie.

Must go now as real world is here again.

Take care all and have a safe day.

Judy

H a p p y 4th o f J u l y one and all!!!

We starting out cool here in San Jose but the day promises to do triple digits+…oh well all the better to enjoy COLD, SWEET watermelon!

Hot dogs and ribs will be the food of the day…need get the barbeque going around 8:30 am
so my main cooking will be done by noon or so.

Whatever plans you all have to celebrate the birth of our nation and those who protect us each day….please try to stay cool…lots of fluids, cold please and pop cycles with cold watermelon.

((((HUGS AND COOL WISHES TO BARBARO’S GRAND FAMILY)))

oxoxo
carleen in ca

Morning, Everyone…

*HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA*!!

I feel so blessed to live here:) where we have options and freedom….Thank You to all those forefathers who decided to settle here and thank you, too, to all those soldiers who’ve fought and died and are still fighting, to preserve our freedom and options! That would also include my own forefathers/mothers who decided to travel across the pond and come explore their own options here…it’s the only way I can say America is my home:)

The dinner party was a success…those enchiladas were fabulous, if I do say so myself:) The evap cooler and it’s low setting, coupled with the window a/c did a great job keeping us all comfortable even when the oven got turned on awhile! Lucy was a *STAR* and loved all the extra attention and so did Seymoure, too:) It was HOT y’day afternoon…99 in the shade! I wet down the soil out back and refreshed the ‘pond’ for the birdies and squirrels and I’m here to tell you, they took advantage of it, too:)

Today is a ‘kick-back’ day in my world…must water outdoors and make sure all those critters have plenty of fresh water and sunflower seeds, other than that, I’m taking the day off from any ‘big chores’!

I heard an M-80 go off down on the lake last evening…fireworks of any sort are illegal in my county, they always have been….does it stop people from shooting them off…nope:/ I am hoping if they choose to use them, they stay WELL into the body of water/s so none of the by now brown/dry hillside grasses catch fire! So scary!

Otherlyn: *SLEW*!! Wheeeeee:)

I called our Sandra y’day morning and we had a good talk:) We spoke of Chiefster and the Murph Man, too…we even had a couple of good laughs over the two of them:) We both spoke of how lucky we were they were our ‘googies’ and how someday, we’d see them again:)

She said Buddy is doing VERY well….on his anti-seizure meds and they are working like a charm, so good to know Buddy has such a good home, too!

I wish yole a wonderful day today! Be safe, be sane but have FUN!!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Hi all, it’s kinda lonely here today with you all off playing and relaxing. I hope it’s been a good day so far.

Enjoy!

Hiya, FsOB! Although our comunity’s fireworks show won’t be until next Saturday, there are a number of spontaneous fireworks occurring right now. Last night we drove down to Milford to witness a friend’s pyrotechnics show. Apparently he, his neighbour, and others along the water set off their own fireworks and they were quite something.

Does Canada celebrate it’s national holiday in a similar fashion? I am getting quite a kick out of seeing all of the stories about the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s visit to Canada.

To use Alex’s term, I am knackered tonight! Time soon for me to call it a day. Peace, Robyn

#### To Debbie LA: I hope that you & Gloria were able to be together today or during the weekend.
To Lou Ann: I plan to send my card to New Bolton Centre for Animal Kingdom & hope that it reaches him & his Team Valor “peeps”.
To Judy: Hoping that your Canada Day was a memorable one!
To Otherlyn: How is the book coming along for you? I LOVE your writing style and can’t wait to purchase a copy of your book.
To Lynne: Last night we saw an amazing thing. One of the members of the local raccoon family must have been struck by a car just prior to our arriving home. He/she was in the middle of the street, moribund, surrounded by the three other raccoons. The threesome scurried to the riverbank as we turned into our driveway. They then proceeded to come back to the street and dragged their family member to the sidewalk, riverside. It was such a touching thing to witness. Brent saw it and he was as moved as I was.
To Carleen: I hope that your hydrangea blooms for you one more time.
To Evy: Always a treat seeing you here!
To Joan, Barb, & Margie: Still hoping for rain and relief for TX, AZ, & NM. Keeping you all in my thoughts. I heard that fireworks celebrations have been banned in TX due to the hazardous conditions & threat of fire.
To Rosemary: Thank you for alerting us to what you saw on CBS yesterday.
To Jane: Hoping that the pups are thriving and not frightened by the fireworks.
To Stu: Please let us know when you head down to CT, OK? ####

Well…it’s still daylight here in the foothills of the westwing…no firework sounds just yet and if we’re lucky, we won’t hear any either!

Robyn: How sad for the little family of the deceased raccoon:( A friend once told me she witnessed a couple of squirrels crossing a busy road and one got hit…the other made it to the other side and stood on it’s hind legs for a little while, as if waiting for his/her friend or mate to get up and come join he or she…and when it didn’t get up, the other ran and dragged it to the shoulder of the road…stayed awhile and then, left. I’ve never forgotten that story and am not so surprised to read your account of the raccoons doing the same thing, either.

It’s been a lovely and quiet day here:) Ate left-overs and napped a little bit. Watched the middle to end of an old movie on Turner Classic Movie channel…James Cagney starring in “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” 🙂 Unfortunately, I’d tuned in well after my most favorite part, where he sings/dances to the title song:) That movie was made two years before my birth…it’s SRSLY old! LOL..Great stuff though, most especially on this holiday!

See yole in the morning…Sweet Dreams, Family:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Robyn, as soon as I get the info on NL I’ll let you know. The fireworks in Boston, as every year, were spectacular. The barge they used out on the Charles caught fire this morning and is burning pretty good. No fireworks on board the barge, just lots of thick smoke around the city. Hope you all had a great 4th.

Hiya, FsOB! It is a bright new Tuesday morning here on the banks of the “gleaming in the morning sunlight” Thames. The birds are singing and the gulls are circling the river. At least for this very moment in this space, all is right with the world.

Any news from New Bolton Centre or Team Valor re. Animal Kingdom? Wishing each of you a great day and my thanks to Alex for the AM photo from Fair Hill Farm. Peace, Robyn

#### To Stu: Thank goodness those fireworks weren’t on the barge!
To Lynne: Brent watched that movie for awhile last night, too. ####

##Good morning all. A bright nice cool morning to start what is going to be hot and sticky day.
##Robyn, yes Canada Day is celebrated much in the same way as July 4 with fireworks and parades picnics and such. I have enjoyed watching William and Kate enjoy their visit here and especially to PEI where they seemed to be really enjoying themselves. They are very refreshing and the people here have been charmed for sure. So sad and touching about the racoon and his mourners.
##Debbie LA, I hope you have had some special time with Gloria.
##Lynne, Yankee Doodle Dandy is one of my favourites and always have loved the dance scene with James Cagney. Such a departure for him from his gangster roles that he always played so well. I hope you did not have any fireworks in those dry condiitons.
##Carleen, my apologies I didn’t read your post about possibly staying in CA instead of moving to WA correctly and thought you had started. I hope I didn’t cause any more sorrow.

Better get on with the day. Have a safe one everyone.

Judy

The credit loans seem to be very useful for guys, which would like to organize their company. As a fact, that is very easy to get a credit loan.

Morning, Everyone….

Happy ‘Toosdae’!

Judy: I kept thinking off/on, as watching Cagney be so charming and really, SRSLY accomplished in the dancing department…:) and remembering him in those ganster roles he played so well, too! After the movie ended, Conan O’Brien and another man spoke and it was mentioned, that Jimmy’s only Oscar came from Yankee Doodle Dandy! I don’t think I’d ever heard that before:)

Robyn: I imagine Brent enjoyed it as much as I did:)

I watched the Pops Goes The Fourth special, too, and daughter switched back/forth during commercials to the Macy*s celebration from NYC…hands down, Boston won in my book. I think they win hands down every year:) Sorry to hear of the barge burning this morning, though…hope they get it put out soon.

I saw on Nighly News last night, Exxon’s oil pipeline in Montana not so many miles away from Yellowstone sprung a leak and a river there has been terribly impacted by crude…as have at least one large turtle and God only knows how many others and birds and wildlife too, along with the humans:( I kept thinking of BLM and how they keep saying there’s not enough food or how our Wild Ones are ruining the land…the OIL leaking from that Exxon pipeline has done terrible damage…damage which will still be present long after we’re all gone from here! Grrrrrrr!! Makes me sick to death:/

No fireworks were audible here last night:) I was so relieved and it’s going to be HOT again here, today! Seems the o’night ‘low’ was around 73 in fact..by Thursday evening, we should begin feeling the cooling effects of that much anticipated Delta Breeze though, and by the weekend the temps are forecast to be in the low nineties!! Yipppppeeeee-Skipppppyyyyy!!

Joe is still in the process of posting his Blog for today, so I’ll post the link to our Whitehouse here and be back in awhile to post Joe.

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Morning all of youse ,

It’s a hot and sunny day at the beach , ho hum , always the same … lol … don’t you just hate me ? Well don’t , cause I’m doing some hard labor here , physically exhausting … still , I enjoy a
pina colada at the ocean side tiki bar occasionally too …

UNCLE MO
An article stated that Mo is being shipped back to Pletcher next Monday , to begin training.
He has been galloping and doing well…

Repole has a ‘dream scenario’ of running Mo in the King’s Bishop on Aug. 27. but he knows Mo can’t get in preparation or shape for that grade 1 one that quickly … so the article says …

I am just glad that he is well enough to be considered for any of this , but I hope he is not pushed too much , too fast …

I guess they know how to do it though … they have enough doctors advice – goodness knows . I’d hate to see Repole’s vet bills , must be enormous .
I just want the best for Mo in any case and I have to trust that they will do what’s best …
bye now ,

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Glad to hear Uncle Mo is doing so much better…and pray that they only race him…when he is physically, top notched fit.

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hope everyone had a lovely 4th of July…and know that we all are thankful for our service men and women, and those fallen soldiers that keep us free…

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please call, fax, email…whomever it takes to open their eyes about the brutal slaughter the American horse faces…and that we speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

read the db..and help please.

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pray for us…we need rain so bad, very very bad here in the entire state of Texas and other parts of the country too…and pray for one another, our FOB family, and for the USA.

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thank you Alex…always…

ANIMAL KINGDOM

I read AK had a perfect surgery , recovered in New Bolton’s pool , who does that remind us of ,
and is doing well.
I’m so glad , so glad , and I wish him a full recovery …
Team Valor International has a facebook page , where I read this , if you be interested 😉
YAY AK , you go boy , bye now ,

Here’s our Joe:)

Tuesday, July 5th… Morgan is 13 and she lives near Bend, Oregon. In our yard Morgan had this to say: Horse racing is disgusting. Look at all these wonderful horses who are injured.

Over the long holiday weekend, I quit counting the number of phone calls from race horse trainers and owners. Asking if Tb Friends can accept their horses?

In particular there are two trainers who always threaten to send their horses to a slaughter dealer. And we know for a fact that they do.

From the feed lot in Wilton, we said hello to a handsome dark gelding with injuries to both front legs. His tattoo says he is 5. Taylor is 12, and she lives in Concord, California. Taylor named the new gelding Fire Cracker.

I wish I had an answer. All those race horses with no place to live. Thoroughbred rescue groups continue to go out of business. As families struggle to eat, and with daily news of lost jobs, it is hardly fashionable of me to moan about the way race horses are discarded. Like trash after a party.

I never did develop a fashion sense. I know times are beyond tough. But if you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. A really good chance you will not see the horse before he arrives at your barn door. And we can help with transportation, within common sense distance.

Gracie is 11, and she lives in a place called Glen Cove. In our yard Gracie was grooming a recently arrived chestnut gelding. Gracie asked: Can we name him Chester? Cause he is a chestnut?

Sure. We once named a gelding Baylor because he was bay. And now hungry horses, including Fire Cracker and Chester, are wondering where is that old guy with food? Enjoy your when is this heat wave going to end Tuesday, and be sure to hug your horses. Flies starting their engines…

Joe

I got our new Kodak program to work. Kind of.

I wanted to show you pictures of Jenny (top row) on her recent visit.
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Jenny looks great, btw:) Go see the photos when you’re able….

I wish I had land and the dollars to care for a horse because I’d love to have one or two but have learned through this website and reading Joe and talking to the Lindas at Safe Haven, you must have some money in the bank if you’re going to be a horse owner. Carrots, grooming and lovings go a long way in horse care but a person needs dollars, too!

Joe will benefit almost immediatley from the Delta Breezes there in Woodland….us here in these foothills, however, won’t feel their cooling effects for at least another day, maybe two of them. However, it could be FAR worse, I’ve spent some two week periods in July here with the temperature well over 110…so though I sound ‘grumbly’ with this heat, I need to remember how much WORSE it could be:)

Chores are waiting….gotta get to them! Hope yole are having a ‘dine&fandy;’ Tuesday thus far:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Morning all..

Judy, it’s OK..Mark and I may still end up in WA with his mom, but I’m seriously crossing my fingers that we don’t…I don’t get along with my mom-in-law so well. (HA!)

Robyn and Lynne your recollections of the racoon family and squirrels just broke me up…compassion in the animal world is so touching.

I wish I could win the lottery someday…so I could help all the rescues that so badly need help. I can dream though….

Like Lynne said, “chores are here to get done”…so off I go.

Prayers to Unclo Mo, Animal Kingdom and Mr. Boxcar for safe and fast recoveries…..

Take care all….

((((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S GRAND FAMILY))))

oxoxo
carleen in ca

##Lynne, I forgot, did you get your cooler fixed. I remember you said it broke down on July 4 weekend. When I read that I remembered a way long long time ago one July 4 weekend, our swamp cooler broke completely and it was hot hot hot. Always the way. As I recall it was replaced with one of those new fangled A/C units (now that’s going back some, huh?)
##Carleen, I hope you get to stay in CA where you have roots. It’s not easy living with relatives in any situation. Stay cool.
#BobbieB, had to rub it in didn’t ya, a nice Margharita would be good. Thanks for letting us know about Mo and AK. I too hope Mo’s connections don’t push him.
##Joan, Sandra, Barb, Margie sending rain dances, prayers for rain.

Judy

Judy: The cooler seems to be working alright on ‘high cool’ for now…dunno, maybe a loose wire or the switch is ‘kaflooee’? I’ll call later in the week, if it misbehaves again…for now, though it’s already 100 outside at just 12:28p so the window a/c is running! Whew! Can’t hardly WAIT for that Delta Breeze later this week:-O

Had TV on for background noise and it seems the jury came in with a verdict in the Casey Anthony case…I’ve not followed it each/every day, except what I’ve heard on news…but I SRSLY thought they’d come in with a guilty verdict…maybe not pre-meditated (except for the traces of duct tape over her mouth and nose..that sort of takes some kind of thought process) but at the least a manslaughter verdict…well, they found her not guilty on all counts except lying to the police! I’m gobsmacked…Perhaps as time flies, more light will be shed on how they arrived at not guilty of anything more than lying to the police?!

Well..some of the chores are finit-o and the rest will be, eventually, I’m just moving slow ’cause it’s so blasted HOT right now…thankfully, no one is ‘grading me’ on my progress! LOL

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

##Lynne, I heard the verdict too, I hadn’t followed it that closely but another girl here in the office was and kept me updated. I too was stunned along with her of not guilty. That poor little girl just tossed away with no justice? Do not understand.
Well keep moving slow and keep cool. It’s very hot here today about 90 with humidy making it like 100; however, in this office the air is on and I have to wear a sweater and then go out to that heat afterwards. Yuck!

Have a good evening.

Judy

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Lynne…I am like you…cannot believe Casey /Anthony…not guilty?????
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please remember our horses…they need us along with our furbabies and wildlife…please

and the wild mustangs…too.

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Hope all my F
OB family had a great 4th!! Mine was perfect, with my daughter and family here for a cookout….lollipop lamb chops, grilled swordfish, cheddar bacon burgers, hot dogs and pie and ice cream and smores for dessert. Could not ask for much more except that my
Grandson, Sam, surprised me with a wonderful song, “Yankee Doodle Dancy” from start to finish without a mistake…not bad for a 6 year old!! Always my favorite, we promptly went in and watched Cagney on You Tube performing as only he could….Sam is now a Cagney fan! ACN to everyone, hugs to our Angel Dee!

Hiya, FsOB! Oh, what a gorgeous evening it is here on the banks of the Thames. Brent, Nikita, & I had a walk to the battlefield and it was lovely. The remains of the fort are covered in vegetation, but one can imagine what a promontory it was 230 years ago, with a view to Long Island Sound and up the Thames.

I am eager to check out Team Valor’s website and I am grateful to Bobbie B for posting the info re. Animal Kingdom & Uncle Mo. May both of these fine horses continue their recuperation.

I’ve sent a private e-mail to most everyone here whose e-mail addresses I have. The White House is soliciting questions for the President via Twitter. Perhaps some of you could offer polite questions about the equine anti-slaughter legislation or the policies of the Bureau of Land Management re. the wild mustangs….

Wishing all here “ACN”. Peace, Robyn

#### To Jane: Sounds like you & “the Fam” enjoyed a super Fourth of July holiday all together in CT.
To Carleen & Judy: Yes, that raccoon family really did break my heart with their display of loyalty. Judy, I love all of the stories about the visit of Prince William and his lovely Duchess!
To Joan & Lynne: I, too, was gobsmacked that there had not been a longer period of deliberation. Now I shall sound like an old (almost 56!) female crone, but couldn’t they have at least deliberated all of the information for as long as it may have taken that lovely little girl to die in the trunk of that car (or where ever the death actually occurred)? Are 12 individuals so unable to really give a serious matter some time and consideration? No attention span seems to be remaining in our collective consciousness and I find this one of the most troubling changes in our contemporary society. Now I should just get off my soap box in case I offend anyone…. ####

Hiya, FsOB! It is a warm & hazy morning here on the banks of the Thames. I am running late, sad to say.

Alex, I love those photos from Fair Hill Farm each morning. That barn is kept so clean that one could eat off the floor! Please stay well-hydrated, OK?

Wishing each of you a safe & productive Weds.! Peace, Robyn

Look who’s up early , it can’t be me — but it is .
I was awake before dawn , and actually saw the sunrise …
That doesn’t happen to me often , only on Easter when I go to the early service …
One of those nights / mornings when I couldn’t sleep – dontcha jest hate those ?

I made coffee super strong to get me through the day .

The trial ? I don’t know !
I could hardly believe it either — I wonder if the jury heard things we didn’t … I would like to hear more also , although I haven’t been that interested throughout … but innocent … wow .

You should hear some of the comments from experts/ workmen who have come here — about the Occicat —
We can’t do all the work and have to call in help occasionally – the hunk says painting ceilings is above his level , ha ha ,

The ceiling painter wanted to know if she was a wild animal , would she bite , etc.
The appliance repair man asked if she was a baby leopard —
and the exterminator said he hadn’t never seen no spotted cat before .
The funny thing is that she is in heat and is doing these loud yells and bloodcurdling calls that startle and scare everybody —
It’s always fun here folks , yep , big fun at the beach !
I wish for you a less tiresome day than mine , bye now,

##Good morning all. A muggy partly cloudy day here in the North.
##Robyn, your walks to the battlefield sounds like a soothing end to the day.
##Jane, your 4th sounded wonderful and your happiness shines through in your post. Have a good day.
##Bobbie B. I can only imagine the sounds of a cat in heat and especially the Occicat. Hope it doesn’t last for long. Enjoy your extra long day.

#Alex, wow Santa Anita ordering THE book. That’s quite something isn’t it.

Must scoot.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

Morning all…

Oh Alex!!! Santa Anita!!!! I am so happy for you and glad that your book will be on the shelves here in CA!!!!! May the copies of your book fly off the shelves… Y E A H!!!!!

Today, I pick Mark up in Oakland…he has been in WA visiting his mom this past week…she worked him to a pulp….He’s looking for to coming home to this heat!

Yesterday, Erin (my daughter) and I went to buy boxes for their move to Santa Barbara in August..
then we went to Denny’s for breakfast…I will miss time with her when she and Michael leave. You try to teach them right from wrong and to treat others as you want to be treated…what more can you do? Kids have to live their lives and learn just like we did,,,and are still trying to do. I thing I’m trying to convince myself…
I just know very shortly there will be one room in this home that will be very empty…silly ol’ me.

As for Mark and I ….time will tell where we end up…

Prayers to all who are walking a rugged path..
Cooler weather…rain where it’s needed and rainbows from our Miss Dee to help us all through.

Bless you all and please have a grand day….

(((Hugs to all Barbaro’s grand and wonderful family))))

oxoxox
carleen in ca

Morning, Everyone….

I just had a Bobbie B. experience! I had a long thingy typed here and had forgotten to turn the cursor off on this laptop and suddenly…POOF! GONE LIKE THE WIND…I’d also been bumped off-line so there was no sneaking in the ‘back door’ and finding it again, either! Grrrrrrrr:/

Happy Hump Day:)

Bobbie: I’d written of having had experience just once, thank you God, in this lifetime of a female kitteh in heat! That one experience taught me srsly well and I’ve never had to endure those sounds again:)

Our son, when in first grade, came to the dinner table one evening to say his teacher’s mama kitteh had kittens and she offered one of the four or five to the first four or five children who expressed interest in them. Clever teacher, don’t you think?!

We piled into the car one afternoon when the kittehs had reached the age of six weeks and our little boy made his choice and named her Fluffy on the spot! Time flew and before I knew it and believe me, I knew very little about girl kittehs and their reproduction cycles…she was yowling and carrying on like I’d never heard any living thing do! I foolishly thought I/we could endure the time she’d be emitting such sounds and then when it was all over with, I’d take her to the dr. for her ‘hyserektommy’….I was SO wrong! I don’t remember right now, how many days we endured the sounds and behavior but I finally could stand it no longer…opened the back sliding glass door which nearly had claw marks in it by then…let her outside, telling her to have a good time because this will be your ONLY ‘hurrah’!

She was gone for two days! On the morning of the third day she reappeared at the door and when I let her inside, I couldn’t believe how bad she smelled! She left our home a sweet little girl and came home a ‘trollop’! I gave her a bath and called the Vet, made the appointment and even though my then husband and I had discussed the option of allowing her to have the kittens she surely must have been carrying..in the end we were afraid to bring them into the world…who would be willing to adopt them, we had no idea and at the time were not prepared financially or otherwise, to be home to five or six kittehs.

I learned from that experience not to wait to have them spayed or neutered….Fluffy was the first of thus far, seven cats to call my home their home and thankfully, I’ve never had to repeat that lesson again! I’m guessing your daughter will be breeding/showing/selling Occicat kittens? I had a friend who did that with Somalis, she had quite a little cattery going, in fact….now, I think she just shows Golden Retrievers:)

Here’s Joe for Wednesday:

Well…:/ Joe isn’t finished yet..so, I’ll be back when he is…but I gotta tellya, Family!! Joe has a new googie and his name is *MURPHY*!!! Wheeeeeeeee!! 🙂

Meanwhile, here’s the link to our Whitehouse:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

Everyone, have a wonderful Wednesday!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

??? I was so ‘excitled’ about Joe’s new googie being named *MURPHY*, I left off half the formula to blue-ink-link..noticed that after I’d hit ‘post’. Waited for the page to reload so I could fixit…and it seems it doesn’t NEED fixing? I left off the last four characters! Who knew? Not me! If yole have a problem accessing the website, let me know, I’ll fix it…maybe it just works from my computer?! I must go have a bit more coffee…I’m truly ‘cornfused’ by now!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Here’s Joe and pics of *MURPHY*, too:)

Wednesday, July 6th… A busy morning, so naturally our Kodak program refuses to load a 4th picture below. I am showing you the newest member of our family. This is Murphy. He is 6, and not exactly your typical ranch dog. Murphy likes the couch, biscuits from Kirkland, and splashing in water. Our little puppy Duncan thinks Murphy is a new play toy. Murphy is very patient.

Yesterday under the hot sun, we said goodbye to Sacred Mountain, who has a great new home with Cynthia. We said goodbye to Fire Cracker, who is now being rehabbed by Nikki.

On this website yesterday I pleaded for help with unwanted race horses, and soon there was a call from Lee and her daughter Megan. It was 2009 when Lee and Megan adopted our gray filly Cee Cee. Yesterday Lee said send us another. Well okay then. Transportation has been set.

There were 3 other phone calls, all with hopeful possibilities. In case you missed yesterday, Tb Friends has been asked to accept more than a dozen horses currently at California tracks. If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120.

Not as hot as yesterday, but still hot. It is Wednesday, and chores are forever. Delicious hot coffee from Dunkin Donuts. Yummy cold pizza with artichokes and extra cheese made by Papa Murphys. Enjoy your where did all the Gatorade go Wednesday, and be sure to hug your horses. Earth Wind & Fire on the oldies station…

Joe

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Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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oh….Murphy is so beautiful! Lynne..I know you are very happy about this…we are too.

now…let us call, fax, email…do it…please for the horses…

read the db…please.

have a beautiful hump day.

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thank you Alex.

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For our beloved immortal RUFFIAN, on this 36th anniversary of her last great race:

….The otherplace could not contain a fire-spirit such as hers. She was a stranger, an alien, she was not-of-this-world. So, jealous fate, with a siren lust for glory and fame, sought to stop her; to extinguish her beautiful flame…but it would have to catch her first. She would not stop running. Out in front, through tremendous pain, and even in spite of a fate-full, paralyzing, fog induced, deep deep, ever deepening sleep…she kept running. She ran without stopping, never headed, undefeated, straight and swiftly, into her place at the front of the wind…..

Always in our hearts, first Love of many…forever our Dark-Beauty, Undefeated Queen.

Your FOB Fren, O

##Otherlyn, beautiful.

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absolutely beautiful Otherlyn…our Ruffian…God is with you now…

Otherlyn,

Thank you for sharing…Ruffian was such a dynamo lady…

(((oxoxxo)))
carleen in ca

##Good morning all. Robyn must be running late this morning so I’ll greet Friday eve today. A comfortable hazy morning here in the North.
##Otherlyn, such beautiful words for our dear Ruffian who runs forever with the heavenly pack.
##Lynne, isn’t Joe’s Murphy sweet. He looks like a Murphy too!
##Carleen, hope your week has been good.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

Morning all….

Cooler weather in San Jose…sure do appreciate it!

Judy, I hope we have all had a good week…good weeks and good days are special…

Not much in the way of news…just wanted to check in and to thank you all for being here.

(((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S WONDERFUL FAMILY AND THE HEAVENLY HEARD)))

oxoxo
carleen in ca

Morning, Everyone…

Robyn: Where are you and I hope all is well in your world?! Not like you to just ‘disreppear’ without a heads-up….

*HAPPY FRIDAY EVE*, Family!

Cooler here this a.m., by at least 3 degrees:) May not sound like much but it is much!! Those Delta Breezes are working ‘big time’ in the Sac/San Joaquin Valley by now and by tomorrow morning, we’ll be feeling that ‘mom nature a/c’ in a bigger way, here! Wheeeee:)

Lucy and Seymoure are both quite verklempt this morning…started y’day, in fact. Their mother and or big sister is away googie sitting until Monday and both the kids are beside themselves wondering where on EARTH she’s gone to!! Poor kids:(

Joe wasn’t up yet when I checked, I’ll keep an eye on him though and post here when he’s finished. Meanwhile, here’s the link to our Whitehouse:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Well….Here’s Joe for Thursday, you’ll read this one and if anything like my own reaction, be scratching and shaking your head.

Thursday, July 7th… Life can get in the way of life, which is exactly what happened. I have an amazing illustrator. Her name is Alex, and I love her work. I wrote a little book called Say Hey Doll, and Alex spent hours and hours getting the artwork just right. And then the publisher said they wanted a different artist. They called Alex too eclectic. Too modern. There was a huge battle, as I fought to keep Alex. I lost that battle. I know in my heart the publisher is wrong.

Say Hey Doll is about a young girl and her many conversations with a rescued race horse named Doll. The conversations come from years of watching youngsters interact with former race horses. Alex and her drawings made Say Hey Doll come alive. Without Alex, there is no book.

Alex and I are back on track. I am currently shopping for a new publisher. If Say Hey Doll ever does get published, every penny of profit goes directly to help retired race horses. Next week I am showing you a couple of Alex’s drawings. You will then understand why I am hooked on her.

Yes, life can get in the way of life. I have been told by horse killers Manny Phelps, James Capers, Bo Garcia, and a man who calls himself Texas, that Tb Friends is no longer allowed to rescue horses from feed lots. Unless Tb Friends agrees to accept other breeds. I am beyond baffled. California race horses are being shipped to slaughter in tragic numbers. Tb Friends stands for Thoroughbred Friends, which means we focus on helping thoroughbreds. I love all horses. All breeds. But I learned long ago, spreading yourself in other avenues takes away from the original purpose. Good intentions can become a big mess. Concentrate on one breed, and there is a much better chance for success.

And so these men who kill horses for profit are allowed to dictate the way our ranch functions. One again, beyond baffled.

Life can get in the way of life. A trainer at a Southern California race track owns mares and foals which are boarded throughout the state. The trainer owes several different ranches months of back board. He wants Tb Friends to take all of his horses. The ranches have told him no way. The horses are not leaving until board is paid up. Two of the ranches have received permission to send the trainer’s horses to a livestock auction. The average price per horse is $50.00, and the horses are bought by killers. For a crummy $50.00, the ranches are allowing mares and babies to be purchased by slaughter dealers.

That about covers it. Life getting in the way of life. Plugging along, with ice cold orange juice from Simply Orange. Last night came that nice cool ocean breeze, and you could easily hear a billion flies sigh in relief. Off to feed the hungry. Our new dog Murphy likes to tag along…

Joe
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Poor Joe! Poor TBs who could have found themselves walking up that long driveway in Woodland! Once again, a strong case for some sort of ‘lifetime care’ package for all the Thoroughbred foals born each/every year as the owners/breeders keep searching for, hoping for another Secretariat or Seabiscuit…too many are brought into the world every year, and too many are simply ‘thrown away’ it’s all just so wrong, imho!

I have no doubt that “Say Hey Doll” will eventually be published, Joe just has to find the right publisher and we just must be patient for it to eventually hit book shelves.

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Hiya, FsOB, your Morning Bird is checking in hours later than usual from the banks of the Thames. I do enjoy it when I have the chance to sleep in on what would otherwise be a work day.

Today Brent & I are celebrating our fourth wedding anniverary on what is unfolding as a warm, sunny, and muggy day. Brent is outside watering all of the plants. Alex, please stay cool down at Fair Hill Farm, I suspect that it must be quite humid down there.

Otherlyn, thank you for reminding us all of Ruffian on this day. I thought of you last night when I looked out at the moon.

Wishing everyone a great July 7th! Peace, Robyn

#### To Bobbie B: Too funny, seeing how the visitors to your beach house react to the Occicat.
To Carleen: I hope that you & your husband have a wonderful reunion upon his return from WA State.
To Judy: It is quite odd that the battlefield has come, with the passage of centuries, to be a place of serenity and happiness.
To Lynne & Judy: Thanks for seizing the new day today on this “Friday Eve”. I know that I’ll be late again tomorrow & Monday as well.
To Lou Ann: I hope that the heat & humidity doesn’t drive yo7 & Ms. Annie indoors today. ####

### Remembering the anniversary of the day they laid her down, nose pointed toward the finish line:

For RUFFIAN and BARBARO: The nation wept as their brilliant stars fell, 7-6-75 and 5-20-2006, then rose out of sight to light our memories, 7-7-75 and 1-29-2007.

“Now they run together, upon a river of stars, just as they had since the beginning of time, for that is how it is in timeless glory. “My swift brother, I was in the wind, running a step or two ahead of you. I whispered to your heart as you ran, undefeated. The fate that brought you here is kin to mine. In a single moment, destiny moved us both closer to home.”

Your FOB Fren, O

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Otherlyn..you are gifted!

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please for Ruffian, for Barbaro, John Henry and many famous ones…please call, fax, email…let us save their brothers and sisters

please read the db and help…so much is needed…YOU.

Have a nice day…,pray for one another, our Barbaro family, and for our country.

