dpshaffer wrote:
...I've been shoeing horses for 42 years and still going strong...
I envy you! Thanks for the info.
Finally sold my 200# anvil and tools five years ago when moving into this retirement facility. Never did move completely away from blacksmithing. However did quit horseshoeing after high school and the military but continued to enjoy an ornamental iron work hobby.
Ah yes, old home week for me too. Living on the outskirts of a large city was the perfect place to grow up with a horse - I was 13 when I got mine. To provide for him I apprenticed with a furrier - the best time in my young life. Your photos are so familiar, we worked out of an old panel truck, sometimes sleeping in it when out on a customer's ranch when shoeing multiple horses. We had a circuit through the Texas hill country we would travel around at different times of the year.
I'm curious about what it cost to get a horse shoed these days. Back then (late 40's) when we went up from $4 a head to $6 we really had to look for work but figured we were in business and needed to break even with expenses. We liked the ranch circuit because we never were hungry - always had lots of fresh vegetables and beef produced on those ranches. We ate with the rest of the hands while there and always enjoyed good conversation.
Thank you for your post this morning, wonderfull images!
When I do that my photos are upside down...grinnn.
Unless that was an innocent, honest incident I feel sorry for a person like that - I can't imagine how tormented his fake life must be among good folks like you.
Trophy beard on the last one!
The last one with the flowers beginning to open for the new day is outstanding! (Of course ALL are beautiful.)
Searching through UHH with the obvious wrong worded question. What I'm wondering is why some double downloaded images are so much more specifically detailed than others? Some seem to Zoom in very far and others hardly at all - greater file resolution?
Good one! (Found her then zoomed back out and lost her.)
OMG, even statues take selfies!
Interesting - just turned to this page and was about to type the very same "want ad". Should you get responses of any for sale but not needed please alert me to them, thank you.
There ought to be a "Super Ingenuity" page on this forum!
Plenty of power available! Nice image.
A friend hikes around there and has a little bell hanging off his backpack - I asked if that was a bear dinner bell...
Great shot! (Most definitely a picture in a picture here too!)