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The internet was not working the morning after the storm and the roof was too slippery to climb without any aids. So we girls had the bright idea of throwing a rope over the roof. Wasn’t easy. Grace threw it all the way over the peak and to the gutter on the far side. But the gutter is about 20 feet off the ground. So we had to throw the rope over one of the lower kitchen roof just to reach the original rope. All this took about two hours. My skirt had gotten wet and frozen so stiff that I could hold it out straight and Grace wan’t very dry either. Any body want a bath? A cold Mrs. Tibbs. 
 Sassy, Sophie, and Jessie. Sassy has another scar to add to her already numerous collection. Everytime you turn your back she hurts herself.  

“We’re cold. We’ll pay you anything you want if you let us in the house.”

Quartum ago annum et octogesimum; et hoc queo dicere, non me quidem eis esse viribus, quibus aut miles bello Punico aut quaestor eodem bello aut consul in Hispania fuerim aut quadriennio post, cum tribunus militaris depugnavi apud Thermopylas, M’. Glabrione consule, sed tamen, ut vos videtis, non plane me enervavit, non adflixit senectus, non curia vires meas desiderat, non rostra, non amici, non clientes, non Hospites.  whew. :-) 

This is terribly funny.

Sarcophagus comes from the Greek words “Sarx” meaning flesh, and “Phagien” meaning to eat.

Herodotus noted that early sarcophagi were carved from a special kind of rock that consumed the flesh of the corpse inside. In particular, coffins made of a limestone had the property of consuming the bodies placed within them, and therefore was also called sarkophagos lithos (flesh-eating stone). All coffins made of limestone have this property to a greater or lesser degree, and the name eventually came to be applied to stone coffins in general.

Note: I copied most of this from Wikipedia but I first found out as the title of my post informs.

Since I last posted, Grace has gone to another show. This time she brought home a first and a second place trophy as well as several ribbons.

Now that Jed has moved out, we girls posses our own rooms. But some time around the moving process I lost a blouse. ( now that I’m thinking about it, I’m noticing it is the very one I am wearing in my profile picture) Since I only have two blouses, this is a major problem. I have rummaged through the house, top to bottom, twice. From the attic, to behind the dryer, to the outside garbage bins.

I’d better end this post. For one, it’s bedtime. For another, the glare from the computer is hurting my eyes and shortening my temper.

The show was divided into three age groups of 12 and under, 13-17, and 18 +. Grace was the only one who was in the 13-17 group, and on the bottom end of it too. So, they bumped her up into the adult group. She won four 3rd’s. One of those doesn’t count a lot because there were only three competitors, but in one part she beat three adults and came in third behind two others.

Jessie was well dressed for the show, with her ears and whiskers trimmed and a neat little bridle path cut with the proper instruments.

During the “mares at halter”

In the one below, she is at the very left of the line.

Below, during the “walk-trot”

Once again she is at the very left of the line
Now displaying her trophy and three ribbons.