Alan Skeoch

Year: 2018

  • ALIVE! SOMETHING IS ALIVE IN THERE! (opossum)

    SOMETHING ALIVE IS IN THERE!  YUCK!

    (Oposums are here  to stay…Climate Change)
    alan Skeoch
    august 2018
    “Yikes, there’s something alive in the watering can.”
    “Never!”
    “I touched fur…and  it moved.”
    “Whatever  it is, looks dead to me…curled  up ball of yucky fur.”

  • Monarch Butterfly sightings, life cycle

    MONARCH  BUTTERFLY:
    HOW DOES THE FOURTH GENERATION KNOW IT MUST FLY TO MEXICO?
    (A MYSTERY)
    alan  skeoch
    August   2018
    MONARCH  BUTTERFLY REPORT
    OUR HOPE FOR SURVIVAL RESTS WITH THE FOURTH GENERATION
    Alan  skeoch
    August 20, 2018
    The world is  in trouble.  We all know that.  And the trouble is  right before our eyes.  No frogs, No snakes,  No  bobolinks, No leeches, No  Killdeers.   Let me change that.  yes, I did  find
    a  couple of Leopard frogs in our 7 acres  of ponds this year (2018).  No doubt there are more but decades ago there  were hundreds, thousands maybe.  And  last year we had  garter  snakes
    procreating in our green house.  The big female had lots of suitors…seemed to be in every crate of  flower pots.  None so far this year. And the ponds  had  lots of leeches.  None for past few years.  Have not seen
    a  bobolink or a killdeer for decades.  What to do ?  What to do?   Are we really in the midst of the sixth extinction of life on our planet? Will the polar regions  melt and  raise the oceans high enough
    to drown our ocean cities.  Will the climate change so radically  that lives of little creatures  will be lost forever?  Is it true that 95% of the living creatures on earth are human beings and  their domestic animals.  The wild  creatures have been reduced to 5%.

  • FIND ME…A GAME INVENTED TODAY…perhaps some in bad taste

    Dateline   London , England, july 2018

    THERE are people who  hate London.  The Traffic…the traffic!  Unbearable.   So most of the pictures below  are designed to feed  the anti-London appetite.
    But let’s make it fun.

  • HORSES AT FRITH MANOR (including BEANIE)

    HORSES AT FRITH MANOR ON A  SUMMER  DAY  IN 2018

    (If you love horses, you will love these pics and  stories)
    FOUR STORIES … INCOMPLETE  STORIES
    alan  Skeoch
    August 2018
    Our granddaughter Nolan  Skeoch  is a  horsewoman.  Proven  by the great swaths of time she  spends at Frith Manor grooming, riding,  jumping, bedding, wheeling  carts of  horse  manure, talking to horses (and occasionally  people).

  • “HORSES NEED SHOES”” Story of Josh Twomey, Farrier

    HORSES NEED SHOES  JUST LIKE  YOU DO
    (Josh Twomey…FARRIER)
    alan skeoch
    august 2018
    No good reason why a city bred  person would  want to read  this story.  Unless the reader is curious and likes to see and read  something extraordinary.
    This  is  a  story about Josh  Twomey…a  farrier.   Josh spends his days  motoring from horse stable to horse stable across Southern  England in his truck which is  loaded  with brand  new shoes  for horses.  And  he has  a tub full of  cast off  horseshoes  which  he gives to kids  who watch him.  Blacksmith are supposed to be older men with big  beards and  tobacco  stained  teeth, gnarled  hands, perhaps  bad  limps.  Limping  caused a kick from a horse who did not like nails  pounded  into his or her foot.    Surprise.  Josh is  24 years old  and has been shoeing  horses since he was sixteen.  He has a smile that goes from ear to ear.  And  the confidence that horses understand.   He does  not limp.
    On a hot July afternoon, we  watched Josh  at  work as  he shod Nolan Skeoch’s  horse , Mello.
    Josh Twomeys…Farrier   (Blacksmith)