What are you up to today?

[Second Hand Pat]

I saw his back, but he wasn't purchased as a show horse, was he? When I groomed the mini's those little horses were new and hot and sold for a bundle. My neighbor had some mini's of similar conformation and by the time she had hers, the market had tanked. When the time came, she was forced to give her mini's away for free.

He wasn't Liz, purely as a companion horse for Sprite who is Diana's 16.2 eventing horse. It's funny, Diana went to a show recently and took Squirt with her and placed him is the stall she rented. Squirt made quite the impression with the show folks there. He is too dang cute.

Phone pics

Squirt
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Diana and Sprite
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[jeep]

We had a tornado last Sunday night. Sirens never went off and I was outside on the front porch watching the storm when all the sudden the winds started swirling all around me, but I didn't directly feel much wind at all. I heard trees snapping and a transformer about 50 yards away from me blew and sent sparks shooting all over the place. It turned out the tornado snapped several utility poles. If you could imagine looking up from the ground into the center of a tornado, that's what it felt like, although it was 11:30 at night and I couldn't see much other than through the lightening strikes. Fortunately, my house was spared any new damage after the hail storm a week earlier that destroyed my roof and car, but people all around me suffered lots of tree damage. It took the weather people 2 days to determine that a small EF1 tornado did hit the area and stayed on the ground for 2 1/2 miles right through the city.

So today, I'm looking at storm clean up

This is the house right across the street from me.

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This is a friends house about 1/2 mile from me

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[Second Hand Pat]

Yikes Brian, glad you were able to avoid that. You’re a very lucky person.
Pat