tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138993497339296072.post1596071259820768793..comments2024-01-27T11:12:39.561-07:00Comments on Confessions of a Slave Driver: Pappa's Got a Brand New Bag...Lisa Deonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10619574582795102959noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138993497339296072.post-34727389259024614572009-03-25T20:14:00.000-06:002009-03-25T20:14:00.000-06:00I know I"m late to post on this one, but I'm still...I know I"m late to post on this one, but I'm still trying to catch up. Hooray for the drooling Kid!<BR/><BR/>BTW, Courage Reins and Crazy Shelley are how I got introduced to carriage driving! I was a vollie (volunteer) leading children and people with disabilities around the ring on our equine friends. Then the non-profit found out I know the difference between a monitor and keyboard, and stuck me in the office doing, well, office work. Yuck. I get paid to do that 50 hours a week. I want to play with horses. So I found a place that will pay me to play with horses, and not a computer in sight (unless you count my mobile which has email, internet, and phone capabilities).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138993497339296072.post-48855255643921697922009-03-13T20:06:00.000-06:002009-03-13T20:06:00.000-06:00First off, Kid is one of the most amazing horses. ...First off, Kid is one of the most amazing horses. I think that I may have mentioned this earlier, but those that hate my pop quizzes, here is an update. Kid is the horse that was working the day that the tornado hit downtown Salt Lake, destroying everything in its path. Kid was within a city block of where the funnel actually was. He was hit with a falling branch. He patiently waited as the driver hid UNDERNEATH him until it was over and then managed to manuever around the debris to make it home. When he was a teammate with Chief, a cute little percheron that could do anything, they became the mighty team that could do anything. Kid was hitched with a unbroke mule for a movie shoot and had the stupid thing behaving in a semi-appropriate manner for the day. <BR/>Kid also thought that he was still a stud. He was cut very late in life. One night at the park when we had a bunch of the city horses at the park, Kid was tied up because he kept trying to challenge Red. Red was HUGE. Kid only thought of himself that way. <BR/>As the very proud owner of Belle, I love to see these big kids find happy homes when their paying jobs are done. When Mikey retired, I was not in a position to buy him, but he went to a place where he would be well taken care of as a family carriage/wagon horse. <BR/> <BR/><BR/>Second, I am a Biology teacher. I teach evolution. I am LDS (mormon for those that don't understand the whole Latter-Day Saint acronym). These two things are not incompatable. I don't understand why so many self-proclaimed "religious" people have a problem with evolution. Why can't God follow his own rules? In the bible, it said that Adam came from the dust. Would that not be the primordial soup that life came from? Where the heck did the fossils come from? <BR/><BR/>I fight against close-minded people all of the time. I have no problem with people having their own opinions, and when I ask for a student's opinion, I will not deduct points if theirs differs from mine, but if I ask about theory or facts, I don't want to hear their opinion. I want discussion. It can be fascinating. My student's had to watch a video about the voyage fo the Beagle (Darwin's ship) and then tell me if they would have come up with some of the same ideas that Darwin did. It was fascinating reading their responses.<BR/><BR/>Ya know, this should have been a guest blog rather than a comment. It certainly is long enough!<BR/><BR/>Spentat -- I asked my husband where his paycheck was and he responded, "Spentat..."Belle's personal assistanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10202017525814542193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138993497339296072.post-15085176430909109822009-03-13T16:23:00.000-06:002009-03-13T16:23:00.000-06:00Although I totally don't get the connection betwee...<I>Although I totally don't get the connection between horsechestnuts and blaspheming.</I><BR/><BR/>There are Horse Chestnuts and a horse's chestnut. <BR/><BR/>Aesculus hippocastanum is a large deciduous tree, commonly known as Horse-chestnut or Conker tree. <BR/><BR/><BR/>A horse's chestnut is believed to be the last vestige of one of multiple digits belonging to eohippus, or the "Dawn Horse", another other being an ergot and the one most civilians are familiar with, the hoof. Explaining how eohippus became Jerry Percheron apparently is an afront to God. <BR/><BR/>Which is why God punished us and took away all the Unicorns.Lisa Deonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10619574582795102959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6138993497339296072.post-14733873407550451282009-03-13T15:35:00.000-06:002009-03-13T15:35:00.000-06:00Bon Voyage to Kid as he rides off into the sunset ...Bon Voyage to Kid as he rides off into the sunset with a little kid on his back. Those camps/schools that use big giant horses to bring little kids out of their dark places really get my respect.<BR/><BR/>I never knew what a horse chestnut was. Being from Tx, I know about horse apples. Horse radish. Horse feathers (my dead old dad's favorite expletive).<BR/><BR/>Plant some basil for me. Ooh.<BR/><BR/>Although I totally don't get the connection between horsechestnuts and blaspheming.Skeeter Demonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00954410466019288295noreply@blogger.com