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Good Mid Morning Alex.

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Please light up candles for Barbaro and all of his heavenly frens..

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just read Joetbfriends…Life gets in the way…and horses selling…babies selling, mares selling…CHEAP…on their way to slaughter.

What in the world is this world coming to?????
that we cannot appreciate, love, and enjoy, and cherish…instead having to be brutally slaughter…horses

I am really troubled and upset…and I know you all of you are too.

Questions…we need answers…

### Dear Fren Joan,

Unfortunately, as time goes on and our country changes, life is cheap…both people and animals.

My tender-hearted Fren, we must remember to take comfort in knowing that some do fight on, to change hearts and minds, back to what is more in line with the Creator’s purpose…that we would know His glory. Say strong. Soon comes a reckoning. No evil can long stand up to Love.

Your FOB Fren, O

In the name of Ruffian, Barbaro, Ferdinand et al we fight our cause for them and all the others. They did their job we failed them. We must never forget what we stand for. This fight is just beginning. Sue Wallis, Salazar, Abbey and Mexican and Canadien slaughterhouses, the power of morality is going to take you down.

@@@@Robyn Happy Anniversary to two wonderful people! Enjoy!!ACN to all my FOB family! Thinking of our Dee!

Goodnight Frens,

The breeze is fragrant and cool. I will give a few more moments to the fireflies. There are so many this year. They are so bright that I forget to look up at the night sky. I hope the stars will forgive me. Turning in early, after a few more sighs. That kind of a night.

Sweet Dreams.

Loving BARBARO. Loving all of you.

Your FOB Fren, O

##Good morning all. For Robyn, happy TGIF. A warm bright morning here in the North.
##Robyn & Brent, I hope you enjoyed a lovely day together in celebration of your union. Robyn, did you see the sweet little girl who has cancer give the Duchess her flowers and hug her legs. Brought tears to my eyes. Her wish to meet a real Princess came true.
##Otherlyn, your words touch me so much. As Joan has said you have a true gift.
##Joan, I echo your sentiments regarding Joe’s blog yesterday. It’s truly heartbreaking.
##All, if you haven’t heard Cheryl Crowe is donating here concert proceeds to the group fighting the roundup of mustangs in Nevada.

Have a safe day everyone and a very good weekend.

Judy

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Robyn
Today Wayne & I are celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary, going out to eat tonight! yoo-hoo LOL

Thanks for all your good thoughts and prayers for my sister Gloria, and yes she use to post here. Sometimes for me! She is home now, and we are spending time with family.

34 days today and counting, boy it was really hard when Gloria went to the hospital.

Thanks and have a great weekend.

Morning, Everyone…

Happy *FRIDAY*!!

Robyn/Brent: Happy, Happy #4 and a wish for LOTS more, too:) So glad you can enjoy sleeping in for a few days and enjoy time together, as well!!

Debbie: I’m so proud of you! And am glad you/Gloria and family can spend quality times together…please give her our best!

Well…the Delta Breeze, which normally becomes more of a ‘wind’ is just ‘breezing’:/ I mean, I’m glad/grateful for the ‘breeze’ part…but because it’s not a full-blown wind (25mph) and just ‘breezing’ at 14mph…the cooling effects are taking their sweet time arriving here:( Today will be much the same as yesterday and the day before and the day before and….and….:/ However:) I saw upper 80’s in the 7-day forecast and by next Thursday, they are keeping their eyes peeled for possible rain showers in the Sierras!

I woke just a few minutes before 5a and could NOT sleep again:/ Been up now, for what seems almost ‘forever’ but getting a head-start on ‘too hot to do’ chores at least:)

Here’s Joe for Friday? I’ll see if he’s up yet:

Not yet…I’ll post in awhile again, when he is finished.

Here’s the link to our Whitehouse:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

I hope yole are having a good day thus far:) Things here are good, all except for this bit of July heat! The flowers are hanging on though, with daily watering and the birdies and squirrels are all happy, too:) I’ve been noticing even the Dove/Robins come drink from the backyard ‘pond’:) and though it does aggravate me just a ‘tad’:/ the squirrels are finding cool spots as they dig in my large containers out back and even a little out front:/ that potting soil does afford them a bit of softer comfort, I guess, than the hardpack red clay does…LOL! They dig and fling soil and then PLOP down in the comfort of my flower pots/barrels…but I can’t be too mad with them because it’s so cute watching them suddenly almost ‘smile’ as they land and stay put awhile!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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Roblyn and Brent
Debbbie and Wayne

to wonderful folks…we wish you all the very best and years more of happiness.

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Otherlyn and Judy…thanks..my heart still is broken

been thinking about Joe’s book Hey Doll…and the publisher not wanting to publish because of his artists pictures.

I would bet you…even though Joe’s book is precious, from the heart, for a worthy cause and the right thing to do…

the book about Casey Anthony they are talking about…with trash, etc…probably would sell more than Joe’s…

AND THIS IS SICKENING…like Otherlyn said our country is changing??? but should never forget our values and morals…and respect…and our horses and animals.

and Stu..you are good hearted too..and love your posting..

there has to be ways to stop this breeding…I am fearful with this economy..

and I heard on tv that they are having big meetings on Capitol Hill…are we…the innnocent, hard working folks going to get screwed again??

my favorite story always..is about the two wolves that the Cherokee Indian talks about..one evil, one good…and which wins..THE ONE YOU FEED.

there is still good on this earth…I talk to God daily and ask why and how does he put up with what is going on?? yes I question God..

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please call, fax, email..looking and praying and hoping for that brave starfish.

please read the db and help..

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light up candles for Barbaro and all of his heavenly frens.

Thank you Alex.

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I am very, very thankful for each of you…I am blessed to be part of this lovely family…and live in the House that Barbaro built.

((( Debbie and Wayne )))
((( Robyn and Brent )))

Debbie , I send my thoughts and prayers to you and your family , and especially to Gloria. God bless.

It’s a rainy morning at the beach , but they need rain here so I won’t complain … and I sort of like it too …
May each of you have a good day —
Joan Roya , if I could bottle some of your goodness , the world would be a … gooder … place , not better but gooder !
and I’d be richer ! If only , I also have the thoughts and wishes you posted about. If only.
Bye now ,

Here’s our Joe for Friday:)

Friday, July 8th… Kirk is 15 and he lives in Sacramento. In our yard Kirk had this to say: Too bad no one will adopt your flies.

An actual male person adopting a horse. Kirk is the new owner of April, an injured race horse filly who came to us last month from the feed lot in Wilton. April needs another 4 to 6 months of doing very little. Kirk said he is not going change her name. Transportation has been set for today.

Sam is 15 and she lives in a place called Foster City. In our yard Sam tells me: You look different than I imagined. Oh well.

This week raced by faster than Secretariat. Hard to believe it is already Friday. This weekend there is employment at another ranch where the big bucks are earned. Saving for zucchini bread at Starbucks.

Two geldings currently at a California race track have a new home with a family in Cottonwood. A big bay filly also at the track will be shipped this weekend to Jordan, a student at UC Davis.

If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses are free, but you will have to pay a shipping charge. A good chance you cannot see the horse before he or she arrives. The ultimate rescue.

Have a happy weekend. I will be back early Monday morning, to share with you life on a thoroughbred rescue ranch in Woodland. Home of Panda Express, which opened this week and has a drive thru. No Dairy Queen though. We must drive to Davis for Dairy Queen. Any day is a good day for a Blizzard…

Joe
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I remember him lamenting about no DQ in Woodland a few years ago…Maybe ‘someday’ he won’t have to drive to Davis for his Blizzards…

Off to make nice indoors and outdoors, too, before the real heat of this day sets in!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

##Debbie LA, Happy happy anniversay. Wow 45 years that is fantastic. I hope you have a lovely dinner and a romantic evening. And, I am rootin for you, you’re doing fantastic and with the stress that could have caused a set back, well you will make it. I hope this weekend will be spent with your Gloria.
##Joan, you are such a caring wonderful soul. I feel your heart aching with the thought of those poor horses facing such a fate. Please take some time to clear your mind of those dark thoughts for awhile and give Peaches and Pierre cuddles and hugs. I know it won’t keep them away for long but I hope to to ease your pain. Remember we are here to comfort in any way we can. God Bless you.
##Missing our Rainbow Dee, I hope all is well.

Well, I won’t be here next week as I’m taking vacation time and do not have access to computer at home for now. So I wish you all a wonderful safe week ahead. I will miss everyone and will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

Judy

Congratulations to the anniversary couples. Sounds like wonderful celebrations are happening. Debbie, I am sorry to hear about your sister….I hope she is comfortable. Alex, I really have been enjoying the updates that tell of the impending races in the US and the important ones in the rest of the world. Finally, I, too, am disgusted about the way of the world. The priorities are totally upside down.
It is difficult to have faith in the good of humanity when the information we receive is so skewed towards the negative. I do try to look for the positive….the only way to keep sane.

Morning, Everyone..

Happy *SATURDAY* Happy *WEEKEND*!!

Albeit not a ‘drastic cool down’ a cool down, nonetheless:) Just 68 on the porch this morning and during the past week there were too many early mornings, pre-sunrise in which the gauge registered mid-70’s! So…I believe it’s FINALLY happening, that Delta Breeze influence has hit the foothills! Wheeeeeee!!

I began a couple of ‘projects’ here y’day, thing is, I woke thinking of them at 4a and by 4:30 I was out of my bed in gleeful anticipation of accomplishment! Well:/ in my ‘oldness’ by 2p y’day afternoon, I hit the sofa and slept for almost two hours! Needless to say, the rest of my ‘project/s’ await completion today….LOL! At least this morning, I forced myself back to sleep around 4:30a and stayed that way until the more reasonable hour of 6:30:) so, I should be ‘good to go’ for the duration of Saturday!

I see on Facebook, a link doing with Alex’s book called ‘Think Your Ride’ and each time I see those words, I always, in my own mind convert them to ‘Thank Your Ride’ 🙂 thinkyourride.org is an OTTB organization, and sometime later in the weekend, I need to click on that link and read all about it:)

I hope everyone has a ‘dine&fandy;’ Saturday!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Happy Saturday morninig all…

Big race day in some places…Hollywood Park, Belmont Park and Delaware Park (the Barbaro Stakes) where ever our beloved equine family runs, may they all come home safe!!!

Good Grief Charlie Brown!!! It’s 58 degrees outside!!!Burr!!!! later today it should be around 92 degrees though…yo-yo weather! up and down….

Hope every one is doing fine and dandy this week-end. Please take care all!

Thanks Alex!

((((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S GRAND FAMILY)))

oxox
carleen in ca

My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd. . . for each of you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE (where are you honey?) says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding paws, hooves, and hands with the entire Barbaro Nation!

OTHERLYN – so very beautiful about beloved RUFFIAN, so beautiful and only you could write it so . . . .
My best to “Chuck”, too, please!

WARM CONGRATS and WISHES FOR MANY HAPPY YEARS TO COME for DEBBIE & WAYNE, and ROBYN & BRENT!!
And DEBBIE, I’ve also remembered your sister to the monasteries for prayers, bless you both, make every moment count.

My heart sank, too, when I saw JOE’s post, and remains heavy regarding that situation . . . .
I’m a bit behind . . . has there been any further word?

CARLEEN – 58 degrees, Charli!!!!! Can I come spend some time at your house??!! I would LOVE to feel 58 degrees right now!!! The humidity here has been horrid all week. Thinking of you and hope all is going well.

AUNTIE JOAN ROYA – Miss Pickles, Miss Minnie, Miss Sweet Pea, and Mr. Ninja send many doxie snuggles and love your way!!
XXX to Peaches and Pierre!!

Has anyone heard from DEE since I had posted you her new info??
Hoping all is well.

TO ALL OUR FOB FAMBLEE:
If you can spare a few minutes, our SANDRA would sure appreciate a post or two from you. She is still able to get her e-mail so if you could send some thoughts her way . . . .
Sandra’s niece (BUDDY’s human “mum”) was detained getting back to West Texas so she’s not been back to work on Sandra’s ‘puter to get her back online and back with us here.
They also are in need of prayers – as the reason Sandra’s niece was detained is that two of her nieces were in a bad jet ski accident near Austin, Texas, both are hospitalized, one of which still in a trauma unit. Lovely young teen girls, and the one in the trauma unit – they are trying to save her leg.
Sandra’s niece is staying in Austin to be with the girls and so not able to get back to West Texas yet.
You all know what our FOB Famblee does best . . . so I thought maybe if you could take a few minutes to e-mail our SANDRA and also keep those young nieces in your prayers, she says would be greatly appreciated. THANKS!!

And always in loving memory of FOB CHIEF, FOB BUD SOVA, & FOB MASTER OF CEREMONIES, MURPHY!

And always prayers for those especially walking the rugged path!

And THANK YOU ALWAYS to ALEX!

Love you all,
Hugs,
Lou Ann

P.S.
I’m going to miss you, JUDY, being off this next week, but hope your vacation is FANTASTIC!!!
Maybe you’ll get to peek in via your son’s computer?!
Hugs, Lou Ann

Good morning all , happy Sunday to you ,

Judy , I guess it’s too late and you’re already on vacation , but I hope it’s great – and all you want
it to be … fun too !
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That’s such a disaster about Sandra’s niece’s leg ! I hope they save it , so awful for anyone – but a young girl , just awful. Prayers and best wishes there — Lou Ann , thanks for telling us …
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It’s another sunny day at the beach , although we are having storms move through on some days — afternoon storms chiefly, but irritating for vacationers who only have a week here .
Our main work is almost finished , but we have a few more hard things to do , work never seems to end …
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Carleen , I think of you , and other FOBs , when I’m painting , etc. , and my mind can wander …
I worry about your move and hope you don’t have to , I so hope …
and I think of Buddy Sova , and Chief and Murphy , and Jane’s dogs … and other heartbreaks here,
I wish I had a magic wand and could heal hearts … Debbie’s sister Gloria …
but all I have is prayer
and good wishes for all the FOBs , my frens .
but as we know , FOB prayer can be powerful so I have hope in that …

Best wishes to you all , bye now ,

Morning all…

Judy, please take some time to enjoy your week off. Even if it’s a picnic in the park!

BobbieB…please don’t worry about Mark and I. We are going to be OK! Down sizing a home and starting over will be interesting to say the least. Thank you for being here!!!

Lou Ann…Yes, the cool air is far better than warm winds…I love the way cool air smells so sweet and fresh…(except when the breezes come from the south valley at this time of year..It’s Garlic Festival time..nothing like waking up to the smell of fresh picked garlic!)
As always thank you for thinking of Murphy, Chief, Bud and their companion your dad, Louie.

If you can pass along prayers and well wishes to Sandra for her nieces… please do so. I hope Texas gets so relief from their heat spell SOON!

Has anyone out there transplanted a poinsetta from a very small container to a larger container with any success? I love poinsettas and have have this one for over two years…I would really love to take it with us when we move…(if it survives)

Congatulations to the two Dudes on winning the Hollywood Gold Cup…I was hoping to see Twirling Candy win but there was a female jockey who road in the HGC for the 1st time in 72 years and came in 2nd…that was special…

Lynne have you started to get any of the cooler air up your way yet? If you watch the full of the moon in the summer…it always warms up days before and days after. I’m a cool weather person and heat is ok during the day…but I do love cool weather for sleeping! Please hug Miss Lucy and Seymour for me…the the squirrels and the deer…

Joan, Robyn, Debbie, Otherlyn, Miss Dee and so many others…bless you all and please have a grand day…

((((HUGS TO BARBARO’S GRAND FAMILY)))

oxoxo
carleen in ca

Morning, Everyone….

Robyn & Judy….missing your morning greetings here…I know you both are having a great/grand/wonderfultime away from puders in the mornings right now, though…so I’ll survive:)

Carleen: Yes! FINALLY…those cool temperatures have arrived! Just 62 on my porch at 6a this morning:) I’m with you, Carleen…cooler weather makes for such BETTER slumber!

Bobbie: So GOOD to see you here! Slow/steady will get those jobs at the beach house done…and it’s kind of nice, I think, to sometimes have jobs doing which allow our minds to wander and think of things, so enjoy that, too:) Thank you for thinking of my Murphy:) I know he’s a happy boy at Heaven’s Gate Farm, along with his two best googie pals, Chief and Bud…his bestest horse pal, *SLEW* and of course, Lou Ann’s dad, Louie:)

Miss Lucy is a SRSLY happy little googie:) She’s enjoying summertime….she watches the baby deer following their Mamas…she also watches them cavorting while Mama is out browsing…thus far, she’s not decided to barka-barka at them and that pleases THIS Mama very much! 🙂 Mr. Seymoure is his typical ‘kitteh self’ loving life….taking it easy for the most part unless it’s ‘rumble time’ with his googie sister:)or those times Lucy wakes him for a grooming….he’s so accomodating! He sleeps soundly, like kittehs do…and she goes to him, wakes him up and has a particular ‘stance’ which is his signal that she’d like her neck/ears/face groomed, please…such a good natured fella…he always does a good job! If he stops too soon, she ‘nudges’ him again…or turns around, so he can please get the other side of her face/neck and those ears, too, please! Hysterical behavior:)

Joe wasn’t up when I checked, last…brb..he’s part-way up so I’ll be back in awhile, to post for yole. He’s showing four pics today of some pages/illustrations in his book, “Say Hey, Doll” and for the very LIFE of me, I cannot figure out why the publisher doesn’t approve of the beautiful illustrations Alex has done! The publisher’s taste is all in his/her mouth, imho!

Here’s the link to the Whitehouse for this Monday:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

I hope everyone has a good day today:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Here’s our Joe for Monday:

Monday, July 11th… The gelding is 3, and his purchase price at public auction could easily pay off the national debt. He does not want to be a race horse. The gelding comes to us this week, and they say he is tall and resembles a warmblood. Well okay then. Already we have named him Thor.

The mare is 15, and it was February when we accepted her from a thoroughbred ranch out of business. We call her Booty, because her sire is Pirate’s Bounty, and because she has 4 socks. On Saturday Booty left us for her new home in Santa Rosa. Booty is now best friends with an older quarter horse gelding who recently lost his long time companion. There is grass and daily carrots. Usually Lady Antebellum on the barn cd player.

The mare is 11, and as a race horse she earned over 300 grand. The mare can no longer give birth, and it was January when we accepted her from a thoroughbred ranch out of business. We call her Cass, because she has class, and Cass is close enough. On Saturday Cass left us for her new home near Reno. Cass is now a mentor to a young paint gelding. There is grass, and a spectacular view of a valley. Usually soft rock on the barn radio.

In the last 5 days we have found new homes for 5 horses, currently at California race tracks. These horses are delivered sight unseen. Some injured, some sound. The number of race horses bought for slaughter in Mexico is staggering. If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses are free, but you must pay for transportation.

A beautiful Monday morning, and chores are forever. Later we could be 86 degrees. Delicious hot coffee from Peets. Scrambled eggs courtesy of our hens. Two flies currently going up and down my computer screen. After reading the above, both flies have gone to sleep. Enjoy your at last The Closer is on Monday, and be sure to hug your horses. Paul Simon on the oldies station…

Joe
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Daughter shares Joe’s glee for The Closer FINALLY making it’s summertime return, it is a good show:)

Alrighty then, I’m off here to do my morning chores…cul8r:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

I keep FORGETTING to say…I LOVE the anti-slaughter billboards!! AngelsAcres is responsible for them…they’re WONDERFUL, imo, to get the word out to the rest of America who seem to still be unaware h/s happens! I hope those billboards travel all across this nation and I hope people traveling highways/biways will become as horrified as we all are….and maybe, just maybe, someday…SOMEDAY h/s will be a thing of this country’s PAST!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Hiya, FsOB! I am checking in mid-day on a very bright, sunny, and hot Monday here on the banks of the Thames. What a treat it is to be at home during the daytime. I have seen myriad vessels on the river so far today: One of the regional fishers, pulling up his pots; the ferries going about their daily rituals; and even a submarine, with several submariners up top, waving to their friends and family on this side of the river bank.

There was a very sweet film about TB racing on Turner Classic Movies this AM, probably from the early – mid 1930s. Clark Gable, sans moustache, was in the film. I didn’t recognize the young heroine, who had a horse named “Tommy Boy”. Unfortunately, I only had the chance to see the last 20 minutes or so and I didn’t even catch the name.

Alex, I hope that your book-signing events were well-attended and successful this past weekend. Wishing all here “ACD”, it’s nice to be back. Peace, Robyn

#### To Lynne B, Debbie LA, Evy, Joan R., Jane & Bobbie B: Brent & I enjoyed a truly memorable 4th anniversary dinner. We had it up inside the tower of the New London Lighthouse, believe it or not! From “our” lighthouse, we could see the Ledge Light Lighthouse and the Lighthouse at Avery Point. What a treat to be looking down on the ferries and sailboats passing by below. Thank you for your kind words once again.
To Lynne: How sweet that Ms. Lucy isn’t trying to scare the young does away. Nikita and I saw the raccoons in the Japanese Garden last night. She loves to watch them from the safety of the great room’s southside floor-to-ceiling window.
To Judy: Please enjoy your vacation. I read the story about the little girl with Stage IV sarcoma, whose name is Diamond. She received her “make a wish” and met the Duchess of Cambridge in Canada. I read the child’s note on the Internet and it truly broke my heart. Apparently Diamond had been named after the late Princess of Wales.
To Otherlyn: We have seen a lot of dragonflies up at the battlefield over the past week. Thank you again for your loving remembrances of Ruffian and Barbaro.
To Joan R.: Yes, the Cherokee wisdom about which wolf to feed is very important for the world to consider.
To Debbie LA: Kudos on reaching 45 years! I hope that Gloria is comfortable at home, surrounded by friends and family.
To Carleen: Perhaps a local nursery or the Internet might have advice about repotting poinsettias?
To Evy: Yes, we must continue to look for the positive and ensure that it is brought forward for all to celebrate.
To Lou Ann: I am so sorry to read of the injuries sustained by Sandra’s niece or great-niece. She would be in very good hands in Austin, TX. ####

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Good late afternoon…FOBs

please call, fax, email..

please read the db…and help in anyway possible.

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LouAnn…we all send our love..and Peaches and Pierre sends to all of the doxies…and that Miss Sweet Pea continues to improve..

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Thank you Alex.

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so many I miss your postings…please return soon.

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please light up candles for Barbaro and all of his heavenly frens.

## Dragonfilies are little messengers…agents of change, who also symbolize self-realization.

For Fren Robyn, Fren Lou Ann, Fren Joan, Fren Judy,and good Frens All…close your earthly eyes; open your heart, and see our Beloved as he sojourns in the Peace of Thisgoodplace.

At the water’s edge, the reeds clacked in the breeze. The cool stream rushed around their roots and tumbled over the stones. The reeds were a thick stand that lined the bank across the stream from the fern meadow. Cattails also claimed the bank. Red-winged black birds rode them like broncos as they nodded and swayed. Dragonflies hovered above the sand, whispering secrets to the stones, to each other, and to anyone else who might listen. With their tiny feet, they plucked gleaming flakes from the tips of the wavelets and carried them off into the air, and out of sight.

One bold one flew up around The Young Prince’s ears. He heard the the faint buzzing of her wings, and turned his head to see her. She quickly darted away, only to double back and buzz him from the other direction. She did this a few times as Brume watched with great amusement. The Young Prince tried hard to anticipate from which direction she would next appear. However, she was always one turn ahead of him. Then, she began to fly her pattern in reverse. The Young Prince caught on and whirled around to meet her. She stopped short at his right eye, hovering within inches of his face. She tipped her face from side to side, looking deeply into the right eye of the Young Prince. He, in turn looked closely at her. Her iridescent wings blurred a halo around her head. Her long thin body flexed in firm suspension. She held a delicate gleaming flake with her feet. The Young Prince thought that he perceived a frenly smile stretch across her minute mandibles. She was very close. He held still and was not afraid, for in her eyes he saw hundreds of tiny horses looking back at him.

“Good game…good game!” he heard her say. Her voice was a thin, high, buzz inside of a whine and a whisper.

“You are wise. You fig-it out. Tee-hee… This gleam for you. You are prince! You are Sky Lighter.”

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Loving and missing our shining champion…

Your FOB Fren, O

Hiya, FsOB! It’s back to the usual work day tomorrow. But how nice it was to sleep in this morning, spend two hours in our local library perusing several books this afternoon, and then take a walk to the battlefield with Brent & Nikita. We even dined al fresco on the deck by the Japanese Garden. It was soothing to see the evening breeze ruffle the catmint blossoms and pin-cushion flowers. Wishing all here “ACN”. Peace, Robyn

#### To Lou Ann: I hope that your quadrant of PA hasn’t been affected by the heat that has come to southern New England. Please do keep us apprised of the condition of Sandra’s niece, OK?
To Otherlyn: I like to think of dragonflies as being little pixies. Thank you for the excerpt from the story of The Young Prince.
To Joan R.: A lot of folks must be away from home right now. I hope that you, Curtis, and your dear Peaches & Pierre are able to stay cool. ####

WARNING…WARNING…don’t anyone copy and paste that troll-post above, asking for a translation…it is poison! Ignor…ignor!!

Your FOB Fren O

PS: Good night , and sweet dreamings.

Hiya, FsOB! It is an opaque western sky greeting me on the banks of the Thames this morning. Alex, thanks for the Twitpic from Fair Hill Farm on this Tuesday. We had some wild storms at 3:00 AM. Fortunately, Nikita wasn’t too anxious. (She also did very well on last Saturday, when our community had the annual Grucci Bros. fireworks show.)

Wishing all here “ACD”. Peace, Robyn

#### To Dee: Wishing you beautiful rainbows, your presence is missed here.
To Sandra: Please know that I am keeping your nieces in my thoughts. May they both experience a full recovery from their jet-skiing injuries. ####

Gloria died at 5:21 AM this morning, thanks for your prayers. She with Barbaro now!

“You are prince! You are Sky Lighter.”
Sky Lighter. Amen.

Otherlyn, your words, no matter how many times I read them, never fail to touch my heart. Thank you for sharing your vision with us.

Is there any possibility the book you’ve been working on could be a compilation from Thisgoodplace? I’d sign up right now for a copy or several! I BELIEVE

Debbie L.A…my condolences to you and your family on Gloria’s death.

Debbie, my best wishes go out to you for your loss.

Debbie,

Condolences and peaceful wishes to you and yours in this time of loss…please take care.

(((DEBBIE AND FAMILY))))

oxoox
carleen in ca

Morning, Everyone…

Debbie…((((debbie/family))) I’m sorry, Deb.

I slept in this morning…:) Woke around 5 and gave serious thought to rising, but turned over instead and honestly, it felt good! Of course, now I’m a bit late beginning this day…but not being ‘graded’ so I won’t fret about that!

Joe isn’t finished yet…so I’ll be back in awhile with him:)

Not much to report here…since I’ve just been up for less than ten minutes…things in the hood are quiet and so are Lucy and Seymoure for a change:)

Here’s the link to the Whitehouse:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

Hope your own mornings are going well…bbl8r.

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

DEBBIELA ,
I’m so very sorry for your loss — condolences to you and your family — and may Gloria be forever happy in hevvin with Barbaro and all the others that she loves . May God send you comfort and grace.

annnnnd:) Here’s our Joe for Tuesday…

Tuesday, July 12th… I am leaving up the paragraph from yesterday. There were 4 more calls from race horse trainers, asking can I help find their horses a home?

In the last 6 days we have found new homes for 5 horses, currently at California race tracks. These horses are delivered sight unseen. Some injured, some sound. The number of race horses bought for slaughter in Mexico is staggering. If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses are free, but you must pay for transportation.

Krystal is 17 and she lives in Fairfield. In our yard Krystal said to me: You walk like my grandpa. He is 70.

Horses are going through salt blocks the way I go through Skittles. Once big heavy salt blocks are now the size of a bar of soap. Back to the feed store, and while loading salt blocks into my truck, I dropped one. On my right foot. Fun times for sure.

Later in the day, I had to move the dark filly Forget It Together from a large round pen to a small round pen. The filly steps on that same right foot. I didn’t react. We just stood there, and finally she glances my way. I said can you please get your foot off me? So she did.

And now I walk like Krystal’s grandpa.

Also yesterday there were numerous phone calls and e-mails concerning the talents of Alex Calapp. A few of you want to hire Alex to do a drawing of your horse. There were dozens of compliments. I have permission from Alex to give you her e-mail address. You can write Alex at moondancemare@yahoo.com. This is much easier than me trying to relay your good thoughts. We very much appreciate all of your messages.

Hungry horses wonder where is that lame old guy with food? It is Tuesday, and chores are forever. Delicious hot coffee from Starbucks. Microwave waffles made by Eggo. Later we could be 82 degrees. Enjoy your nice cool ocean breeze Tuesday, and be sure to hug your horses. Bob Dylan on the oldies station…

Joe
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His poor R foot!! And, I for one, will be sending Alex an email complimenting her on the talent she possesses in the art department:) Me thinks this young woman has a bright future as an artist and how too cool is it that she’ll be published in Joe’s book someday, when the right publisher is found:)

Everyone have a good day today…

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

## Dear Debbie LA,

I read the news of Gloria’s passing, on FB, but since this front porch is “home,” I say again here:

Deep condolences to you and your family. Gloria had been in my daily prayers. Now I will continue to ask God for Peace and closure for her Loved ones.

I hope that you will soon be able to rest, and that the heartbreak of losing her will be covered by special memories, and the Love she sends from where she is…in the Loving arms of God…becomes be your ultimate comfort.

Your FOB Fren, O

(((Debbie))), I’m so very sorry to read of Gloria’s passing. My prayers are with you and your family.

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Dearest Debbie…I am so sorry for your loss of your beloved sister Gloria.

We all hold you in our prayers and your family.

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thanks Roblyn….and others for remembering Curtis, me and the rugrats.

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please call, fax, email…do it…FOR THE HORSES…

and read the db…and help…YOU ARE NEEDED…

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Please light up candles for Barbaro and all of his heavenly frens.

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Always…thank you Alex.

Debbie,
I am saddened to learn of Gloria’s passing. I cherish the memories of the time we spent together at the first Barbaro Celebration. She really helped Madonna and me pick some winners that day. She was Southern charm and warmth personified.
KLB

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DEBBIE LA – ((Debbie)), hugs and my sincerest condolences . . . I am so very sorry . . . .
I had remembered Gloria to the Sisters at the Monastery and they were praying . . . I just logged on here now and saw the news, I did not realize there was so little time left for you both to be together. May Gloria now know every joy of Heaven and may your heart find peace.
I like to think that there was a beautiful big bay colt guiding her way “home” . . . .
Hugs and prayers,
always, Lou Ann

My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd . . . for each of you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE (missing you honey) says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding hands, hooves, and paws with the entire Barbaro Nation!

The other night I was looking for something and came across a copy of UPENN’s Bellwether which included a tribute to BARBARO . . . sigh . . . there is a gorgeous photo of him which I believe had been taken at Fair Hill and oh that look of his . . . . that look that revealed truly an “old soul” . . . breathtaking . . . and my heart, of course, skipped a beat . . . .

Third day of heat wave . . . . phew . . . and what a day – supposed to be one of those quick, two-errand kind of days and, of course, that’s when registers malfunction and people malfunction, too, and so we ended up being out and about better part of the day . . . .too hot for my hazelnut coffee tonight, but I sure was thinking in terms of a nice refreshing strawberry daquiri . . . not had one of those for centuries!
But well it just would not be fun without some of you with me :), so nice thought anyway.

OTHERLYN – I am so excited for your book, too. I’m signing up, too, for a copy!! That’s a very special gift you have, my fren, a very special gift.

BOBBIE B – Bless your soul!!! Please check your e-mail :).

JOAN – XXX to Peaches and Pierre!! The doxies are staying in out of the intense heat this week. Normally they all get their little harnesses on (I understand for back support) and get a walk around the big block every day to help stay trim :), but staying in the a/c during this heat wave :). I’ll have to slip over with a pocket of treats. Miss Sweet Pea is feeling much better and a real rascal!!

