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Vicki Anne 09-02-2011 07:10 AM


Originally Posted by QKO
Hello and welcome to QB, from western Nevada! Pretty paint!

Thanks...we have a mixed herd. My husband and I own 2 horses but there are 13 in our pastures...children, grandchildren and friends. It keeps us hopping but it keeps the children coming round on a regular basis...that's quite a perk!

Nanaquilts44 09-02-2011 07:31 AM

Welcome from Houston TX!

arimuse 09-02-2011 07:42 AM

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hello! I think we were maybe by watertown a few weeks ago, travelling.
Not sure, I was busy taking pics - this one was taken (in NC)while we were trying to get to Foxfire , which I'd read all the books from the 70s up and never thought Id see the place - which I actually didnt get to see this day either lol.
We drove by a sign and I yelled to hubs turn turn! We drove up over and down a gravel mt road only to be stopped at the gate - With the roads we drove I can't see how this guy got this far w/o falling off a cliff!
anyway, my point was, nice to see you all on horses! safest way to travel in my book! lol sharet

charlotte37830 09-02-2011 07:58 AM

Welcome from Oak Ridge, TN.

Aquarius 09-02-2011 08:32 AM

Hello and welcome from Ontario Canada

carolynjo 09-02-2011 10:43 AM

Welcome from East Tennessee! Happy trails to you--Snail Trails, Winding Ways,etc., as well as horse trails.

Sew and Sew 09-02-2011 01:52 PM

Welcome from another Tennessean (Lafayette). Don't you just love Jan's shop..........The Country store quilt shop.....I do love this board. I am a nurse and work in Hermitage, part time.Love the country, and used to love horseback riding......arthritis prevents that pleasure now. Have two grown children and two grandchildren. Love my senior years.

MargeD 09-02-2011 02:41 PM

Hi and welcome aboard from Lowell, MA. You certainly sound like a very busy woman.

becca1231 09-02-2011 03:16 PM

Hello from Missouri

Tennessee Suzi 09-02-2011 04:02 PM

Welcome from middle east Tennessee!

Cyn 09-02-2011 04:39 PM

Hi and Welcome from NC!

jojosnana 09-02-2011 04:48 PM

WElcome from Michigan. Spare time....I laughed. You are very busy.

Thumbelina 09-02-2011 05:51 PM

Hi and welcome from NE Ohio.

Scrap Happy 09-02-2011 05:52 PM

Hello and welcome from Florida. Love the picture of your family and your horses.

scrappy fay1 09-02-2011 05:58 PM

Welcome from Rockvale, Tn. I'm new to this forum to.

birdgirl 09-02-2011 06:01 PM

Hi from Washington.

TymeToShine 09-02-2011 07:21 PM

Welcome from one of your Tennessee neighbors...am guessing you mean the Country Store Quilt shop in Watertown?

MelodyWB 09-02-2011 07:28 PM

Hello..welcome from Arizona !!

Vicki Anne 09-03-2011 04:00 AM

[quote=arimuse]hello! I think we were maybe by watertown a few weeks ago, travelling.

WOW...I have seen our horse trailer close to that position before. Last year in fact, I had got out to shut a gate behind us...it was on a sharp incline but no curve. This has never happened before but the truck died and my dear husband had it in gear...I was just going to be a sec...no power no brakes. He had the good sense to use the emergency brake but it took 50 feet or so for him to figure out what was going on. You can bet I was scrambling to get out of the way! What "adventures" we have as we travel along. ;)

Vicki Anne 09-03-2011 04:02 AM


Originally Posted by scrappy fay1
Welcome from Rockvale, Tn. I'm new to this forum to.

Hello neighbor.

Vicki Anne 09-03-2011 04:03 AM


Originally Posted by TymeToShine
Welcome from one of your Tennessee neighbors...am guessing you mean the Country Store Quilt shop in Watertown?

That's right...Margie Harris and Ms. Edna Forbes. Very sweet ladies.

Vicki Anne 09-03-2011 04:05 AM


Originally Posted by carolynjo
Welcome from East Tennessee! Happy trails to you--Snail Trails, Winding Ways,etc., as well as horse trails.

Thanks...we make it over your way about once a year. Cades Cove is a beautiful fall ride.

pollym44 09-03-2011 06:32 AM

Hi from Ms.

arimuse 09-03-2011 09:16 AM

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[quote=Vicki Anne]

Originally Posted by arimuse
hello! I think we were maybe by watertown a few weeks ago, travelling.

WOW...I have seen our horse trailer close to that position before. Last year in fact, I had got out to shut a gate behind us...it was on a sharp incline but no curve. This has never happened before but the truck died and my dear husband had it in gear...I was just going to be a sec...no power no brakes. He had the good sense to use the emergency brake but it took 50 feet or so for him to figure out what was going on. You can bet I was scrambling to get out of the way! What "adventures" we have as we travel along. ;)

I don't know how the guy got into this position, I don't even know how he could have driven that far up the mountain in a pickup let alone with a trailer attached! It was so very steep and had such sharp turns - we were in a peanut car and I was worried!
Foxfire was up the road nearly a mile and I would have walked BUT it was extremely hot, I was not in climbing shoes and the road was dirt, the incline was insane, and I'm old, not crazy. Where he was stuck backed right over a real steep down hill too. There was an electric gate there, too that locked up Foxfire when no one was up there I presume - he ran into the post that held the operating keypad. There were people on the upside of the road around the curve waiting for an emergency crew to get him out of there. Hubs thought he could squeeze around him, but the ditches on the roadside were 6 feet deep - no way did I want him to try.

Hubs promised to take me back thru there since we accidentally stumbled on the real Foxfire site.
We did the same thing a few yrs ago on a weekend trip thru N GA. We were going to Helen cus he wanted to show me how the town was set up like a Bavarian village. On the way we came across the official Cabbage Patch Hospital, where the cabbage patch dolls are born. I didnt think there was a real cabbage patch hospital!
My MIL made cabbage patches - I just had to stop! What a place! dolls everywhere, a nursery, a premie room, an office where you could go in and make an adoption with papers and everything; and every hr you went to the mother cabbage tree and could watch a new baby born. The gallery could shout out the new name once they said it was a boy or a girl, clerks running around dressed like nurses, lol.
Poor hubs! He was the only guy in the building!!!

here is the down hill shot of this trailer. Our car is parked at the very bottom and hubs is talking with the Foxfire help way back - you can see the rut he dug sliding back down the hill at the curve. sharet

grandjan 09-03-2011 09:35 AM

Life is good! Especially in Tennessee. Welcome from Greeneville.

Maresan 09-03-2011 09:38 AM

Welcome. Something I always wanted to do and yet to do it, ride a horse. Your life sounds wonderful.

mariebaker 09-03-2011 08:33 PM

greetings and a warm welcome from Colorado :thumbup:

Little Sue 4.9 09-07-2011 12:24 PM

Hello and welcome to this fabulous board from Little Sue 4.9 in Myakka City Fl

Vicki Anne 09-08-2011 05:27 AM


Originally Posted by Little Sue 4.9
Hello and welcome to this fabulous board from Little Sue 4.9 in Myakka City Fl

I'm a Florida girl myself...born in Sarasota!!! Have you lived in Myakka a long time?

wuv2quilt 09-09-2011 08:50 AM

Hello & Welcome from North Carolina :)


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