History on the hoof

 

1. Dear GOD how I love Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson is a genius.

   Posted by cmblake6       01/30/2009  at  12:01 AM  



2. Gotta go with you on that Blake.  I remember paying $40 to get my hands on “Broadsword and the Beast” when you just couldn’t get it ANYWHERE in that format.  I had to special order it from Montreal.

   Another fun moment:  Going to the special collections area of the university I went to, to have them get out a copy of “The Horse-Hoeing Husbandry” by Jethro Tull, who the band was named after.  Follow that link, you can read it online now if you want!  (Google has digitized it.)

   Ye gods, I just searched for it on Alibris (a rare books site) and found a first edition published in 1733, currently in Rochester NY if I wanted to go pay the princely sum of $3,721.94 for it.  O_o

   Posted by Argentium G. Tiger       01/30/2009  at  08:49 AM  



3. I have no idea what you are talking about [yes I know who Jethro Tull & Ian Anderson are, not quite that out of it in the 70s] - but damn some mighty fine horses there. We had a Percheron mix once - General Custer. He was he!! on our fences as he loved to lean over and eat the greener grass on the other side - but he was butt chicken scared to death of the little (and nasty as they come) Shetland Pony we ended up taking - so scared he ran straight through a barbed wire fence to get away from him one day (he’d already jumped it once in the same endeavor).

   The two main functions of Heavy Horses (battle and farming) are dying quickly - thus the fading of the Heavy Horse. Alas Belgium has found the next best use - food. Wonder if that will catch on anywhere else.

   Posted by wardmama4       01/30/2009  at  10:46 AM  

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