DEBBIE – More hugs.

LYNNE B – Doesn’t it feel grand when you can just roll over and sleep in!! 🙂
Have you heard from Miss DEE at all?? Wondering if she’s having ‘puter problems . . . .
XXX to LUCY & SEYMOUR

NWFLAFOB – How’s my boy “Tank” with the sticky head 🙂 XXX to TANK & pals.

ROBYN & ALL – I’ll be happy to pass all your words and wishes on to SANDRA for her nieces.

MARGIE NM – Hoping all that smoke has subsided and conditions are much improved for you and furkids. (I’m not always up to date with news!)

LIZ in UK – Lots to tell you soon as I can catch my breath! How are those runner beans?? 🙂

And always IN LOVING MEMORY OF FOB CHIEF, FOB BUD SOVA, and FOB MASTER OF CEREMONIES, MURPHY!
I have a feeling it’s “berry-pickin” time in the Heavens!

Hope JUDY is having a great and comfortable vacation week!!

A special thank you always to ALEX!

Love you all,
Hugs, Lou Ann

Debbie, I’m so sorry to read that Gloria has passed away. My sincerest condolences to you and your family.

It is a fine and clear day, but the weather is set to turn and we are being warned that it will be more like autumn over the weekend. That must mean there is a major sporting event coming up …oh yes, the Open Championship in Kent.I hope the golfers have good waterproofs.

We have flycathers occupying one of the old housemartins’ nests under the eaves of the house and there they have raised a brood who look like they are almost ready to fledge. They are such elegant, pretty birds even though they are mainly brown. It’s such a privilege to have them so close to us. They are going to get wet and cold outside the nest and I hope they are robust enough to face the outside world and all its hazards.

### Lou Ann, so far so good with the runner beans; they are climbing the canes quite enthusiastically. Apparently the Victorians grew them for their pretty white and red flowers and then found that they tasted good. I don’t think the flowers have formed yet, so don’t know which colour they are – usually we have the red ones. We seem to have fewer slugs this year, although there are huge, fat ones in the compost bin. I try not to dislike them too much, as they are all part of the balance of nature which has only become out of kilter because mankind tinkers with it.

Hiya, FsOB! There are some delicious cooling breezes this morning and the Thames is gleaming in the sunlight. Our house is surrounded by birdsong.

Alex, what an amusing photo of the horse. Kudos to you for having been invited to speak at the International Conference on Equine Welfare. Please be careful out there today, OK? A runaway horse already on the loose and it’s not even 7 AM. Thanks as well for Jane Nation’s photo re. the celebration for/of Animal Kingdom.

It was so muggy, still, and hot last night that I couldn’t bring myself to log onto the computer. How saddened I am to read this morning of the passing of Debbie’s sister, Gloria Davis. The passage of a sister must be profoundly difficult. Peace, Robyn

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To Carleen, Stu, Otherlyn, Lou Ann, Lynne B., Bobbie B., KLB, Joan, & Evy: I join you in your condolences for Debbe LA.
To Lou Ann: Thanks for keeping Sandra aware that we keep her nieces in our collective thoughts.
To Joan: You’re certainly welcome!
To Linda in NW FLA: Yes, I, too hope that Otherlyn’s book is about The Young Prince.

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This on the Vancouver BC Craigslist…
Devastated at Having to do This (North Vancouver)

Date: 2011-07-02, 7:57AM PDT

It is with a heavy heart that i
have to find a new home for my husband.

He is way to big for my home..I had no idea when i married him that he was going to be 6’1″, even though I had researched his type, it just did not occur to me that he really would get this big.

He has developed some bad habits, and i just dont have the time to train him properly as I work all day. I had no idea he would be so much work.

I am looking for a good wife for him, one that will feed him, massage him, take him out of his lazy boy once in a while, give him a shower, and make him an inside man during the day, however he does not mind staying out all night.

He comes with the two kids, his remote, a case of Bud Weiser, some clean underwear, and a shock collar. It comes in very handy when doesnt do what i want him to do…you just turn the dial and zap him with an electric shock, that fixes it instantly.

He also comes with his dog house. He is very used to being in the dog house as he is a jerk sometimes.

Please let me know if you are interested..I dunno, when i married him, i thought i would want him for life, but i just dont anymore, he has too many medical problems, and has become a big burden on me financially, not to mention that i have had to take a job to care for him, and therefore I am not around all day to dote on him.

I really love my husband, but i have decided that this is the best option. Pls dont judge me, you just dont know my circumstances. This is very heartbreaking.

If you are interested pls respond by email, I need him gone by Tomorrow (Thursday at the latest) as my next man is moving in

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Morning, Everyone….

Joan: ROFLOL! That IS funny!! 🙂

Robyn: I feel for you and all my family members here who must somehow endure ‘hoomidity’! I don’t know how yole do it, frankly! I complain about our heat here and it DOES, from time to time, get SRSLY hot…but we don’t have that humidity to deal with and I’m always so grateful for that!

Something is up with Miss Lucy, family! She began, suddenly, on Monday evening ‘not being right’ and by y’day a.m., I felt the need to take her temperature, she felt so hot. Hot indeed! 103.5…took her to see Dr. Janet y’day at Jeff’s and Janet checked her out, literally, from stem to stern and found her lymph nodes near throat/ears a bit swollen…her temp at the Dr’s. office had climbed to 104.5! She’s on antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory now, still feels ‘warmish’ this morning, but not hot, so I think that is progress, at least…We have no idea, really….but will follow-up in a couple of days if the fever persists and she doesn’t begin to behave more like herself….poor little Dolly:(
I have given her a bit of food this morning (her appetite is still srsly healthy) and her pills…so am hoping by this late afternoon or evening, we might see more progress in the ‘wellness is on the way’ department!

Joe isn’t up yet..he’s beginning though and I’ll be back in awhile to post him and the link to our Whitehouse.

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Morning all…

Joan, Thanks for sharing a Hump Day Laugh!!!
We can all use one for sure!

Lynne, Miss Lucy has to be OK!!! please give her a hug for me and tell her that lots of healing thoughts and prayers are coming her way…please let us know how her meds are helping her back to her sweet self.

Must run all…several reports to write up for lenders, we send them to the lenders and once the loan closes, we get PAID!!! Yeah for being busy!

(((All)))

(((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S WONDERFUL FAMILY)))

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carleen in ca

Me again…with our Joe:)

Wednesday, July 13th… A gelding we called Ref came back to us yesterday. At the race track his name was Refusal. A tall lanky chestnut, Ref is a curl up in your lap kind of horse. Ref loves kids. Especially 14 year old Anna.

Before Anna adopted Ref, she would visit with carrots and apples. Anna and Ref had several long, intense conversations. I asked Anna, what do you say to him? She said stuff. Ref patiently listens to her ramblings.

I once heard part of their conversation, which had to do with drama at school. Anna gave me permission to add that conversation to a chapter of Say Hey Doll. Kids and the things they say to horses. I could write a book. Oh wait, I already did.

I think it was early March when Anna’s mom phoned to say she had lost her job. Money is going to be tight, but she hopes to have enough for Refusal’s board each month.

But things got worse. Other expenses, like rent, take priority. On Sunday Anna’s mom called to say July board has not been paid. The ranch owner is nice enough, but Anna and her mom do not want to take advantage.

On Monday I phoned a lady near San Jose, who said sure, Refusal can live at her ranch for free. A stall and paddock is not available until Friday. Which is why Ref came to us yesterday.

Last weekend Anna’s heart was broken. Anna thought for sure she was losing Ref.

But then the lady near San Jose said us horse people have to stick together. When Anna’s mom finds a job, regular board rates will apply. Even if it takes a year. Two years. Five years. The lady says who cares anyway? In this life we must help each other.

His new ranch is beautiful. There are trails, and not far away a produce market. Which is handy for carrots and apples.

In the last 7 days we have found new homes for 5 horses, currently at California race tracks. These horses are delivered sight unseen. Some injured, some sound. The number of race horses bought for slaughter in Mexico is staggering. If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses are free, but you must pay for transportation.

Enjoy your 77 degree Wednesday, and be sure to hug your horses. Flies starting their engines…

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There ARE good people in this world, still, lots of them…and Joe, along with others, provide ‘bridges’ of sorts from those in need to those who can provide. I’m so glad for Anna and her *REF* and thanks to the woman in San Jose, too:)

Lucy’s temp is just 100.5 this morning! Yippeeee-Skippppyyyyy! Now she’s on the ‘sub-normal’ side of those digital numbers which read out from the thermometer….I will GLADLY welcome the ‘sub-normal’, thank you very much:) Perhaps Lucy is like her Mama, mine is always sub-normal, too! She’s had a good poop and consumed a decent amount of food and water and even been observed ripping through the house with her kitteh bruther! Also:) The o’side temp at nearly 8a is just 66 degrees:) Life is better today all the way around in my foothills of no/cal! Wheeeee!!

Here is the link to our Whitehouse:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

Off now, to take care of the ‘morning tidy’ and the flowers and birdies and squirrels. Jonna called this morning and wanted me to say ‘hai’ to yole…yes, she is still alive there in Liverpool:)and wanted yole to know that…her puder is out of commission for now but all else in her world is good.

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Lou Ann, Tank’s head got less sticky after he and his sisters decided to play a game with their mom during a torrential downpour the other day. I’d get them in the garage and dry them off. Next thing I knew, they were looking in at me through the front door – soaking wet! I let them through the house into the garage once with all the accompanying big dog shaking off of water routines. Then I’d just go raise up the big garage door so they could go into the garage that way! When they finally dried off, Tank and his sisters were nice and soft. He never ever misses a hummingbird feeder refilling, though! Kisses back to you from the Tank Man!

Lynne, here’s hoping Miss Lucy merely has a minor infection of some sort causing her lymph nodes to swell. So glad you took her to the doc to be checked out. Please keep us posted.

(((Debbie)))

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so sweet to hear about Tank..how sweet…Linda Tank is just helping the hummingbirds…lol

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hope Lucy is doing better.

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please family..do not forget to email, fax, call…our horses are sent dozens and dozens…to brutal slaughter.

please read and help on the db.

and light candles for Barbaro and all of his heavenly friends…

### Dear Fren NWFLFOB and Fren Lou Ann,

Thanks for your kind encouragement about the book.

Yes…I do plan to publish it (albeit I have no clue as to how to do it). Publish WHEN I finish.

I have been writing the chronicle since February of 2007. It began as a way to find consolation, and make sense of BARBARO’s passing. It was intended to comfort the Frens, so we could know that he is only a thought away.

The work stopped, for awhile, when I discovered my ex-husband’s infidelity, and experienced all of the stress and strife involved, leading up to, and right after my divorce. You see, the story must be told THRU me, and not be forced FROM me. So, since it takes great Peace, and a calm spirit to enter Thisgoodplace, my writing could not actually “go there” at all, until just this last year…and even then, there have been many starts-and-stops, as Peace returns within my OWN journey.

Many of you have helped me with your encouragement. This is a labor of Love, that WILL be seen to completion. At one point-in-time, I even had plans to include 10 paintings as illustration, but must scrap that plan because…how does one “paint” a place with more colors than we have ever seen…a place that is all light, and no shadow? …a perplexing problem indeed. But, I have recently resolved that problem with a decision to (perhaps) include simple line drawings…(sort of like a coloring book)…to allow the reader to fill in their OWN colors if they wish.

I am currently working on Chapter 9, with possible only three or four to go. It is my passion and great joy…(all because of BARBARO).

With continued Peace, and “The Great Master’s” help, by the generous spirit of The Young Prince, the tale will be told, my Frens. I promise.

Loving BARBARO. Loving all of you…

Your FOB Fren, O

Hiya, FsOB! We had some wild storms with heavy downpours during my commute home this evening. At least the humidity has broken! To use Alex’s term, I am knackered and need to call it a day. Here’s to “ACN”. Peace, Robyn

#### To Otherlyn: Your book is eagerly awaited by many FsOB!
To Lynne B: Here’s to a quick resolution to Ms. Lucy’s fever and lymphedema! Yes, humidity is a bummer, to be sure. Does Jonna need a replacement computer? Please feel free to send an e-mail to me about it, OK? ####

Hiya, FsOB! I am running late on this bright and temperate “Friday Eve” morning. The sun is shining down on the Thames and the birds are ensconced in the branches of our lilacs which are at the back of the Japanese Garden. The birds await the departure of the sweet little grey cat with the brilliant green eyes. She’s had her cream and now the birds want to swoop down for their seeds.

Wishing you all a safe & productive Thursday. Alex, the haunches of that horse are simply gleaming with good health. Glad that things are cooler today at Fair Hill Farm. Any updates re. Animal Kingdom? Peace, Robyn

#### To Lynne: Thanks for your e-mail!
To Debbie LA: Reaching out across the miles to you and your extended family.
To Dee: Missing your rainbows here, Dee. ####

Otherlyn, we’ll wait no matter how long, my Fren. But, because your words come from a place of Peace, for your sake, we all hope for a speedy completion. Well, OK, a little selfishly we hope that for ourselves, as well!! Even if you have no illustrations, your words always, always paint the most beautiful, loving, and heartfelt images for us to immerse ourselves in. Our hearts are with Barbaro always – we carry him with us that way each and every moment – but as we enter Thisgoodplace through your words, we are truly THERE with The Young Prince and his frens.
I BELIEVE
Linda

Morning, Everyone…

Happy *FRIDAY EVE*!! Wheeeee:)

Alex: You had a ‘ham’ of a horse this morning, huh?! Standing to wave at the crowd, I mean…LOL! Glad you hung on, Alex:)

Lucy’s fever is gone now, since y’day morning, I am happy to report…she’s such a good girl when having her temp taken! A stark contrast from her brother, Murphy…I’d have had to muzzle the Murph-Man and even then I’d have had a ‘helluva’ time and would surely need LOTS of help! She’s still not 100% ‘herself’ though….and I’m hoping the rest of the Rx will fix whatever is wrong! Gives me great concern, naturally, of course the thing I worry about since Murphy, is cancer! That scares the bejeebers outta me, family!

Debbie: Me too, Hunny….Thinking of you and yours now, for sure (((((debbie/family)))))

Nothing much to report from these foothills this morning, the weather could NOT be better for July, though! Wayyyyyyyyy below ‘normal’ at just low 80’s during daytime and into upper 50’s overnight…seems a weather disturbance is ‘spinning’ up north (WA/OR) and so our temps are seriously comfortable…CA State Fair opens today and I can only IMAGINE the crowds taking advantage of these less than 100+ temps to visit Cal Expo these next few days…So GOOD for fair attendance and those vendors, too:)

Joe is quite late again this morning, he’s busy helping horses no doubt…I’ll keep checking and bbl8r to post for you…in the meantime, here’s the link to our Whitehouse:

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Conguest of Paradise

Thanks for all the kind words, and prayers.
www.radneyfuneralhome-saraland.com

37 days today

????? :/ another try, then:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

🙂 Success! Still no Joe…bbl8r.

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Link to Gloria’s Guestbook here:

MESSAGES FOR DEBBIE/FAMILY

You can leave messages for Debbie and Family if you wish….

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Here’s Joe for Thursday:

Thursday, July 14th… A sore back, a sore foot, and I think the puppy stole my glasses. Squinting at the computer screen. A cool cloudy morning, and later we could be 78 degrees. Delicious hot coffee from Peets. Yummy glazed donut made by Nugget. Way too early for Led Zeppelin, but there they are on the oldies station.

Yesterday a phone conversation with a friend got me thinking. A rare moment indeed, the thinking part. Since January, Tb Friends has accepted 13 older geldings from race tracks. Many were well known. One gelding earned over 700 grand. Professional race horses, and once their careers are over they have no where to go.

My friend tells me about Flashmans Papers, a former stakes winner who is racing in Sacramento on Saturday. Once a star, Flashmans Papers is now at the lowest level in California racing. A $2,500.00 claiming race. Which is like driving the wrong way on an interstate. You know something bad will soon happen.

We love our older geldings. Their aches, their pains, their independent attitudes. 13 older geldings in 2011. But there has been at least 25 other geldings we had to turn down. No room, no money, no time for rehab. I always wonder if someone else gave them a home.

In the last 8 days we have found new homes for 6 horses, currently at California race tracks. These horses are delivered sight unseen. Some injured, some sound. The number of race horses bought for slaughter in Mexico is staggering. If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses are free, but you must pay for transportation.

A special hello to Karen and her daughter Kendall. I am so sorry to have missed your visit. I hope you can come to Northern California again soon.

Enjoy your is there really back to school shopping ads already Thursday, and be sure to hug your horses. A crispy fish taco at Taqueria kind of day…

Joe
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Of course, I did a search at pedigreequery.com and found the following:

Colt-Foaled in 2006 from Great Britan

40 Starts – 9 Wins, 6 Places, 4 Shows -Career Earnings: $281,905. He’s a dark bay, there’s a head-shot photo….mai hide gets SO chapped when these amazing athletes are just pretty much ‘thrown away’ :/ Makes me sick!

I think I’ll email a woman I know of in so/cal who does horse rescue, maybe somehow she can get something started to help this horse find another job and a GOOD HOME, or maybe I’ll call Joe to see if he’s already working on that!

At 2: Won Windsor Castle S.(GB-5fT,Ascot), Eddie Logan S(SA,8fT)
At 3: 2nd Baldwin S.(G3,SA,6.5fT), Jim Kostoff S.(Fpx,7F)

Foaled March 4, 2006
DonAug’07:$80K

First 7 races were in England. Racing in Southern California since October 2008.

Last Updated On June 2, 2011.

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

I did call Joe, left a message and waiting to hear back…mostly wondering if anything might be in the works to get this horse on to a better future….I’ll let yole know what I find out…maybe we can help him? Or…ya know, maybe if someone claims him for $2500.00 he will have another career and a good life, I don’t really know…but the way Joe wrote this morning makes me wonder.

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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more and more race horses going to slaughter…Mexico…Lord we need miracles…please…

glad to hear Lucy is improving.

prayers to Debbie and her family.

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please read the db and help…

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Please light up candles for Barbaro and all of his heavenly frens.

and thank you Alex.

Have internet for awhile but it wont last. Want to thank you all for remembering Chief on July 3rd. It is always going to be a hard 4th for me. My niece who is my computer genius has been held up in Austin. Her niece had a jet accident and they are trying to save her leg. she is 17.
Anyway I dont get much from my technical service so this may be my last post for a few days. Just wanted to thank you all for thinking of Chief.

WARNING WARNING! FRENS:

It might be redundent to say, because I think that we, here are a bit more savy than to fall for it…but, I must say anyway:

Once again, it seems that some troll-bot is trying to entrap us. DO NOT RESPOND to the post from any-stranger who asks us to translate a weblog.

Let’s be safe here in Barbaronation. Yes?

Your FOB Fren, O

Hiya, FsOB! It is a gloriously & mild TGIF sort of Friday. I am running late. The birds have been fed and I had the pleasure of seeing a pair of swans paddling upstream with their trio of cygnets. The fishing boats have been collecting and exchanging their pots. Wishing all of you a great Friday. Alex, thanks as always for today’s great equine Twitpic. The blaze on the horse’s forehead reminds me of The Sublime One. Peace, Robyn

#### To Sandra: Your Chief will never be forgotten by this FOB. Best wishes to your young nieces for a full recovery.
To Lynne B: Thank you for the encouraging update about Ms. Lucy and for posting the guest book for our dear Debbie LA’s sister, Gloria Davis. ####

Happy Friday all…

Lynne, glad to hear that Miss Lucy is improving!!!Prayers that she continues to get better and to be her sweet self!!!

Sandra, I hope your neice will continue to improve too. Healing thoughts and prayers to your family.

Erin and I got up at 4:30am to pick up Michael(Erin’s boyfriend) and his family from San Franciso International…they came in at 5:25am from Hawaii for two weeks. Rough life!!! Glad someone gets to go on vacation! Someday Mark and I will get to do that little thing again. It just won’t be anytime to soon.

I just noticed the full moon last night…Lynne I bet we have warmer weather in the next couple of days…I was really enjoying the cooler weather though.

Don’t Otherlyn, I have never replied to any of THOSE PEOPLE…Bots I think we call them…Hope you are doing ok dear lady…please take care.

I need to take a nap…4:30am is just to early and I would really like to go see the new Harry Potter movie today….

I will go to see if Joe is up and writing, then I think a visit to the “sand man” is in the near future.

Take care all and have a good Friday!!!

((((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S WONDERFUL FAMILY))))

oxoxxo
carleen in ca

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*DEE* is back!! Welcome back Dee:) Thanks for the Rainbows and good wishes, too! Wheeeeeee:)

Carleen: You’re having a nap and I don’t blame you! 4:30a is far too early to have to be ANYWHERE other than in slumberland….Yes..the full moon last night…but am not so sure re: the warmer temps..according to Mr. Finan on KCRA, we’re still cooler than normal for a good number of days ahead:) A segment or twelve of last night’s early news was shot from Cal Expo at the State Fair and of course, everyone they spoke with were SRSLY enjoying being there and not sweating to death like they would be, normally. Good for attendance, this weather and I always feel so badly for the livestock when it’s so terribly hot, too…so, am glad for the cows and pigs and ‘chikums’, too:)

I slept in this morning:) so will go now, to see if Joe is up yet…brb!

Friday, July 15th… Already a busy morning. Pretty sure this is the first time I have helped load a horse B.C. Before Coffee. We said goodbye to Frosty, a small gray gelding with a big bowed tendon. Frosty is off to his new home near Portland. A very excited family awaits his arrival. Frosty will enjoy one year of rest and room service. His new best friend, a thoroughbred yearling filly. Frosty is becoming a mentor.

They say a beautiful weekend on the way. Delicious hot coffee from Peets. Old stale donuts made by Entenmann’s. Later we could be 82 degrees. 95.3 FM, songs of today and yesterday, on the yard radio.

I would like to thank so many for your support of Alex Calapp. On my website this week I have shared her talents, and Alex is receiving your letters of encouragement. Several of you want to hire Alex to do a drawing. She is thrilled.

On a sad note, another thoroughbred farm is closing down. Dozens of horses need new homes or they will be destroyed. More on this next week, when I have full details.

In the last 9 days we have found new homes for 6 horses, currently at California race tracks. These horses are delivered sight unseen. Some injured, some sound. The number of race horses bought for slaughter in Mexico is staggering. If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses are free, but you must pay for transportation.

I will return early Monday morning, to share with you life on an insect infested ranch in Woodland. Have a happy weekend. Hard to believe it is already the middle of July…

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Lucy is pretty much back to her sweet and ‘bizzy’ self, I’m happy to say….Y’day, I decided to not stress her by taking her temperature anymore, since she was observed tumbling through the house with her kitteh brother, Seymoure…being back to her ‘Chieftress of Homeland Security’ self, too…jumping up/down from wicker trunk to peer out the window and or racing back/forth to the front security screen door in case there might be a deer or kitteh…OH! There WAS a horrific kitteh fight which took place y’day morning! OMGoodness, it was AWFUL! Seymoure was seen diving under his mother’s bed (daughter his his mom, I am his mormor) where he stayed for at LEAST an hour! LOL…Seymoure is an indoor kitteh…and therefore, not subjected to the ‘street rumblings’ of which I’m happy to say, we don’t have many of those…the neighbor kittehs all seem to get along ‘alright’ as kittehs go…but y’day…maybe a newbie has come to the ‘hood’ and there was that ‘old guy’ who really shouldn’t be this far away from his home, but he does venture over to this side from time to time and y’day, he hit SRS objection to his wanderings!

Lucy continues her Rx though, until it’s all gone, ’cause we don’t want this infection returning…it was a bad one for my baby girl!

Here’s the last for this week link to our Whitehouse…

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

I hope everyone has a swift and uneventful Friday and a fabulous weekend…

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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horses..horses..horses are being sent to slaughter…I never have figured out why an owner does this…either turn in rescue..make sure a good home, or euthanize…

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Me again…sitting a minnit…mai kneez/lower back, ya know…it’s that ‘gettin’ old ain’t for sissies’ thing, dammit:/ So frustrating!

Dee;) I love you, we ALL love YOU!! So glad to see you here at home again, Hunny:)

Carleen: I think you may be ‘korrekt’ with the elevated temperature/moon thing…or maybe it’s just because I’m zooming so much…but it DOES feel a bit warmer today:(

Joan Roya: I will call you tomorrow….weekend is best for me, too:) I miss your southern voice on da fone! 🙂

Well…nothing to report thus far today, got the birdies and squirrels fed and cleaned up…those sunflower seeds do collect each/every day! On my list at Wally World, another 25# bag…one per week every single week:) But they gotta eat!! So many baby birdies too…the poor moms and dads..are EXHAUSTIPATED from those babes following them, wings flapping and voices squawking….I always do feel badly for them, they look so harried by now!

Alright…kneez are not screaming so loudly now, and the L hip/lower back is settled down, too, so off I go for more getting done here:)

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Angel Dee, So glad you are here! Thinking of you…..ACN to my F
OB family and to Alex…….very tired tonight but checking in…

We are all here Joannie!! Still doing what is right.

Hi Jane , glad to see you checking in ! I’m checking in too — on Sat. morning …
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We came home yesterday , just a quick visit to do those ‘ home ‘ thingies like pick up mail —
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in the mail I had a book I had ordered ……..
Six weeks in Saratoga : how three year old filly Rachel Alexandra beat the boys and became horse of the year by Brendan O’Meara …

I read the first chapter last night before falling into a deep snooze , and it’s wonderful…
A great addition to my horse ‘library’ … the collection of a few books and photos … but they are valued—- even if I laughingly refer to the small collection as a ‘library’…

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I think I lost a line here , and it will probably show up when I post this , so , if so , please forgive the technical mistakes – I’m still very tired …
and we’re going back to the beach in the morning , for about 3 more weeks — sounds great but it’s the hardest I’ve worked in years …

The yard man we hired walked around the overgrown backyard and said , with a frown , ‘ there’s probably
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I thought ‘ Oh God , kill me , kill me now ‘
I hate snakes , hate the thought of them …
I so hope he’s wrong , please be wrong …

this work begins Monday , and don’t you know I’m looking forward to it — gives me the creeps now –
two days and two hundred miles away – it still makes my skin crawl —
so wish me the best please –
although I’m more the type to be in the house
drinking tea when the yardman and hunk are out there …. lol ,
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Morning, Everyone….

Bobbie: There’s no such thing for you, as a ‘too long’ post! I think everyone here would agree with that:) I will hold good thoughts re: the snakes in the overgrown backyard….to EVACUATE to someplace else as the yard is ‘re-discovered’ and NEVER come back again, either:)

Cool here again this morning, no need for a sweater or anything like that, but it’s very comfortable outdoors and I’m so appreciating this lovely, by now, eight day respite from the normal July heat!

Lucy continues to mend:) I’m not wild about my furkids, either one of them getting so ill as she was, and it doesn’t help that we never did really find out for sure what was wrong! I’m certainly hoping the antibiotic which she will continue taking until mid-week does the trick and does the trick so well, the cause of her infection never comes back!

Not a whole lot going on here for the weekend..which is fine by me! Must fertilize and tend to the ‘childrennnnns’ outdoors, do some watering and for the most part this day is a ‘kick-it’ day:) The Celebrity Golf Tourny at Edgewood, Lake Tahoe is happening this weekend and I’ll be planted in front of my TV at noon, my time, to see all those folks having so much fun there:) Last night on the news, a crew from KCRA-TV, Sacramento was there and they said the lake level is very high this year because of all the snow melting, so the beach is extremely small…Lots of boats ‘raft up’ together along the shore line and it’s a hoot watching the owners throwing footballs and having Star QB’s return the favor. What fun that would be, me thinks:) Wheeeeee!!

I hope everyone has a good day today…Thinking of Debbie,LA and her family as they say their final goodbyes to Gloria this late morning in Lower Alabama….

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I didn’t know that was this morning for Debbie and family … thanks for telling us when …
I’m so sorry Debbie is going through this … and so sorry Gloria has left us … thinking of them also – the whole family … it’s one of the saddest times in life I think , to say goodbye .
Prayers for Debbie and the family , for strength , comfort , and grace .

Thanks everyone for your prayers and good thoughts, with them we got through it. It was hard, very hard.
She was the sweetest person who ever lived, we talked almost everyday by phone about Barbaro, and his brothers, last email I sent her was of the birth at Mill Ridge. The rest of the family called us horse crazy woman!
Thanks so much to the FOB’s who we love so much!

Hello Famblee,
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to say Hi. Busy, busy at work; I’ve been doing the work of 3 people, but thankful I have a job. I have been reading here every chance I get though.

Otherylyn, Thank you so very very much for remembering our Queen on 7/5-6. Your words for her are stunningly perfect. She will always be in first place.

I’ve missed you all so much. So very nice to see Angel Dee’s rainbows and love. My prayers have been,and will always be, with this Famblee.

Lynne B., Sandra, Chief, Miss Lucy, Barbaro, Judy, Stu and everyone. Thank you for continuing the fight. A fight we will NOT lose!

I will fight on as well.

NO Horse left behind or EVER Forgotten!
Lee

Good Sunday Frens all,

Did you see the glorious Angeluna moon, last night?

Just touching bases today, as it will be a busy one.

Hoping today will bring Fren Debbie L.A. and her family closer to healing…AND closer to Gloria in a new and profound form.

### Fren Sophies Lee, There is no way that I would forget our Beloved Queen. She runs across my heart every day, as does BARBARO. Let me tell you this little bit: The Young Prince will soon be meeting up with her again. From the point of their next meeting, they will run together on the riverofstars. There, she will tell him the name by which she chooses to know herself. (Can you guess what it might be?…I think you already know).

### Fren Bobbie B: I tried responding to the FB Friend Request, but could not see that it has gone through. If it does not, please try again, and I will do the same. OK?

…more a bit later…

Your FOB Fren, O

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Hiya, FsOB! I am runny late on a breezy Monday morning. The birds’ seeds have been placed in the Japanese Garden, as well as some cream for the little grey cat with the bright green eyes. It was a very busy weekend us, we were out & about in the Del Sol, with its roof removed to catch the sun and wind.

Alex, what great shots from the polo match. We look forward to going up to Newport for polo in early August, if not sooner.

Wishing all here”ACD”. Peace, Robyn

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To Lynne B: I hope that Seymoure wasn’t too traumatized by the recent cat fight.
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##Good morning all. An overcast sky this morning. Very humid and warm here in the North and to be hot again today.

##Just stopping in here quickly while I catch up on the past week quickly. However, I was saddened to see that Debbie’s Gloria has her wings, God Bless here and keep her in his arms. And Lucy has been ill but is on the mend thank goodness. For now will scoot and try to get back in later.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

Morning all…another MUN-day…

Saturday Erin, our daughter had her garage sale.
It was a mini-success, she made some extra money for move to Santa Barbara and we got rid of a few things that caused me grief..I usually stubbed my toes on these things…an old enterainment box for the tv and the blasted tread mill…gone!!!
Yeah!!! Two less things to move!!!!

I was in the backyard and a “tiny garden elf” said go to the store and get a cheap, new hedge trimmer…so that’s what I did..I took the tiny garden elf’s advise, bought the cheaper trimmer and will put to great use today!!! Love the tiny garden elf’s!!

To much caffine me thinks…please take care all and have a grand day.

(((((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S GRAND FAMILY))))

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Morning, Everyone….

Yep…it’ another Monday! They keep coming, don’t they? Well, I’m guessing it’s a good thing, otherwise we wouldn’t be here talking about them:)

Slept late this a.m.! Got hooked on the travel channel last night…watching first, a one hour show about seriously ‘wowieee’ yachts…Holy Cromoly! One rents for a cool Million p/week..but you could bring 34 of your best friends along and they’d all have places to sleep and places at the table, too! The laundry room in that one was quite ‘state of art’ and spacious…one salon was 2,000 sq. ft…ONE salon! I think they said it cost the owner $90M to build…and guess what? She’s got a twin sister!! One of them had it’s own helicopter to fly folks for fishing expiditions and or mountain skiing while Mother Ship stayed put…that one was based in the Pacific Northwest…I think it’s name was Yellowfin…and if the yachts weren’t enough, the next one hour production dealt with private jets and homes for pilots located with their own airstrips and hangers to park said jets…John Travolta lives there:) All very interesting stuff to view but my light stayed on way too late for me! LOL…

Judy: Welcome back, I missed you:) Yes, Lucy is mending nicely…down to the last three antibiotics of which tomorrow morning will be all gone:) and so does whatever bug she picked up, too! Whew!

