Ch-ch-ch-changes. (Or: All good radicals learn to find odd work.)

Sorry, folks, there’s not going to be much action around here for a while.

For those unaware, I’ve started my own sleigh and carriage ride company and reached an agreement with a soon-to-be-named resort in Stowe to get the ball rolling when the snow flies.

I’ve been doing sleigh rides in Stowe for the past three winters as a freelancer for another company, Gentle Giants. But the time was right for me to start my own endeavor.

This new draft-horse gig will require three horses, three sleighs, and a couple of part-time employees/drivers. And, I’m pleased to report, I’m only one sleigh short of those goals. It’s been rather hectic around here.

I’ll be using my trusty Belgian, Big Jim, for the bulk of the rides on the six-person sleigh. My jet-black Percheron/Canadian, Bart, will be pulling the “romantic” couples sleigh. And the brand-new (to me) dappled grey Percheron mare, Annie, will be filling in for the boys when they need a break and teaming with Big Jim when the soon-to-be-acquired 12-person sleigh is obtained.

It should be interesting.

For now, it’s horse training and exercise time, with every extra moment spent on hopeful thoughts about a very snowy season.

Thanks for your patience.

Comments

  1. Peter Buknatski says:

    Jesus. From The Waltons to My Friend Flicka. What this site needs is a good dirty pome:

    Elections And The Fake Orgasm

    oh babie babie hope and change
    hope and change hope and change
    hope and…ahhhhhhhhhhh!

    was it good for you my fellow Americans?
    I need a cigarette
    whew…

    Mr. President?

    yes Christine

    that was my very first time
    and I didn’t feel a thing
    I don’t think anybody
    felt anything

    well shit O’Donnell
    do it to yourself next time
    jeez…I know I got off
    you got a light?

    no and Mr. President
    I don’t think you should be
    advocating onanism…

    i thought that was onerism…

    no onanism
    and God killed Onan
    for spilling his seed
    it’s in Genesis
    so I don’t think you want to
    advocate an act unnatural
    to God’s law on national TV

    shit you’re one smart honky bitch
    you know O’Donnell
    I like to do a good screwin’
    almost every day
    like the last Pentagon budget
    and restoring off-shore drilling
    in the Gulf heh
    I really got off on that one

    well Mr. President if you’ll permit me
    I really think there’s something lacking
    in your technique
    I mean when George and Dick
    screwed…bad word…fornicated people
    you knew you were getting fornicated
    you really felt it

    well shit I…

    nobody is feeling it Mr. President
    nobody cares
    look at the liberals and the lefties
    do you see them marching in the streets?

    well maybe you could conjure up
    a spell Chrissy?
    I hear you’re into that stuff

    no Mr. President
    that was when I was young and naive
    before I found Jesus
    at a tea party
    may I make some suggestions?

    go ahead shoot your load

    lower taxes on the rich
    permanently
    eliminate estate taxes
    permanently
    make abortion a capital crime
    like terrorism
    raise taxes on the poor
    no health care
    no child care
    send gays to Guantanamo
    reinstate the draft
    put the dollar bill on the flag
    shut down the Internet
    and make the disabled
    go out and work for a living
    people will feel it

    you know…hey let me try it
    come ‘er

    tax the poor tax the poor
    hope and change hope and change
    save the rich screw the kids
    kill the Net jail the gays
    hope and change hope and…ahhhhhhhh!!!

    that was better Mr. President
    I think I’d like a cigarette now

    yeah and I gotta raise the taxes
    on these things too
    how’s that for a screwin’?

    very good
    and don’t forget junk food
    and baby food

    yeah
    you know Chrissy
    maybe I will get rid of Biden in ’12
    wanna get together?

    oh Mr. President
    people would really feel that
    you’re such a stud

    hope and change babie
    wait til next year
    all of this has been foreplay
    I’m gonna hope and change
    their brains out
    hope and change their sorry asses good

    and don’t use protection

    right
    and no health care

    thank you Mr. President
    I feel so…well…fornicated

    and I didn’t even use my hands
    well keep your tits up Chrissy
    I gotta go try this shit on Michelle
    tax the poor tax the poor
    the black poor the black poor…

    yes Mr. President
    give it to her good
    give it to her once for me
    oh my……………….

