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Happy Valentine's Day 2019

Happy Valentine’s Day

2019

From

Monday Creek Publishing

Gina, Zubie, and Mac

www.mondaycreekpublishing.com

Longing to Belong

I'm falling harder than I've ever fell before
I'm falling faster while hoping I'll land in your arms
'Cause all my time is spent here longing to belong...to you

I dream of circles, perfect eyes within your face
My heart's an open wound that only you'd replace
And though the moon is rising, can't put your picture down
Love can be frightening when you fall

And when the time is right, I hope that you'll respond
Like when the wind gets tired, the ocean becomes calm
I may be dreaming but I'm longing to belong...to you

Eddie Vedder, Ukelele Songs

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I Carry Your Heart With Me...
(E. E. Cummings)

I Carry Your Heart With Me (I Carry It In My Heart)
I Am Never Without It

(Anywhere I Go You Go, My Dear; And Whatever Is Done
By Only Me Is Your Doing, My Darling)
I Fear No Fate (For You Are My Fate, My Sweet)
I Want No World (For Beautiful You Are My World, My True)

And It's You Are Whatever A Moon Has Always Meant

And Whatever A Sun Will Always Sing Is You
Here Is The Deepest Secret Nobody Knows
(Here Is The Root Of The Root
And The Bud Of The Bud
And The Sky Of The Sky Of A Tree Called Life;

Which Grows Higher Than Soul Can Hope Or Mind Can Hide)
And This Is The Wonder That's Keeping The Stars Apart
I Carry Your Heart
(I Carry It In My Heart)

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This Moment

My Quarter Mare, Ivy Bonanza's Jewel

View more of my horses and farm at

http://www.gmcknight.com

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Coco

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Horse Facts

• A horse isn't considered an adult until it reaches age four.
• A female horse over 4 years old is called a mare.
• A male horse over 4 years old is called a Stallion or a Gelding, if castrated.
• Horses are measured in hands high (hh).
• A hand is equivalent to four inches or 10.2cm.
• Horses are normally over 14.2hh except for miniature horses.
• Anything under 14.2hh is classed as a pony.
• There are over 200 breeds of horses in the world.
• A horse's gestation period (time from breeding to birth) is about 11 mths
• Horses usually live to be 20-25 years old. The oldest horse lived to be 62.
• A father horse is called a sire.
• A mother horse is called a dam.
• A young female is called a filly.
• A young male is called a colt.
• The scientific name for the horse is equus caballus.
• A mule is a cross between a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare).
• Mules are usually sterile.
• A hinny is a cross between a male horse (a stallion) and a female donkey (a jenny).
• Hinnies are usually sterile......

4 Inches Wide at the Knuckles...

The practice of determining horse height in 'hands' stems from the notion that the average man's hand is approximately 4 inches wide across the knuckles (one hand = 4 inches).  Horses are measured from the ground to the highest point on their shoulders; the 'withers'. Anything under 14.2 hands (hh) is considered a pony, and anything between 14.2 - 16.2 hands is a 'light' horse.  

Hyracotherium

The oldest ancestor of the horse lived about 50 million years ago [personally, I do not believe the Earth is that old], and is alternately known as Eohippus (literally “dawn horse”) or Hyracotherium.  The first fossils of this creature – which had hoofed, padded toes and was approximately the size of a fox – were discovered by Richard Owen in 1841. Despite the vast differences in appearance between Hyracotherium and today’s horse, these pre-modern animals were herbivores and exhibited horse-like grooves on their molars.

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Truck-Horses

Among all the sights of the docks, the noble truck-horses are not the least striking to a stranger.  They are large and powerful brutes, with such sleek and glossy coats, that they look as if brushed and put on by a valet every morning.  They march with a slow and stately step, lifting their ponderous hoofs like royal Siam elephants.  Thou shalt not lay stripes upon these Roman citizens; for their docility is such, they are guided without rein or lash; they go or come, halt or march on, at a whisper.  So grave, dignified, gentlemanly, and courteous did these fine truck-horses look - so full of calm intelligence and sagacity, that often I endeavored to get into conversation with them, as they stood in contemplative attitudes while their loads were preparing.  But all I could get from them was the mere recognition of a friendly neigh; though I would stake much upon it that, could I have spoken in their language, I would have derived from them a good deal of valuable information touching the docks, where they passed the whole of their dignified lives.  

Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849

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