--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E1S00006 Date: 01/22/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 06:00am \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 1 times) Subj: snowbirds -> MM :>Someone told me just yesterday that they had heard it had -> MM :>snowed in Phoenix! -> MM :>Tell me it isn't so please! -> -> Richard told me the same thing! I refused to believe it. If it was true, -> Vicki might have a nervous breakdown (g)! Well apparently according to Vicki the snow they were talking about was on op of the mountains only. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E1T00000 Date: 01/23/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 05:47am \/To: VICKI NICHOLS (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: youngsters -> And, BTW, the horse I was jumping was CASEY. The cob. The one who LOVES -> to jump. And has the heart of a BIG horse. Little Casey? Casey is cool. We have a lot of ponies around here that just love to jump. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E1T00001 Date: 01/23/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 05:51am \/To: VICKI NICHOLS (Read 1 times) Subj: Luck? -> MA> Have a great time!! And give my hugs and kisses to everyone! MA> (PS: -> if you're REALLY lucky, Vic might let you drive Spot!) -> Luck has NOTHING to do with it - if they are here and have the time, I -> EXPECT him to drive her! And did! Had a ball too. That was a real fun day we had Vicki. Renee & my Mom are still talking about the top of that mountain! The expensive one that is. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E1T00002 Date: 01/23/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 05:55am \/To: DEBBY TAYLOR (Read 1 times) Subj: Rain -> I wasn't able to ride Saturday so I was planning on riding on Sunday so he -> wind started blowing and it started raining again. I hope it doesn't last -> long. The rivers are still over their banks here. How are you guys oing? -> I saw the weather report and shivered. Well at the time you wrote the avove I was out in your neighborhood watching it rain! Our weather hasn't really been that bad this winter. Not right here anyway. We have had some nasty stuff all around us though. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E1T00003 Date: 01/23/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 06:02am \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 1 times) Subj: cc to Vicki -> Did Mike make it out there OK? Did the weather affect his trip to the Grand -> Canyon? I guess my idea to fly into Flagstaff was really dumb, huh? Yikes! -> The pictures on the news here are amazing! We made it Meg! We did have to make some detours around the closed roads but we did make it. It was wonderful too. We ended up staying in the El Tovar hotel and that was wonderful also. Talk about being pampered... --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E1T00004 Date: 01/23/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 06:05am \/To: BOB KOHL (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: cc to Vicki -> Yep.. 35 degrees with snow flurries at the canyon.. they still went. Well of course we went. A few snow flurries don't stop us Bob. Hell I still can't believe that they had the schools closed in Flagstaff for a week over that. Yeah they had some snow but nothing that would have closed schools for more than a day or possibly 2 here. It was quite cold at the Canyon on Friday morning for the Sunrise. I didn't really check it but I would guess in the single digits anyway. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E1T00005 Date: 01/23/97 From: MEG ALFONI Time: 07:53am \/To: DEBBY TAYLOR (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: youngsters DT :>It would be fun to watch. If you wear a helmet you don't DT :>have to use DT :>your brain.(VBG) Now wait a minute (g)! I always wear a helmet, and because of it, I STILL have a brain! And I use it occasionally, too! Meg --- * Origin: Elizabeth's Revenge (1:330/173) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E1T00006 Date: 01/23/97 From: MEG ALFONI Time: 08:01am \/To: MIKE MAY (Read 1 times) Subj: Merry Christmas! MM :>We are backkkkk.... We had a great time on the trip. We MM :>did have to make a MM :>few detours along the way due to closed roads (for snow of MM :>all things, in MM :>CA!!!). But everthing worked out ok, we got to see MM :>everything we wanted to and MM :>more. We even were able to stay in the El Tovar hotel at Glad the weather didn't hamper your trip too much. The El Tovar!!! WOW!!! We would have killed to stay there, but they were booked about a year in advance when I called. We did have lunch there, though. What a place!! Kind of reminded me of Teddy Roosevelt and that whole rough crew. But with mucho class! We stayed in one of the much more rustic places...and I use rustic in the loosest of terms (g). MM :>Your right about Vicki Meg. You wouldn't believe that a MM :>trip to the top of a MM :>mountain would cost a few hundred dollars now would you? MM :>Did you know that the MM :>Indians out there still attack? Now they attack