things that make you smile

[bumkin]

@bumkin have you got any pictures you can post? even a camera photo of an album would be very welcome.

unfortunately i have no old farming photos the only ones i have are of a few years ago when a neighbour took some photos of us combining

 

[JP1]

 

[Will 1594]

The new girl, Lithuanian cashier in local garage ,mmmmmmm

 

[yellowbelly]

The new girl, Lithuanian cashier in local garage ,mmmmmmm

Getting your fuel in 5 litre fills now then?

 

[fred.950]

Getting your fuel in 5 litre fills now then?

I have deliberately put exactly £69 of fuel in my truck just so the attractive cashier lady says “69 sir?”

 

[primmiemoo]

I'm pretty sure that has to be some sort of camera trickery to make those mules look quite so huge.
There was one at the Tillingham flower show a couple of years ago, and it surprised me just how big it was though. I don't know what I was expecting, but not as tall as a very big horse, and a lot heavier built. It was moved around in a horsebox pulled by a bright yellow Rolls Royce.
Mule ears are immense!

Do the traces look a bit on the short and steep side, maybe?

If either mule felt mulish and either kicked out or sat down, there'd be matchsticks and much enflattening

 

[JP1]

 

[Shovelhands]

The work experience lad was apparently asked reel up the extension cord and put it away

it really should be in the grinds your gears thread, I mean, it’s not feckin rocket science! But heck we laughed and laughed when we saw it

 

[Poorbuthappy]

My son's entry on the shopping list-

 

[Kidds]

I’ve worked horses and a mule, they just don’t grow that big. The biggest mules I’ve ever seen were in Portugal, no more than 16 hands at the very most.
The tale of a couple of my semi gypsy mates going over to Portugal to buy a big donkey to breed mules from was hilarious. Neither spoke the language, one decided to take charge of the negotiations as he felt he was the more competent at speaking very loudly and slowly while waving his arms.
They bought what they thought was a very big donkey but the one that got shipped over was a different colour never mind smaller. They did breed mules off it though, my mate bought one. I took him to collect this lunatic creature, it jumped out of the skylight in the barn it was kept!
The procedure to catch it was explained to us. The seller would lasso it with his genuine American lasso, he would then tie the lasso to a telegraph pole upright in the barn. The mule would struggle like mad to escape and eventually strangle itself and collapse unconscious. At this point we were to leap upon it and fit a head collar.
It was as mad as it sounds but not as cruel as it sounds. Having my mate in charge of the head collar wasn’t a good plan, he didn’t know how to fit one.

Nice to look back at the time of horses but there was an incredible amount of severe cruelty by today’s standards. You must have seen the images of donkeys being worked to death in Egypt and such places, it was no better here.

 

[Kidds]

Ps. The pic is just one I found on google. It’s not me.

 

[Shovelhands]

Sometimes it’s the simplest things

and today it was this epic double rainbow that made me smile! Amazing! One much brighter than the other, but undeniably a double and the colours so vivid. The wonders of nature

 

[sawdust]

Sometimes it’s the simplest thingsView attachment 803078 View attachment 803080and today it was this epic double rainbow that made me smile! Amazing! One much brighter than the other, but undeniably a double and the colours so vivid. The wonders of nature

2 pots of gold to collect

 

[bovrill]

Sometimes it’s the simplest thingsView attachment 803078 View attachment 803080and today it was this epic double rainbow that made me smile! Amazing! One much brighter than the other, but undeniably a double and the colours so vivid. The wonders of nature

I had a lovely view of it coming out of Burnham earlier.

 

[Shovelhands]

I had a lovely view of it coming out of Burnham earlier.

No doubt you were at the end of it, filling your pockets

 

[bovrill]

No doubt you were at the end of it, filling your pockets

It looked to be out on the marshes from where I was.
They just have the gold fall in their laps without trying out there!

 

[Pan mixer]

From mine it was on your farm Bovrill.

I missed the full brilliance of the double rainbow whilst trying to suckle a calf on an angry cow who was on the cull list last year for being angry - then her Dad snuck over the fence (broke 27 posts) and now she will be having another summer at grass.

 

[sawdust]

From mine it was on your farm Bovrill.

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I missed the full brilliance of the double rainbow whilst trying to suckle a calf on an angry cow who was on the cull list last year for being angry - then her Dad snuck over the fence (broke 27 posts) and now she will be having another summer at grass.

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[JP1]

 

[Pan mixer]

I can't believe that nothing has made anyone smile since last Thursday, what a miserable lot we are....

To get this thread back to the top;-

1.) 67 likes the other day.

2.) Snail porn.