Curlin
He is my sentimental favorite - bred like Fruit on the top side and Tory on the bottom side, how cool is that? He isn't the favorite right now, but I have a good feeling. Hey, I did pick Barbaro last year, remember?
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He is my sentimental favorite - bred like Fruit on the top side and Tory on the bottom side, how cool is that? He isn't the favorite right now, but I have a good feeling. Hey, I did pick Barbaro last year, remember?
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Check out Corky's very first show with me...with the bad parts cut out!
What exactly IS real life? Is your real life the everyday working life...get up, go to work, come home, eat supper, do chores, do more work in preparation for tomorrow's work? I hope that isn't what 'real life' is supposed to be. My real life is the sleeping in, riding horses, planning horse shows, scheduling vacations, going to the movies, eating out with family, sitting in the backyard painting, taking Pasta for a run.
]]>1.-If you yelled for 8 years,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
2.-If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
3.-The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
4.-A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
5.-A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
6.-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
7.-The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
8.-The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
9.-The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
10.-Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
11.-Butterflies taste with their feet.
12.-The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
13.-Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
14.-Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
15.-A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
16.-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
17.-Starfish have no brains.
18.-Polar bears are left-handed.
19.-Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
20.-Dynamite has peanut oil in it
21.-Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.
22.-Cows and horses sleep standing up.
23.-If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year
24.-The average family will spend $250,000 (thats a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18.
25.-There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran
26.-There is no ice covering Iceland.
27.-The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.
28.-Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots
29.-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
30.-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
31.-There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
32.-Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
33.-Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
34.-The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
35.-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
36.-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
37.-Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
38.-A female's chances of being involved in an auto accident increase 50% on Friday 13th.
39.-There are more chickens than people in the world.
40.-The biggest hog ever recorded was a creature named Big Boy who weighed in at 1,904 pounds.
41.-The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.
42.-Between 25% to 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
43.-During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
44.-You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina
45.-In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
46.-Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
47.-The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
48.-Doodlesack is german for bagpipes.
49.-The US interstate highway system requires that one mile in every five be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
50.-The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane
51.-Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs have only about ten.
52.-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
53.-In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a superman somewhere.
54.-Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
55.-The first toilet ever seen on TV was on "Leave it to Beaver."
56.-The average Lead Pencil can draw a line 35 miles long, or write 45,000 words.
57.-250,000 pink flamingos are sold in the US each year
58.-Sixty percent of Americans can name all 3 stooges; only 17 percentcan name 3 Supreme Court Justices
59.-Nearly half of all Kentucky residents over the age of 65 are missing all of their teeth
60.-The longest Movie ever, was The Cure For Insomnia (1987). It was 85 hours long.
61.-Bill Clinton was paid the largest advance for a non-fiction book, ever. $10 million.
62.-A golden razor removed from King Tut's Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
63.-The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
64.-The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
65.-A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.
66.-The state of Florida is bigger than England!
67.-Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
68.-Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows.
69.-Another word for hiccups is "singultus."
70.-Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest English word that consists strictly of alternating consonants and vowels.
71.-The act of sneezing is referred to as sternutation.
72.-The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have one syllable, it has three.
73.-The markings that are found on dice are called "pips."
74.-The words moron, imbecile, and idiot are not interchangable. The one with the highest level of intelligence is a moron, followed, by an imbecile, and then idiot.
75.-The longest word in the English language is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust.
76.-In the English language there are only three words that have a letter that repeats six times. Degenerescence (six e's), Indivisibility (six i's), and nonannouncement (six n's).
77.-The only three words in the English language to have 2 consecutive u's is vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
78.-The only word in the English language that has 4 sets of double letters in a row is balloonneer.
79.-Police in Hong Kong stopped a man because he seemed to be 'oddly shaped'. He was found to be wearing 18 bras and 45 pairs of ladies' panties.
