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Mustangs Coast to Coast
6/20/13, 11:52 PM
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Those kids are very talented!
Well I decided to buy a new bike before I left Germany. Purchased a 2013 Harley Street Bob, hopefully I'll get to pick it up next week. The fact that it would cost me at least $3500 more in Hawaii was a huge factor. I'mm be sure to post pics once I pick it up.
Well I decided to buy a new bike before I left Germany. Purchased a 2013 Harley Street Bob, hopefully I'll get to pick it up next week. The fact that it would cost me at least $3500 more in Hawaii was a huge factor. I'mm be sure to post pics once I pick it up.
6/21/13, 12:06 AM
No, it was me, my judgement is a little clouded right now. I instantly knew what you meant when I read it again.
My grandpa and some of his buddies played a lot of fairs, bluegrass festivals, etc. in the region. I've actually got some recordings of them playing back in the 40's and 50's. I've got a newspaper clipping somewhere with a picture of them playing at a festival with my dad as a small child dancing/clogging on stage with them, lol.
I've heard stories from the family that my grandpa would take my dad (the only boy and the baby) when he was 4 or 5 years old to restaurants and stuff and pick banjo, guitar and fiddle and my dad would dance for change from the customers.
Then his much older sisters (my aunts) would con him out of his money he made. They would trade him nickles for his dimes and tell him they were worth more because they were bigger.
My grandpa and some of his buddies played a lot of fairs, bluegrass festivals, etc. in the region. I've actually got some recordings of them playing back in the 40's and 50's. I've got a newspaper clipping somewhere with a picture of them playing at a festival with my dad as a small child dancing/clogging on stage with them, lol.
I've heard stories from the family that my grandpa would take my dad (the only boy and the baby) when he was 4 or 5 years old to restaurants and stuff and pick banjo, guitar and fiddle and my dad would dance for change from the customers.
Then his much older sisters (my aunts) would con him out of his money he made. They would trade him nickles for his dimes and tell him they were worth more because they were bigger.
6/21/13, 11:24 AM
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I thought Charlie might like this, and Patrick too (I think I remember him saying he was trying to learn to play banjo.).
I'd seen these brothers on a few tv shows over the last couple years and was really impressed. Been watching some of their stuff now as they've gotten a little older. Truly impressive kids. They are all really good musicians, but the little guy with the banjo (that's bigger than him,lol) and the young man with the fiddle are amazing. Not that the older boy isn't great too, but everyone seems to play guitar, for the little ones to play instruments that are becoming obscure and not that popular is super cool to me. Especially a genre that most people overlook and don't appreciate anymore.
Such impressive young men, so talented. I wish I had an ounce of that talent.
I'd seen these brothers on a few tv shows over the last couple years and was really impressed. Been watching some of their stuff now as they've gotten a little older. Truly impressive kids. They are all really good musicians, but the little guy with the banjo (that's bigger than him,lol) and the young man with the fiddle are amazing. Not that the older boy isn't great too, but everyone seems to play guitar, for the little ones to play instruments that are becoming obscure and not that popular is super cool to me. Especially a genre that most people overlook and don't appreciate anymore.
Such impressive young men, so talented. I wish I had an ounce of that talent.
6/21/13, 11:25 AM
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6/21/13, 11:49 AM
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6/21/13, 03:23 PM
Thought you might like it. Those kids are amazing. Love how they got the name for the band (Sleepy Man Banjo Boys). Apparently the little guy couldn't hold that big banjo very long when they were practicing, so he'd lay down on his bed and pick and have his eyes closed like he was asleep.
6/21/13, 04:12 PM
Have you seen this story today Charlie? 
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/22...s-in-rossville
Edit, found another story...
http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22649694...rossville-farm
Ever heard of any of them?
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/22...s-in-rossville
Edit, found another story...
http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22649694...rossville-farm
Ever heard of any of them?
6/21/13, 04:26 PM
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Have you seen this story today Charlie?
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/22...s-in-rossville
Edit, found another story...
http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22649694...rossville-farm
Ever heard of any of them?
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/22...s-in-rossville
Edit, found another story...
http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22649694...rossville-farm
Ever heard of any of them?
6/22/13, 03:39 AM
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6/22/13, 03:37 PM
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Who knew? 
Ore. group wants to use horses like bloodhounds
Posted: Saturday, June 22, 2013 1:30 pm
TERREBONNE, Ore. (AP) — An Appaloosa gelding named Joker took 2 minutes and 20 seconds earlier this month to find a carefully hidden volunteer in a 13-acre, semi-wooded field near Terrebonne.
Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins watched, astonished, as Joker and rider George Ehmer, 66, of Milton-Freewater nosed out the hidden volunteer.
It was a dramatic and spectacular demonstration of what practioners call "equine air-scenting." The event was organized by a loosely knit central Oregon group that hopes to use horses in the role of bloodhounds during backcountry searches.
"They've definitely got my attention," Adkins said. "That was a pretty difficult search because the wind kept changing on us. That horse just went right over there and zigged and zagged and zoomed right in."
Horsewoman Kate Beardsley of Redmond arranged the search demonstration with Laurie Adams of Camp Sherman. They are assembling a team of a dozen air-scent trained horses and riders that they hope eventually will be deployed around the Northwest when hunters, hikers and others go missing.
"A lot of people don't know that horses do this at all," said Beardsley. "Laurie and I are focused on saving lives."
The ranch-raised Beardsley, 47, said a horse's olfactory receptors rival those of a tracking dog. As a horse trainer, professional horse packer and founder of a non-profit horse rescue called Mustangs to the Rescue, Beardsley owns two horses schooled in air-scent techniques and has helped organize air-scent clinics here for six years.
While little-known, the concept has been around awhile.
"I call it the lost art," says horse trainer Terry Nowacki of Argyle, Minn., who began reviving the techniques about 11 years ago. "It is the best-kept secret in the horse world."
Theodore Roosevelt was aware of what horses' noses can do, and hired a hunting guide in the 1880s that "followed his horse's nose to buffalo," according to Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris.
Four decades earlier, a mustang called Sacramento repeatedly saved explorer Col. John Fremont's life by scenting enemies along the trail, wrote frontier historian Glenn R. Vernam. Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie also wrote of horses with exceptional noses in his 1952 book, "The Mustangs."
Tracking dogs can outperform horses in thick underbrush, said Nowacki, 57. But horses often hold the advantage because airborne scent rises and horses stand taller than dogs, he said.
Another plus for horses: A tired horse opens its nostrils wider, exposing more olfactory receptors, said Nowacki. A dog, on the other hand, pants when tired and overheated, diminishing its scenting ability.
http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/ar...a4bcf887a.html
Ore. group wants to use horses like bloodhounds
Posted: Saturday, June 22, 2013 1:30 pm
TERREBONNE, Ore. (AP) — An Appaloosa gelding named Joker took 2 minutes and 20 seconds earlier this month to find a carefully hidden volunteer in a 13-acre, semi-wooded field near Terrebonne.
Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins watched, astonished, as Joker and rider George Ehmer, 66, of Milton-Freewater nosed out the hidden volunteer.
It was a dramatic and spectacular demonstration of what practioners call "equine air-scenting." The event was organized by a loosely knit central Oregon group that hopes to use horses in the role of bloodhounds during backcountry searches.
"They've definitely got my attention," Adkins said. "That was a pretty difficult search because the wind kept changing on us. That horse just went right over there and zigged and zagged and zoomed right in."
Horsewoman Kate Beardsley of Redmond arranged the search demonstration with Laurie Adams of Camp Sherman. They are assembling a team of a dozen air-scent trained horses and riders that they hope eventually will be deployed around the Northwest when hunters, hikers and others go missing.
"A lot of people don't know that horses do this at all," said Beardsley. "Laurie and I are focused on saving lives."
The ranch-raised Beardsley, 47, said a horse's olfactory receptors rival those of a tracking dog. As a horse trainer, professional horse packer and founder of a non-profit horse rescue called Mustangs to the Rescue, Beardsley owns two horses schooled in air-scent techniques and has helped organize air-scent clinics here for six years.
While little-known, the concept has been around awhile.
"I call it the lost art," says horse trainer Terry Nowacki of Argyle, Minn., who began reviving the techniques about 11 years ago. "It is the best-kept secret in the horse world."
Theodore Roosevelt was aware of what horses' noses can do, and hired a hunting guide in the 1880s that "followed his horse's nose to buffalo," according to Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris.
Four decades earlier, a mustang called Sacramento repeatedly saved explorer Col. John Fremont's life by scenting enemies along the trail, wrote frontier historian Glenn R. Vernam. Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie also wrote of horses with exceptional noses in his 1952 book, "The Mustangs."
Tracking dogs can outperform horses in thick underbrush, said Nowacki, 57. But horses often hold the advantage because airborne scent rises and horses stand taller than dogs, he said.
Another plus for horses: A tired horse opens its nostrils wider, exposing more olfactory receptors, said Nowacki. A dog, on the other hand, pants when tired and overheated, diminishing its scenting ability.
http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/ar...a4bcf887a.html