Here’s Joe for Monday:

Monday, July 18th… Congratulations to Bryana (pictured below Top Right) and her handsome new gelding High N Deep. We call him Trevor.

Also finding a new home, our older mare Winnie. Rescued earlier this year from the feed lot in Wilton, Winnie is now best friends with Pete, an appy gelding who recently lost his long time companion. Yesterday was their first meal together. Usually 96.1 FM on the barn radio.

Difficult to comprehend, but with the exception of letters from last night, all e-mails have been answered. If you have recently sent us a letter and not received a reply, please resend. There is not much time for the computer. Phoning me at 530-383-2120 can be faster.

And boy did the phone calls start coming on Saturday. As expected, it was announced Friday that Golden Gate Fields is going to be history. Only county fair tracks will remain in Northern California. One owner phoned to say he wants to get rid of his 8 race horses. Another owner 5 horses. A whole bunch of owners asking what should they do? There is a person at Golden Gate Fields telling owners and trainers to call Tb Friends for help.

I wish we had a zillion dollars and a zillion acres. We have 30 dollars and 30 acres. Which means on my website I must continue to beg for new homes.

If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses are free, but you will have to pay for transportation. Sorry, but we cannot deliver to Minnesota. New homes must be within common sense distance.

It is Monday, and chores are forever. Delicious hot coffee from Starbucks. Yummy apple fritter made by Nugget. Later we could be 83 degrees. Enjoy your we love Groupons Monday, and be sure to hug your horses. Flies starting their engines…

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The pic of Bryana and Trevor is wonderful! Eyes locked on one another..can’t see Bryana’s but you can see Trevor’s and beleive me, they’re LOCKED:)

So, GGF is closing….I wish I had land and money, too…Thank God for Joe’s Blog and it’ many ‘financially better off than me’ readers…hopefully they can help the horses…

Here’s the Monday link to our Whitehouse:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

I hope everyone has a good day today…Carleen, I hope that little trimmer does the trick for you, too:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Otherlyn ,
I canceled my Facebook page because it had , basically , gone crazy … there were people on there that I had never heard of … people friending me that were very different from people I actually would befriend ! I don’t know why it turned blue on ABR and linked to Facebook — I don’t know how to do that and did not do it … so , I will try again later perhaps , and thanks for trying to be my friend there too — I guess we will remain frens here for the time being until I get it figured out 😉
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I’m back at the beach , and Judy , I don’t feel like Indiana yet — so far — no snakes —
let’s hope it remains that way — a few bugs coming out of the brush but that’s all at this point — keep your fingers crossed please .
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Carleen , it’s so hard to downsize and get rid of things you’ve had for years … I’ve been through it too … but hopefully , when you come out the other side you will feel less cumbersome and have a ‘ lighter ‘ feeling like you did in earlier years … at least I did and I wish the best for you too…
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good afternoon Barbaro and FOBs..

this shutdown we are hiring for here at work..has been my worse one! nightmare…lol..but it is a job.

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Please…please…reading Joe’s blog..our horses are now more in trouble…they are border bound..brutal slaughtering unless we find ways to save them…

unless the economy gets better…jobs are plentiful…grass and feeds, and many miracles.

please call, fax, email…and please brainstorm ideas…places for these American horses to go.

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Hiya, FsOB! It is a rather sticky night here now on the banks of the Thames. But there were lovely breezes earlier when we dined on the patio adjacent to the Japanese Garden. We have one Stargazer lily that was planted in a too-shady section of the garden, but it leans drastically to catch the light. Brent cuts the blossoms to bring them indoors because he fears that Gophie may devour them instead. Isn’t it amazing the scent which only one Stargazer lily can produce?

Alex, thanks for the update about the upcoming meets at Del Mar and Saratoga. Brent & I hope to visit Saratoga at some point within the next few years.

Lynne, that was sad seeing that Golden Gate Park is closing. That really will increase the demand on Joe Shelton’s TB Friends.

Wishing all here “ACN”. Peace, Robyn

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Hiya, FsOB! Well, today seems poised to be a scorcher here on the banks of the Thames. It is already quite warm and stil here. The river is an opaque grey and flowing upriver very, very slowly. This water pattern always signals an incipient storm. We’ll see if I am correct….

Alex, what great publicity your book has garnered. It’s awesome that the tracks’ gifts shops and equine museums are coming on board, too. The horse that you’ve pictured has a certain feisty, bloodshot-eyed sort of look to him. He looks as though he could be quite a handful, so please be on guard, OK?

Wishing all of you a safe & productive Tuesday! Peace, Robyn

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I had two calls this morning about a situation, and those are in addition to a call last week from someone trying to help. Some of you know, and many probably do not know , that the horse race track in Prescott Valley, AZ did a last minute closing this year. Why they waited until many horses and people were on the grounds for this summer season is unclear, and at this point in time, does not matter. There is one woman still, according to her, stuck with no place to go and no way to get there, with 7 horses who, according to animal control in PV are very thin, and again according to animal control, there is almost no hay visible. TBs will not fill out from hay alone anyway.

The gentleman who called last week was calling to see if we could provide a place and feed for the horses. Today’s calls, one from the track, and one from the animal control person, were also trying to find somewhere for the horses other than having them seized by livestock and sent to auction, which means on a truck to the slaughter plant in Mexico.

HDLM does not have space nor the funds to take them. If we got people willing to be sure we got $2,100 per month above and beyond what we get now, we would do it. $1400 would be for feed, and the rest to rent space for them across the street from us.

If anyone on this list has suggestions of solutions to this, please let me know. Regardless of which humans caused this, the horses should not suffer as a result of human action or inaction. We may not be able to help, and yet I feel we must try.

Thanks for listening and caring.

##Good morning all. Another warm muggy morning here in the North. Hot temperatures again today but to be the coolest of the week.

##Carleen, I loved your wee elf story. I have elves and gnomes around the garden watching over. I hope the weed wacker did the trick. Have a good day.
##Bobbie B. I hope the snakes have been vanquished. I’m not fond of even the common garter snake. Enjoy your time at the beach even though work must take some precedence. Wishing Kauai a speedy recovery.
##Debbie LA, thinking of you.
##Otherlyn, your excerpt was so beautiful. I loved the dragon fly part the best as they are one of my favourites and always look forward to seeing the different varieties visit our little patch. I hope your writing continues to give you comfort and will look forward to the book.
##Barb AZ, I hope the sand storms that are rolling through Arizona are not in your area. I never knew they occurred in North America, and to have two in two weeks seems bizarre. Take care and thank you for all you do for the horses.

Have a safe day everyone and keep cool. Robyn, will be interesting to hear if you do get a storm as predicated by the river currents.

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and my prayers and many were answered ….we found Monte…

God is Good!

We are so fortunate to report that after 19 days missing, Monte was found and is back home in Granbury, TX.

All of you were made aware at some point (either thru me or other volunteers), that Monte was in the back of my husbands truck on 6/23 when it was stolen from Decker Dr. in Baytown. Brad was attending a 4 day business course, 6 hours from our home.

The truck was recovered on 7/5 in Corpus Christi but all apprehended suspects ran and no one could be questioned. The search for Monte had then stretched everywhere between Houston to Corpus.

After contacting every vet, animal hospital, shelter, newspaper, dog recovery teams and pet finder associations, as well as utilizing on-line posts, etc.. that I could think of,,,,, I received an email from Nancy Rohr of Houston, notifying me that she’d seen our ad on Craigs List and that a dog at the Houston SPCA appeared to be a match.

A rescuer (name unknown) had found Monte and turned him into the SPCA on 7/12. Nancy found him and notified us on 7/15.

Brad and I were in our vehicle by 6pm that night and headed to Houston. We picked up Monte at 9am saturday morning and he was soooo happy to see us. He has many battle wounds, full of fleas and thin but overall, intact. He was so exhausted that he couldn’t keep his eyes open on the drive home and slept in my lap the whole way back to Granbury.

Since then, he’s had his bath, enjoyed the airconditioning and so happy to feel the comfort of his untouched doghouse!

He’s being spoiled rotten and we owe it all to you and those you have reached out to in an effort to bring him back to us. Between all of you and the good Lord, we’ll never be able to express our gratitute. So many people out of the goodness of their hearts, took to this story and treated us & Monte as if it was their pet missing. It certainly restored our faith in people.

All of you deserve recognition for your wonderful hearts. I pray for more people like yourselves and the suffering of lost animals to be lessened because of it.

Sincerely,

Sheri Ashton

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Morning, Everyone…

*MONTE* is HOME!! What an adventure he’s had and thank God he has survived! I’m so happy for he and his family:)

Joe is seriously busy this a.m., still shows the entry from y’day…I’ll be back later on when he’s up and post here for yole:)

Robyn: And really all this family who live in the mid/east/south/north….I hear the heat is to be absolutely HORRID for all of you! Please take care to stay hydrated and be safe/sound in all the terribly hot/humid weather! I saw on news last night ‘somewhere’ all about a horse ranch and how they are hosing down the horses twice daily, they’ve got misters in the barns and how awful it is for them and the horses, too. Buying rounds of hay because there’s no pasture for them to munch on..nothing is growing…might have been TX, I think….Anyway, they said if the horses get too hot for too long, they stop prespiring and that is very dangerous! I hope they’ll all be alright!

The dust storm in AZ, too! Winds without rain is what they said on news…thunder storms without rain and the big clouds of dust happen…the weather is terrible right now in so many areas of this country:(

Well…there surely MUST be something happy to write about?! Lucy takes her LAST antibiotic this morning..that’s good news:) She’s seemingly just ‘dine&fandy;’ now and that is ESPECIALLY good news for her Mama:)

Here’s the link to our Whitehouse for Toosdae:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

I hope yole have a good day today…stay cool as you can and DRINK THAT WATER!! 🙂

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Here’s Joe…Gremlins…Internet Gremlins messed him up today:/

Shoot… I wrote several clever, life altering paragraphs for Tuesday, only to discover my website was not on the air.

My website is back (the crowd moans) but I am late for work. Which is no big deal, I am always late for work. I better get going though. Those huge paychecks come in handy. Thank you so much for all of your phone calls concerning unwanted race horses. For sure we have 5 new homes. Three of those new homes are from repeat customers.

Have a happy Tuesday. I will return early tomorrow morning. Oh… I am having a t-shirt made which says: Horses Rock. I stole that line from 12 year old Lexi. Horses Rock. Yes they do.

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Alright….Joe’s got ‘gremlins’ I’ve got dial-up and before my frustration reaches a point of throwing this puder out the front window…I’m off here for awhile….Have a GOOD day, Everyone:)

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praying for our horses, our wild mustangs, and all of furbabies…and that they find homes.

can we call, fax, email..please.

can we read the db and help…please…

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Good morning Alex…and thank you.

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## Our Miss Dee, I’m sorry I missed saying hello to you, as always it’s so good to see you casting your rainbows.
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Morning all…

Joan and Sheri, So glad to hear that Monte is home and with his loving family…sounds like Monte has several angels watching over him and I truly believe that the Houston SPCA is more than just a special place. I watch it on Animal Planet every chance I get…Bless them all.

Oh Judy…my plans to attack the back yard with weed wacker and hedge trimmer went by the wayside for two reasons, 1) it got to warm to work that hard outside and 2) on my way to a regular Dr. check-up I stopped to get some gas in the car. You know how that hose goes from the pump to the car, well I thought I would take a short cut and step over the hose instead of going around the car. Anyway I tripped crossing the hose and my left knee and arm are giving me grief for being so lazy!!!! I will have to try today and give the garden elves what they want…a nice and tidy back and front yard!!!

Robyn…you must have some elves in your yard too,
just like the Weasley’s….magical wee folk. I just wish they could use the weed wacker and the trimmer for me..HA! HA!

I did get to see the last installment of the Harry Potter series this past week-end. They followed the book as close as possible and of course the actors were so wonderful. The end of an era…Where did ten years go?

I would like to think that in less than ten years we can say that horse slaughter and animal cruelty will be no more… we will just keep trying!

Take care all and have a grand day whatever your doing…

(((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S WONDERFUL FAMILY)))
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carleen in ca

##Carleen, I guess you were meant to get to the weed wacking for awhile, so rest up and don’t try to do too much. These kind of things are harder to overcome as we get older.
I love the magical ideas that come from the wee folk.
My son has gone to a friend’s to see the final installment of Harry Potter. They saw the first one together and it’s fitting they see the last together. They became friends that year and have remained steadfast ever since. I perhaps will go see it with him when he comes home as I took them to the first one. I haven’t seen the ones in between though but I know they’re great fun.
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Good bot Monte! Home safe and sound. Made my day. Gets no better!!

It’s wonderful that Monte is home. What would we do without our pets? I’m also glad southeast Texas finally got some rain. Thank you, Lord.

God Bless you all, and God Bless Barbaro.

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Love and Hugs to Angel Dee! Missed You! ACN to my
Barbaro Family, Hope all is well…..thinking of Debbie LA…

Hiya, FsOB! Well, my weather prognostication wasn’t right today: no rain, just heat. I am ready to call it a day! Wishing all here ACN. Peace, Robyn

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To Judy: I am eager to see the new Harry Potter film. I managed to get Brent to the one which immediately predated the current release, but I am doubtful that I’ll get him to this one.
To Carleen: Please be careful with your knee. Nikita yanked the leash unexpectedly this evening and my shoulder is killing me again.
To Dee: Welcome back!
To Lynne B: I second your concern about animals, children, and seniors in this dreadful heat that is affecting the southeast as well as the centre of North America/ All my best to Ms. Lucy as she continues to recuperate.
To Joan Roya: Great news about Monte.
TYo Barb in AZ: I hope that you are safe in the sand storms affecting AZ.
To Margie in NM: How are you doing? I miss seeing you here! ####

Hiya, FsOB! While it is not as dank and foggy here on the banks of the Thames, in comparison to the conditions at Fair Hill Farm, nonetheless it is very sultry for this time in the morning. Alex, please stay hydrated, OK?

Wishing all here “ACD”. Peace, Robyn

#### To Joan: I copied your entreaty for assistance for the horses in Prescott Valley and sent it to my mentor who lives in Flagstaff, AZ. I hope that he & his wife may know someone who can help.
To Dee: Please send some rainbows to our Debbie LA today.
To Carleen: There were raccoons, but no elves, in the Japanese Garden last PM. Hoping that your knee isn’t too sore or swollen today.
To Jane: Hoping that the pups are thriving! ####

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thank you Roblyn so so much…

Morning, Everyone…

Happy Wednesday….tomorrow is ‘Friday Eve’:) Hang on…the weekend IS coming:)

Here’s Joe for today….*OSCAR*:) is looking mighty HANDSOME and it’s so heartwarming reading the effect he’s having on so many little girls, too….

Wednesday, July 20th…Take a look at the top row below. This is Oscar Award. The photo on the left is Oscar on the day he came to us more than two years ago. On the right is Oscar now.

I am showing these pictures because Oscar has developed a large fan club. When we have our Tb Kids days, Oscar quickly becomes everyone’s favorite. Kids always ask about his past.

From his racing tattoo we discovered Oscar was born in Great Britain. In America Oscar won 4 races. I found Oscar starved at a feed lot in March, 2009. He looked almost dead. At the feed lot Oscar gave me a little nicker. In our yard two days later, Oscar let out a huge scream when I came outside. On the phone with a friend I said we need to come up with a name. I have a feeling this gelding is going to be quite the celebrity. The friend said how about Oscar? Soon he became known as Oscar Award.

Kaylee is 10, and she lives in Oregon. About once a month Kaylee mails Oscar a box of oatmeal cookies. I have permission to show you Kaylee’s latest note:

Oscar I think about you all the time. I say goodnight to your picture next to my bed.

Jessica is 12, and she lives in New Mexico. No other kid has traveled farther for a Tb Kids day. Jessica writes to say:

The picture of me and Oscar Award is my phone wallpaper. My mom keeps asking how come I don’t have a picture of our horse Luke? I told my mom that Oscar Award is my horse too. I get happy when I look at my phone.

There is a young disabled girl who likes to visit. The girl has a difficult time saying words. But in our driveway, before getting out of the car, the girl says Oscar over and over. She is always thrilled to see him.

I consider myself incredibly lucky to live with Oscar Award. I have never been around an off track horse with such a passion for life. He loves kids and other horses. I am pretty sure Oscar understands about having a fan club. Especially when I come outside with oatmeal cookies from Kaylee.

Enjoy your we are warming up Wednesday, and be sure to hug your horses. Rolling Stones on the oldies station…

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Oscar even gave this old lady’s heart a jump this morning….Wheeeeee:)

On the zoom this morning…our weather is warming up here…nothing so bad as the rest of you, ’cause we don’t have that dreadful ‘hoomidity’ to deal with…but the flowers and critters all need a good drink and sooner the better, as today’s high is forecast to be hovering around 100 here!

Link to our Whitehouse for today:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

I’ll check in later on…I hope yole have a good day today!

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Is not Oscar a beauty…!!!!

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and read the db and help…please.

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thank you Alex…

and please light up candles for Barbaro and all of his heavenly frens…please

Hiya, FsOB! Wow, it’s been a quiet day here today, I hope that everyone is safe & sound.

Alex, seeing the pic of those Tetleys makes me wont to get on my clinical “high horse” to say that alcoholic beverages and caffeinated drinks contribute to dehydration in hot weather. Please make sure that you are consuming some water and some Gatorade, OK? (Of course, I used to consume either beer or grain alcohol + cranberry juice in the Churchill Downs infield on a number of sunny, warm Kentucky Derby days back in the 1970s & 1980s! So I shouldn’t give any admonitions, now should I?)

Wishing all here ACN. Peace, Robyn

#### To Lynne B: Wasn’t Joe Shelton’s story about Oscar Award really sweet?
To Joan R.: You are certainly welcome, please do let us know what happens to that group of horses in AZ, please.
To Sandra: I hope that your nieces have seen some improvements in their condition. I keep them in my thoughts. ####

My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd for you know that each of you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding paws, hooves, and hands with the entire Barbaro Nation!!

I am ready for first frost and cold temperatures!!! Heat and humidity are relentless and supposed to be worse today and Friday, aargh!
Hibernating inside but little rosebud paisana mama tends to get in more mischief when not able to get out on her porch to watch all the two- and four-legged neighbor and gardens activity!! So still on the run, zoom, smile!!
Flower garden chores outside are on hold!!
Except I am refreshing the water tub daily for our furry visitors who much appreciate the drinks in this weather :).
An actual little “line” was forming last evening!! The squirrels were waiting for Patches, one of the feral cats, to finish getting her drink! 🙂

Behind in e-mails again, please bear with me :).

Love you all so much!! XXX

Hugs, love, and peace to all!
And always prayers for those walking the rugged path!
Always, Lou Ann

And always IN LOVING MEMORY OF FOB CHIEF, FOB BUD SOVA, & FOB MASTER OF CEREMONIES, MURPHY!

Kisses and Hugs to all my four-legged FOB pals, too!! L

Hiya, FsOB! A dank and increasingly foggy “Friday Eve” (AKA Thursday) morning has dawned here on the banks of the Thames. I fear that the heat and humidity is upon us. Alex, please stay as comfortable as possible at Fair Hill this morning. Thanks as always for the in-barn Twitpic. Wishing all here “ACD”! Peace, Robyn

#### To Lou Ann: I share your distaste for this sort of weather. May it pass soon.
To All: I have been thinking of Sherry’s horses, Dakota and Warpaint, and hope that they aren’t having any problems due to the heat that is gripping the middle of North America. ####

Good morning all. A hot humid morning here in the North. With the humidity factored in our temp today could reach 120F. Now that is way way to hot for this northern climate.

##All in this heat, please stay hydrated. Alex I hope you and the horses can stay out of the heat now that the morning excercises are over.
##I loved the story about Oscar and his wonderful personality especially with the kids.
##Debbie LA, you and your family are in my thoughts.
##LouAnn, yes outside chores on hold except to give everything a drink.

Have a safe day everyone and keep cool.

Judy

Morning, Everyone….

Happy *FRIDAY EVE*!! Wheeeee:)

I feel so badly for yole who are in the grip of this terrible heat/humidity wave and it seems from viewing the weather map on nightly news programs…that pretty much means ALL OF YOLE:(

Warmish here but NOTHING like everywhere else and I’m SO grateful! Just in the low to mid 90’s and no hoomidity!

I got an email y’day afternoon which announced we’re now up to 22 co-sponsors for S ll76 …. I need to pester my two CA senators again, since their name is not listed as yet:/ I thought maybe I’d post here, the list and if you don’t see your own senators listed as already on-board, you could contact their offices and give them a nudge to please co-sponsor and let’s see if THIS time around, we can FINALLY save our American Horses….

S.1176
Latest Title: American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011
Sponsor: Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] (introduced 6/9/2011) Cosponsors (22)
Latest Major Action: 6/9/2011 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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COSPONSORS(22), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
Sen Akaka, Daniel K. [HI] – 6/9/2011
Sen Begich, Mark [AK] – 6/9/2011
Sen Blumenthal, Richard [CT] – 6/15/2011
Sen Brown, Scott P. [MA] – 6/9/2011
Sen Carper, Thomas R. [DE] – 6/9/2011
Sen Collins, Susan M. [ME] – 6/9/2011
Sen Coons, Christopher A. [DE] – 6/30/2011
Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] – 7/18/2011
Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [NY] – 6/9/2011
Sen Graham, Lindsey [SC] – 6/9/2011
Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] – 6/13/2011
Sen Kirk, Mark Steven [IL] – 6/9/2011
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] – 6/9/2011
Sen Levin, Carl [MI] – 6/9/2011
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] – 6/9/2011
Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] – 6/9/2011
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] – 6/9/2011
Sen Reed, Jack [RI] – 7/19/2011
Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] – 6/9/2011
Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] – 6/9/2011
Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] – 7/18/2011
Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI] – 7/6/2011

Here’s where you can locate the contact info on your own senator/s:

CONTACT YOUR SENATOR/S

Send an email, send a fax, make a call….encourage them to join the others in co-sponsoring this important Bill…FOR OUR HORSES!

Joe isn’t up yet…he’s working on it, so I’ll be back in awhile to post our Joe for today:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Here’s Joe for Thursday….*GATOR* is handsome! And he’s got such a ‘kind eye’ too:)

Thursday, July 21st… Pictures below show a 3 year old gelding arriving to our ranch. He was purchased at public auction for a gazillion dollars. I was told he does not want to be a race horse. The first thing the gelding does is slurp Gatorade from my hand. And so his new name is Gator.

The last picture, bottom right, shows no poop in our north field. A rare moment indeed. I had to run for the camera.

A very big Thank You to the BAEN, for continuing to show the Tb Friends banner. Because of BAEN, two former race horses have a new home. Both geldings were scheduled to be put to sleep. Instead the geldings are now playing in a field with other horses. A nice view of Mt. Shasta. In the next field, home grown alfalfa. Usually country music coming from the barn radio.

A very big Thank You to our friend Nikki, who lives in Vacaville. Nikki got on the internet and found a new home for a gelding at Hollywood Park. The gelding is one of many race horses Tb Friends is trying to help. We can scratch him from our list. The gelding is now with a family near Magic Mountain. Also with country music coming from the barn radio.

I have all these little notes next to my computer. Stories I hoped to share, but time has a way of blurring my memory. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, all these little notes. I was going to do do an entire morning on 11 year old Casey. Before more time passes, I need to give her full credit.

Casey came up with $200.00 to help a hungry horse near Livermore. A portion of the money came from her birthday. Other cash was donated by friends and family. Casey heard about a thoroughbred mare only a few miles from her house. She begged her dad for a ride. They met the skinny mare, and they met the struggling family. Casey and her dad went straight to a feed store and bought two bales of hay and two sacks of Equine Senior.

The next day Casey went to work. It took less than a week for Casey to come up with $200.00. The mare now has a storage shed full of food. She is already looking so much better.

I got to meet Casey, and I found out she is feeding feral cats in her neighborhood. Casey is helping to trap the cats and have them fixed.

Yep, I could have done an entire morning on Casey. Kids helping animals. All these notes next to my computer. All this inspiration.

Enjoy your we love Gatorade (and Gator) Thursday, and be sure to hug your horses. Peter Frampton on the oldies station…

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Gotta love Casey and all the other kids out there like her, too! Tomorrow’s stewards for the animals….:)

Robyn: I forgot to mention in my first post this morning….I talked to Daryl the other evening, when I’d seen the heat index making Minneapolis feel like it was 115 outside! He said he LOVES the hot weather…puts 3 containers of Gatorade into his freezer each night before bed time…and then, during the daytime hours as it thaws out, he drinks a little at a time and he THRIVES on this hot weather…much unlike myself!! The horses, all three of them are handling the heat very well, too…There are big lakes and ponds where they live and they can get in any ole time they want to, to cool off…and there’s always plenty of fresh drinking water for them there, too:) along with lots of trees and shade…Sherry smiles from Heaven all the time, I think! She always wanted for her horses to be able to live somewhere and ‘just be horses’ and Daryl has given them all just that…a truly wonderful place to ‘just be horses’:)

I’ve got my ‘to-do’ list written..and so, I best get started with it….Everyone have a good day today…stay cool, stay HYDRATED and see if you can HELP SOME HORSES, too! Might not hurt, if you see your senator’s name on the co-sponsor list to send them an email saying ‘thank you’:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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Gator is a beauty too…but are not all horses…have their own unique beauty…

and Lynne has kindly posted a list of Senators…can we make those calls please.

and read the db…and please help….

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please light up candles for Barbaro and all of his heavenly frens..

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Angel Dee, What a treat to see you here and to feel your caring…….love back to you!

Robyn, Thank you for asking about the puppies…..all are doing well, but keeping me straight out (not a bad thing!) Harder on the dogs in this extreme heat…have to be so careful with them.

Lou Ann, I am with you in waiting for the “first frost” Not to want tons of snow, just a cool snap and maybe a little leaf raking and some bright October skies….but then I am wishing the summer away I know. Don’t want a winter like last year…Hope everyone has a good night and am thinking of my treasured Family.

Hiya, FsOB! I worked late tonight, but at least Brent & I could still enjoy nachos on the deck of the Japanese Garden. It was quite mild then, but the house is very warm, especially here in the home office. So I must call it a day!

Hurrah for CT’s US Senators who are co-sponsors of S 1176. As a native Kentuckian, I am ashamed that the Commonwealth’s two Senators have not done so (and most likely never shall do so).

Alex, kudos for all of the signings that will be held at a number of prestigious events. Peace, Robyn

#### To Jane: Yes, we all need to stay hydrated. Please give a pet to the pups for me!
To Lynne: Thanks for the update from Daryl about Dakota and Warpaint. What a nice story from Joe Shelton about young Casey!
To Dee: Thanks for those rainbows. Please stay cool in this heat, Dee.
To Sandra: Hoping your nieces are healing from their recent injuries.

Hiya, FsOB! TGIF on a sultry Friday here on the banks of the Thames. The air itself and the river are incredibly still. I suspect that today and tomorrow may be the warmest days that we’ve seen since moving here in October of 2005.

Alex, please stay cool if you are riding this morning. Best wishes for your book-signing events.

Wishing everyone a safe & productive Friday and weekend. Peace, Robyn

Good morning all. A cooler morning here with bright sunshine before the heat settles in again.
##Jane, it was nice to see you here and here about the puppies. I can only imagine how they keep you running.
##Miss Dee, so nice to see your rainbows this morning. You keep cool too!
##Lynne, thank you for the update from Darryl. It’s so good to hear that Dakota and War Paint are doing so well.
##Robyn, I hope you don’t have the heat we had yesterday. It was brutal but thankfully no reports of heat strokes or serious power outages.
##Sandra, hope you are ok and your niece is recovering well.

Have a safe day everyone and keep cool.

Judy

Morning, Everyone…

HAPPY *FRIDAY*!!

Jane: I loved reading of your puppies and how they keep you ‘straight out’ busy:) A very long time ago, we had a German Shorthaired Pointer that our Veterinary at the time took a serious liking to…and as it turned out, he was friend with the breeder we’d gotten her from. He kept after me (I worked for him) about breeding her, because he was so smitten with her! We did eventually have her bred…the kennel owner came south to pick her up for a week and then brought her home ‘preggers’…our son was 3 years old at the time and we all looked forward to the puppies being born…Born they were! Five of them…little roly-poly puppies:) Oh so cute, when their little eyes were still closed and were happy to stay with mom in the whelping box we’d built for the ocassion….However…LOL! The puppies soon grew and grew some more…their eyes opened…one of them, Schroeder, (they were all named for Peanuts characters) opened his eyes as I was holding him one afternoon…Schroeder was my most fave of them all:)

We took them for their duclaw removal and tail dockings…and whatever else they needed in the way of vet care was provided free of charge by their ‘Godfather’ our vet:)

The point to my story is that we did this just ONCE because never mind those five puppies were all seriously ‘bizzy’ and outgrew the whelping box in what seemed no time whatsoever…my washer/dryer were in the garage with the puppies and each/every time I went downstairs to do laundry I found myself SURROUNDED with FIVE GLEEFUL HAPPY TO SEE ME:) puppies! It was a veritable miracle I didn’t trip and fall trying to carry baskets of laundry up or down the stairs…never mind, opening the door and keeping them all on the ‘correct side’ of said door!! LOL! It was a lot of work, being ‘grandparents’ to those puppies…a lot of fun, too!

As time flew it was the selling of the puppies…one at a time, which took no time, really, because our veterinary had folks on a waiting list, a relative took one of them and of course the Breeder had pick of the litter…However:( saying good-bye to them and then watching their mother frantically searching for the one/s who’d left her nest…and the worst of all, was when our three year old son had to say good bye to his favorite puppy…that was sooooo sad…and when Schroeder left..I nearly fell apart, too:(

I admire you, Jane and I know how ‘straight out’ puppies can keep a person, too!

I do feel for yole who are enduring this terrible heat wave….I hope/pray it goes away SOON! I heard Brian Williams say last night that there were LOTS of people wishing for the frostiness of winter!

Here’s our Joe for Friday:)

Friday, July 22nd… A million phone calls yesterday (okay maybe not a million, but 35 or 40 for sure) asking what can we do for little Casey? She is the girl who raised $200.00 to feed a starving thoroughbred mare. A caller from San Francisco wants to give Casey $200.00. A teen girl in Davis is treating Casey to a Sugarland concert.

This call from a lady in Los Angeles: I don’t have much, but I would like to send Casey $50.00 to help with trapping and fixing the neighborhood cats. (Casey is involved with taming feral kitties)

And from an actual male person. Mike is 15 and he lives in San Jose. We met Mike earlier this month on a Tb Kids day. Mike phones to say: My family just rescued a kitten. After reading your website my mom says we are naming the kitten Casey.

Readers of my website are incredibly generous. I asked for help with unwanted race horses, and so far 10 have found new homes. I don’t ask for help with Casey, yet suddenly she has her $200.00 back. And she gets to go to a concert.

I told Casey about the caller from San Francisco and $200.00. Her exact words: That is so cool. Tell the man I am going to use his money to buy more food for the mare.

The skinny thoroughbred mare should now have enough food to last through the year.

Thank you to all who phoned yesterday.

Have a happy weekend. Flies arriving from Redding.

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And…the link to our Whitehouse:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

Everyone have a good day today…stay hydrated and stay cool as you possibly can!