80.-Kermit the frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
81.-Wilma Flinstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal and Betty Rubble's maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
82.-Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
83.-Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
84.-During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
85.-There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
86.-The average American eats about seven pounds of potato chips a year.
87.-Americans eat close to 10 billion donuts every year
88.-Studies prove it's harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive.
89.-The lips of a hippopotamus are nearly two feet wide.
90.-Taco Bell changed the Chilito's name to the Chili Cheese Burrito, only after discovering that "chilito" was a derogatory slang term in Spanish that meant "small penis."
91.-An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex.
92.-In many cultures, an unmarried woman is considered a virgin, even if she's a prostitute.
93.-The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
94.-For the "wrong handed" people...Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! That means DEATH to Lefties
95.-This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds
96.-Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.
97.-The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia – a Latin term meaning "for example."
98.-The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable – it has three.
99.-The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe
100.-Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C."
Ways to be kind (I stole these, but they are worth re-reading every now and then!)
I wonder a lot about my students and their personal choices. They come from such varied backgrounds. Some have involved parents that take an active part in their children's lives. Some have nonexistant parents - the ones that provide food and shelter and very little else. It's so unfair. These kids are developing the moral fiber that will guide them throughout the rest of their life. Kind of like foal imprinting - what you do now and the experiences you give them today will impact how they see and do things until they die. Scary!
That being said, makes me thankful for my dog and cat. They are pretty well-behaved for animals!
]]>It was about 65 degrees and sunny, not a cloud in the sky. Tomorrow it is supposed to reach 70, but rain. Then Wednesday - high of 40 and snow showers! What the %$#$@#@!
Ya know, for someone who supposedly 'never' does anything around here, the past 2 days I have spent an awfully large amount of time cleaning up a wrecked-messy kitchen from other people. Interesting...
Pasta ran around the yard with me today while I cleaned it up. She was feeling good! Hard to believe she is already 9. She still seems so puppy-like. I can't imagine the day when she is gone. She is always just so THRILLED to see me
Ye gads, it's April. My spring band concert is in less than a month. Holy crap...*insert panic here*
The lack of a proper spring break is really getting to me. That plus I have not taken a sick day this entire school year. Will I get rewarded for my incredible attendance?
NO!
So why do it? I need to take a sick day, and soon! Unfortunately I find it very hard to lie, plus the fact that I have SO much work to do i cannot afford to miss a day. Oh, if only I were more of a slacker, I would probably be a lot more relaxed and rested.
It's almost 10pm. I am going to go sit in the bathtub and read the hundred or so horse magazines and catlogs that came in the mail today, and think about the snow coming this week LOL!
]]>FOUR MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED OVER AND OVER
FOUR PLACES I HAVE LIVED:
FOUR TV SHOWS I LIKE TO WATCH:
FOUR PLACES I HAVE BEEN ON VACATION:
FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS:
FOUR VEHICLES I HAVE HAD:
FOUR PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
Interesting thought, isn't it? Who's to say that you are the normal one and I am the oddball? Who gets to decide what is the norm and what is different or abnormal? In MY world, you are all weird, strange, abnormal, odd, square pegs. More people should be like me - different in an abnormal sort of way.
I am tired of being forced into a slot I don't belong nor fit into. I am the peg that I am, be it square, round, or hexagonal. I will fit into my own space thank you, and there is no need to hack off my corners to fit me into yours.
]]>This is Corky and I today. Corky has mastered a lot of her basics, but the canter transition seems to be the sticky point. It's not that she can't do it, it's that ocasionally (more than 50% of the time!) she chooses not to do it. Once you convince her that cantering off is in her best interest, she does it and is fine.
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Don't worry, it only left a small bruise. But look how beautiful she looks once she finally canters off!
]]>What was the point of this list? NO point. Why does everything have to have a point or a reason? Some things are stand-alone. They don't need a purpose. The most enjoyable things in life are random, scattered, and without merit. Kind of like ME!
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Oh, what fun we have!
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