Hey Chet!

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.I must confess, I don't have the model year. .I know there must be some memories behind this one.

Call that a motor?

Continental Stile?

Just so the girls don't think I just write for them.

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Isn't it amazing what a day will bring.

Nice huh?

Just cruising.

Yes, there are times when I think of other things than horses. Looking at some old machine always gets me thinking of the "Long and Winding Road" .

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Where has the CLASS gone?

.Grand Pah knew how to build a machine.

.I'm not one who believes in living in the past, but they really did a good job working with what they had. Awesome!

.Time to go to the fire, Dream, and have a cold one.-----Mikey.

.PS---as always-----love----m.

"Just a Swinging"

.I Know Easter. This machine is haunted.

.It took me so long to load these photos I forgot what Just a Swinging story was all about. This means you will have to put captions on the photos yourself! By product of "Some timers Disease" Please forgive me. I mean Loaded!

Just a Swinging.

Love ya-----mikey.

Not a CW Song, Just the "Facts Mamm", just a swinging after the Monsoons. One sure way to know you have his attention: both ears are forward!
Oh MY.

Long way from "Fire Season", see ya soon----mikey.

PS---YOU KNOW-----m.

Monsoon cont.

.Dude at Sunset.
These guys have so much fun when it rains.
The long hot days of Summer are no problem so long as they stay powdered up. When it rains they enjoy getting the mud to stick, roll like pigs in it. Nature provides benefits to animals people find hard to understand. I know these guys are happy.

Easter is the best, my brother Pat helped me build a loafing shed for him several years ago. Easter thinks it's an out house. Most times he just rolls in the elements waiting for his next meal. Love ya boy.

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Dude's not used to his reflection, probably wondering who that is.

Sure wish I had the day off to be here, just to take the photos, I have seen the fun in the past.

There must have been a couple real "Gully Washers" today. The soil here absorbs the water like a sponge, standing water never last long in the valley. The steep hard rock slopes in mountains around are a different story. Flash flooding concerns need attention when ever the rains occur. One time looking west, a storm was pouring water on the mountain at the same time sun shining on the slopes reminded me of tinsel covering a Christmas tree, beautiful. Reflections are a good thing, so many variables.

HELLO JACKIEJO

Looks like you have been having fun! Tell me girls don't like to get dirty. Back "In The Day" her world would be different, my competition career needed talent like this. Now just enjoy the comfort owning nice horses always will bring, and they're not pets.

Toby-- needs to go to school soon. Yes boy time is moving along for you too. Cooling weather brings the worst out in young stallions, we all remember teenage behavior. Not impressed with "Horse Sense" at that age. Not from horses either.

My luck, just have to take what I can. Nice days in Summer are rare here. The temperature fell twenty degrees in one day; breezes mild; humidity up; gust in front of rain clouds; so nice.

Pastel colors warm the soul easing anxieties that need not exist anyway. Enjoy the time we have to "Smell the Roses", that's the "Horse Sense"of living that makes sense now.

.Not likely to be a fire tonight--------mikey

PS------as always Love-----m.

Beware--08/16/09

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A conversation with someone I Love prompted me to hand write the following script. Since I had no net access, write your thoughts down in the "Dead Tree Style", save it for sometime later. Recently I found a writing that seemed to be something to be shared.

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Title----Beware.

.Beware.

.I recall spending so much of my early years searching for my destiny. Sitting here remembering the early years, how really lucky I was to be so naive.

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Naivety seems to cost you in the long run, yet affords the freedom of imagination. Taking things at face value before being disappointed by reality when it rears it's Heartbreaking Head. Reading between the lines, something seemed disingenuous of the need to start this way.

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Later in life this becomes a conditioned reflex brought on by reality. The powers of self preservation must now rein in the personality of Freedom and Imagination, for the Security from Heartache and Ingenuity.

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Lost innocence from searching the world around us, playing event after event at face value seems to be a generational downfall to the honest, yet naive.

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Providence only, explains surviving it. The hidden agenda behind the smiling face becomes all too clear, all too often.

.BEWARE.---------mikey.

.ps----love----m.

OK girls- this ones for you!

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Just to let you know, we still have a sense of humor on the LMA.

A little known fact....


The first testicular guard, the "Cup", was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
Ladies....Quit Laughing.


Love Ya------m.

Mid August---Yep

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.I don't care Toby.
.Oh well, this whiskey taste awful good. Just kidding kids! I don't feed Toby whiskey. He sure could fool me now, looks like he needs a nap.
.Here is something that came to me via E-mail, enjoy it's so August.
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.The fewer words, the more poignant. Nice poem.

.Yes time marches forward, the rhythm of life has no end as long as we are here. Thankfully I am blessed, for reasons I can't justify, I'm just thankful that I'm still here. The quality of life I enjoy is something to share with the young people in our family to give them hope for our mutual path. My fondest desire is following generations have their own history to pass on. I know full well that everyone of them will be tested in this life. Having met them, my concerns are minimal, I am related to their mothers, and Grandmothers. Thankfully they had a good start in life. Personally it never occurred to me that life would be easy, because I was never told that it would be. Thank You MOM. Is this the part where the TRUTH hurts?

