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Skriven 2010-07-27 23:10:12 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: Horses (Good, free email addresses in the States)
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Hello Bob,

On Tuesday July 27 2010 08:28, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> 15 miles is along way on a horse.

 BA> About 2.5 to 3 hours.  As opposed to 8 hours to walk it.

As opposed to 20 minutes by motorised transport.

 MvdV>> Postman does not come to your door?

 BA> Nope.  He doesn't stop at the mailbox out on the street, either (it's
 BA> about 50 yards from the street to the house).  I don't think *any*
 BA> postmen in the US deliver to actual houses any more, they'd have to
 BA> get out of their trucks to do that.

Here if the door is moor than 10 meters from the street, they want you to put
up an outdoor mailbox. But they dont use cars here to deliver mail. Mailman
usually comes on a bike.

My father had a cottage in Ireland. The house was 200 meters from the road. The
mailman always came to the house for delverey. He would also accept outgoing
mail.

 BA>>> I have the space for a horse,

 MvdV>> You need about an acre (100x100 meters) of good quality land to
 MvdV>> have the horse feed off the land.

 BA> I havve two acres, and could probably talk my neighbor into selling me
 BA> two more; the area just south of my south fence is a drain for the
 BA> road and the area west of it, thus it's very muddy.

If it os all mud, it won't feed the horse. You need grass and graas dry enough
for the horse to walk on without making a muddy mess.

 BA> The problem will be keeping the horse *away* from my apple, peach,
 BA> pear, apricot, cherry and nectarine trees and away from the
 BA> blueberries.  And, of course, out of the vegetable garden.

Ah, yes, that will be a problem. You will need a decent fence for that. When
sufficiently motiviated horses have a talent for crashing fences. And what you
have there sounds like good motivation. ;-)


Cheers, Michiel

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