Katie’s at the ‘doctor’ …. her Master Cylinder is ‘intermittenly’ failing! For the past two or three weeks ‘sometimes’ when I’d put foot to brake pedal, it felt ‘funny’…’spongy’ or sometimes like my foot had gone too far down before brake action kicked-in. Subtle enough I wondered if I might be imagining it?! However, day before y’day as coming down a small hill and pulling into a L turn lane…though down-shifting to second gear and no immediate danger of rear ending someone…my foot went to the FLOOR and the only thing slowing me down, was the ‘down-shifting’ :-O I took my foot off the brake and re-applied it and VOILE good brakes…WTH??? Too late in the day to take her then, so home I came..and as reaching the ‘top of the mountain’ down-shifted to third and let the transmission ‘hold her back’ on the way down the other side! I had brakes each/every time I used them all the way home…but y’day morning, I called AAA and had her towed to the doctor…she’s got fresh oil and fluids now…and they looked/looked and checked/checked..and found NOTHING wrong with her brakes…until he took her for a spin and thank goodness, it happened while he had her out and about….so, a new Master Cylinder is arriving at the garage late this morning and hopefully, by this afternoon, Katie and I will be reunited and all systems in the ‘we must stop now, Katie’ department will be A-OK once again! Geeze, Louise…this past few weeks of driving her have, from time to time, been a ‘Gaslight’ experience!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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noticed that the BLM is still going to do roundup in Nevada…and this extreme heat running our wild mustangs…something has to stop them..

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##Joan R, it just burns by hide so much how the BLM operates I could just spit nails. It breaks my heart to think of the terror and confusion those horses endure at their hands.

Because of the heat here, Woodbine didn’t have races and I saw that the horses were just walked about on the track.

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My heart beats for your heart, BARBARO, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd . . . for each of you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, It is AFFIRMED!
Indeed it is.

Holding hooves, paws, and hands with the entire Barbaro Nation!!

Yes, I am very ready for frosty mornings and snow . . . . not a lot, just a light Charlie Brown Christmas snow. This heat and humidity are beastly. Sorry . . . . just not a summer person.

But oh yes, I began hearing the familiar buzz/hum of the locusts this week – seemed early — unmistakably means August is on the way. (I am actually terrified of the locusts, so as long as I just hear and not see . . .)

Hugs and love for everyone, and always prayers for those walking the especially rugged path, and always for all our four-leggeds who have no one to love them, to care . . . . my heart hurts for them, it truly does.

Peace on earth . . . .

Hugs, Lou Ann

And always in loving memory of FOB CHIEF, FOB BUD SOVA, and FOB Master of Ceremonies MURPH!

P.S.

A gentleman in a neighboring town just a few miles from us left his door “cracked” so his dog could get in and out freely . . . well he also lets his 9 feet long, 50 pound Boa Constrictor roam freely through the house . . . . the Boa Constrictor’s name is “JELLY BEAN”.
Well . . . . oops, JELLY BEAN apparently slipped (should I say slithered) out also and is now missing for several days. Our area is to be on the lookout.
They think “he” may have wrapped himself in one of his favorite positions in a tree outdoors perhaps even very close to the house but with it being summer and the vegetation is so lush and full very difficult to detect.
To borrow beloved C.J.’s expression, “oy”!!
/L

LYNNE B. – Hope you’ve got Katie back and are all safe to zoom, zoom again!! That sounded scary!!
Yikes, Lynne!!

And LYNNE – oh you had a German Shorthaired Pointer, too!!! Yippee!!! Daddy had a beloved German Shorthaired Pointer, “Queenie”, when I was VERY VERY young (too young for me to remember her), there is a lovely photo of me in the stroller on the lawn with Queenie and her litter of eight!! Queenie was a gorgeous Mum and the pups were, too!
Louie’s “QUEENIE” is sure among CHIEF, MURPH, BUD, and so many more beloveds up there, sigh . .

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My parents had a German Shorthaired Pointer too. Her name was Tessa and she was a beautiful dog, obviously of good pedigree. She came to them when she was about two years old, having been left with our vet to be put down because her owner no longer wanted her. He was reluctant to do this to a young and healthy dog of good temperament and offered her to my Mum, where he knew she would have a good home. She had obviously just had puppies and we wondered whether this had made her temporarily aggressive in any way to members of her owner’s family. We never found out and she was always a perfectly behaved and friendly dog with my parents. I’m pleased to say she lived a long and happy life.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers. We are trying to get on with life, it’s difficult at times.
Gloria was such a blessing to me. Thanks FOB’s for caring!

The BLM make me ill!

Good sunny Sunday morning to all you FOBs , and hello .
I’m sitting with the pc in the dining area — using a table that has a vinyl cloth of wild pink, red , orange and green print of flowers and fruit — very tropical and cheery …

The hunk is asleep , the cats are asleep , and my daughter is asleep — it’s quiet and lovely ,
looking at the sunny day and watching birds , etc.
drinking a strong coffee that smells great …
a lovely morning — I wish you all such a morning…
with the exception of a few problems , it’s a great life …
but the problems always seem to intrude and bear down , don’t they …
DebbieLA , so good to see you and hear you’re ok, I know it’s a hard time , my best to you ,

and my best to all of you , especially those facing hard times of whatever kind , see you later then . Bye now ,

Good morning to all. Yes I’m still here just been bursy at work doing everyone else’s job. Sound familiar? The American corporate way to run yourself in the ground. Want to solve the debt crisis? EIMINATE the BLM and self serving interests that contribute nothing. We can lay off 4000 FAA people on Friday because we can’t agree on their situation but the BLM can round up the innocents. Great reasoning!

Good Early Sunday Afternoon, Everyone:)

Debbie: So good to see you here, I think of you and yours so often these days…(((debbie))) I hope you’re weathering the ‘weather’ alright, too, Debbie! I know it’s dreadful in so many places right now and hope it breaks soon, this ‘once a generation’ heatwave hitting so many of yole in the southern states! I talked to Jonna this morning, and in Liverpool, CNY, it’s bad too!! She and the greys are all alright, though and she’s taken to feeding/watering the squirrels and birdies in her yard! 🙂 She said they wait for her…almost ‘toe-tapping’ lining up for the sprinkles and the water dishes and lest I forget…BLACK OIL SUNFLOWER SEEDS! Wheeee:) She’s buying them in 50# sacks now, in fact!! 🙂

Lou Ann and Liz: How wonderful that Queenie had such a good home with Louie, Lou Ann..and also good that your Veterinary, Liz, knew where to place Tessa! German Shorthaired Pointers are beautiful dogs…they have LOTS of energy, but they are good dogs…well, of course, ALL dogs are ‘good dogs’:)

My Lucy is fine now:) Whatever her problem was has ‘disreppeared’ thanks to her ‘doktur’ and the medicine…she’s still very active as “Chieftress of Homeland Security” and keeping Seymoure a happy kitteh…’cause she loves to play with him:) I am beyond delighted that this little Chihuahua was spotted by my friend at the local pound and happy I agreed to ‘foster’ her! I still miss my Murphy very much…I suppose I always will, but in the meantime, I’m tickled pink as a PEONY to have Miss Lucy here with me:) Wheeeee!! Oh, btw: remember the times I wrote here of how difficult it seemed to be to potty-train her…well, I finally gave it up and have taken to using little piddle pads which cost nearly a left lung even at Wally World!! However, I decided it was NOT Lucy’s fault whomever had her first didn’t do the necessary training…and the ‘sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t work’ wore me out…She is very good about aiming at and hitting the piddle pads, I’m happy to report:)

I got an email y’day from another FOB who announced Senator Dianne Feinstein, CA along with another, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, NH have both recently signed on as co-sponsors for S 1176!! That brings the total to 24! 🙂 Please see my post here from 7/21 t/s:2:40p, if you don’t see your own senator/s listed there, use the link I provided and send along an email or make a call, encouraging them to join the others in co/sponsoring. If you see your senator/s listed, send along a thank you email..can’t hurt, might help when it comes time to vote on the bill…if that does happen this time around.

Bobbie: Your morning sounded wonderful:) I did that, too…and then, I got busy and one thing led to another, like it does so often:/ I finally finished though…except for one or two ‘small’ chores and then I believe I’ll fix myself some lunch and might watch a movie a friend loaned me, called “Touching Wild Horses” with Jane Seymore/Seymoure…not sure which.

It’s HOT here today! Might just see 100 register before it’s said and done…Oh:) this morning, while out back watering…LOL! I was wetting down the soil for the squirrels and noticed TWO TOADS had come up from a burrow they’d made for themselves in the dirt!! Side by side they sat, literally…touching one another’s sides…one large, one smaller:) I guess I never realized they live underground! I must remember to Google and read about them:) I wonder how many others might live there?? Wheeeee!!

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Cannot believe it! Mike Smith is going to run a match race at Del and gets hit with DUI. Oh brother!

Hiya, FsOB! It is a grey and dank Monday dawning here on the banks of the Thames. What can I say about the heat here last Friday: oppressive and still? My heart goes out to all in the central portion of North America, those who have been dealing with such conditions for weeks.

Alex, what an honour, and a rightly-deserved one, to have been bestowed on you! Kudos for your recognition in the event that will be sponsored by New Bolton Centre on 08/05! And I loved the grey horse featured this morning.

Wishing all here “ACD”! Peace, Robyn

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To Debbie LA: We’re all with you in spirit!
To Lou Ann: Any updates on Sandra’s nieces?
To Stu: Amen re. the BLM, a disgrace to our tax dollars.
To Judy: Woodbine’s approach sounds like an ethical and sound one, cancelling racing due to the heat.
To Lynne: Yikes, how scary a ride you had the other day in Katie. Hoping that the Master Cylinder does the trick! Great news about more Senators coming on board.
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Yikes, mea culpa!

My daughter loves kittens. Cute fuzzy babies are always fun.

Morning, Everyone…

Holy Cromoly!!! Miss Lucy and I slept until 7:45 this morning!!! I feel like half the day is already gone but it was a delicious ‘second sleep’ I woke at first around 5:30 but had stayed up late last night and rolled over for a few more winks! LOL:)

Here’s Joe for Monday:) I think Doctor should write a book…think of all the STORIES he could tell about where he’s been and who he’s met and the adventures he must have had so far! Gooooo *DOCTOR*!!! 🙂

Monday, July 25th… We call him Doctor. At the track he was known as Dr. Ramos, and he hit the rail and critically injured his jockey. The next day Doctor made the long walk up our driveway.

He was soon adopted by a lesson trainer, and for over a year Doctor taught youngsters how to ride. The lesson barn lost their lease, and Doctor returned to us.

A family with a fancy ranch gave Doctor a place to live. Several children in this family, and Doctor became spoiled. Lots of treats, lots of attention. But then the family lost their fancy ranch, and all of their animals needed new homes. Once again, Doctor made the long walk up our driveway.

A lesson trainer at another fancy ranch said she needed a replacement horse for six months. Her regular lesson horse was suffering from a sore back. Doctor took over, and ended up staying a year. At that ranch Doctor gave riding lessons to our friend Allison. Our friend Aubrey. Our friend Megan. Twin sisters Hope and Hannah. This past Christmas Hope and Hanna brought Doctor a giant bag of carrots from Costco.

Because at Christmas Doctor had returned to our ranch. The regular lesson horse with a sore back recovered, and Doctor was no longer needed.

I put Doctor in our north field and he had a blast. Romping with older geldings, flirting with younger fillies. Often I would bring Doctor to our yard for a Tb Kids day. I will never forget when Doctor picked up a purse and took off. I heard a parent shout hey, that horse has my purse. Doctor trotted back to the north field, the purse in his mouth. Everybody was laughing. Even the parent.

I am showing you a picture of Doctor below, bottom left.

Today we again say goodbye to Doctor. He leaves for yet another fancy barn on the coast. Less than 5 miles from the ocean. Just down the road, a taco shack with unbelievable fish tacos. Not that Doctor eats fish tacos, but I think he should. They are delicious. A nice cool ocean breeze. Usually soft rock on the barn radio.

Doctor is becoming a companion to a little morgan gelding named Harvey. Doctor and Harvey will provide the occasional riding lesson. But mostly they are going to eat, sleep, and then eat some more. Doctor deserves this beautiful retirement home. We are very grateful.

Enjoy your 92 degree Monday, and be sure to hug your horses. Marvin Gaye on the oldies station…

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Not so much happening here for today and since I slept til what feels like NOON…I’m guessing that is a darn good thing, too!! I hope everyone has a good Monday…stay as cool as possible and stay hydrated and be sure your furkids are comfy, too.

Here’s the link to our Whitehouse:

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thank you Alex.

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An article from the TRA Daily Racing News Summary from Friday, July 22. Disturbing news from New York:
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Move over, mandatory vacation days for Central Park carriage horses, there’s a new candidate for weird horse-related legislation.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wielded his veto again Thursday, in a bid to end the state’s six-year-old Task Force on Retired Race Horses. Yes, that’s right: New York has maintained for years a group looking into issues facing thoroughbred retirees.

In a statement explaining his veto, Cuomo described the task force as a example of the “needless proliferation of government bureaucracy” and said “there exists no compelling reason” to continue the task force for another two years. The press release framed the move as part of the governor’s commitment to “protect taxpayer dollars.”

The only problem: the horse task force has been staffed by unpaid volunteers and never created much bureaucracy. According to the state’s Racing and Wagering Board, in its six-year history the task force cost taxpayers a grand total of $12,000.

“We weren’t getting paid,” said Diana Pikulski, 49 years old, a task force member from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and a fundraiser for the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. The task force, she said, ”never had its own staff, and really everything that we did — all of our work and stuff — we didn’t even charge for expenses.”

Representatives for the governor did not immediately have a comment.

So what does a task force on retired horses do?

Pikulski said that the 13-member group was searching for humane options for race horses that were too old to run, programs that might appeal to all the stakeholders in the industry. As it stands now, retired race horses are often sold at auction — and the most common buyers are those who slaughter the animals for human consumption in Europe, Pikulski said.

After the task force’s upcoming August meeting, Pikulski said it will finalize its report with retirement proposals that don’t end in a slaughterhouse. The nonprofit that she supports helps give the horses a second career on farms.

Back in 2009, WSJ Magazine looked at the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s efforts to bring old racehorses into prison farms, a form of vocational training for both inmates and the former racers. Its biggest prison program is at New York’s Wallkill Correctional Facility, Pikulski said.

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Stu, I agree about shutting down BLM to save money. I keep thinking contacts to D.C. might be most effective by addressing the waste of OUR tax money by funding organizations and efforts that are so detrimental to America. We are paying THEM to destroy us bit by bit.

Lynne, I love Joe’s story about Doctor today. Wonder what that horse is thinking or if he just figures that’s what all horses do – be a goodwill ambassador!!

Most of you probably don’t frequent the discussion threads. I’ve never posted about any specific rescues we’re involved in over there. But I wondered if this broader audience might know of the right person we’re looking for. Two bright eyed, black lab/collie mixes, human dad passed away and they wound up in the pound. We are trying our best to find them a rescue together. I always think the right person is out there somewhere, we just have to get the word out to them. If you can, please pass this info to any of your dog loving friends. Or horse loving friends who might have a place in their hearts for two orphans who have already lost their dad and shouldn’t now lose one another….or worse.

Hiya, FsOB! That ghastly pain in my left shoulder is back with a vengeance. I’ve been doing too computer work and unfortunately Ms. Nikita twisted my arm while I was holding her leash last week. I am knackered and ready to call it a day. It is MUCH cooler here this evening and I am truly grateful. Of course, now it is too cool to suit Brent!

Alex, thanks for the photo of Freckles, the barn’s pony at Fair Hill. What a cutie! Wishing all here “ACN”. Peace, Robyn

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Hiya, FsOB! It’s a temperate Tuesday morning here on the banks of the Thames. The birds are chirping merrily while breakfasting. I need to head upstairs now to get Ms. Nikita her egg.

Alex, I loved the Twitpic of the gleaming bay horse at Fair Hill Farm. What a splendid horse, a great way to seize the new day!

Wishing all here “ACD”. Peace, Robyn

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Morning, Everyone…

Gee I hope the two orphan dogs can land somewhere wonderful together….how sad is that?! There is an organization locally here which rescues dogs and kittehs…it’s where Lucy came from…Friends of Animal Community…but I also think anyone’s local Humane Society would do what FOAC does..which is, someone such as me or you can make arrangements for our furkids through a humane society or other local rescue by communicating your dog or cat’s needs, preferences, etc. in the event something happens to you, they will take your furkids and find foster homes or ‘forever homes’ for them and I believe it is done via our last will and testaments. This works well if a person has no family member/s or friends who would agree to take them in the event we’re no longer here.

Here is Joe for Tuesday:

Tuesday, July 26th… Recently 6 very hungry thoroughbreds made the long walk up our driveway. Top row below I am showing two geldings. On the left is Tap Dancer. On the right is Prince.

Of those 6 hungry thoroughbreds, one died. Another will no doubt be euthanized. Prince has a new home with Carey in Sebastapol, and he leaves us this week.

The phone call came July 5th. A young girl said there are horses down the street who have nothing to eat. The horses are skinny, and two are really really skinny. The young girl and her mom phoned Animal Control, but nothing was done to help the 6 horses.

The young girl said she has $85.00. She would gladly give me her money if I can help those horses. I found out later, the girl is only 10.

It took almost a week, but I finally spoke with the owner. Then it was 3 more days before the owner agreed to let Tb Friends help.

Five of the horses have racing tattoos. The owner said all 6 came from a livestock auction. And then the owner added, they were skinny to begin with. The owner insisted we pay back the livestock auction fees.

The girl called again, and asked can she keep her $85.00? She needs the money to help another animal. I said sure. What a nice kid she is.

Jennifer lives in Elk Grove, and she helped transport the skinny horses to our ranch. I tried to give gasoline money to Jennifer, but she said no way. What a nice older kid she is.

Carey lives in Sebastapol, and she is the new owner of Prince. Carey writes about restaurants for the San Francisco Chronicle. What a nice much older kid she is.

The gray face below, bottom left, is Austin. A hungry gelding who came from Bakersfield Animal Control. So far Austin has been agreeable to everything, and next summer he will help with our Tb Kids program. We love Austin. What a nice gray horse he is.

Enjoy your we sure know lots of people going to Kid Rock Tuesday, and be sure to hug your horses. The Who (who?) on the oldies station…

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and the link to our Whitehouse, too:

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Everyone have a good day today….I’ve got stuff doing here and gotta get with it:-O

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Lynne, what a wonderful service FOAC provides. I often see ads for planning ahead this way for our furkids. These two black dogs (now named Johnny and Cash for the Man in Black!) are the second set of orphans brought to our attention “over there” at the discussion threads. We were successful in placing Maggie and Lily, two senior girls whose dad had died. I hope we can do the same for these two.

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##Good afternoon all.

Just stopping in quickly. I was away yesterday and have been trying to catch up all morning. I feel like a dog chasing it’s tail.

##BobbieB. I loved your morning synopsis. I think I could even smell that coffee on the breeze.
##Robyn, take care of that shoulder. It may be time to check in with the doctor.
##Sandra and Joan and all in the southwest. I read that you have had over 20 some odd days with temps over 100. That’s brutal. Please take care.

Must run and hopefully catch that tail.

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##Alex, that is so cool about Cecil Whig and his new career. If only all could be happy endings like this.

Hiya, FsOB! Wow, we had a HUGE storm at 6:30 PM as BBC America was ending its nightly report. Now there are some delicious cool breezes in the air and the Thames has lovely ripples on its surface.

Alex, thanks for the Twiptic showing Cecil Whig. I share Judy’s sentiments, especially after reading Joe Shelton’s blog re. the six TBs with racing tattoos who were emaciated and neglected….

Wishing all here “ACN”. Peace, Robyn

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Hiya, FsOB! It is a crisp, sunny Weds. which has dawned on the banks of the Thames, almost Maine-like. The birds’ food has already been distributed and cream has been placed outside for the still-drowsy green-eyed cat. Ms. Nikita is also still somnolent with such lovely weather.

Alex, what a thoughtful-looking horse! I am glad that it is milder for all at Fair Hill Farm.

Wishing all of you “ACD”. Peace, Robyn

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##Good morning all. A bright cool lovely morning here in the North with a soft breeze.

##Good luck to Frankel, I won’t be able to see the race but look forward to hearing the outcome of what sounds like a thrilling race.
##Robyn, isn’t it wonderful to feel those cool breezes after a summer storm.
##Miss Dee, always so nice to see you here casting your rainbows.
##Sandra, that sounds like promising news about your nieces.

I hope the hot weather abates soon in the southern states.

Have a safe day everyone.

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Morning, Everyone…

Woke early…before the sun is over the mountain..light outdoors, birdies busy at the feeders and one little squirrel, too:) I’ve got a few baby squirrels who’ve found my feeders…they are SO CUTE!! Itty-bitty things…size of maybe a two or three week old kitten! They play in the yard and come eat on the porch…I’ve counted four so far….Wheeeee:)

Robyn: Am glad for your respite overnight from the heat! How is Nikita doing with the storms, did you ever find something to help her be less stressed? Good news re: Sandra’s great neices…did I spell that ‘rite’, right now, I’m in no mood to do a spell check:/ LOL!

Joe isn’t up yet…well, I’m SURE Joe is UP but his Blog for today isn’t…I’ll come back in awhile and post here.

Back outdoors to enjoy the coolness of the morning and the rest of my coffee..I hope yole are having a good day so far…

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Here’s Joe for today:)

Wednesday, July 27th… The roosters are barely awake, yet Clark Bar just walked into a trailer longer than the Golden Gate Bridge. An entire bedroom for humans inside this trailer. Satellite TV. A mini fridge. A DVR for those must have Jason Bourne movies. Later today a family outside Bend, Oregon will greet Clark Bar. His new best friend, a 20 year old mustang gelding named Mustang.

The roosters are barely awake (oh wait, I already used that line) and the round pens have been grained. Leg wraps removed. Feral cats wait in our garage for a handout. Delicious hot coffee from Starbucks. Microwave pancakes made by Krusteaz. Later we could be 93 degrees. Alabama on the oldies station…

Two weeks ago on this website I asked (or begged) for help with unwanted race horses. 11 horses have new homes, including a mare from Hollywood Park. The mare is now owned by an event trainer, and her new name is Reba. The event trainer does not have a stall for Reba until August 1st. Since last Friday Reba has been staying with us.

I just wrote this long story about going to the Kid Rock concert last night. Coming home at one in the morning, saying goodbye to the girl babysitting our ranch, and discovering Reba had escaped from her pen. A truly fascinating tale (or tail) of stampedes, dust, screaming, and more dust. I wrote how neighbors quickly put out their For Sale signs.

I wasn\’t even on line. Silly computer. Oh by the way, Reba is a beautiful mover.

Now I am late for work. Delicious hot coffee from Starbucks. Microwave pancakes made by Krusteaz. Later we could be 93 degrees. Oh wait again, I already said all that stuff.

Thank you for reading my website. Sure hope you come back.

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And…the link to our Whitehouse, for the horses:

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Rainy , rainy day at the beach !
I awoke earlier to rain pounding on the roof over my bedroom — a really hard drumming ……

This area is suffering through a drought – a really long , dry period — gardens are drying up and dying — flora and fauna are suffering …
so I’m glad , so glad to see a rainy day for general relief , or at least a partial relief , it would take many days of rain to actually relieve the drought …

but — flipping the coin to look at the other side , there are so many tourists here … people who have one or two weeks of vacation a year — and look forward to the sunny beach and all the activities outdoors –
it’s no fun to try to play putt-putt golf or ride the roller- coaster with your kids if it’s raining …
so I feel for the vacationers also …
there are many indoor activities to go to , like the aquarium , and many live shows and performances — but they’re expensive if you have children ….
tears of frustration rolling down many little cheeks in hotel rooms up and down the beaches ,
Like I said , it’s a rainy day at the beach …

May each of you jump this hump day successfully ,
and make it a good day , bye now ,

Morning all…
Checking in…life goes on and we move from one day to the next…it’s those little suprises that pop up during the day that through you for the loops…anyway…

Last night around mid-night I was doing some work on my computer when I heard the cat door in the garage open…we have four cats, so no big deal…or so I thought. I heard feet on the kitchen floor with bigger claws than any of our cats have…it was a young raccoon who for the last two nights has been eating all the dry food for our furbabies….I mean clean!!! This will stop when I put the cat door cover over the opening. Our kittens like to go in and out at their own times though…oh well! Just a day or two.

Take care all and have a grand day…

((((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S WONDERFUL FAMILY))))

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Late afternoon Hump Day!

almost over the hill today…have you made your calls, faxes, emails…speaking for so many..so many that are pushed into brutal deaths…horse slaughter…

have you made calls…telling our government we are disgusted with government…we are digusted with the stupid, …… actions the BLM are doing to our wild mustangs…America’s horses…

also..please take time to read the db…we have orphans, we have doggies, kitties, horses, meds, hay, feed, and the list goes on…and you can..help.

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Please light up candles for Barbaro and all of his heavnely frens.

pray for our country…and for each other…Barbaro’s family…

and always..Alex…we thank you…

##Alex, thanks for the video, Frankel ran a great race. You could see the others tire visably as he just kept going. I’m happy to see that he will continue to race as a 4 year old and not be retired as so many do.

Judy

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Hiya, FsOB! My message just got inadvertently deleted when I didn’t hit “post” after making edits. Egads! So I’ll wish you all “ACN”. Alex, thanks for the video of Frankel’s amazing win. Peace, Robyn

It appears that the bigger and better the search engine then the bigger and better the map aspect of the site is.

My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd . . . for each of you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding hands, hooves, and paws with the entire Barbaro Nation!

First chance I had to peek in here . . . . I’m terribly behind at the moment, and fading fast tonight . . . . zzzzz . . . need to go get my “hazelnut cafe” as a few more things to do yet!

The humidity and heat dropped only a very few notches here and supposed to start revving up again tomorrow . . . sigh. I have never been so ready for first frost!
Lots to do in the flower gardens but just too intense for this gal to tackle the bigger tasks with this weather, ugh!

Must scamper . . . .
much love to all, hugs and prayers, too,
always,
Lou Ann

Hiya, FsOB! A brightly sunny new day has dawned here on the banks of the Thames. The crew of the “Hell Cat II” are readying their fishing boat for today’s customers, who’ll head out at 9:00 AM.

Alex, thanks for today’s Twitpic from Fair Hill Farm. Wishing all of you a great “Friday Eve” (Thursday). Peace, Robyn

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To Bobbie B: Hopefully all of those rained-out vacationers brought books with them or else they can take their children to see the Winnie the Pooh film or the latest, final installment of the Harry Potter series.
To Lynne: I am pleased to report that Kita’s storm anxiety seems to have lessened over the course of this Summer. I hope that Ms. Lucy is now fully recovered.
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Good morning all. A cloudy muggy morning here in the North. Humidity returns, ick!
##Carleen, that must have been a surpise to see a racoon in your house. I do hope he/she left without too much ado. As Robyn says, though, take care when dealing with them as you never know.
##Robyn, I am glad to hear that Nikita’s anxiety has abated with the storms. Has she had her play date with Trooper. Have a peaceful day.
##Dee, as ever rainbows to you. Saw on TV telecast a double rainbow, so neat.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

Morning, Everyone:)

Happy *FRIDAY EVE*!!

Carleen: What a surprise to find a raccoon in your home…just stopping by for some ‘kitteh kibble’:) Those pet doors do afford the wild ones a way in, don’t they?! Friends of mine, years ago heard a clatter and banging in their kitchen one late night, too and upon investigation, came upon an entire family of the little darlings raiding their fruit basket and bread box on kitchen counters…it was a veritble ‘rodeo’ coaxing them all back outdoors!!! LOL! After that, they locked their pet door down, too…Robyn is right though, if seen out and about during daylight hours, it’s not a good thing, but I imagine you already know that…

Going to be HOT here today, so I’m heading out extra early for errands…I’ll try to get Joe posted for yole if he’s early enough, otherwise I can’t do it until this aftn., my time…but I’ll get ‘er done, I promise:)

My neighbors left yesterday for a valley town where Mrs. will have the first round of six weeks of radiation this morning….my neighbor who has breast cancer….they have a 5th-wheel RV and rather than drive the 70 mile round trip five days a week, they’ll be staying put there and coming home on weekends…I do hope all goes well for her…she’s had some complications from her surgery and is just now able to begin these treatments! All of us here on the home-front will be checking the house and gardens for them while they are away…such a blessing to have such good neighbors..we’re all here for one another when needed:)

Here’s the link to our Whitehouse for today:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

Everyone stay cool, stay hydrated and won’t we ALL be glad to see that ‘first frost’ this time ’round?!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Here’s Joe for Thursday…

Thursday, July 28th… All these notes next to my computer. Stories I hoped to share about good people doing good things for horses. Well not just horses, but all animals. Like Kristy in a town called Winters, and how she helped an injured dog. 13 year old Megan, bottle feeding an orphan foal. Another Megan, age 14, and how she raised cash to help a young girl pay vet expenses for a pony. A family in Modesto who buys hay for two hungry horses down the street. A teenager in Vacaville, and how she works two part time jobs in order to pay board for her thoroughbred gelding.

And those are the fresh stories. Older stories from April and May seem outdated now. Just as important, just as compelling. But outdated, and I feel terrible for never getting to them.

I am incredibly blessed. I get to meet the nicest people. I get to hear the Hallmark kind of stories. I see the joy from a job well done.

Walking both sides of a crowded road. Good and not so good. The current times for both humans and animals can be devastating. I log all e-mails about horses who need help. Phone calls are different. A person takes the time to make a call, you can hear the anguish. The frustration.

Here are a few phone calls from this week:

The horse I pass on my way to work every morning is starving. Can you help?

I am going to shoot this mare in one hour. You better come get her.

My boyfriend is dumping me if I don’t get rid of my horse. Can you take him?

(from a race horse trainer) You want this mare or not?

(from a girl who is only 10) My dad is unemployed. We can’t buy hay.

Our thoroughbred mare is 14 and like a member of our family. Unfortunately there is no money to properly take care of her.

(even a call from Idaho) Can you help a field of thoroughbreds who look really skinny? They never have anything to eat.

At a concert the other night I got to meet a young lady who has been writing us letters for several years. She is passionate for both horses and kids. The young lady puts a hundred dollar bill in my hand. Says she wishes it could be more. The young lady tells me to use her money anyway I like.

The 10 year old girl that has an unemployed dad and cannot buy hay. Her horse now has 12 bales of alfalfa. From a young lady at a concert who just wanted to help.

If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses are free, but there is a transportation charge. Please, you must live within sensible distance.

Both sides of the road. Good and not so good. The way it is on this website.

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He posted in ‘chapters’ and while waiting to read the end…I did feel like I wanted to throw-up…I still feel that way but am trying to focus on the good side of the road for now…and so wish I could send dollars to help, too..but I can’t:( I can roll some nickels though and maybe some of you can, too….if you can, here’s the address:

Joe & Cathy Shelton
15891 County Road 92C
Woodland, Ca. 95695

Or, if you’re able and have another rescue you prefer, please think of them…they ALL need help today….

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‎52 thoroughbred horses need homes. Will go to Sugarcreek this Sat. for slaughter. Gentleman died and his son wants nothing to do with them. Most broodmares are broke and some are in foal weanling, yearlings, 2 yrs and 3 yrs old most are gelded. FREE and papered. Friend of the deceased is trying to find homes 440-463-4288 Barnesville, OH. Please copy and paste this on your status! PLEASE HELP

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Hiya, FsOB! The humdity is ramping up once more. At least Brent, Nikita, and I had a nice walk to the battlefield, where Kita had the chance to make friends with two young boys. The children and their parents were visiting Fort Griswold. Nikita was so sweet to them, she started kissing the younger boy, who really seemed to enjoy such a greeting!

Alex, I hope that Fair Hill Farm hasn’t seen an increase in temps and humidity today. Do you have your speech written yet to present at Saratoga on 08/05?

