Do you like Mules?

[Guest guest]

You might like my little video I just put on to You Tube then.

I see all kinds of things when I travel from farm to farm, but what I saw at

Brook LeVan's

Sustainable Settings farm outside of Carbondale, CO struck a chord in me clear

down to

the bone. You see my grandpa raised Kentucky Black Mules throughout his farm

career.

He died two months before I was born so I was named after him (and my other

grandfather who'd also died the same year).

On their Kansas farm, my mother grew up riding, training and plowing with mules

as she,

like all farm kids did back then, helped raise whatever dad raised.

Twyman could

buy big mares for $0.25 a piece during The Great Depression in Kansas because no

one

could afford to feed them. He would breed them to his stable of black jacks and

sell the

mule colts for $100 each, or more for teams, to the TVA for dam building

throughout the

'30s. Their farm was healthy and prosperous as a result of all these mules.

That, and the

fact that he also knew how to make mountain moonshine too but that's another

story!

When I saw these huge Quarterhorse -sized mules I got cold chills and couldn't

get

enough of them! I didn't want to leave! Check out my little video. It's pretty

bad really, I

only had my point-n-shoot still camera but I couldn't resist making a little

movie of these

beautiful creatures.... let me know what you think...

Winter

[Guest guest]

Will,

I LOVED your video! Where did you find that song? It was

so catchy. My whole family was tapping their toes. I

taught my youngest (he just turned 3) to hit the replay

button with the mouse. Because I was tired of having to

come back in the room every 2 minutes to replay your

video. Once he learned that, he played it over and over

for at least fifteen minutes straight! I'm not kidding!

What kind of mules are they again? They look like

horses. When we finally find land, I might have to get

me some.

Therese