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Merry Christmas to all and a happy new year

stay safe,avoid Santa

I will add my "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" to all that have already been offered. I plan to go to Kansas City on Thursday morning to be with my daughter and son-in-law. The storm that Pat mentioned is scheduled to arrive in eastern Kansas about noon on Thursday. I may have a hard time getting back home after Christmas.
Dallas

dallas wrote:I will add my "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" to all that have already been offered. I plan to go to Kansas City on Thursday morning to be with my daughter and son-in-law. The storm that Pat mentioned is scheduled to arrive in eastern Kansas about noon on Thursday. I may have a hard time getting back home after Christmas.
Dallas

Have a safe trip Dallas.

I have depositions in Jackson Hole next week, and with my kids being out of school, a little snow may actually benefit us, travel weather permitting, for a change.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!

Tom

The best of Dickens is still alive if you look hard enough Pat.

Wow. I don't know how common it is but I've never seen an articulated sleigh of such small size.

Sandy

I posted this excerpt years ago, but this seems like a good time to bring it to the fore again. It is from " The Trotting Horse of America; How to Train and Drive Him. with Reminiscences of the Trotting Turf" by Hiram Woodruff- J.B. Ford and co., New York.1868

"I may here observe that Ripton was one of the best mud-horses that I have ever seen. From his general characteristics, one would scarcely have supposed that he would go dashing along through the mud when his stroke was throwing it all over him, and the spats were hitting him under the belly almost in shovelfuls. But so it was. In snow, too, he was capital,- without any exception, the very best sleigh- horse that I ever pulled a rein over, and I have driven many of uncommon excellence. Next to Ripton, Gray Eagle was the best horse for snow that I have ever known. It made but little difference to the former whether the sleighing was good or indifferent, for he would go through icy water and slush as if he liked it.; but it made a great difference to the driver.
"Our principle sleighing-place was from the pavement to Harlem Bridge, along the road; and many a time I have driven Ripton the length of it at wonderful speed. Great fun, sleigh-riding, when the air is keen and frosty, the sky clear, the snow deep and crisp, and you can dash along at a rate down in the thirties with confidence that your trotter will hold out to the end. Ripton was one of these,- the best of them, the King of Sleighers! What a peal his bells would ring as he passed down Yorkville Hill, pounding away with those white legs of his as if he would strike down to the ground, no matter how well packed and deep the snow might lie. Here would be a group at this house, and another at that, taking their hot toddy to keep the cold out; and as they heard the swift shaking of the bells, and the fast stroke of Ripton's feet like a charge beat upon the drum, they would run to the door and windows, and crowd the stoop, and cry "Hallo ! here comes Hiram and the white legged pony !" It's more than twenty years ago since those times; and there is no jingling of the sleigh-bells there now, no matter how deep and good the snow may be. The street railroads have done for all that"

selewis wrote:Wow. I don't know how common it is but I've never seen an articulated sleigh of such small size.

Sandy

It is a piano box buggy ("Doctor's Buggy") with the wheels replaced by hub runners. This used to be a common practice in the winter. Below is a picture of it with the wheels on taken a few days before:

Thanks Philip. Neat arrangement. I've heard of that but never seen one before.

Sandy

THE SUN IS OUT SANTA 'S DROPPED THE KIDS PRESENTS MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM DOWN-UNDER NEW ZEALAND CHEERS MAL BEACH TOMORROW!!!

Philip S wrote:

selewis wrote:Wow. I don't know how common it is but I've never seen an articulated sleigh of such small size.

Sandy

It is a piano box buggy ("Doctor's Buggy") with the wheels replaced by hub runners. This used to be a common practice in the winter. Below is a picture of it with the wheels on taken a few days before:

Buggy in Boalsburg barn.jpg

I'd forgotten you had a doctor's buggy. We had the conversation mentioning them the other day, and I should have recalled you had one. Pretty neat buggy.

hbtoday98 wrote:THE SUN IS OUT SANTA 'S DROPPED THE KIDS PRESENTS MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM DOWN-UNDER NEW ZEALAND CHEERS MAL BEACH TOMORROW!!!

Neat photo. Sort of looks like some of the country around here.

I wish a Merry Christmas, and a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all. :<{)

A Safe and Merry Christmas to all from the Mud Capitol Of America.

Merry Christmas everyone!

A Merry Christmas to all everywhere, happy holidays, and wishing you a great 2010! Cheers!

Merry X-mas and Best Wishes for the New Year! Tom

The 104th Cav at Christmas:

http://photos.salemhistory.net/cgi-bin/ ... DMROTATE=0

http://photos.salemhistory.net/cgi-bin/ ... DMROTATE=0

Pictured are members of the 104th Cavalry sitting at tables at the Fairgrounds on December 25, 1943, with their guests. The soldiers are in uniform. The tables are set with place settings and plates of food. Some are sitting on chairs while most are sitting on bench seats. The walls and windows have greenery on them.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone and ay all our and allied soldiers go to their homes safely