Wishing all here “ACN”. Peace, Robyn

#### To Judy: No. play date just yet. I want to make sure that my strained muscles in my upper back are healed. Trooper definitely loves to stick his head through the fence to bark at Nikita and me, though. My guess is that he must weigh at least 110 – 120 lbs.
To Lynne: Your neighbours have come up with a safe, great plan. I hope that the radiation therapy isn’t too difficult for your friend. She is fortunate to have such a lovely neighbour as you! ####

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Hiya, FsOB! Well, it’s a grey morning that has dawned here on the banks of the Thames. I need to go out to the Japanese Garden and distribute the birdseed before the rain begins. Ms. Nikita is still sleeping and that is an excellent barometer, signaling a rainy day ahead. But it is TGIF, so please enjoy!

Alex, wishing you a fortuitous book-signing event at the Haskell! I hope that members of the Barbaro Nation can turn out in support.

May you all enjoy your weekend! Peace, Robyn

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To Sandra: I hope that your computer is fixed soon, so that you can rejoin us here. ####

##Good morning all. A grey morning here as well in the North with humidity.
#Dee, thank you for your rainbows, maybe will see one this weekend.
##Robyn, Trooper sounds like a very big boy. I hope your shoulder pain ceases.
##Lynn, prayers and healing thoughts for your neighbor. Your neighbors sound wonderful and caring to all pitch in.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

And a happy Friday morning to all the Barbaro peeples …

Can you believe it’s so near the end of July ? ?
I can’t … I’ve been working so hard here at the beach that it’s flown by for me …
It’s a sunny , hot day — per usual in this hot sandy place , actually lovely , although I’m really , at heart , a more … ‘cool – and – misty – kind – of – weather’ mountain girl …

I think a melancholy strain , from the Scots of course , runs through my veins and lends itself beautifully to the dark , brooding Blue Ridge Mtns.

But for now , I’m happy , sunny Doris Day at the beach – and loving it …
I’m drinking Dunkin Doughnuts coffee and I love it , although I’m a loyal Krispee Kreme kinda girl , since they are a local company to me …

I’m presently admiring a small , brown lizard who is sitting on the fence post very near my side window — we are looking at each other – both rather astonished that we are this close .

DEBBIELA , I’m thinking of you and sending good wishes …
And SANDRA – missing you and hope you’re back soon.
Best wishes also to LYNNE’S neighbor and to all who are traveling a rugged road .
Bye now ,

Morning, Everyone…

HAPPY *FRIDAY*!!! 🙂 I hope yole have a wonderful weekend..filled with fun and people you love and some rest, too!!

I’m late this morning:-O I slept an extra hour or so:) and got involved with emails and before I knew it….I missed being here earlier! Then:/ the gremlins…those darned internet access gremlins had a great time playing with me…I couldn’t access ABR for the very LIFE of me! I felt like I’d entered the Twilight Zone there for awhile this morning:/

Here’s Joe for Friday:)

Friday, July 29th… Megan lives in West Sacramento, and earlier this week she phoned about a thoroughbred mare with nothing to eat. Megan tried to talk with the owners, who told her to get lost.

I went to see the mare on Wednesday, and she is now the property of Tb Friends. The mare is small, and there is a racing tattoo which says she is 7. Megan named the mare Alice. After her best friend Alice, who once liked the same boy Megan liked, but both decided he wasn’t worth fighting over. And there you go. The inside scoop.

So Alice (the mare) steps off the trailer and dives into a tub of John Lyons Equine Senior the way I dive into Claimjumpers chocolate cake. Alice (the girl) and Megan give Alice the mare a bath. Alice is dewormed (the mare, not the girl) and vaccinated. She is in season. Alice the mare spots the young gelding Gator, and tries her best to be with him. Gator is not interested. He is busy chewing on Raider’s fly mask.

Alice the mare is led to a round pen, and Megan wants to know can she research Alice’s tattoo? I said go ahead. This is your save.

Megan phones later to say Alice the mare is from a sire called Montbrook. Alice the mare won a race in 2008. Megan asks can we change her name? Since her daddy is Montbrook, can we call her Brook? Best friend Alice feels weird having a horse named after her.

At her home in West Sacramento the little mare was called Betty. In only a few hours the mare went from Betty, to Alice, to Brook.

Last night, final ranch check, I told the little mare your name is Brook. She didn’t much care. The little mare kept flirting with Proud Phil, who is in the next pen.

It was about a month ago when Megan helped raise $500.00 for a young girl and her pony. The pony lacerated a leg, and a bunch of stitches were needed. Antibiotics too. The young girl’s parents had trouble paying the vet. Megan and her friends, including Alice, came up with the cash.

One day Megan hopes to own a thoroughbred rescue ranch. She also loves dogs and cats. Her favorite food, tacos from a truck on Main Street. Her secret crush is some guy who plays on Glee.

There you go. More inside scoop. Have a happy weekend. We are suppose to be hot.

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And the last of this week’s link to the Whitehouse, too:

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE
Thanks so much, Family, for your good wishes for my neighbor and her husband…I’ll pass them along when I see her next, she’ll appreciate the thoughts, I’m sure:)

Judy: Yes…we truly do live in BFE out here in one of the more ‘remote’ areas of our county…and it really is a comfort knowing our neighbors are here for us if they’re needed…I’m blessed to have such wonderful neighbors, really:)

Enjoy this day….it’s a ‘FRIDAE’ 🙂

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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Lets hope this inept govt can get a debt celing plan in place this weekend. If not LOOK OUT!

##I hope Congress can get their act together. It is kinda scary what could happen. I’m with Stu, BLM’s elimination would be a big help in lowering the debt.

##We will enjoy a long weekend here, Lord Simcoe Day (Civic holiday) so will not return til Tuesday. Until then I hope everyone has a good and safe weekend. For those in the heat that is here again, keep cool and drink lotsa water.

Safe racing for all whose hooves meet the tracks over the weekend.

Judy

My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd . . . for each of you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding hands, hooves, and paws with the entire Barbaro Nation!

Been doggie-sitting all week for neighbor’s four doxies 🙂 . . . daughter’s baby came three weeks early, her husband is in or near Afghanistan, U.S. Army, so her wonderful Dad has been by her side. Her brother in Afghanistan, too, U.S. Army Reserves. Prayers appreciated. Keep the boys, all our military, in your prayers, please. Thankfully all well here. And the doxies very excited, too! 🙂

This weather does me in . . . . will come alive again with first frost :).

Love you all so much!!
Am a bit behind at moment . . . more soon!

And prayers for all walking the rugged path!

And ALWAYS IN LOVING MEMORY OF FOB CHIEF, FOB BUD SOVA, and FOB Master of Ceremonies, MURPH!!

Also, just learned last night that another of my late Dad’s senior buddies “crossed over” this week, another of “The Greatest Generation”, and VERY fond of canine pals :), so you can be sure there was likely quite a “high ol’ time” in the Heavens this week with extra goodies and fave treats for all.

Hugs, love, and peace,
Lou Ann

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Morning, Everyone….

HAPPY *WEEKEND*! 🙂

Lou Ann: Great news re: little Jakob and his mommy and grandpa, too…Hopefully his daddy and uncle will be home safe/sound soon to meet him, as well…These military families really do sacrifice in big ways as their husbands, sons, brothers, uncles and DADDYS are off protecting our freedom here!

Going to be HOT here again today, but by Tuesday, we’re forecast to be in and stay around low to mid 90’s so I can suck it up and get through the next few days, I guess…I don’t have to LOVE it but I can DO IT:)

I hope all of you are enjoying a good Saturday thus far…All horses and riders setting hooves to tracks today….God’s White Light all around you and safe home again, too:)

My little American Toad family is doing well, I’m happy to report:) They are loving their burrow and loving that I be sure to keep them sprinkled along with the birdies and squirrels, too….the feeders are all filled up, the pond is refreshed and the soil has been wet down…I’ll head out again late this afternoon to do it all over again…Gotta keep the critters happy and comfy in this heat!

Yesterday, my neighbor told me a very cute story and I want to share with you….On Thursday while I was out and about for far too many hours in the heat…Mama Doe brought her twin fawns to the ‘pond’ I have out front for a drink…my neighbor said it almost looked as though Mama was teaching them about drinking from it. She said first, Mom took a drink…then stood back so the first little fawn could do the same and then the two of them moved out of the way for the second little fawn to sip, as well. The second little fawn didn’t sip, though, he/she decided to PLAY IN THE WATER!! 🙂 First with it’s feet and then, with it’s face….I’m SO sorry I missed that:( I laughed and told her perhaps I need to buy a wading pool for the fawns….Wheeeeee:) Wouldn’t that be something, Family? A big galvanized water thingy from a feed store…it could be fun for all the critters…Raccoons at night time and deersies during the day time:) LOL!

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Hiya, FsOB! Dusk was very lovely on this Saturday evening. What a busy day it was on the Thames, with numerous sailboats, powerboats, and fishing boats active. The sunlight glinted off of all the wavelets. Nikita and I enjoyed our walk to the battlefield.

Alex, I hope that your book-signing event was a resounding success today! Wishing all here “ACN” and may your Sunday be a great one. Peace, Robyn

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To Lynne: How sweet about the Mummy and her fawns, enjoying a cool sip at Chez Brown!
To Lou Ann: May your Dad’s friend rest in peace and may perpetual light shine upon him. I can’t seem to cool down since the walk at 5 PM.
To Judy: Please let us know more about the Canadian traditions associated with Lord Simcoe’s Day, when you return next week. I called out sick on Thursday and my PCP believes that the pain is truly muscular in nature. I had an ECG and a thorough cardiovascular assessment. Thanks for asking.
To Bobbie: Yes, to quote a CT-based writer, why does the Winter last forever and the Summer seems to fly by as quickly as one’s vacation does? I loved wild lizards and got a kick out of your seeing one.
To Sandra: Hoping that you can rejoin us here soon!
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I just this second saw a hummingbird , my first sighting in this location. We have a feeder hanging in a ‘front and center ‘ kind of tree in the front yard — so naturally this hummer went to the crepe myrtle beside it , lol . But glad to spot it today !

Happy sunny Sunday morning to you all .
I’m thinking of calling this beach house ( if I had the right to name it , which I don’t ) Lizard Lick.

Dear ole Lizard Lick !
Can you tell me where I’ve heard that before ?
Was it in Lil’ Abner , or somewhere along those lines ? Is it a real town ?

Anyway , I’ve seen a couple more lizards now , I know they are different ones because of their sizes — I saw one almost a foot long , counting his tapering tail.
I’m not all that fond of lizards , too reptilian for me ……..
My daughter is putting out pans of water for them , she didn’t get this liking from me , lol.
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I read yesterday that Uncle Mo is making amazing progress , beyond what they expected. I’m so glad for him — I want so much to see this guy have his chance , he has so much talent and speed .
But I’m so afraid his illness will come back , be chronic. That’s what they have to check for , to see if it reoccurs under training exertion .
Please God , it won’t …
They are still thinking the King’s Bishop in late August if he stays healthy.
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and wishing everyone a wonderful Sunday … hug those you love , or if you can’t , give them a good thought … I’ll give you a good thought too. Bye now ,

Morning, Everyone….

Happy ‘Sundae’ Morning to Yole!!

Bobbie: I’m glad your daughter puts water out for the lizards….and lizards are good for the garden, they eat bugs:) PBS – Nova on Wednesday last had a program titled, “Lizard Kings” and I watched it:) I’ve always been fascinated by Lizzies..and I do like them…interesting program I’m glad I got to see it.

We’ve got possible showers in our forecast for later today…the showers would be most welcome, they’d clean the air and give the ground a ‘settling’ but I sure hope NO LIGHTNING will be coming along with them:-O The hills are tinder dry and the grasses are so much higher than normal because of all that late spring/early summer rain we got…scares the bejeebers outta me, just thinking of it!

I have a smallish ‘to-do’ list written for today which mostly includes outdoor ‘stuff’ it’s been HOT here this past week and the plants are in need of a good soaking by now….I planted a Anouk Lavender aka Spanish Lavender…a one-gallon size in a large aggregate pot out front a few weeks ago…and my little squirrels are simply bound and determined to dig it up:/ All that fresh potting soil for them to dig around in, don’t you know:) I’m having a dickens of a time trying to keep the soil packed around the root system of the lavender plant:/ I may have to resort to making a ‘cage’ for that pot before this season is said and done! Deer don’t like lavender so at least they are not nibbling on it…but the squirrel/s have decided for whatever reason to give me a run for my money with the potting soil?! Grrrrr!

I see lots of acorns beginning to set on the White Oaks around my house:) Autumn is coming, eventually!

Everyone have a ‘dine&fandy;’ Sunday:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Hiya, FsOB! It’s a gloriously sunny Sunday here on the banks of the Thames. I need to go out to the Japanese Garden to take more birdseed. All of the winged ones have been eagerly enjoying their breakfast.

Alex, what great photos from Monmouth! Kudos to you.

My thanks to Bobbie B. for the update about Uncle Mo. How are Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta doing as their pregnancies progress? Does anyone know?

Wishing you “ACD” and “ACN”. Peace, Robyn

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To Lynne: Sorry about your lavender plant. We had to put our passion flower up where “Gophie” and the squirrels couldn’t get it.
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My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd. . . for each of you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding hands, paws, and hooves with the entire Barbaro Nation!!

BOBBIE B. – Hi ya Bobbie!!! You know that “Lizard Lick” does very familiar to me, too, but I can’t think at the moment where I may have heard that. Maybe it will ring a bell for another of our FOB famblee!
What color is the crepe myrtle, Bobbie ?? 🙂

LYNNE B. – Bless your soul!!!! Acorns are setting on your white oaks, yippee!!!! The mere thought refreshes my soul!!! 🙂

And about your lavender plant – must tell you my fun little experience with lavender!! Many years back when the local bunnies were a bit more plentiful than they are now I was having a ‘dickens’ of a time keeping them from scissoring everything in sight!! I had read that bunnies do not care for lavender so I bought three lovely plants (I believe it was the “Hidcote” variety) and added them to a nice little spot in one of my lilac islands, looked perfect!!
Well, would you believe . . yes, the bunnies let the lavender plants grow into lovely little bushes, never even so much as a nip.
My garden partner, Dad, was still with us and he began telling me that he saw from his workshop window that the bunnies were very busy each day going in and out of this particular island and he was fascinated that they were not bothering the lavender plants.
Well it was several weeks later we discovered that the reason they were so busy enjoying that little nook was because they had made a nest and had a litter of baby bunnies smack in the middle of the lavender plants – a little “nook” just underneath the lowest little branches!! 🙂

The lavender plants lasted a few years until a particularly hard PA winter, and that lilac island has grown a bit too shady now for lavender.
But had to tell you our experience!! 🙂

And oh yes, I well know how the squirrels “pawsitively luv” fresh potting soil!!

Anyone heard from MARGIE/NM?? I am hoping all is well!

And always in loving memory of FOB CHIEF, FOB BUD SOVA, AND FOB Master of Ceremonies, MURPH!!

Love you all!
Here’s to a brand new week!

Hugs, Lou Ann

Hiya, FsOB! A balmy Midsummer Monday has dawned here on the banks of the Thames. The sunrise was casting fire-like glints off of the river’s surface. Today was celebrated in our ancient past as Lughnasadh. I plan a little celebration for Brent & I tonight with some locally-grown strawberries and blueberries topped with boysenberry wine from Long Island, to enjoy the fruits of Summer. Ms Nikita doesn’t love blueberries in the manner that her Husky predecessors did.

Alex, thanks for the great pics of Shackleford and Coil. May your rides this morning be uneventful ones. Hoping that the temps at Fair Hill Farm aren’t too wretchedly hot.

Wishing everyone a bright new week! Peace, Robyn

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Morning, Everyone….

Lou Ann: Me too! Love the fact that the bunnies gave their newbie babes such a lovely birth center:) My lavender plant is fine..it’s the soil which is slowly being removed from the big aggregate pot:/ I keep re-positioning it, but the level is a bit lower, for sure:) The only bunnies we have here, are Jack Rabbits and thankfully, they all seem to be happy, staying away from our hood…they are all over the cattle pastures, though!

Hot yesterday here:/ And a bit ‘hoomid’ too! This morning the temp on back porch before sunrise was already 74..those dratted partly cloudy skies kept the heat in overnight! The thunder-bumpers are supposed to go away though, beginning today and thankfully, we got no action here y’day or overnight..I’m glad too, because of the tinder dry grasses.

Here’s Joe for Monday:

Monday, August 1st… I kept waiting for a third phone call, because stuff like this usually happens in 3’s. Thankfully that third call never came.

Pragmatico made the long walk up our driveway in early 2008. He won 19 times as a race horse. We called him Matt. A smaller gelding who at first was cranky. But after a week or so he became Mr. Personality. It did not take long for two teen sisters from Vacaville to fall in love with Matt. The girls came to see him almost every Saturday. Matt sure loved those two girls. He would start yelling when their car turned into our driveway.

Soon Matt went to live with the sisters. A beautiful home in the hills above Vacaville. But their dad said Matt could not stay during the winter. Dad did not want his small pasture torn up, so Matt came back to us.

The oldest sister got a job at a deli. Little sister found babysitting work. When winter was over Matt returned to the girls. The following winter the two sisters had saved enough money for board. A nice barn just down the road. Matt would summer at home with the sisters, and board during rainy season. The sisters rode him all the time. They even went to several small schooling shows.

Yesterday morning Matt was playing in the small pasture with his best friend, a younger thoroughbred gelding. 20 minutes later a sister found Matt dead. The vet said it was probably a heart attack. Matt was 13.

Justinplace (pronounced Just In Place) came to us in January, 2010. Better known as Justin, he too was cranky. Mean. Justin liked to kick and bite. He would pin his ears and wheel to fire. More than once I had to dive out of the way.

A teen girl came us in the summer of 2010. The girl was searching for her first horse. Her two years of riding lessons in the town of Davis was always on a thoroughbred. It was during those riding lessons she fell in love with the breed.

I showed the girl several horses, and she really liked a tall mare we called Buttons. The girl kept glancing at Justin, who lived in a pen next to our mare motel. The girl asked if she could ride him? I said okay, but he can be mean.

Justin practically saddled himself. The girl climbed aboard and it was like watching a pony ride at the county fair. The girl and Justin connected.

The next day Justin was moved to a boarding stable. We would often hear from the girl. Trail rides at Folsom Lake. Marching in a parade. This past spring Justin was started in dressage.

Yesterday morning, after a romp in the arena and a bath, Justin was found dead in his stall. The vet said it was probably a heart attack. Justin was 7.

Pictures below show both geldings. Top Left is Pragmatico. Top Right is Justinplace.

Our very best to all 3 teen girls. You provided Matt and Justin with loving homes, and for this we will always be grateful.

Enjoy your first day of a new month Monday, and be sure to hug your horses.

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Justin and Matt….and three girls with broken hearts this day.

On a lighter “Joe” note, you out there who frequent Facebook…Joe changed his profile pic last week and I asked who the ‘hansum’ horse is…*WOODY*:) Go see his face…made me want to kiss his pink nose and feed him carrots SO BAD, Family…he’s just so sweet looking!! Turns out Woody came to Joe and Cathy with a broken leg he suffered on a race track somewhere…but now:) he’s doing ‘dine&fandy;’!!

I hope everyone has a good Monday and a good week, too…August 1 already, for Heaven’s Sakes! Kids will begin returning to school here by mid to middle of the month and before we know it, we’ll be purchasing Halloween candy and thinking about Turkey dinners and Christmas trees….Wheeeeeee:)

The link to our White House:

EMAIL THE WHITE HOUSE

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Shackleford lost yesterday in the Haskell … too bad really …… he is a horse that leaves it all on the track , a really hard tryer who gives his all everytime …… I luv ya Shackleford , I do …
I love your heart and spirit …

RACHEL ALEXANDRA –
I don’t know a lot new , but there was a visiting day a couple weeks ago … 100 people are chosen to visit her in groups of 25 , each group getting 45 minutes with her …

So many want to see her that they must organize it to avoid chaos and keep it so Rachel won’t be too tired …
She stands and gets loved on and hugged and admired for 45 minutes – for 4 groups , so that’s really a long time to ask a horse for …. but they all say she is on her best behavior …

She was very sweet and accommodating they say … one girl said she was sleepy , but no one else saw evidence of that , besides , …she is pregnant so sleepy is ok !
She had a baby bump too ! !
All the stable people love her to pieces and say she is very happy …
I’m so glad to know this , so glad …

ZENYATTA ,
Sorry , I don’t know much about her , but I have read a few things , how her stable folks love her and say she is fine and very happy . Someone said earlier that her pregnancy is going fine …
I hope so , and wish her the best , the very best.
I can’t wait for the foals to arrive ! !
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Lynne , my daughter saw a lizard with a bright blue tail ! It was about 6 inches long …

Lou Ann , the crepe myrtle is a fuschia pink , a very normal color seen a lot in the south , but pretty nevertheless .

I wish a good day for all of you on this first day of August , may it be a nice one , bye now ,

Morning all…

Reading about Justin and Matt passing away at such young ages..heart attacks no less..Yesterday, another rescue near and dear to me…Beauty’s Haven in Florida lost a 43 year old gelding named Casper to a heart attack…so sad!

Only two weeks before my daughter moves to Isla Vista(Santa Barbara) our house looks like a warehouse full of boxes and dis-array!!

Of course I will miss her and Michael (her boyfriend)…time for them to leave the nest and start new lives. I wish them both love and luck.

We will only have three cats then…Miss Tibby the “hunter” will be leaving with Erin and Michael. We will have Miss Boo, Skit and Skat.

I know many of you have lost dear ones lately and are going through rough times…We all need to stay strong and come out up on top…Sounds good
does it not….? Any way please all, take care and
have a good week…

Miss Lynne is talking of fun times comes…pumpkins, turkeys and trees…I love having things to look forward to…

(((((HUGS AND LOVE TO ALL BARBARO’S GRAND FAMILY)))

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today is Monday…and as you all know..Capitol Hill was a buzzing this weekend and still going…

but horse slaughter is still going more than ever…can we make calls, faxes, emails…please.

and read the db..and help…YOU are needed and greatly appreciated.

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please light up candles for Barbaro and all of his heavenly frens…

thank you Alex.

pray for our country, each other and Barbaro’s loving family…the FOBs.

Bobbie:) I Googled ‘lizards w/bright blue tails’ and found the following:

Yole got ‘skinks’ there at the beach, Bobbie:)

Holy Crap, Marie!!! I have NO idea what happened with my ‘blue-ink-link turned into almost a whole post of blue???’ LOL…Bobbie, I’ll just send you the link via email, I think it best all the way around that way:) I just thought others of the family might enjoy reading about those Skinks, too:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Hiya, FsOB! Alex, what wonderful reviews and press you are getting and most deservedly so.

My thanks to Bobbie B. for the news re. Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta. I love both those girls, they are both beauties!

Time for sleep now. Peace, Robyn

#### To Carleen: I hope that Ms. Tibby has a great life in Isla Vista.
To Debbie LA: Thinking of you and your family.
To Lynne: How sad about Matt & Justin on Joe Shelton’s blog. At least they both died surrounded by love, enjoying great new lives with their adopted families.
To Dee: I was on a rainbow watch, driving home this evening.
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Good Evening all,a sad evening. I found out that Beauty Equine Haven and Theresa lost their beloved Casper. He was an inspiration to all and such a good boy. God bless him and God keep him,. Bobbie B and all go to Zenyattta.Com and enjoy her website. It’s an amazing site and is a wonderful site to visit.

Robyn, Dog Watch Cafe is coming soon I think!!Tell Brent nothing like having an inept government to figure all this out. He must be beside himself like I am. Why not dismantle the useless BLM, there’s a nice savings cut!

Hi Everyone,
I’m just stopping by to say hello, I hope you are all doing well. As long as we keep fighting against all the bad that is done to our horses we are still good. Just remembering the house that Barbaro built and the great famblee he brought together here.

Loving you all so much!

Renee

Hiya, FsOB! It’s a balmy Tuesday which has dawned on the banks of the Thames. I have put out the birdseed and started the fountain in the Japanese Garden. I am pleased to report that “Gophie” is munching away, quite contentedly!

Alex, please stay cool this morning. If it is humid up here, then it must be quite so at Fair Hill Farm. Is your speech finished for the talk at Saratoga this Friday? I wish that Brent & I could be there….

Wishing everyone “ACD”. Peace, Robyn

#### To St: Do please let us know when you return to CT. We’d really enjoy meeting you at “The Dog Watch” once more. Great Summer sangria and caipirinhas! I do need to take a look at Queen Zenyatta’s site. I’ve never done so.
To Renee: You have been missed here. I hope that you are still getting to engage with the horses up in Mass. ####

Good morning all. A warm sunny morning here with a cool breeze hearalding a very humid day. The birds and squirrels were happily going to and fro along the fence lines taking turns at the bath and the neighbors feeders. The cats sitting in the yard looked like they were watching a tennis match.
##Robyn, I made a mistake in the name of the civic holiday here. It is not Lord Simcoe day but just Simcoe Day. John Graves Simcoe was the first Lieutenant Govenor of Ontario and founded the City of Toronto (previously York). He also is known for abolishing slavery and was instrumental in the underground railway from the US to Canada. There are the usual parades and some re-enactments but most of all it is a summer holiday.
I hope your tests and subsequent treatments I presume will alleviate the shoulder discomfort you have been dealing with.
#Lynne,enjoyed your story re the fawns frolicking at the watering hole and can just picture them having a great time.
#Bobbie, thank you for the Uncle Mo update. I was thinking of him on the weekend; and Rachel of course. It sounds like they are all doing well. I will have to check out their websites.

Saturday’s morning Toronto Star had a first page feature “Canada’s Dirty Little Secret”. A pretty good expose of horse slaughter here in Canada and made prominent by front page placement. The usual rhetoric from the agriculture industry that horse slaughter is necessary but good rebuttals were written as well. The safety of the meat was strongly presented and that the controls here are not enforced. Hopefully the public will become more informed and will get more involved in stopping this atrocity.

Have a safe day everyone and stay cool.

Judy

Morning, Everyone….

Happy ‘Toosdae’:)

On the fly early this a.m., so here’s Joe for today:

Tuesday, August 2nd… The number of race horses needing new homes is crazy. Right now we are trying to help more than 20. If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses are free, but there is a transportation charge.

Drew is 11, and in our yard we had a long conversation. Here is the hearty part:

Drew: You should have a website.

Um, I do have a website. tbfriends.com

Drew: You should advertise on TV and in newspapers. Look at all these race horses that need homes.

Are you willing to pay for the ads Drew?

Drew: I can be your agent. I’ll take ten percent.

Ten percent of what?

Drew: We need to dress you better too.

Drew and her mom were visiting because Drew’s new mare originally came from our ranch. Lola is a Showgirl, and we called her Lola. Drew changed her name to Fame, because she discovered her sire is Western Fame.

Before saying goodbye, Drew had more advice: You should spread your wings. My barn manager said Fame is the first new horse to come there in almost a year. My barn manager says California is dried up. If you really do have a website you should try for new homes in other states. Please let me be your agent.

(little kid is a go getter)

We have sent lots of horses to Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Two horses to Jill in Texas. Kelli in Nebraska. Brian and Lisa in Utah. Cyrenna in Colorado. Morgan and her family in Arizona.

Spreading our wings. Drew is pretty sharp. She is turning 12 on August 5th. A big party at her barn. Chocolate cake for people, carrot cake for Fame. Sure wish I could attend, but I just don’t have the clothes…

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LOL…gotta love Joe, huh?! Maybe we can rent him a tux:)

Here’s the link to our White House for today, too:

EMAIL THE WHITE HOUSE

Everyone have a good day…so sorry about the ‘hoomidity’ and heat hanging on and on and on some more for so many of yole…Think Thanksgiving…how good the oven being on in the house will feel by then…me, I don’t turn the oven in this house on from May thru end of October! Well, except I will be baking some p/b cookies on Thursday for my neighbors to bring along on their annual trek to the ocean…I want to do that for them:) And speaking of neighbors, I’ve talked to mine who has parked their RV closer to the radation treatment center she’ll be using until 9/14…She is doing well thus far, has had three treatments already and the 2.5 mile trek there and home again is far better than the 70 mile round trip if they’d stayed here at home. It’s always nice if people have RVs to go traveling with and in some instances, like this one, it’s truly a blessing!

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I do not know what kind of mess we are in or if we are going to get better for our country…but I do KNOW our horses and furbabies need us family…

please call, fax, email…please

so many…many are pushed into a barbaric death…so many needs homes…our rescues need help…and we Americans need jobs…

please read the db…and help if you can.

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Hiya, FsOB! A bright new day has dawned on the banks of the Thames and it seems much cooler than yesterday. The surface of the river is as reflective as a mirror and the gleaming ferries are in their berths, awaiting the first runs of the day.

Alex, kudos again for the latest in a series of stellar reviews! I hope that your address at Saratoga is filmed and can be posted on YouTube.

Wishing all here “ACD”. Peace, Robyn

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To Dee: Rainbows to you, our Resident Angel!
To Joan: I agree ever so much with what you said yesterday.
To Lynne: I used to do the same thing when I lived in Louisville years ago: rare cooking in the oven between May and September. That meant a lot of chicken cooked on the hibachi. My first Husky Natasha loved barbecued chicken! Glad that your neighbour’s arrangents for her radiation have worked out well. Isn’t Joe Shelton a hoot?
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Good morning all. A grey muggy morning here in the North. We had rain overnight and the clouds are still hanging low. You can almost see the moisture in the air as it is cooler but very humid.
##Wow, I didn’t know Lentenor was racing and that he had won. Way to go big boy.
##Miss seeing some faces here, Jane, Margie NM, Linda NWFLA, Debbie LA. Thinking of you all. Sandra, hope you will be able to back here soon, too.
##Renee, what a treat to see you here.

##Alex, kudos for the excellent reviews you are receiving.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

Morning, Everyone…

Happy Wednesday!! 🙂 It’s already ‘hump day’…

Judy: I also had been missing Margie, NM here and on Facebook, too…so unlike her not to be posting! I emailed a couple of people, they had not seen/heard from her either…so, I sleuthed on her Facebook Wall and sent a message to one of her friends there. I ‘introduced’ myself as best I could explaining she/I are FOBs…wondering if the woman would simply delete my message, thinking I might be some hacker or something….Well:) she didn’t delete my message, she answered me back telling me Margieeeeee:) is just fine, so are the googies but Margie’s computer died:/ She’s got a new one and is waiting for new internet service so she’ll be back as soon as all is in place:) The woman told Margie I was worried for her and got permission to send me Margie’s phone number! I got to talk to our Margieeeee last night, Family!! She is every bit as delightful in ‘person’ as she is here on this Front Porch!

All because of Barbaro! He just keeps giving and giving and giving:) We’ve all got one another because of our BBH…Thanks, Most Handsome Sweetheart in the Whole Universe and Beyond:)

Not hoomid here, thank goodness..but I will say, I’m weary from the mid-to-upper 90’s which seem to have become the ‘norm’ every single day for so many days now, I’ve long ago lost track:/ I am truly looking forward to mid-October now and it’s just the 3rd of August…oh, Nooooooo! LOL

Just 6:27 in the morning here in the westwing, I’ll be back in awhile with our Joe and that link to the White House…Hope your morning is going well, everyone.

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I just lost a long post , but basically it said my computer has died and I might be out of touch for a week or so ,
and a hurricane
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and we might be evacuating soon , in a day or so
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so the great summer is ending soon !
I can’t complain , I’ve enjoyed the work and the beach …
I’ll be in touch when I can and hope everyone has
a good rest of this week. Bye now ,
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Here’s Joe for Wednesday:

Wednesday, August 3rd… An event barn near Pleasanton said sure, send us two race horses. Yesterday from Hollywood Park the event barn greeted a filly and gelding. Both will be given a long rest. Room service and naps. The barn even chops their carrots.

A college student in Palo Alto said sure, send me a race horse. Yesterday the student met her 4 year old gelding. His new name Globe. He too will be given a long vacation.

If you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses are free, but you must pay for transportation.

Pictures on the top row below show our gelding Jack. The first photo was taken at the end of April, on the day Jack came to us. The next picture is from yesterday.

