CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Albert1434]

Aloha Marty 

[Albert1434]

Aloha Gary 

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5 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha Gary 

Hey, Albert.     

[Albert1434]

How is things Page 

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1 minute ago, Albert1434 said:

How is things Page 

Doing well. We're having almond-crusted pork chops, smoked Gouda mac and cheese, and roasted Brussels sprouts for dinner. 

[Albert1434]

Were having Steak with Sauce Robert and spinach scalloped potatoes 

 

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2 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Were having Steak with Sauce Robert and spinach scalloped potatoes 

Sauce....Robert?     And it's never occurred to me to add spinach to scalloped potatoes.

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Wow. 200 Amtrak passengers were trapped on a grounded train for nearly two days. After they were bailed out, one woman just laughed "It could have been worse!" 

[Albert1434]

Recipe for sauce Roberts

https://www.thespruceeats.com/sauce-robert-recipe-996112

 

[Valkyrie]

5 hours ago, Thorn Wilde said:

A good friend of mine has a, don't know what the breed would be called in English, a Norwegian breed called Nordlandshest. He's over twenty now, too. He's so patient and such a sweetheart. They took him on the metro once to film an ad. He was cool as a cucumber the whole time.

I spent a summer working with Norwegian Fjord horses.  They were a lot of fun, especially to drive.  

[Albert1434]

Aloha Val 

[Thorn Wilde]

1 minute ago, Valkyrie said:

I spent a summer working with Norwegian Fjord horses.  They were a lot of fun, especially to drive.  

Fjord horses are lovely, too. I've known a couple. When I was in kindergarten one of the teachers ran a riding school. We got to go there a couple of times to ride the Shetland ponies, and they had two Fjord horses there as I recall... 

[Valkyrie]

4 hours ago, Thorn Wilde said:

They're lovely, though not very big. Most horse breeds native to this part of the world are technically ponies. Like the Icelandic horse or the fjord horse.

OMG I don't know how Norwegians are with the fjord horses, but here, if anyone calls a fjord horse a 'pony', the people who own them flip out.  Even though they're pony size.  🙄  Icelandics are awesome too.  I've never ridden one though. 

[Valkyrie]

4 hours ago, Thorn Wilde said:

This is my friend's horse on the metro in Oslo, lol! 

Awww what a darling horse  

[Valkyrie]

4 hours ago, Headstall said:

I've actually been thinking of purchasing a decent, simple camera. All I have is the one on my phone, a Galaxy S3, which is seriously outdated. I bought my daughter the camera she uses the most, back when she was in college... if memory serves me, it's a Canon Rebel XS something... I remember researching one Christmas, and deciding on it, along with a macro lens... It came with two others, I think... anyway, I'm always walking, and I live in beautiful countryside... maybe I can chase some light.  

And take some pics of Falkor...  

[Thorn Wilde]

2 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

OMG I don't know how Norwegians are with the fjord horses, but here, if anyone calls a fjord horse a 'pony', the people who own them flip out.  Even though they're pony size.  🙄  Icelandics are awesome too.  I've never ridden one though. 

Haha! Yeah, they're like that here, too.  I've ridden a couple of Icelandics... Or, I say ridden... I've sat on them while someone led them, mostly. But that special gait of theirs, tölt, is a very different feeling from the gaits of other horses.

[Valkyrie]

1 minute ago, Thorn Wilde said:

Haha! Yeah, they're like that here, too.  I've ridden a couple of Icelandics... Or, I say ridden... I've sat on them while someone led them, mostly. But that special gait of theirs, tölt, is a very different feeling from the gaits of other horses.

Yeah I've ridden gaited horses before, but not the tolt.  There's a farm that raises Icelandics near one of my BFFs.  She went to a show they held there once and took some video.  It was quite different from the hunter/jumper and dressage shows I used to compete in. 

[Marty]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha Marty 

 

 G'day, young Albert!  

 

Sorry, can't stay. Fasting overnight (blood tests tomorrow) and have the munchies. Heading to bed now before I give in to my cravings.

 

Night all! 

 

[Thorn Wilde]

1 minute ago, Marty said:

 

 G'day, young Albert!  

 

Sorry, can't stay. Fasting overnight (blood tests tomorrow) and have the munchies. Heading to bed now before I give in to my cravings.

 

Night all! 

 

Goodnight, Marty! Good luck with the blood tests.   

[Albert1434]

1 minute ago, Marty said:

 

 G'day, young Albert!  

 

Sorry, can't stay. Fasting overnight (blood tests tomorrow) and have the munchies. Heading to bed now before I give in to my cravings.

 

Night all! 

 

I did Blood tests a week ago and when to the doctor today they came out perfect 

[Thorn Wilde]

16 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

Yeah I've ridden gaited horses before, but not the tolt.  There's a farm that raises Icelandics near one of my BFFs.  She went to a show they held there once and took some video.  It was quite different from the hunter/jumper and dressage shows I used to compete in. 

When I was a kid there was a theme park near Oslo called Viking land. They put on historical (but child appropriate) plays, had actors walking around dressed in period appropriate clothing who would look at a gameboy and go, 'What sorcery is this??' Fun place. They also had horses, and you could ride them round this little track. So that's where I got to try tölt. Sadly, they closed it down sometime around 1999 in favour of expanding the next door amusement park's area for new rides. Sad, really. It was very educational. Kids learned a lot of history and mythology both there.

Edited February 27, 2019 by Thorn Wilde
darn typos...

[Valkyrie]

Page 500!  @Timothy M. is that an interesting number?  

[Albert1434]

I would say but of course 

[Valkyrie]

6 minutes ago, Thorn Wilde said:

When I was a kid there was a theme park near Oslo called Viking land. They put on historical (but child appropriate) plays, had actors walking around dressed in period appropriate clothing who would look at a gameboy and go, 'What sorcery is this??' Fun place. They also had horses, and you could ride them round this little track. So that's where I got to try tölt. Sadly, they closed it down sometime around 1999 in favour of expanding the next door amusement park's area for new rides. Sad, really. It was very educational. Kids learned a lot of history and mythology both there.

OMG That would have been my favorite place as a kid.  

[Albert1434]

Thats funny Val I knew your would say that