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Omar Khayyam

Fitzgerald:Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of SpringThe Winter Garment of Repentance fling:The Bird of Time has but a little wayTo fly–and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

Mallards

Life CycleMallard courtship begins in the fall and by winter pairs will have formed. If a pair is part of a migrating group, the pair migrates to the female’s territory. The female mallard lays eight to ten eggs in a nest on the ground. Nests are depressions in the ground and are usually [...]

Gullik N. Rye and Emma Thompson-holy matrimony-1916

Well, I don’t know if he used that buggy or not to go a courtin.

But I’m thankful to them for my being here in the year of our Lord-2009. And as my Father left Norway at 16 to live here in the greatest country on God’s green earth!!!!

My father,Gullik, on the right,-brother-peder-1913

No sulky but a real go to calling vehicle of the day.Gullik Nelson Rye-Hills, Minnesota-1913.

Did he use this vehicle to go calling on my Mother, Emma Thompson?

Dawn,Cinnimin and me-1965

We didn’t send our donkey to college because no none likes a smart ass.

Dawn, Katie and ewe

horses

Our Katie with her fold, Dawn-Riverside, California-1965

Memories and coincidence-horses-home-family

I have been sharing my love for horses and also the stories of our home made sulkies and the pictures of the Arabian horse show in Scottsdale. Well, yesterday, I had the good fortune to have lunch again with my son, Dan, here in Phoenix.I was just dying to tell him about the horse [...]

Memories-horses and sulkies

We called the two wheeled things sulkies.

On the farm in Minnesota we had one made of buggy wheels with a board behind the shaft to sit on and I remember once coming home from the south eighty that either my sister Beverly or Vivian fell down between the shaft and ran like the dickens [...]

If there’s no heaven for horses, there’e no heaven for me

We attended the Arabian horse show in Scotsdale last Sunday and all of the horses and events were fabulous.