Jack suffered from constant diarrhea. Parasites. Fungus. Ulcers. Foot abscesses. Three months later Jack is doing much better. His best buddy is Affair’s Over. When I brought Jack to the yard for a few pictures, Affair’s Over stood at the fence and screamed. And screamed. And screamed. Neighbors quickly put out their For Sale signs.

It is Wednesday, and chores are forever. Delicious hot coffee from Starbucks. Microwave waffles made by Eggo. Cold orange juice from Simply Orange. Later we could be 90 degrees. Enjoy your one week until school begins in Woodland Wednesday, and be sure to hug your horses. The Doobie Brothers on the oldies station…

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When you’re able, DO go see the pics of *JACK* posted…It will do your heart and soul GOOD:)

Bobbie: So sorry about your computer and even sorrier about the possible hurricane visit to your beach house! Be safe and sound, Bobbie and do check in asap! I hope those ‘skinks’ will be alright, too:)

Yole know how much in ‘googie love’ I am with little Lucy:) She is so much fun and such a sweet little girl…I’m pleased as can be to be her Mama:) Except I’ve got a ‘prollem’ with Lucy…it’s not her fault, it’s mine! LOL…Several times during this summer since the back porch has been googie-proofed for her safety and well-being…she LOVES to go outside with me and she does, several/many times a day. Sometimes though, I get busy in my brain about what’s doing indoors next and I come inside to get with the program again and FORGET Lucy outside on the porch!!! She’s quite happy out there and the only time Miss Lucy barka-barkas is if she feels the need to kick herself into ‘Chieftress of Homeland Security’ and then I HEAR her and realize I’ve forgotten my googie outside on the porch, for Heaven’s Sakes!!

She has a throw rug out there and a bowl of water and it’s covered so she’s not in direct sunlight and has creature comforts at her disposal…but STILL….I always feel so GUILTY and like a terrible dog-mom:(

Lucy hangs under the table mostly or lays on her rug and if I’m in a ‘on a mission’ mind-set she doesn’t jump up to beat me to the door..she’s perfectly content to just stay outside:) Murphy would NEVER have put up with that! And Murphy would stand at the back door and give a ‘woof’ to signal it’s time I want to come indoors, My Mama…Not Lucy though…well, I imagine she might do it if she decided it’s time..but thus far, it’s been always that someone walks by and she barks which alerts me that I’ve forgotten about her being out there!

Yesterday afternoon, I let her out w/me and a baby squirrel was at the other end of the porch enjoying a dish of sunflower seeds I have on the floor…I’ve got a ‘crop’ of little babies right now…all about the size of a two-week old kitten and Family, they are SO ADOREABLE:) The little boy squirrel stayed at the dish, he wasn’t so afraid of the googie and Lucy’s tail was wagging and wagging….she wants so badly to be friends with the squirrels, to play with them…but the older ones ‘fly’ from the porch and she gets so disappointed:( I actually believe the little fella yesterday and Miss Lucy could be friends if given the opportunity…he did slip through the wire which covers the outside of the rails but he stayed on the top step, on the outside of the gate and decided to come back inside:) I had called Lucy away and she’s so GOOD, she stayed on my end and allowed the little guy his own space…Jonna told me once, squirrels can be tamed very easily when they are so young…and I did have one I’d named “Petey” who would take peanuts from my fingers…though in the big picture, I won’t encourage the friendship because of all the other squirrels who might not be so eager to establish a friendship with her….I’m sorry I didn’t have my camera yesterday, though.

Here’s the link to our White House for today:

EMAIL THE WHITE HOUSE

I’ve got a sizeable ‘to-do’ list written and need to get with it…it’s heating up outdoors and the plants all need a good drink…the ‘ponds’ need re-filling and the indoors is in need of help, too:/ Everyone have a good day today!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Robyn, thanks for asking – nothing new, though, for Johnny and Cash. I’m so afraid we’ll lose them. A few of us are sending out their info to everyone we can think of with the additional info that their bail is covered. We are being dogged (yes, pun intended!) in our efforts to save them. Their faces have really gotten to me – of course, all the faces I see in these high kill shelters get to me. I know there is someone OUT THERE somewhere who would love these two boys, if only we could find them. We won’t give up, it’s just a race against time.

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but TIME IS AN ESSENCE…for our horses too…being sent …more and more to slaughter, barbaric, brutal slaughter…

please call, fax, email..please

and read the db…and help…you will see pictures of Johnny and Cash and many others…that need us…

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and thank you Alex.

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##Forgot to add earlier, I’ve seen on TV and read in a magazine two glowing reviews for the Thunder Shirt for dogs. A vet here locally recommends them to patients. Saw a border collie and his owner and the guy said the dog is a totally changed googie when there are storms/fireworks/ whatever. Principle is engulfing the animal in a firm but gentle “hug”. Saw a piece about a horse whisperer using the same idea to calm horses – only he used a large boxcar type enclosure filled with, for lack of a better description, dried corn kernels. Sounds bizarre but it sure worked on the film. From a wild eyed horse to one with gentle, calm eyes in a short amount of time.

Just returned from Montreal, Canada it was good to get away. Lots of homeless people, sad to say! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers, life go’s on.
Love my FOB,s family.

Hiya, FsOB! What a delightful day it was here, not too hot, wonderfully sunny, and with a nice breeze. But tonight the humidity is returning. Argh!

Alex, how exciting that you authored the forward to “Saratoga Race Course”. You must be thrilled to see copies of your book on the shelves there, too. Thanks for news about the wins of Lentenor & Goldikova!

Wishing all here “ACN” and may we all rise to seize the new day. Peace, Robyn

#### To Linda in NWFLA: How could I forget the names of “Johnny” & “Cash”? I hope that a home is identified soon for them.
To Debbie LA: Welcome back here, our stalwart Friend of Barbaro.
To Dee: May tomorrow bring rainbows your way.
To Bobbie: Please be safe and may your trip home be uneventful. I am worried about that storm, too.
To Lynne: Thanks for letting us know that Margie is OK, even if her computer is not. How sweet of Ms. Lucy to let the baby squirrels get their water! ####

Hiya, FsOB! A bright new “Friday Eve” (AKA Thursday) has dawned here on the banks of the Thames. The river’s surface is basically dead calm so far.

Alex, may your trek to Saratoga be a safe & pleasant one. Wishing you an auspicious time on Friday PM.

Everyone please enjoy “ACD”. May that storm in the Atlantic head east instead of west. Peace, Robyn

##Good morning all. A beautiful sunny morning here. Cool and fresh after yesterdays rain. The temps are to rise again and bring the humidiy, ick.
##Lynne, Lucy sounds like a very patient little one, waiting for her Mormor to remember her outside. We have done the same a couple of times with our senior cat who comes out to the yard. She just waits close to the door until we remember.
##Debbie LA, I was so happy to see you here last night upon your return from Montreal. I hope your trip was a good one. I haven’t been to Quebec as yet but I hear Montreal is great for shopping and Quebec City is beautiful with old world charm.
##Margie NM, I’m relieved that it’s only the dang ole computer keeping you from here. I hope Lynne passes along all our good thoughts for you.
##BobbieB., please be safe and hopefully the storm will veer another direction away from you.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

Morning,Everyone…

Happy *FRIDAY EVE*:)

Judy: I did tell Miss Margieeeee that people were wondering about her…she thought it so very nice that she was being missed:) I hope soon, she’ll be in place again with internet access, too!

Judy&Robyn;: Yes…Lucy is very sweet, indeed…she so wants to play with the squirrels, but I’m pretty sure if she got hold of a baby, she’d play too hard…she shakes the ‘bejeebers’ out of her doggy toys…and of course, the mature squirrels are too big/strong for her to attempt play time with…they’d hurt her, for sure!

I am hoping the hurricane won’t go west, too, Robyn! Haven’t had news on this morning, hoping all in Haiti are alright today…those people have had a very bad time in this life and certainly don’t need a big hurricane adding to their ‘trying to get along in one piece’ day to day living.

It feels a bit cooler outdoors this early morning. I got up at 5:30 and went out on the porch with my coffee…the gauge registers just 66 this a.m., so maybe today, we’ll just be in those LOW nineties and not the upper ones??? I’d be happy with lower, for sure!

Debbie: I am SO glad to see you back here, Hunny! Am glad you could get away for a little bit and hope you enjoyed yourself, too:)

Here’s Joe for today….sort of:)

UPDATE… Wednesday afternoon… I will not be able to write a new website Thursday morning. Sorry. I am suppose to be two places at the same time. Which is better than three places at the same time. I did that once before. Scheduled myself for three places at the same time. A person schedules three places at the same time, he gets to be known as unreliable. And senile.

On Monday I wrote about the deaths of Justinplace and Pragmatico. I am way behind in answering your e-mails and phone messages. Many of you want to send gifts and gift cards to the families of those two geldings. Readers of this website are so thoughtful. I promise to catch up on all messages by the end of this week.

Have a happy Thursday. It is suppose to be cooler.

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People are so thoughtful! In/among all the sadness Joe reports so often re: horses and some families, too, there are his readers who truly step up to the plate and do really amazing things for those he writes about…hoomans and those amazing horses, too:)

And….lest I forget, the link to our White House for today….*HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. PRESIDENT*:) I can ‘almost’ remember when I turned *FIFTY*!! LOL!

EMAIL THE WHITE HOUSE

Everyone, have a good day today…

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

I just received an email re: two Threads going on the Discussion Board I thought I’d share w/yole:

IN MEMORY OF AN FOB

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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glad you are back safe…DebbieL.A….and yes it is so so sad…to see so many homeless….

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please famblee…we have horses that are homeless or sent to barbaric slaughter because no one wants them…please call, fax, email.

please…read the db and help…Johnny and Cash…furbabies…urgent…and others too.

our rescues need us…

please pray for our country…and each other.

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thank you Alex..

##Lynne, thank you for the link. I went briefly and it’s almost too much to think how she left this place with her faithful dog. Oh so sad.

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##Good morning all. Where is everyone? It’s another beautiful morning here in the North.
##Always so nice to see the rainbows from our Dee.
##Alex, you are surely getting to meet lotsa neet people. I liked that Kent had your book.

Happy TGIF for Robyn wherever she may be. Hopefully a much needed lie in.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

Good morning, everyone. It is hard to try to give my usual “hiya” and “TGIF” salutations, having read the story last night in the Hartford Courant about the death of Debra Jerasus-Shriner and her Siberian Husky in Hartford, Connecticut. My thanks to Nancy G. for her e-mail to those of us in the Nutmeg State and to Lynne B. for blue-linking Linda and Greg’s notes from the Discussion Board. Helen Ubinas wrote a touching and thoughtful story about Debra in the 08/04/0211 edition of The Hartford Courant, titled “A Woman’s Unnoted Life and Death”. How do such things happen in our country?

Alex, thank you for the Twitpics from Saratoga. Please share your feedback from tonight’s event. I am certain that your address will be a superb one.

Peace to you all, Robyn

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Morning, Everyone…

Happy Friday…I hope everyone has a restful and pleasant weekend.

The story of the FOB in CT is awfully sad! I cannot imagine neighbors barely able to eat inside their homes because of a terrible smell, and no one goes to investigate? :/ I’m truly blessed to have such good neighbors around me, I’ve known that for the past nine years, but this story really brings that home!

Weather here y’day was LOVELY! That Delta Breeze which brought fog to Joe in Woodland y’day, brought these foothills a high of just 86 degrees! I even baked some p/b cookies in the afternoon:) the oven was turned on and though the swamp cooler was running, the indoors still felt quite comfortable:)

Here’s Joe for Friday:

Friday, August 5th… Yesterday I went to look at a skinny thoroughbred gelding. The caller said the poor horse has been eating dirt and old weeds. No one had yet to respond to the caller’s plea for help. The caller is a young boy, just 13. He googled rescued thoroughbreds, and Tb Friends came up. The boy said this is so weird. The skinny gelding is only 6 miles from your house. He looked at a satellite site. From high in the sky there was a picture of our ranch. The boy certainly knows his way around the internet.

The very last thing we need is another starving horse. I am trying to help horses currently at race tracks, with only a tiny bit of success. So this might be a good time to insert my usual… if you have room for one more horse, give me a call at 530-383-2120. These horses come from race tracks. Some injured, some sound. The horses are free, but there is a transportation charge.

Strange for August. Yesterday morning it was cold and foggy. Which means our dog Maxi could travel with me. Maxi pouts when it is too warm for truck rides.

Maxi and I could easily see the skinny gelding from the street. I went right to the front door and a lady appeared. I said we are practically neighbors. I notice your horse is hungry. Since we live so close, I will be happy to feed him.

The lady had 8 or 9 kids. Not sure if she is a babysitter, or if they were her kids. The kids went crazy for Maxi. The lady speaks only a little english. She said the horse was dropped off at her house by a friend who was moving back to Mexico. The horse had been used for roping and rodeos. The lady did not want the horse. She has no idea how to take care of him.

I went to the gelding and saw a racing tattoo. He is very sweet. I told the lady, I can bring him to my house. The lady said yes please.

In the afternoon the gelding was moved to our ranch. I am showing you a picture below, top left.

I phoned the young boy and asked if he wanted to name him? I told the boy how sweet and cuddly the gelding is. The boy said lets name him Teddy, as in Teddy Bear.

That neighborhood 6 miles from my house. It is actually 9 miles, but who wants to argue with a satellite site? Tons of animals in that neighborhood. Horses, cows, goats, sheep, and pigs. It is like driving around a large ranch.

Probably I have talked enough for one morning. But before leaving, I would like to express my love for Maxi. She is such a wonderful dog. And how do you explain inner confidence which comes from a dog in your truck? Life is less complicated when Maxi is along for the ride. Dogs are a miracle. Many times I have heard there are no miracles in this world. Yes there is. Dogs prove it daily.

Have a happy weekend. It is suppose to be beautiful.

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*TEDDY* is skinny…but he’s shiney and in no time at all, he’ll be sporting those needed pounds with Joe and Cathy helping him along:) What a good kid to notice Teddy and search/find our Joe:) And didn’t Joe hit that nail on the head re: ‘googies’, too? 🙂

Here’s the link to our White House for Friday:

EMAIL THE WHITE HOUSE

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Morining all….

It’s been a while since I stopped in.. craziness here. I guess we all have some craziness in our lives though. I have watched the movie Secretariat 7 or 8 times…it lifts me up!!!

I do look forward to the day when we can have another dog in our family though. I do love my kittens, but I sure do miss my Bud.

Please take care all!

((((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S GRAND FAMILY)))

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For Debra Jerasus-Shriner, you might have been
“forgotten” in your town but not here. Your presence made a difference to all on this board. You now join others of us who started but were not able to continue the journey. Another victim of a society in complete collapse. Join your beloved Barbaro and know he has never been forgotten, nor you.

From Debbie Jurasus at August 3, 2006 02:48 PM (below)

The Mighty Barbaro

Sired by a strapping spit fire
and a Dam who is as elegant and dainty in opposition,
Your entrance in this world was one of sheer determination and will-
You made your presence be known early on that you are no ordinary colt-
For you are the mighty Barbaro- who is to be cherished, loved and adored!
With Speeds of lighting, others are in awe, to witness such grace and beauty, and to see you be adored.
People flock to be in your presence and feel your aura fill their hearts with joy and excitement.
You have given so much and ask for so little return- for we who love you yearn for more…
So we come to you to give back a little of what you have given- your determination and will to strive and win.
For you are our CHAMPION- no one can contend.
The battle may be long, but we are in it together for the win-
A finish line of green pastures and fields to roam, for all to see your
beauty shining from within…
You are the mighty Barbaro- who is cherished and adored- a true miracle in every sense of the word!

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##Joan, your sentiments echo mine but you expressed them so beautifully than I could.
RIP Debbie and your faithful friend.

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It’s shortly after 2:00pm here in San Jose…

The sadness I feel from reading about a dear soul and her companion who slipped away into death un-noticed is to say the least, over whelming.

Debra and sweet pup who stayed with you…please Rest In Peace…

We should all check in on each other…Otherlyn, Sandra, Debbie where are you dear ladies? I hope all is ok…

Take care all…

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In memory of Ms. Debra Jurasus-Shriner and her beloved Siberian Husky companion, God Bless them both, may they rest in eternal peace, and know every joy of Heaven; and it is my eternal hope that Barbaro was there by the Heavenly Gates to escort them both.

I just read the 08/04/2011 Hartford Courant piece, “A Woman’s Unnoted Life and Death”, special thanks to those of you who alerted me, and I have already taken care of remembering Debra and her beloved companion to the cloistered Sisters at the monastery so that they both will be remembered in prayer.

Joining in what has already been said – how your earthly world forgot you two special souls my heart cannot begin to fathom, but this most beautiful FOB Famblee will never forget you or your beloved companion, Debra.
Of this you can be sure.

In peace and love,
always, Lou Ann

(Since our beloved FOB fren, Sandra, is without Internet access and can’t be with us here until she can see about getting a new computer, I have printed out the article, famblee, and also your recent posted sentiments, and am mailing them to Sandra so she can see, also.)
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Afternoon all…
Everyone seems to be busy…or has the death of Friend of Barabro and her companion left us knumb.

I think about losing C.J. and Sherry which was hard enough…but to go over the bridge alone with a furbaby….to many tears….

I hope each and every one us will never endure something so sad….

Bless you all dear family….

((((HUGS AND HEALING WISHES TO ALL BARBARO’S GRAND FAMILY))))

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Hi CARLEEN!! I’m here and happy to see you posting, too!!
The board is strangely quiet and it’s the strangest feeling kind of day here, too, like a cloak of mourning or something and almost a bit unsettling to me. Hugs right back to you, dear fren!! XXXX Would be a good day to watch one of those movies with you to make us feel better!
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It feels like one of those days where feel should have maybe pulled the covers up and slept straight through to the next . . . and sure hoping tomorrow dawns brighter.

I know there’s been a very tragic loss of life among both U.S. and Afghan Forces overnight, and we’re all thinking of FOB Debra in CT and her Husky by her side, and certainly a strained week for the economy . . .

ANGEL DEE – we could sure use some of your special rainbows, honey!

I know our Sandra would love to be checking in with us but she is most unfortunately without Internet :(. Maybe you can send her a quick e-mail if you get a moment.

Hugs (XXX) L

My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd . . . for each of you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding hands, hooves, and paws with the entire Barbaro Nation!

Hugs and prayers for all and especially for those walking the rugged path just now . . .

And always IN LOVING MEMORY of FOB CHIEF, FOB BUD SOVA, and FOB Master of Ceremonies, MURPHY!

Hugs and Peace to all,
always, Lou Ann

Oh my goodness, it IS so very quiet here today!

ALEX – God Bless you always!!! Love the TwitPics you are sending our way, excellent publicity, and wonderful for you!!!
Love the little girl petting the horse; and seeing the support for the greyhounds, too!!
You ARE the man, ALEX!!!
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Does anyone remember the Danielle Steel book and then the TV movie that starred Lee Horsley . . . . sigh . . . one that always takes my heart.
I actually had the time to look it up and found it on YouTube . . . . just had to watch that again today.

And, Barbaro, oh honey, I sense you so very close today . . . so very close. I look at the many photos of you and see that “old soul” look in your face, and the magnificence, too, of course.

Raining here tonight and we especially need it but I keep praying so for the skies to open up down there in Texas, too. Too much heartbreak and things I don’t understand. . . . .

Wishing everyone peace, sending hugs,
Thank you, Alex!
always, Lou Ann

Hey Lou Ann , I loved reading your post above … and sometimes I feel Barbaro very close too …
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I’m home now , we left the beach yesterday . It was a little fun and a lot of hard work . Came in here with the air conditioning set on 85 where we had left it in this empty house all summer — and almost died of the heat — it took it hours and overnight really to catch up and really cool off …
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It’s heart – rending to read of the Seals and other military being killed , shot down in a helicopter … I can hardly think of their families and what they must feel … such a large loss to our country …
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On a lighter note , I wish each of you a happy and blessed Sunday . Bye now ,

I so agree with the comment from Lou Ann, “Too much heartbreak and things I don’t understand.” At times, it all feels overwhelming and so unfair. However, we owe it to ourselves and those around us to push onward and see the good things…..they are there….waiting to be discovered and enjoyed.

Morning all…

Rainbow 8’s to you all…Miss Dee we seem to need lots of your loving rainbows…

The sun will shine and flowers will bloom. I will watch “my” squirrels run the side and back fences.
The make me laugh. Something feel the need to do.
I need to celebrate life…and though sometimes it may be not so good…always look for a good thing to make you smile….it’s there…you just need to look sometimes.

Rambling on here…sorry…

Take care all and have a grand day!

((((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S GRAND FAMILY)))

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carleen in ca

I am here too!

Hey Debbie L.A…good to know you are here too!

carleen in ca

Thanks Carleen, Fan’s of Barbaro always and forever. 63 days now no smoking! Gloria was so proud of me!

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Debbie,

63 days and counting…CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Trust me, quiting is hard but worth it!

December 9, 2011 will be 6 years for me. I smoked some 30+ years… what I love is…if I get a cold, it will not go into bronchitis(SP?) I do miss smoking though…I chew alot of tooth picks sometimes….when things get a little tough.

Plastic or wood …either one…a tooth helps.

Do you remember the wood tooth picks that were cinimmon flavored? Good grief how I loved those things!!!

Debbie and all Barbaro’s dear family, please take care and have a grand evening!

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carleen in ca

##Good morning all. A cloudy humid morning here in the North.
#Oh my the weekend was really quiet. I noticed on Friday that it too was strangely bereft of posts. I guess everyone is busy busy trying to keep cool and looking after yards and houses.
##My heart goes out to the families of those men who lost their lives.
##Carleen, I sensed that you were feeling blue but am pleased to see you’re here and perking right along. I too love to see the squirrels racing up and down our fence line chasing one another and driving the cats crazy.
##Debbie LA, 63 days and counting. That’s great news and you should give yourself a pat on the back.
##Robyn must be enjoying some much needed time off. I hope she and Brent are enjoying some quality time together.
##Miss Dee, always so nice to see your rainbows.

##Alex, there was a very good article in the Sunday edition of the Toronto Star regarding equine health care and therapy. It cited Barbaro’s case and how stem cells may have helped him with the laminitis. That was particularly interesting that maybe with the ongoing stem cell research being done it could be the cure for laminitis we all pray for. I really liked the last line of the article regarding the level of care that is being given now to horses “it’s done for humans, why not horses”. Amen

Have a safe day everone.

Judy

Hiya, FsOB! As you may surmise, I had the opportunity to enjoy a “sleep-in” Monday. The birds now need to get their AM breakfast, which is ~ four hours late. It is a tad hazy here, but at least the Thames has a nice little “chop” to it’s flow.

May the heat wave break for those in the middle of North America. This year has turned out to be a record-breaker.

Alex, I hope that you can share some photos from the event last Friday night. What a surreal picture of the horse & buggy, driving at 1:00 AM!

There was a Caring Bridge update from Erin Brennan’s mother, Anne, which came in over the weekend. Erin would have turned 11 on 08/05/2011.

I am sorry that I was away and could not join in last Friday evening’s prayer vigil for Debra J-S and her dog. My thanks to Mary for having blue-linked a connection to the candle group which I believe is “DebraJ” or “DebraJS”.

Wishing all of you “ACD”. Peace, Robyn

#### To Judy: Hoping that things become milder for your community, weather-wise.
To Carleen: I do remember those favoured toothpicks, I liked them when I was a child. Kudos for remaining smoke-free, I have been since July of 1976.
To Debbie: Kudos for the 63 smole-free days!!!
To Evy: Yes, despite our sadness over Debra’s death and the many injustices in the world, we must push onward.
To Bobbie B: Welcome home!
To Lynne: I loved what Joe Shelton said about dogs being miracles. They are, are they not? ####

Morning, Everyone…

Monday Morning…they keep coming, don’t they? 🙂 Well, I guess it’s good they do…’cause if not..well, Happy Monday Morning, Family!

I’m a bit late here this a.m. had some emailing I needed to tend to this morning. If any of you here, don’t frequent the Discussion Board, I want you to know Greg Jones brought flowers and a lovely photo of *BARBARO* to Debra J.’s home and placed it on the lawn…and if I read correctly, he saw Husky hairs on the lining of drapes in the window, left and returned with a rawhide bone in memory of her dog…The photo and postings are on the DB if you wish to see them.

This story has me feeling a mixture of extreme sadness and just as extreme anger at her neighbors. My hope is that Debra was gone before she landed on the floor and didn’t lie there and suffer…her dog, however, is a whole other story. I believe if I lived nearby enough to travel to that neighborhood, I’d carry picket signs up/down the street…I’m torn as to what the sign might say…it’s between “Love Thy Neighbor” and a phrase I cannot post here and would surely be arrested for, if carrying it in a neighborhood:/

I’ve heard there is an on-going police investigation and am glad to know that, because it will keep the sad story ‘out there’ for people to read and be aware of and perhaps save someone else and or their dog from such a horrid demise!

As I sent off my emails, two of them this morning, filled with such a mixture of emotions ranging from complete disbelief to utter despair to I just want to SCREAM…I got ’round to reading Joe for this a.m., and thank God for Joe is what I felt as I read and saw his Blog for today…*RADIO* is going off to a new home…and when you’ve got time, you just MUST see his photos:)

Monday, August 8th… Saying goodbye to Radio is going to be tough. Radio was born on our ranch two summers ago. We named him Radio because of the many sounds he produces. Radio talked before he stood. Always with an opinion.

Earlier in 2009 we rescued a thoroughbred mare and named her Zoe. With normal food Zoe got bigger. Much bigger. I wondered if Zoe was pregnant, and decided our vet Lisa should take a peek on her next visit. But that night Radio made his appearance on stage. Loudly announcing his arrival. Bossing everyone around.

Radio became a favorite of young visitors. Alex bought Radio his first baby halter. Allison taught Radio to pick up his feet. Maddie named her new puppy Radio. With all the treats, everyday is Christmas for Radio.

Radio has a new home with a family in Santa Rosa. A beautiful barn with grassy paddocks. A pond to splash in. His new best friend, a thoroughbred yearling filly. Usually Lady Antebellum on the barn cd player.

Next summer, when Radio turns 3, he will be taught to ride. It should be easy. Radio is like an old hippie. Whatever man. Bring it on dude. Cool.

Yep, saying goodbye is going to be tough. But we can visit. I already have a trip planned in September. The mom of Radio’s new family promises freshly made banana cream pie. She drizzles nutmeg and real maple syrup on top of her pie. I cannot get that image out of my brain. See you in September Radio…

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🙂 Makes me smile BIG, imagining Joe picturing that PIE!!

A quiet weekend here…weather reasonable for August…daughter was off dog-sitting and Lucy, Seymoure and I held down the fort here…Birdies and Squirrels and the Deer are all happy and healthy…that’s a good thing, always!

I hope everyone has a good Monday…here’s the link to our White House for today….btw: I got an email stating that since it had taken Congress so stinking long to settle the debt ceiling issue..and I use the term ‘settle’ loosely:/ our Bill to save our American Horses has been pushed back now, to September…Yole still have time to contact your own senator/s and ask them to come on-board as co-sponsors if they haven’t already done so.

EMAIL THE WHITEHOUSE

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please do not forget our horses, furbabies and our country….

and thank you Alex

I’ve clicked on here so many times during the last two days , but I have been unable to write a post … I just couldn’t … with so much wrong , like Debra’s death and other things …

Anyway , I just want you all to know I am here and reading , just not posting as much lately. I wish all of you the best – as I always do ;), bye now .

Hiya, FsOB! It’s been a very hot day here on the banks of the Thames. Brent & I were able to spend the afternoon together because I was off work today. We visited a local farm and I had the chance to feed the chickens, roosters, ducks, and a lone pig some grain for 25 cents a throw.

My thanks to Lynne B. for posting a note about Greg J’s visit to the home of Debra J-S. Thank you, Greg, for this tribute.

Alex, thank you for all that you do to maintain this site. Peace, Robyn

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Hiya, FsOB! A hazy Tuesday morning has dawned here on the banks of the Thames. There’s a bit of dew on the hood of our Del Sol. I need to get outside to start feeding the birds. Is it my imagination or is the birdsong lessening as August gets underway?

Alex, I hope that your ride is a good one this morning. Wishing all here “ACD”. Peace, Robyn

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##Good morning all. A spot of rain here this morning with low hanging clouds but warm, so that’s ok.
##Bobbie B, don’t worry about sitting back for awhile, all that goes on can wear one down. Take care fren.
Robyn, I’m glad you were able to enjoy a leisurly day with Brent. I’ve always found that the birds seem to lessen their singing starting in August. I’ve often wondered if it’s because they are already getting ready for their winter migration or just busy getting plumper. I miss their morning songs.
##Rainbows 8 back to you Miss Dee.

Have a safe day everyone.

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DebbieL.A….great job…I wish I would quit…keep saying I will…we are proud.

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Curtis is having shoulder surgery on one of his shoulders Friday…from the car wreck…please keep us in your prayers.

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a friend told me…and it is so dry, hot, drought and all…here in Texas…the Hill country….here…cougars are starving and no water or food are attacking horses and livestocks.

and farmers are going after the cougars…this is sad also…

but…WORSE IS HORSE SLAUGHTER…can we call, fax, email…please.

can we read the db and help…Johnny and Cash and others are waiting for that loving place…called home.

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Good Morning Alex.

Morning, Everyone…

Happy *Toosdae* Morning:)

Bobbie: I know how you feel…and agree w/Judy, take the time you need to re-charge but check in with us, so we know you’re O.K. please…

Judy and Robyn: Maybe because you live farther north, some of the song birds have already begun their trek south? My birdies are all still here…I saw a mother Black Headed Grossbeak this early morning, they’ve not left yet, all the others here now are pretty much ‘resident’ and thankfully, they are all still singing:) I do look forward to the first of the Juncos and White Crowned Sparrows, though…because that means Fall has arrived…I always so look forward to Fall around this time of the year…the summer heat gets to me by now and I get anxious for those cooler days/nights.

As out watering in the backyard y’day, I noticed my little American Toad family is MIA:( The squirrels were messing with their burrow a few days ago..digging..so, I’m guessing they decided to go elsewhere, except I cannot find another burrow out there…I HOPE the Rattlesnakes didn’t find them:-O I’m sorry, but I do NOT like sharing my space with Rattlesnakes:/

Joan: I will be thinking of Curtis and YOU, too:) Will keep you both close in heart/mind and positive energy being sent for a swift and uneventful shoulder repair for Curtis:)

Here’s Joe for Tuesday:)

Tuesday, August 9th… At the track his name was Hidden Costs, so we called him Money. A cute bay gelding who charmed his way to the last carrot. Money came to us with major problems. A wrecked ankle, two sore front feet, and if you touched his back he would moan in pain.

Money soon made a human best friend. Little Jessica would visit once or twice a month, and she spent the majority of her time with Money. About a year later I asked Jessica, with all these horses, what attracted you to Money? Jessica said he was in serious pain, so she didn’t want to leave his side. Jessica prefers horses who need the most help.

He certainly charmed his way into Jessica’s world. Jessica was hooked. At Christmas she bought Money a bright red blanket. With a matching red halter. On Valentine’s Day Jessica gave Money a See’s Candy box. I said he can’t have chocolate. But when I opened the box there were horse cookies. With a little card that said I love you Money. Happy Valentines.

It took more than a year for Money to become healthy. Suddenly he was moving like I do when the ice cream truck comes around. I am convinced it was Jessica’s visits and love which helped get him well.

Jessica and her mom cannot have a horse. There is no money to pay expenses for Money.

Jessica called one day and said a nice neighbor has a lonely mare. Jessica was thinking maybe Money could live with the nice neighbor. That way Jessica could be with Money everyday. I went to take a look, and the neighbor was indeed nice. His mare looked great. But the fencing had rotted away, to the point there was no fencing. I wondered why the mare stayed? She could have easily visited the drive thru at Burger King, less than a mile away.

A young man who transports horses for Tb Friends said no problem, he can put up a new fence. The young man brought helpers, including a young lady who also transports horses for Tb Friends. It took 7 hours. The nice neighbor with the stay at home mare had a brand new fence.

