Dan-isms

I have had several request lately for an update on my blog, or lots of you wondering why I havent posted any new installments lately. Well frankly, Ive been working more and Ive been a little too lazy to write anything. However that doesnt mean the I havent still been running ideas and comments thru my head at an alarming rate. I moved all the horses around today, re-arrainged my pens in preperation for weaning my foal. With the heat here in AZ you kind of have to work in shifts. Especially if you have a real job and you dont have gobs of time to yourself. Obviously thebest time for outide activity is in the morning. With the temperature at 95 degrees at 7:am this morning. I had a small window of opportunity to move two fences made up of Panels, move the broodmares to one side of the barn, the yearling and the weanling to the other side. Put up an outide pen for Fish, and move Martha and Barkley to the south side where they can each have their own runs. Of course Martha couldnt care less. The Mares and weanling did as they were supposed to without any fanfare at all. But of course Barkley, big Stud that he is, or thinks he has become, didnt take kindly to being moved away from his little band of mares. The way he carried on, Screaming and Hollering at them, running around his stall, he even though he was tough enough to take a poke at me. Of course in my sweaty overheated fat state that was when I produced the stall fork and tried to beat him to death with it. He knew he had gone to far when I arrived back at his stall fork in hand, but it didnt stop me from giving him a few choice wacks with it anyway. He still has to remember who really is in charge. The funny part is, he knew at the exact moment that he took a poke at me that he had lost all train of rational thought and I was going to whip his ass because he went immediately to the back of the stall and put his head down waiting for the halter. Too Late! Needless to say the mares couldnt care less where Barkley is living as long as he is not bothering them. He was the only one making any fuss at all. Back the the Halter issue. Which is an issue, I have only had one horse in training since last August and for some reason I have one halter at my house. ONE. I have 8 horses living here and ONE halter. I dont break halters and leadropes, I havent travelled anywhere, I have no idea where they have all gone too. Pictures of the weanling to follow soon, I took some this morning I just have to get them downloaded and uploaded to the net. She is WAY freaking cool.
I have really nice neighbors. Except for the pigs up front but that is another story and I am having enough trouble being in a good mood today so we will discuss them at a later date. I have just decided that they are all either the stupidest people I know, or the laziest. They work hard. Have nice kids. And dogs the bark all day long. The neighbors to the west work all the time and in their defense are never home to listen to it. The neighbors to the east however work from home and listen to their dog bark its ass off everytime they turn it loose in the yard. There usual excuse is Fred is stupid. Well I have decided that Fred is not the stupid one, it would be Freds owners. I know this because I have shot Fred with the pellett gun enough times for barking that I can go outside and shake the gun, or pump it a couple of times and Fred shuts his mouth and runs back to the house. Obviously Fred is not the stupid one.
I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you about my road rage incident last week. I was on my way home from work in the late afternoon, It was a really hot day, and the heat effects me adversly. The lady in the lane immediately to my right decided to change into my lane at the last minute before her lane ended and ran me off the road and up the curb into the median to keep from her hitting me. Now I know she knew the lane ended because I chased her home to yell obscenities at her and she lives in the neighborhood just one mile away. I also know that she saw me before she ran me off the road because I could clearly see her face look in the mirror of her Escalade as she looked back at me and moved over anyway, and then sped up when I started to pursue her. At one point she was actually driving 80 miles an hour thru her neighborhood trying to get away from me. Just imagine me all red faced and pissed off chasing her to her house. I was smart enough to stop on the street and roll down my passenger window and scream at her while she drove in her garage and put the door down. I'm sure that she didnt manage to call the police on her way because she could barely keep control of the Escalade until she stormed into her garage. I have written down her address and intend to leave her with a note and a copy of the bill I had to pay when I had to have the Vette aligned because of the impact with the curb. I seriously think that she is the one who needs to be beaten with the stall fork. Its the weather the heat affects us all.
I have taken the time away from writing in my blog to actually read some of our chocolate presidents book. The Audacity of Hope. It should have been called The Self-riteousness of Color. I was actually amazed to read all of his Ideals and hopes for this country. It also completely maps out just exactly how he intends to run this country. Nothing he has done to this date deviates at all from what he wrote he intended to do. The amazing thing to me is that some of the very things he complains about. Mainly partisan politics. Are some of his most agregis faults to this day. I expect this to continue throughout his presidency considering his history and where he started his political career. Chicago. Where if some of you are old enough to remember the Daly family. Is some of the most corrupt politics in the land occured and continue to thrive to this day. He does have a very eloquent and moving way of making his point. It is very easy to see why so many people have become endocrinated blindly into his way of thought. Much like one of the world most notorious leaders of the past from Germany. I am somewhat surprised at the level of loyalty that he manages to command, unless you look at the demographic that he affects. Mainly the young, and percieved oppressed, and the foreign work force that he promises to take care of. That group of individuals knows nothing of Chicago politics, or the travesties of WWII. Its been too long in the past and not emphasized enough anymore in school to have an impact on them. It is completely understandable why the foreign work force support him. Things are so bad where they were born, that they will grasp on to anything that will makes things better for them. Frankly who would blame them.
I have found a fantastic website. www.secureborderintel.org . It is a website that is made up of hidden cameras along the Mexican/American border both in the San Diego CA area and the Yuma AZ area showing some of the illegal traffic that is pouring into the U.S. It makes for some interesting watching. But keep in mind. Our Head of National Security, Janet Napolitano says our borders are secure.
Well I think I have probably rambled on long enough and its time for me to get to work. Until next time.