Mules anyone?

[NancyNGA]

How to Harness a Pair of Mules
So complicated. I'd rather turn a key. layful:

 

[Aunt Bea]

Ya can't make this stuff up, British Tri-ass-letes!

Reminds me of our Hyacinth and poor dear Richard, LOL!!!

 

[Falcon]

Cute, Aunt Bea. 3 Nice little animules.

 

[NancyNGA]

Stanley Andrews, first host (1952-1963) of Death Valley Days

Sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax (Boraxo)

 

[wvnewbie]

Grew up on a farm - no mules. Neighbors did have some. I did NOT know that mules are often kept with livestock for protection from predators. Locally here in WV, I have met two farmers who keep the coyotes from their livestock with a mule!

Great thread everyone - Thanks!

 

[Meanderer]

Washington Phillips, a peddler, part-time preacher and gospel singer, with his mule cart.

Nearly 90 years ago, a peddler and part-time preacher arrived at a makeshift recording studio in Dallas carrying a strange instrument and a fierce aversion to spiritual hypocrisy.

"The producer Columbia Records had sent down from New York was baffled by the man's contraption, cataloging it simply as a "novelty." But Columbia liked Washington Phillips' songs enough to record him five times from 1927-1929, in sessions that produced some of the era's most beautiful and beguiling gospel music".

 

[Meanderer]

Tourists visit Seven Fall in this 1899 photo. Photo identified on back as "Archibald Easton of St. Louis with wife and son at Seven Falls." 1899. John Lipsey Photograph Collection, courtesy of Pikes Peak Library District, 304-2336. Naturalist James Hull opened Seven Falls as a tourist attraction in the early 1880s. A local entrepreneur paid Hull $500 for the privilege of taking passengers by carriages, burros and horses to the falls for 25 cents each, according to a history on the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau website.

 

[Meanderer]

Probably a repeat....but a good one!

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[dkay]

There is a small rural town in the Texas panhandle called Muleshoe. This is the historical marker that is located there, sort of a strange dedication to the mule.

 

[Meanderer]

"Bill Aldrich of Muleshoe Texas" by Sherrod Fielden

 

[RadishRose]

[h=2]United States Soldiers pay tribute to the 8 million Horses, Donkeys, and Mules that lost their lives during World War I, 1918[/h]

In the early 20th century this group of soldiers struck a pose

 

[MeAgain]

Anyone else think that mules are beautiful? I especially like the tall red ones. Must be the ears. Never had a desire to own a horse, but if I did, I'd pick a mule instead.

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Young mule and its mama (horse)

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Anyone here ever own one? Ride down the Grand Canyon on one?

Beautiful! Never a mule but had some fine donks. Went to Mule and Donkey Show up in Chatsworth Georgia about 20 years ago and seen some very beautiful mules.

Hubby and I had to get rid of our equine 15 yr ago. it was hard to do. But found them good homes with right to check on them to make sure they were being treated fair. Turned down several before we found good ones.


Here is my Rosie with her pet rooster Lucky. She was a solid. She was having a bad hair day in this pic.