  2. Robert Frost says:

    Great image presented in that poem!

    Perhaps you should see if the Free Press or Times Argus or Seven Days would publish it. I don’t see why they would object.

  3. Peter Buknatski says:

    Actually, I refined it a little (some minor word changes) For Missy Beatie from COUNTERPUNCH cause she wants to send it to Cindy Sheehan. So what I got here on Moike’s blog is like the rough cut–close enough for government work. (At least, Michael, it ain’t a birdies go tweet pome, like all this Waltons stuff–”Goodnight Boots; Goodnight horsies”–you’ve been posting lately.

    Actually already did send it out to Seven Days (they ain’t got no sense of humor) and some other sites. I should see if I can get through to Shouts & Murmurs at The New Yorker–can’t wait to put it up on GMD and Get PC Purged again.

  4. Peter Buknatski says:

    Yawn…I think it would be better if you could get CHAMP to give the sleigh rides. Then you could say: “Better tip me good; my horse is hungry.”

    “What kind of horse is that?”

    “A water horse.”

    “A quarter horse?”

    “CHAMP–Dinner is served!”

    I expect your next post to be political and, hopefully, politically perverse.

  5. montpelier28 says:

    Excellent!! I need to see these horses, I used to work at Mt View Stables in Barre many decades ago. The ower had “Big Sam” 1/2 Canadian work horse, he was awesome. Phil P would ride him in all the parades. Beautiful, huge, horse.

  6. Peter Buknatski says:

    COME ON, MICHAEL!!! I got a hot comment from Donny Osman from Oct. 12 I want to put up on your next ‘homespun’ post. So put up something–ANYTHING–about Aunt Bea and Opie and Barney.

    Jesus F!

  7. Peter Buknatski says:

    Well, I guess this is our October Surprise. Michael has absolutely no dirt or comments to offer on the big Hope & Change ORGY, Nov. 2.

    Must be he plans to run in 2 years.

    Yeah, on horseback. That would be convenient though. Right after he’s sworn in, we can hang him.

  8. montpelier28 says:

    Why are you not commenting on the election results, It’s exciting, things are close, fun in politics. The rest of the country is falling apart though, its very bad. Russ Fiengold is losing, only one who voted against the Patriot Act.

  9. montpelier28 says:

    I voted for Boots, that was fun too, Chris Erikson works too hard to not get any votes. And I got a sticker.

  10. dilldawg says:

    Snarky Boy shot himself while sighting his gun in for dear season……….to bad to becuase that was going to be the first big push for the new business. Sleigh ride hunting, for 100.00 a head you get all the Coors Light you can drink, one bullet and a chance to shoot people in Stowe. Oh course you had to have a valid Vermont drivers license

  11. Peter Buknatski says:

    DEMOCRATS could Fuck-Up an AMBUSH.

  12. Peter Buknatski says:

    Vt. La-Las As The Nation Burns

    “Hey man Shumlin won man
    Far out man”

    “This was worse than ’94
    Almost as big as ’48″

    “What are you talkin’ about man?”

    “The nation just went down the shitter
    Republicans won over 60 House seats”

    “What House man? Shumlin won man
    “The Democrats won the House man”

    “The US HOUSE you nitwit!”

    “Oh that House man
    So? Shumlin won man
    We’ll get Heath Care man”

    “Do you think for one minute
    A Republican Congress will allow that?
    Do you think what goes on in the nation
    Doesn’t effect Vermont?
    What and HOW exactly do you think?
    Do you think at all?”

    “But man Shumlin won
    Man…”

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