your MM :>wallet though... Ask MM :>Vicki about this story. OK...Vicki...what's the story (g)? MM :>see them after dark. He does have the means to take some MM :>pictures of them now MM :>though so keep bugging them. Tush is looking pretty good MM :>from what I could see MM :>of her. She sure is a friendly little kid. Well, then, Mr. Kohl, you have no excuses now! Glad you got to see these horses in the flesh, Mike. Shoot, I wish I could see Tush!! MM :>I think that is an excellent idea. In fact Vicki di MM :>mention wanting to visit MM :>some of our historic type areas. You have a lot of them MM :>around you Meg. We MM :>don't ahve a lot of tourist type stuff here but if someone MM :>comes in the MM :>summertime I can show them around for sure. Well, our door is always open! I can show Vicki all around the witch city of Salem (one of my ancestors was hung during the witch trials) and Boston and all the great beaches and great places to go for seafood, etc. Oh, yeah...she could get to see my horses too!! So, Vic, when you coming? Glad you had a good trip, Mike! I was worried about the weather, but sounds like you did just fine! Was the Grand Canyon amazing or what?! Meg --- * Origin: Elizabeth's Revenge (1:330/173) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E1T00007 Date: 01/21/97 From: DEBBY TAYLOR Time: 07:31pm \/To: BOB KOHL (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Slurp -> I wish I could put her out to pasture for a but.. but every time she -> gets really fired up and goes flat out.. she gets sore on the left -> front knee.. Is this because her knees still aren't closed up? Mine go out to pasture flat out after they've been confined for a couple of days. Thank goodness its sand instead of grass at the gate. I can imagine what would happen if they made the turn and tried to go through the gate if there was wet slippery grass at the gate. -> Last week I kept her in the stall for that reason and because it was -> raining.. I've had her out this weekend but found she was causing -> herself the same problem because she's been pawing.. :( How do you break your horses of pawing? Debby --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: The Knights End BBS (1:208/606) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: E1T00008 Date: 01/23/97 From: VICKI NICHOLS Time: 05:24pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: my absence Well, it will probably come as a surprise to most of the people here, but Saturday after I left Mike, Rene, and Margie, I went back home and decided not to. There are a LOT of factors here, not the least of which is that 7 years ago I was spending HOURS every night with my horses and now spend a few hours a week with them due to pressures at home. So I am no longer at that home. I am staying with someone who saw the warning signs a long time before I would admit to them, and there is no computer there, much less a modem. I will try to get ahold of one this weekend, as I really really miss all you guys. But Saturday night I went "home", dropped off the Jeep, picked up my Toyota, and spent the next two nights in hotels. I still haven't been back to Dean's house. I am calling a realtor friend of mine (we used to play together when we were four years old, so I have known him a LONG time) and tell him what I am looking for. Best case scenario it will be a horse property; maybe, though, with just me it would be wisest to leave them where they are for the time being as they have wonderful care extra attention. Anyway, don't worry about me - I am more certain of this than I have been of almost anything in the past twenty years or so. I won't go over any more of the reasons that I left Dean; suffice it to say I had a list four pages long and quit writing as there was no longer any reason to waste my time on so obvious a decison. Since ElseWhere is HIS BBS, I am not sure how much longer I can keep posting here. In fact, I'm not even certain this message will go out. In case someone needs to get in touch with me, the best way is still my pager (602-201-9110), or leave a message with my aunt Barbara (who goes to sleep at 8:30 p.m. and rises at 05:00 a.m.) at 602-265-8513. I really miss all you guys, but I am looking forward to having a life again. Something I didn't tell Meg when she was here that she probably suspected was that the reason they didn't meet Dean and J.D. was that he was throwing one of his temper tamtrums again and being a real @$$hole. Same thing when the Mays were here. I am tired of having him be jealous that of neat people that he has never even met! But then again, he is even jealous of the time that I spend with my horses. I was beginning to believe that I must be a tough person to get along with - but the few friends that I have told about the fact that I left Dean have said things like "Thank God." I ask them why they never said anything earlier, but it's 'cos they are friends. Not sure when I will be back; hope it is within a few days. I think of ALL of you as my friends, and meeting Mike and his family just reinforced that feeling. Vicki --- Maximus/2 3.00 * Origin: ElseWhere (1:114/212)