. Because of the frankness of people I love I have enjoyed a very good life out here in the west. Sorrows and regrets- I have a few- not many, hopefully we pass this on. My belief is that we speak frankly to our young people, and they will be able to move forward just as we did. No more generation gaps, because we are all people, and family.

.Some of the people who influenced me the most in my life were quite a bit older than I. They probably never saw the fruits of their wisdom and advice to me. The multi million mile reflections I have in this period in my life are usually a thank you to these people.

.As you all can see now, I am not very poignant, so it is time to go do some work; have a cold one; and talk to you later. Visit when you can---LYB---LMA.

.PS------LOVE-----m.

OK! Does this Qualify?

Well I don't know, if you don't like the weather wait ten minutes.

I Know it's early!

Easter feeling Good.

.Geez Dude, don't give me such a hard time. I just didn't feel like working all day. Save the attitude, You know how much I love the Monsoon season, besides I only took off two hours early.

I know; I know; you call that a Monsoon? On the Anvil---YES!

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.Here they come! This tells me Summer is in full swing.

.Do you remember as a child going to Grandma Adamson's in the summer, and going through the garden; Apricot tree; and Grape vines? I do.

Every time I see something growing on the vine, I become a child free grazer again.

.Call that a Monsoon?-----Out here---YES!

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Really Cool. .
Dude, nice to see you changed your attitude. Does this mean you want to eat now?

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I'll take that as a yes.

.Oh no! Did I forget who comes first around here Easter?

.Are you watching me? Is I'm sorry going to work? Fooled ya big boy, I put you at the top!

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Yes; here on the LMA life takes on a less serious tone; no one needs to get all "Up About It", "It's Early Yet"! Thinking about childhood memories in Idaho is one of my favorite pass times now, reflections are coming easier especially when my dear friends have long conversations about people we have known and lost track of. My most frequent conversations are with the Sprucetree QH Ranch in Homedale. My dear friend Jerry and I have many paths that crossed over the years, very interesting, lucky we never travelled together.

.There are some Interesting books---that don't need to be written.

.There are reasons for one set of footprints in the sand.

.It is for you who know to understand.

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This machine has decided that I am going on to long. So in the spirit of the LMA, I thank you and good day.

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PS---walk as always in the spirit of love------------m.

Dust Bowl Legacy

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.Sorry, no photos.

.Recently my sister informed me of a family Reunion,her and Aunt Eileen have planned for the Murphy's. My mind went back to my earliest memories of the family I was born into. It seems to me that for some reason I have been forced into quite a few Multi Million Mile reflections lately. OK, here I would like to remember my Grand Father as I remember him. (Grandma would take more space than the Internet has.)

.What was the last conversation I had with Grandpa?--- What do you want Mike?---- Nothing Grandpa, I just wanted to know what you think, a conversation with you. answer---Mike, I don't think anything anymore, I don't have anything to think with.

.I thought he was just dismissing me, until I found out they had buried him a couple of months ago.


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Yes we all have memories, that one is not my favorite. My favorite's are about how he brought his family out of the "Dust Bowl" to Idaho and made a future for his family. No excuses, no snivelling, and "God Help You" if you piss Grandma off. Fidelity to the family has aways run deep in our family. Rising out of survival, and self determination, do it or starve. I believe that Ideology made the family what it is. We had no other choice, no one owes you anything. Just use your brain and get by.

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Should anyone look at the children coming to our reunion I hope they remember the people who brought us here first. These children we have been Blessed with will absolutely make their forebear's proud!

.Some are far enough along now they have their own problems. Life will test us all. These are decent people that my parents can be proud of, sorry I woke up one day and realized " i am not worthy", really.

.My fondest memories include stories of Grandpa's garden. That was serious business there. The fastest way to his S-list was to step on one of his vines. This is here for a reason, respect the garden, you might need it someday. This is not a hobby.

.Oh I am looking so forward to A FAMILY reunion.


.God were those tomatoes good!


.Just my take on things.


Going to the fire place now----no fire yet---but OK!----m.


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PS-------As always----walk in Love----m.

Can you believe it's August already

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This is just a little post for the sake of posting.

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As things roll along here at the LMA all the hard work has been worth while I guess. The grapes are coming along; horses rolling in the powder to protect themselves from the elements.

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I sure miss the fire. Did I mention it is hot here? Can't believe all the years I worked as a carpenter in Arizona. Amazing what you are able to do when you were young, today, no way.
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Looking out the window reminds me, when people ask, why did you move from Las Vegas to Sandy Valley? It's not what I do see, It's what I don't see!

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No one can run away, I know this. As long as Easter is happy, I'm happy. August makes me happy because I know the Anvil is going to start cooling soon.

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Hibernation season is here. This is why I don't have much to report. Posting just to let you know I just want to say Hi.

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Maybe when the sun goes down I'll take some pictures and start a fire---------mikey

.PS-----------LYB-------------m .