ThomasPowers Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 It's my Sour Grapes, Frosty, I was driving 4 cylinder small pickups often heavily overloaded where a lot of the folks I worked with had massive overpowered SUVs usually bought for the wrong reasons---like my officemate whe needed the SUV for his family's "safety"---back when they had roll over issues and a much worse safety rating than a minivan did. (Now I did have one coworker with a big 4WD vehicle; but his parents lived in Buffalo NY...) I drove what I could pay cash for and envied the folks who had to have an overweight overpowered vehicle to drive to and from the grocery store in the suburbs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinDoc Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 The tech I hate most in modern vehicles is traction control. 9/10 times I have ever gotten stuck, it was because of traction control not allowing me to spin my tires. I have driven 2 different vehicles that had no option to turn it off (that I was aware of). I have never slid of the road, spun around or anything of the like (yet) and like to consider myself a good driver. Just a few months ago I watch a gentleman total his newer Camero (it had the newer body style) after he merged onto the freeway, then for no reason whatsoever he stomped on it and shot across 3 lanes to the far left lane when there was no one in front of him in any of the lanes for a solid 200+ yards. Well sadly for him, it was raining. When he stomped on it and shot across the lanes, when it came time to correct and go straight in the lane, he lost it on the wet pavement and ate the concrete divider and completely crushed the front end of his car. Not a single person stopped and even slowed down for the idiot and when I came back through about 30 minutes later, it was being dragged up onto the tow truck to be hauled off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 4 hours ago, JHCC said: And three years later, the Soviet Union dissolved. Coincidence? Perhaps 4 hours ago, Frosty said: Do people engage in "curling" in Russia? Russians participate in the Olympiads, but this sport is not popular. "Yard" hockey, yes, especially in Soviet times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 Bummer, curling is the only televised sport I like well enough to not leave the room at the first excuse. Oh well, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you folks, there's always hope. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted September 1, 2021 Author Share Posted September 1, 2021 Several years ago, I planted a girlish grape near the garage. The building is almost invisible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 That’s a heck of a grape vine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 I had to look them up, do they produce edible fruit or are they strictly decorative? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidesaddle queen Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 morning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted September 2, 2021 Author Share Posted September 2, 2021 20 hours ago, Frosty said: do they produce edible fruit or are they strictly decorative? This is a decoration plant. My luck grows like a weed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Beautiful place. Your cat or just passing by? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted September 3, 2021 Author Share Posted September 3, 2021 11 hours ago, DHarris said: Your cat or just passing by? My! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Grammar Check: I am assured by our cats that the proper phrasing is "Do you belong to that cat?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted September 3, 2021 Author Share Posted September 3, 2021 2 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Grammar Check: I am assured by our cats that the proper phrasing is "Do you belong to that cat?" 2 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Today I took honey from bees. Good summer, good harvest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stash Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 Sweet! Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 On 9/2/2021 at 5:56 AM, sidesaddle queen said: morning! Ooooh, does that foal have blue eyes or is it the camera angle? Filly or Colt? I loved it when we had foals, we got them used to being handled and loved on as soon as the dame would let us near. A couple days at most, all our horses were very handlable. The big trick with handling foals was teaching them NOT to play with us. It's the only time I've been kicked or reared on. Teaching them not to rear on you is as easy as pushing them over. . . Once. Usually a swat on the ribs was enough though. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidesaddle queen Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 17 hours ago, Frosty said: Ooooh, does that foal have blue eyes or is it the camera angle? Filly or Colt? I loved it when we had foals, we got them used to being handled and loved on as soon as the dame would let us near. A couple days at most, all our horses were very handlable. The big trick with handling foals was teaching them NOT to play with us. It's the only time I've been kicked or reared on. Teaching them not to rear on you is as easy as pushing them over. . . Once. Usually a swat on the ribs was enough though. Frosty The Lucky. filly!! her eyes are pale blue, her sire has ice green eyes.. so her should be aren be when she is grown .. she out of my stallion and caries a newly discovered color gene.. his foals are born broke.. they are like puppies.. so easy to work with.. frosty, i put her photo up just for you.. lol!! thought you would like seeing her.. ll!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 Thank you Darlin, much appreciated. Just to be sure; she's REALLY a horse of a different color? That's just too cool. One of these days. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidesaddle queen Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 2 hours ago, Frosty said: Thank you Darlin, much appreciated. Just to be sure; she's REALLY a horse of a different color? That's just too cool. One of these days. <sigh> Frosty The Lucky. yep, she is the real thing!! lol!! her momma is a bay.. without the sunshine gene you can't get this color from a bay.. it was fun research breeding to prove the gene,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 The Sunshine gene, I'll have to see what I can find out about it. What color is her skin or is it too soon to tell for the long term? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidesaddle queen Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 18 hours ago, Frosty said: The Sunshine gene, I'll have to see what I can find out about it. What color is her skin or is it too soon to tell for the long term? Frosty The Lucky. she is a perlino, bay base with 2 dilutes.. one dominate cream, one recessive cream,,,aka the sunshine gene.. .. she will be a bit dark and richer in color with a pale pumpkin skin... this is her at 7 weeks. you can see the color in the skin ..her sire is the horse in my sidesaddle photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 A pumpkin skinned Perlino, this gets better all the time. I was wondering, muzzles tend to darken up with age but the inside of her ears were an indication even with the light coming through. I couldn't see her eyelids in the first pic like in this one. Are there images of other Perlinos? I don't know if I'm patient enough to wait to see the color she ages into. I love how the knobby kneed, awkwardness of foals: smooths, fills, strengthens and morphs into the grace in motion of a horse. Few things are as beautiful as a horse in motion. The Palomino foals out of "Babe" were almost white till they were getting close to two years, then their coats darkened into an almost chatoyant palomino. The one gelding we kept was named "Amarillo DeOro" by the caballeros we rode with on a mustang roundup. It translates as "Golden Yellow," and transliterates as "Yellow of Gold." The caballeros said the first but I liked the second so that was how I thought of him. It's also the name that sticks with me, for the life of me I can't remember his registered name. It's a TBI thing, I'm sure I'll remember as soon as it's too late to edit. "Baby Doll's . . . blank." Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidesaddle queen Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 frosty, here are photos of her sire. sunshine.. palomino and buckskin are created by the creme gene in one dose, perlino and cremello and double dose.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 Nice but not my favorite color. I'm particularly fond of a nice buckskin they're almost as attractive as a, medicine hand, blue roan, Appaloosa. I like flashy two tones. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 My next door neighbor was running a breeding farm for paints; too bad he's shut that down. Flashy to excess! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidesaddle queen Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 not my favorite either.. lol! i love bays with appy and tobiano color but he was starving a woman's back yard so i rescued him ... planning on gelding and selling him to a good home lol!!! i fell in love with his personality . that was 12 yrs ago.. his foals get his great legs and mind.. easy to train .. i keep the bays.. lol!! paint and pinto foals are so pretty!!! i bet you loved looking over the field, thomas... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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