The young man delivered Money to the nice neighbor, and Jessica was thrilled. The young man donated to Jessica $40.00 in cash, and said this is for Money’s next trim.

It has been 5 months now. On Sunday I stopped to see Jessica and Money. Money looks like a million bucks. The nice neighbor put two sacks of Equine Senior in my truck, and said this is for the starving horse you showed on your website last week. Jessica gave me a bag of Skittles to eat on the way home.

Money certainly hit the jackpot. Jessica loves him like crazy…

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Doesn’t that make your hearts happy, Family:)

Last but not least for this morning, the link to our White House:

EMAIL THE WHITE HOUSE

Everyone have a good day today…

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Barbaro eligible for Hall of Fame?

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Joan and Curtis…

Good thoughts and healing wishes for Fridays surgery.

Take care all…Barbaro is and always will be above and beyond Grand!!!!

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Hiya, FsOB! We had rain here on the banks of the Thames this evening. Thankfully, there were no falling trees, as there must have been in Alex’s town. I do hope that your truck and your belongings are safe, Alex.

What a sweet story that Joe Shelton offered about young Jessica and the TB named Money. And I got really excited when I read the blue-link that Debbie LA posted, regarding nominations to the Racing Hall of Fame. Wouldn’t it be awesome if Barbaro were to be nominated in 2011 or 2012?

Wishing all here “ACN”. Peace, Robyn

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To Otherlyn: Are you awaiting the Perseid shower as eagerly as I am?
To Judy & Lynne: The usual cast of birds are present, but the singing in the AM is less than it was a month ago. And the Dawn is arriving later, too. Ugh!
To Joan: Thinking of you & Curtis. May his recovery be complete & prompt.
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My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd . . . for each of you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding paws, hooves, and hands with the entire Barbaro Nation!

Still scurrying here at the moment, but wanted to say THANK YOU to LYNNE for telling us about the beautiful tribute GREG JONES placed on Debra J.’s lawn for both she and her dog . . . . what a lovely gesture for GREG to do. My personal thanks to him if anyone can convey that message on the discussion board.

Oh ALEX, so sorry about your house, and the tree, too!! I am somewhat familiar with where you are and we did hear there were some very destructive storms late yesterday and into this a.m.

JOAN – You be assured of those prayers for Curtis and yourself for his upcoming surgery, keep us posted. And, of course, always you know prayers for beloved Peaches and Pierre, too!!
How did Pierre make out at the vet visit??

Much love, hugs, and peace to all,
always, Lou Ann

And always in loving memory of FOB CHIEF, FOB BUD SOVA, and FOB Master of Ceremonies, MURPHY!!
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Hiya, FsOB! Yikes, it is staying dark later here with each passing morning. A foggy, dank, and still morning has dawned here on the banks of the Thames. I hope to be visited again this morning by the sweet grey little cat with the amazing green eyes. She was asleep under a lawn chair yesterday AM in the Japanese Garden.

Alex, what a sweet pooch! Is he yours or a barn dog at Fair Hill Farm?

There was a very thoughtful letter to the editor in yesterday’s Hartford Courant, from what had to be a FOB in Vero Beach FLA, in memory of Debra J-S. Wising all here a good day. Peace, Robyn

##Good morning all. A beautiful sky towards the north this morning. Towering thunderheads over the green and gold of the farmers fields.
##Joan, my thoughts and prayers with you and Curtis that his surgery is sucessful. How are Peaches and Pierre doing. I too hope the parched areas of Texas receive the much needed rain.
##Robyn, yes the mornings are getting darker as August marches along. While I look forward to the Fall I’m reluctant to let summer go after such a wet and cool Spring this year.
##Carleen, thinking of you and hope you’re ok. I hope you’ll stop by here soon.
##Debbie LA, it was wonderful to see your blue link yesterday regarding Barbaro’s possible induction into the Hall of Fame.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

Morning all…
A nice cool morning here in San Jose….
It’s countdown time here also…on Sat. Erin and Michael move to the Santa Barbara area of Isla Vista…It’s hard for me to think that next week at this time, my “baby” girl will be 4 hours away.
Silly ol’me!!! Have to keep my car in good shape so I can buggie on down the road to visit her and Michael.

Take care dear family…Judy, Miss Dee, Robyn, Debbie, Bobbie, Joan, Otherlyn, Sandra, Lynne….

you are so dear…please take care and have a grand day.

((((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S WONDERFUL FAMILY)))

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Morning, Everyone…

I’m a bit late coming here, I got side-tracked with a project early this a.m.:)

I need to go see about a tree and our Alex’s home when finished posting this one…there’s so many posts, it takes ‘forever’ to finish loading and I’m already late with our Joe for today:

Wednesday, August 10th… The first two pictures below show our newest arrival. He comes with the name Tuffy. A little quarter horse, Tuffy is 31. He is now the oldest horse on our ranch, beating out Nate who is 26. Nate was once famous, and with us he still is. Tuffy and Nate will eventually share the same paddock. Mashing their apples. Reading to both the sports section. Making sure they get enough of that all important bran. And a senior citizen discount when I bring Nate and Tuffy to Dennys.

We have a two year old filly from a race track with the name Hannah. She is stunning. Hannah once sold for billions of dollars at a Kentucky yearling sale. And now we have Tuffy who is 31. Youngsters and oldies but goodies. We are like 95.3 FM on the radio dial. Songs of today and yesterday.

Today is August 10th, which means a big Happy Birthday to our helper Katie. Yesterday Katie transported an older mare from our ranch to her new home in Petaluma. Today, on her 20th birthday, Katie goes to Auburn to check on a possible new home for a race horse. Katie does so much for us, including networking on the internet for new homes. We are very grateful.

We are also very grateful to Georgia, who never says no when I ask for help. Georgia works at a high school in Woodland, and school begins today. Yesterday, her last day of summer vacation, Georgia jumped in her truck when I asked if she could bring Tuffy to our ranch. Evening commute traffic in Sacramento, yet Georgia is always willing to help a horse. How did we get so lucky?

It is Wednesday, and chores are forever. Delicious hot coffee from Dunkin Donuts. Yummy chocolate chip cookies made by Nugget. Later we could be 91 degrees. Enjoy your is summer vacation really over Wednesday, and be sure to hug your horses. Bee Gees on the oldies station…

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🙂 *TUFFY* is a beautiful chestnut color..he’s skinny, but shiney like a new penny! I’m so happy for him to be with Joe and Cathy and all the googies and chickens and other horses now…Tuffy is a LUCKY BOY!

I’m pressed for time, Family…If you’re inclined to email the White House today, go up this page to my y’day link at 3:50p

Debbie: Thanks for the link re: nominating our Boy to the Hall of Fame:) I’ll watch for when we might send our letters of nomination in!

Everyone have a good day today!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Carleen , I’ve been where you are – with that precious girl leaving home … we know they have to grow up and leave , we want them to have a life , but still…… my baby’s leaving !
I send you my best wishes and thoughts — and please know , the empty feeling and pain will pass – and you’ll enjoy going to visit her too . The best thing is that 4 hours isn’t far ! Not far at all really and it’ll be exciting to visit too .
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just checking in…trying to get caught up here at work…to be out Friday…for Curtis surgery..

thank each of you for your prayers and support…and Pierre, LouAnn had popped his shoulder out….and the vet put it back in.

Peaches and Pierre are just spoiled..lol

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have a good evening Alex…and thank you…

and let us pray for each other and our country.

Joan , I’m praying for all of us and our country , and for Curtis’ shoulder too . Sending my best to you , Curtis , Peaches and Pierre …

UNCLE MO :
I read on Mo’s Facebook page that he worked yesterday morning …
he did 5F in 1:00 and one fifth …
blazing fast … a bullet work they are calling it.
It said he’s doing well , but I wonder if he can ever attain his previous speed that he had before being so ill ?
They are still heading him toward the King’s Bishop in late August …

Guess what else I read recently ??
That the California horse , THE FACTOR , could be coming to the King’s Bishop ! ! ! !

Remember , how I longed to see these two talented speed horses meet ?
Well Mo got sick , and The Factor was injured so that put paid to that … but now … Mo seems to be well , and The Factor has healed … so just perhaps !

Do dreams come true ?

Will Mo stay well and get his form back ?
Will The Factor be really healed back to his form?
I guess we’ll see . I’m trying to be cool about it , but every
time I think they might really meet , my heart starts skipping and I start wringing my hands – in anxious anticipation .

There’s one thing though … THE FACTOR is so fast , so good , that I might not want Mo to have to meet him in his first race after his illness and layoff ( if I had my druthers) … I do have doubts that THE FACTOR can go the distance with Mo though – his early speed is so tiring …
We shall see what we shall see …
Bye now ,

Hiya, FsOB! Wow, it was warm here today, but the sun was shining and there was a nice breeze. There were lots of sailboats out on the Thames and that is always a cheering sight to see.

Alex, I am stymied as to the name of the horse whose picture you posted. He is huge, at least to my eyes.

Wishing all here “ACN” and may we all rise to seize the new day! Peace, Robyn

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To Carleen: Thinking of you and your family as your daughter gets “launched” in her new community.
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Hiya, FsOB! A much milder, less muggy and humid “Friday Even” (AKA Thursday) has dawned on the banks of the Thames. The river is gleaming like a mirror as the sun rises.

Alex, I am glad that it is cooler at Fair Hill Farm. Thank you for solving the mystery of the identity of the horse whose photo was posted. My late Father, Grandfather, and Uncle were big fans of Northern Dancer.

Wishing all here “ACD”. Peace, Robyn

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To Dee: Sending rainbows your way!
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##Good morning all. A glorious sunshine morning here in the North. It’s decidely cooler and no humidity to speak of with the temps to be normal for a nice change.

##BobbieB, thank you for the update on Uncle Mo and The Factor. I too was hoping to see them run last spring before they were sidelined. I share your anxiety about their possible meeting after their recuperation but will have to let what comes, be.
##Carleen, I know how you must be feeling inside with your daughter leaving but it does pass as Bobbie says, and just think of the fun you’ll have going to visit. Hugs to you.
##Robyn, I always love to see the sail boats on the water. Your morning vistas are wonderful.
##(((Joan, Curtis, Pierre and Peaches)))

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please pray for our Fallen Soldiers…those 30, wonderful, brave soldiers…and their families…

and pray for those whom are serving now…to keep us free…

and for LouAnn’s neigbor whom has two presently serving…one is Baby Jakob’s father whom is in Aghanistan and was not home when this sweet baby arrived…

of course the doxies..Miss Minnie and Miss Pickles and the other doxies are on watch looking out for their human family…lol

and do not forget to call, fax, email…someone or everyone…stop horse slaughter.

it is so so sad that this country is in this sad shape…animals and horses are suffering because of this tragic economy…pray we will find ways to help them, the rescues.

and read the db…they need your help please.

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No Salix in Graded Stakes for 2YOs in 2012

It’s about time!
Good Morning to all!

Old Friends to expand in New York

More good news!

Morning, Everyone…

Happy *FRIDAY EVE*!!!

On the fly this early morning, and I didn’t wake at my ‘normal’ 5:30!

Here’s Joe for Thursday:

Thursday, August 11th… I got to see Greg, who I met 3 years ago, and is the hardest working guy I know. I think Greg is 25 or 26. Greg lives in Vacaville, which is only 20 minutes away, yet I seldom see him.

Greg gets up at 4:30 every morning and feeds his two horses. A thoroughbred gelding which came from Tb Friends, and an old retired paint mare. Then Greg drives to a small ranch and feeds all the animals. The owner of the small ranch has physical problems, and Greg has been taking care of those animals for over a year. He does this for free. Then Greg goes to his day job, where he works in construction. Back to the small ranch for supper feeding. Back to his house for more supper feeding. A night class, where Greg is studying world history. He has always wanted to be a teacher.

Oh, and the major part of every Saturday is spent as a volunteer. Gregg helps at a ranch which teaches disadvantaged kids to ride.

Greg is going to marry Jenna in June, 2012. Greg and Jenna met in high school. They have been a couple for the last two years.

Last week Greg phoned and said Jenna is ready for her first horse. Jenna has been riding his thoroughbred gelding. Greg and Jenna want another horse so they can ride together.

Jenna came to test drive a few of our horses. A filly went lame. A gelding spent 10 minutes refusing the saddle. An older gelding decided to bite Jenna on her arm. A young mare right off the race track thought it would be fun to toss Jenna in the air. Jenna landed next to our cat Ashes, who hardly looked up.

Before going inside my house to sob, I said hey Jenna, want to try a youngster? Hannah is only two years old, and she came to us last week from a race track. We have yet to put a saddle on Hannah, but she seems sensible.

It was like saddling an old pony. Hannah stood quietly, and Jenna said I already love her. How come you didn’t show Hannah to me first?

Around our yard they went, and Hannah is a beautiful mover. After Jenna jumped off she said this is my new horse.

In between all the feedings, a construction job, and before world history night class. Greg came with his trailer to pick up Hannah. Greg said sorry, but there is just no time to visit. Maybe the 4 of us can go for pizza during Christmas holidays.

Sure. We can meet at Pete’s in Natomas. Or The Village in Davis. Good stuff. Getting hungry just thinking about it…

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Here’s the link to our White House:

EMAIL THE WHITE HOUSE

Everyone, have a good day today…Joan I’ll be thinking of you and Curtis and Peaches and Pierre tomorrow…Please check in as you’re able…so we know all is well in your world…and YES…so MANY parts of this nation need *RAIN*!

Debbie: It is SO GOOD to see you here, blue-ink-linking againg:)

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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Dear friends and supporters,

As much as I hate to send this out, things are very tight here once again. If you are willing and able…please help by donating to:

Warrens Hay ‘n More (928) 636-1303
Pay Pal through the link on our website www.hdlmsanctuary.org
Checks directly to us at 3731 North Road 1 West, Chino Valley, AZ 86323

Thank you for any help you can give.
Wynne
milagro@commspeed.net

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Hiya, FsOB! Oh, what a lovely evening it has been here. Brent, Nikita, & I walked to the battlefield before suppertime. As is the usual case, Ms. Nikita made two new human friends. The young men were probably in their late teens or early 20s and they were enchanted by Nikita and she by them. The twilight tonight resembled the ones which we get here in Autumn. Yikes, the season is getting ready to change.

Alex, I love the Twitpic of your dog, whose name I cannot recall. Wishing everyone “ACN”. Peace, Robyn

#### To Judy: Thanks for your kind words. Brent was an accomplished sailor in his younger days.
To Dee: Rainbows right back to you!
To Lynne: Don’t you just adore Joe Shelton?
To Debbie LA: I loved the story that you blue-linked re. the new branch of Old Friends. I also read the story about Go for Gin’s retirement to the KY Horse Park. Really cool! ####

Robyn: Yes! I love Joe Shelton to itty-bitty pieces, for sure:) and thank you very much for sending your email my way, re: the Deborah Jurasus Memorial Fund Thread on DB, too!

Yole might remember her story of how she was finally discovered in her home in Hartford, along side her faithful Husky…they lay there in a NEIGHBORHOOD for something like three months before someone FINALLY decided to peek in a window. The story rocked me to my core, Family..I’ve written my feelings here already so I will not do that again.

A Thread on the Discussion Board is raising monies for Ms. Jurasus’ cousin, Sharon, to help with final expenses, I’ll blue-ink here for you and if you’re able to help, please do…we are all brothers and sisters in Barbaro together and Ms. Jurasus was one of the original FOBs…

DONATIONS FOR BURIAL EXPENSES

I hope everyone slept sweetly and I wish you an early Happy Friday…it’s only 8:24p here in the Westwing on still Thursday night…but I wanted to post this one now…cyoleinthea.m.:)

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Hiya, FsOB! Well, it is a bright and crisp TGIF dawning here on the banks of the Thames. The haze is gone from the sky, finally. The Hell-Cat II (our local day-fishing expedition boat) has had the engines started for the 9:00 AM departure. Now I need to head out to the Japanese Garden to see if the little grey cat is sleeping under one of the wicker loungers.

Lynne, thank you for blue-linking the info re. contributions for Debra J-S’s funeral expenses.

Wishing all here “ACD” and a great weekend. Peace, Robyn

#### To Joan Roya: Thinking of you & Curtis this morning. May his procedure today bring him increased comfort in his shoulder.
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##Good morning all. Another beautiful morning here in the North. Already the air feels different which heralds the change in seasons.

My drive in the morning takes me along some farmer’s fields of corn and hay. With the bright sun shining on them they resemble squares of emerald and gold. Alas, For Sale signs are up on many fences and zoning by law change signs as well as urban blight moves north. Yuck!

##Lynne, I hope you haven’t been zoomin too much and can catch a rest. How is your neighbor doing with the chemo treatments. Has your daughter returned from her dog sitting? I bet she had some fun.
##Robyn, how neat that Brent is a sailor. Do you get to go sailing anytime? Sailboats are so cool. No noisy motors to disturb the sound of wind and water. That’s what I love best.

Well I better scoot, will try and check back in later. My thoughts with Joan and Curtis today too.

Have a safe day everyone.

Judy

Best of luck to Joan and Curtis on his surgery today!!!

Morning, Everyone…

*HAPPY FRIDAY*!!

Evy: Absolutely! Positive energy being sent to Curtis and Joan for today and a speedy and uneventful recovery, too…

The morning here at just 8:13a, is already feeling ‘warmish’ as in it’s gonna be another day in mid to upper 90’s:/ We felt early on this time ’round, summer would NEVER find us and now, I am sure I’m not alone in my ‘longing for Fall’!

Judy: I always so hate to see orchards here in no/cal with for sale signs on them, too:( Years ago, when my family first came to these foothills, the treks to a valley town for shopping at a ‘real Mall’ offered many, many tree lined on both sides of the road, walnut trees, almond trees..peaches, apricots and cherries, too:) Today, there are paved streets and homes and businesses though…that fertile soil which brought so many fruits and nuts has been paved over now…I guess the grandchildren or greats decided they didn’t want to grow and harvest fruits and nuts, but instead, dollars for the land…and once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.

Here’s Joe for Friday:)

Friday, August 12th… Already a nutty morning. We said goodbye to Ellis, a 17.1 hand almost black gelding who is on his way to Reno. At the track they said Ellis is difficult to load into a trailer. Difficult is not exactly the right word. I have other words, but we are a G rated website. It took 45 minutes, but tall goofy Ellis finally went inside. The driver said man, this is the longest it has taken to load a horse in over two years. Naturally it happens at Tb Friends. I gave the driver a cup of delicious hot coffee from Peets. With a little vanilla cream. The driver seemed satisfied. His final destination is Orem, Utah. With stops in Reno, Elko, and Salt Lake. And all of this is no doubt way more than you care to know. By now you have clicked off and moved on to Groupons. Don’t blame you. We love Groupons.

Now I am off to the small town of Dunnigan, to meet a family who wants a fresh from the track horse. Then I have employment at another ranch near the casino. Saving for enough money to eventually eat at the casino.

Tomorrow morning we say goodbye to Charm, a 3 year old filly who came to us from a thoroughbred ranch out of business. Charm has a new home near a town called Cottonwood. Her soon to be new best friend is a 24 year old thoroughbred gelding. Charm will charm the old guy.

I will return early Monday morning, to share with you life on a dry and dusty ranch in Woodland. Have a happy weekend. Deep in the heart of summer…

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And the link to our White House for the day, as well:

EMAIL THE WHITE HOUSE

I hope everyone has a good day today and a ‘dine&fandy;’ weekend, too!!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Curtis/Joan Update….

11:15a in CA 1:15 in Houston…They just took Curtis into surgery…she thanks everyone for the well wishes and good thoughts…keep that positive energy flowing, Family…Joan w/call me when Curtis is safely back in his room and I’ll post here…

Hope your day is going well….it’s HOT here, but as I complained to Joan re: the upper 90’s here..she told me in Houston today, it’s 111 Degrees…I told her ‘never mind, I’m sutting mai mouth right now’! OMG! 111…I feel like such a WIMP!

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Curtis and Joan….
Cool and healing wishes to both…

Dear family please have a good week-end and I hope
it cools down for those in such warm spots.

(((HUGS TO ALL BARBARO’S WONDERFUL FAMILY)))
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I know many of you are waiting to hear from Joan about Curtis — just as I am …
Lynne , I know you’ll post as soon as you hear … I just hate waiting after surgeries , so tense.
Praying for the best for Curtis and Joan…

Happy Friday night to everyone …

I read on the db that Margano worked 5 furlongs
a couple days ago … 1:01+ ( I think ) which is fast … he was the fastest of 12 who were timed working that day …
He looks just like Dynaformer…

Barclay Tagg is really bringing him along … someone said that they heard Mr. Jackson say that they might put him in a race at Belmont later in the fall…
So best of luck and safety to Margano , little brother be safe …
bye now ,

Joan/Curtis Update…

Left home for about a half-hour and wouldn’t you know…a msg on machine waiting for me….Curtis was in Recovery and as soon as he’s ‘recovered enough’ they’ll begin the trip from Houston back to Baytown…I have no idea the miles involved, I hope not too many!! Hopefully, Mr. Curtis will sleep right though it all…and Our Joan, will navigate swiftly and uneventfully:)

Hope everyone is enjoying a nice Friday Night thus far…

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

Geldingprograms continue

Good night sweet family.

A little off topic but I think you will all enjoy this.

The Rescue.

On the morning of May 18, 2011, my wife noticed a deer in our yard that appeared to be frantically looking for something in the rocks that form a
wall on our property line in Brush Prairie, WA.

When we first went out with our neighbors, we didn’t see anything, but the deer wouldn’t leave
our yard. We went back to our house and watched; after a few minutes the deer came back.

We went out to the area the deer was concentrating on and could hear a baby fawn crying in the rocks. We moved some of the rocks and smaller boulders and saw a baby fawn’s face in the rocks. He had apparently fallen in one of the gaps and was now trapped. The
larger boulders were too heavy to move, and we didn’t want the rocks cave in on the baby deer.

We called our Clark County Fire District 3..
The B Shift team came out; they were able to move the larger rocks out of the way with the Jaws of Life enough to be able to reach in a pull the baby fawn out
and reunite it with its momma. The fawn, maybe stuck in their most of the night, quickly went to nurse its momma.

One of our neighbors took some video clips of the fire department’s rescue. I edited the clips into this short clip. After sharing it with some friends they thought that it was just too cute not to share with more people;
my neighbor agreed to let me upload it.

http://www.wimp.com/fawnrescued/

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Hi everyone ,
I just saw on Bloodhorse magazine that today is the Arlington Million race …
and that makes me think automatically of
CAROLINE JAFFE

our CJ who left us too soon …
She lived in the general area and attended the Arlington Million , and loved it …

I miss her , and it’s bittersweet, reading that this is the time of the Arlington race , and thinking of her … CJ , I wish you were here.
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I wish Curtis the best prognosis and quick healing …

and I hope all of you have a great and super Sat. I also wish every horse and rider in every race today safety and home safe , and good luck .
Bye now,

Good Saturday Afternoon, Everyone:)

Julie Gordon: Thank you for posting the story of the little Fawn and his/her frantic mom….I can’t view the video but sent it on to friends and family to view….Lovely story of caring folks and a good/happy outcome!

I heard from Joan awhile ago…and must report that Curtis is NOT being a ‘model patient’!! LOL! He’s bein’ a pain in the butt, in fact:) I told her to tell him he better straighten out, or she’d be sending “Nurse Cratchet” along to step in and she could come HERE to CA for a few days R&R…We; both had a good laugh over that idea:)

Curtis is of course, experiencing discomfort and she’s dutifully giving him meds and has made fast friends with the folks at the local Walgreen’s there in Baytown…purchasing everything from adhesive remover to back support ‘wedges’ to ‘real food’ which he asked for…milk and stopped in at the local Waffle House for a ‘to-go’ order of eggs and other breakfast menu items…Joan is basically meeting herself coming/going being a GOOD wife and NURSE to her *MAN*…I think she gets a *GOLD STAR* and Curtis just better think so too, imho! LOL..

Hot and a little ‘hoomid’ here today:/ There are thin clouds here/there and the air is heavy…but it’s NOT 111 degrees…so for that, I AM grateful and will shut-up now about my discomfort with ‘end of summer’ weather…

I join in Bobbie B’s wish for all horses and riders to have safe trips today…and also in missing CJ…Everyone, have a ‘dine&fandy;’ rest of your Saturday..

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

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My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd . . . for each of you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding paws, hooves, and hands with the entire Barbaro Nation!!

We had a few brief days respite with no humidity, I had almost given up!! Anyway I gathered my tools and set to work outside – the naturalized corner area (always glorious in the spring) needed a significant tidy-up and the Japanese flowering quince needed its annual major trim, both of which I am pleased to have accomplished, and thankfully so as the humidity is back with a vengeance today, ugh!!

I was just finishing up with the quince as the moon came up last evening – wow!! The sunset over the fields to the West was glorious – those pinks and corals. The moon was huge and though a bit hazy it was gorgeous. Thinking of you, OTHERLYN, especially!

ALEX – so wonderful to see the photo of EDGAR, thanks so much, and how special that he signed several copies of the book for you. God Bless our EDGAR and YOU, forever!

ANGEL DEE – Beautiful rainbows, hearts, and 8’s to you my fren!!

ROBYN – My favorite beautiful Husky girl, MS. NIKITA, she needs to be featured on the Welcome signs greeting visitors to Connecticut!! 🙂
I am always fascinated and love hearing of all the humans Ms. Nikita befriends when you all are out for a stroll! 🙂
XX to Kita!!

LYNNE B. – Thanks for the updates from JOAN & CURTIS, much appreciated!! I was keeping up the prayers and thinking of them so much, was so glad to see your updates. Was wishing I was closer to have offered to go along with Joan.
If you talk to JOAN again over the weekend, you tell her to tell that CURTIS I’ll send Ms. Annie down there!! Smile!!
Of course, tell Joan that she and I will head out to your place, we’ll stop and pick up SANDRA along the way, and let’s see who else is along that route, oh yes, our MARGIE in NM, and you can play bartender when we get there!! Wheeeeee!!!
What would your little Domino sugar girl, Miss Lucy, and Mr. Seymour think of us??!!! Ha Ha!!

BOBBIE B. – Hugs to you, Bobbie!! Hope you are all settled in again back home, nothing like “Home Sweet Home” right?!! I hope your daughter and the kit-kats had a safe journey home, too. Thinking of you!!

Love you all!

And always IN LOVING MEMORY OF FOB CHIEF, FOB BUD SOVA, & FOB Master of Ceremonies, MURPHY, and so many more . . . .

Hugs and Love,
always, Lou Ann

P.S.

Forgot to tell you all . . . . earlier in the week I had Mom out for several errands. Mom still proudly wears her “FANS OF BARBARO” tee, the one with the carrots (remember the ones Ernie made for us) all through the summer months :). Anyway, a lady approached us and said she noticed Mom’s tee and thought it might be in reference “to that lovely horse several years back who was critically injured and was so loved and cared for and then that terrible hoof disease came . . .” and we said yes it certainly is THAT Barbaro.
We talked a bit, the lady had not known of Alex’s site or the FOB’s. I explained how we carry on Barbaro’s legacy and all.
The lady’s face then clouded over and she said, “You have no idea how I cried when the news broke that Barbaro had passed.”
We hugged and I told her not to feel alone that her tears flowed with all of ours.
I told her about Alex’s book and she’s going to look that up :).

Just had to share that with you all.
Hugs, Lou Ann

Well I’m just rushing too much here . . . forgetting everything I meant to include!!

A special THANK YOU to JULIE GORDON for that lovely post about the fawn rescue!!! How precious that you and your neighbors, and your local fire department crew were able to help that dear little fawn be reunited with his/her mama.
I say hat’s off to you and your community!!

Thank you for sharing with us here!

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And a warm hello to you, EVY!! Always nice to see you here!!

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BOBBIE B. – Thanks for the news about MARGANO!!
I must go look at his photo!!
And may the angels keep watch over them all!

Hugs, Lou Ann

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Happy and blessed Sunday morning to all
of Barbaro’s famblee …best wishes for a great day also … bye now ,

Morning, Everyone…

Happy Sunday! Enjoy the day…tomorrow, another week begins!

Lou Ann: I LOVE the idea of you, Joan, Sandra and Margieeee all coming here for a visit/respite:) Yes! I can be the Bartender, INDEED! Think of the laughs we could all have, sitting ’round with maybe some Margaritas and salsa and chips….I could make my ENCHILADAS, even!! You bring the *BISCOTTI* Wheeeeee!! 🙂

I heard from Joan last evening and things for Curtis and our friend, Joanie…took a bit of a ‘down-turn’:( The surgeon, on Friday, instructed Joan to re-introduce Curtis’ blood-thinners on Saturday..that proved to be not the best advice, because his shoulder bandage eventually became soaked with blood….and it seems Curtis now needs to, in the future, report his allergy to Codeine..because he broke out in a rash and became quite ‘itchy-feeling’ on top of all else he was experiencing:/ She took him to the ER and they’ve changed his pain meds now to a different compound…gave him a shot of Benadryl, changed the bandage and for at least awhile, he’s been taken off his blood-thinners!

While the staff was tending to Curtis in the ER, which yole might imagine wasn’t the ‘swiftest of process’ Joan had to leave the hospital and run home to tend to Peaches and Pierre and then zoom back to hospital and wait/wait and wait some more, for Curtis to be released home again.I called her this morning, around noon in TX and she filled me in on the last part of the night.

She was at the office, trying to get a bit caught up on things which took place in her absence on Friday…and then needed to run to the pharmacy to get the new pain medication picked up and home to Curtis, hopefully in enough time, so his pain level isn’t through the rooftop.

I feel so badly for both of them, it’s hard, because though there are friends nearby, no family whatsoever and our Joan is having a dickens of a time trying to be ‘all things’ to her Hunk, the googies, the feral kittehs she tends to on a daily basis..and in the midst of all this running back/forth yesterday to and from Walgreen’s…she was searching for a homeless man and his dog she see’s quite frequently because it is so HOT in Baytown right now and she wanted the dog to have a box of ‘cookies’ and wanted the man to have a little something, too…she did, eventually, find the man and his googie:) I’m happy to report here!

Our Joan is quite something else, Family! This world is blessed to have she and her sweet spirit walking around! Barbaro chose well, those ‘hoomans’ he knew would do ‘right’ in this world:)

So…I hope everyone DOES have a good Sunday..I’ve got a ‘to-do’ list written and I need to get with it or it will soon be ‘tomorrow’ and nothing will be crossed off the steeeenking list! 🙂

Barbaro’s Forever Friend in CA

LYNNE B. – I’d bring along some Frangelica with the biscotti, too!!
This FOB has never had a Margarita but our SANDRA says they are the best, too!!! 🙂

I’ll say, God Bless our JOAN!!! She already has Sainthood in my book!!

Oh how I so wish I were closer to have given her a hand!! It’s a shame we are all scattered so many miles apart :(. Mom and I were through three heart surgeries and three orthopaedic surgeries with Daddy, and some nasty workshop accidents, managing the meds. and all that too, so I know all about what you described; and now with my multiple doxie experience :)at least could sure have looked after Peaches and Pierre!

Plus our BARBARO NATION has our very own Master’s Level NURSE with our ROBYN, Ms. Nikita’s “mum” in CT!!

And our ANGEL DEE keeping us showered in rainbows, too!!

And so many other hoof-selected helping hands of this Barbaro Nation!!

I so hope JOAN & CURTIS & the DOXIES have a much calmer night tonight!!

Hoping our MARGIE NM and SANDRA can soon be back online with us, too!!

Well the “hoomidity” is back here with a vengeance so it’s a quiet “bizzy” indoor paperwork afternoon for me.

Here’s to a much better new week for all!!

My heart beats for your heart, Barbaro, always and forever! Run with the angels honey!
And all love to the entire Heavenly Herd for each of you know you take me to where angels walk!
As our ANGEL DEE says, “It is AFFIRMED!”
Indeed it is.

Holding paws, hooves, and hands with the entire Barbaro Nation!

Love you all!

Thank you, ALEX!

Hugs, Lou Ann