Thursday, July 4, 2024

An Unexpected Find Along The Pony's Route

Every day is an adventure for The Pony. His job is like a box of Forrest Gump's Mama's chocolates... he never knows what he's gonna get. Some days it might be a dog bite. Some days an orange or a fresh tomato handed to him. Or some days, something like THIS:


Isn't that just the cutest thing??? It's a HORSESHOE CRAB!

In other news, the three-foot alligator that was released into the local Backroads lake is still on the loose...

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  1. I have been working on a fairy garden and isn't it a shame that I have no horseshoes! I could make some to hang out with my growing frog population of oddities! Baby girl gave me a hot pink frog while still at the campground. I was in the throes of making toadstools for my eclectic garden. I was using bowls and flower pots and using the tree stumps where I had cut down some dead trees as the bottom of the toadstool. My eyes glimpsed said pink frog and I realized I had a plastic bright yellow pot. I painted some hot pink dots on it and paired it with my pink frog. On the upswing of moods, things are getting REALLY eclectic! HeWho lets me be in my current bi-polar state and even compliments my efforts! It does occur to me that he finds me scary.

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    1. Too bad you had to leave your eclectic toadstool garden behind! But you can make another one!

      HeWho knows who butters his bread! I'm betting that it's not so much that he finds you scary, but that he's afraid of losing a good thing if he casts so much as a side-eye your way!

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  2. I love that horseshoe crab! So darn cute. I have a decorated (by me) horseshoe over each of our doors, for good luck. They are a great material source for people who can weld, obviously, as this little crab shows. Ranee (MN)

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    1. I hope your horseshoes have the ends pointing UP. Because, you know, Eddie Haskell told Wally and The Beaver that the other way lets the luck drain out.

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    2. Heh, heh! Can't go wrong, following the advice of Eddie Haskell...

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  3. that's the cutest horseshoe crab I ever saw. Maybe I should get a horseshoe and hang it for the luck I never seem to get any of.

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    1. Couldn't hurt! Unless it falls on your head!

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  4. That is so cute! I love it and will send this to my welder. Oh, you don't have a welder? I thought everyone did.

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    1. I have a live-in welder! His name is Hick. It's one of the trades he jacks around with. Also, HOS (Hick's Oldest Son) used to keep his welders helmet out here.

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    2. After I posted that, I just knew you would say Hick was a welder. I wish I had a live-in welder. Daddy could do everything. I have never had a guy who could do much of anything along the trades.

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    3. Hick sometimes overestimates his talents, but he CAN do almost anything in the trades, even if not very well. He's a hands-on person. Instructions just get in the way!

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