Volume 6 , Issue 15

Okie's NW Corner

It has been beautiful weather around the NW parts earlier this week until Friday, 9 April 2004, when a cool front and showers brought approximately 1/2 inch of rain in our NW corner -- with promises of more cool, wet stuff to follow this weekend. Southern & Central parts were hit with tornado warnings and hail. We spent most of the weekend vaccinating horses and getting ready to vaccinate more horses next week. It may be a bit cooler, wetter this weekend, though, for all those Easter bunnies, bonnets and parades.

Speaking of Easter... do you remember or have any memories of Easter parades in your neck of the woods? Were there Easter Bonnets on parade or just picnics in the park with egg hunts by the children? Do you remember the lyrics to that famous Irving Berlin song, Easter Parade? (See lyrics towards the bottom of Oakie's NW Corner). My Easter bonnett is a tan/red, embroidered farm cap that my friends brought me back from the Shawnee Horse Sale last weekend. It is tan with a red bill and a horse embroidered on the front and reads, "Wagner Quarterhorses, Alva, OK."

Besides getting a refresher course at Parelli's Horsemanship - 2-day seminar last weekend (saturday & Sunday, 3 & 4th April 2004) at OKC State Fair Arena last weekend -- We saw our OSU Cowboys barely get beat by 2 points when Georgia Tech advanced to the Final Two at San Antonio, Texas. BUT... Monday, Connecticut Yukons wiped out Georgia Tech... I am told. I missed that game because we were working horses and updating our horse database with new horses/ 2004 colts. We did get re-motivated to begin working on our own horses again this Spring, though. Now... If we can just find enough hours in the day to try out some of the things we learned/re-learned.

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