Welcome down Memory Lane

The Appaloosa Saga continues
Down Memory Lane! Pg 4

In Picture #1
This is Miss Nan, a truly remarkable lady. She was born in 1911 and was never married. She owned and operated a 450 acre farm by her self and when we met her in 1973 was running about 30 head of horses of which around 98% were Appaloosa's.

Miss Nan was the President of the Blue Grass Appaloosa Horse Club until her passing in 1987. It was Miss Nan who was the primary person in boosting interest in the appaloosa horse in this entire area. She was a selective breeder who keep the very best bloodlines going and her horses showed the many hours of hard work that she had invested in them. Many of her horses were not only state champions but national champions as well. She also had a world champion or two.

She was loved and respected by all and it didn't matter if you were rich or poor as a church mouse, Miss Nan always had time to show you her horses or she would help you with your horse problems. She was very knowledgeable when it came to her favorite breed of horse, the appaloosa, and she was responsible for promoting the breed all over the country. Any time that we wanted to do something special it was go to Miss Nan's and look at her horses. She and Connie wee great friends and she would get the boys to help her at the shows to set up. Scott helped her the most though because he didn't care much about showing and he would rather set up barrels and poles and help in the trail classes and such. I sure do miss going over to her farm and visiting with her. Nan's old farm place just isn't the same now. When you drive by all the fences are gone and the beautiful appaloosa horses that grazed there are no more.

Well, Miss Nan's gone to heaven now and I miss her terribly, but I know that one of these days we will see each other again. All I will have to do is look where God keeps the appaloosa horses and that is where I'll find Miss Nan, right in the middle of them.

Picture #2
You never knew what you might see when you went into Miss Nan's Stable. Lucky I had the camera and caught Connie with a leash on Nan. I don't know where they were headed but wherever it was, they were having fun getting there. Those two were always into something. It was like a three ring circus just being around them. Laughing and joking about something all the time. No time to be bored around those two.

Picture #3
Yep, That is Connie standing there with me and Van. In case you hadn't noticed, she is holding hands with me after all those years of marriage with this old coot too. How romantic, I must be doing something right, huh?

Picture #4
Van was getting bored with all the training and so I let him talk with Sabrina and baby for a few minutes. You can see by looking that it really perked him up...LOL

This Story is About Tekee Tom Tom
The Lovin horse

Tekee was a 2 year old Kentucky State Reserved Grand Champion in the halter class and I guess that, other than Van, he loved me more than life itself. I was working 12 hrs. a day at the T.V.A. Paradise Power Steam Plant and because of the long hours was unable to go to one of our Registered horse shows. And so Connie and the boys loaded up the horses and away they went. Jimmy was to show Tekee in the halter class, but as he was leading him into the arena Tekee somehow got loose.... eeeeeeek!

Normally, this would have been a great problem because of the other stallions and mares readily available, and some of them were worth thousands of dollars, but apparently Tekee thought that a very large fellow with a big black hat standing across the arena was me and he made his way over to the man and nuzzled right up to him, so ending the scary problem.

A short time after that I was working in the garage preparing my truck for a paint job and I guess that Tekee got curious as to what I was doing in that garage. Now he was in a 1 strand electric temporary fence and I had never had any problem with him getting out. This particular day though, as I was sanding on the truck I look up at there stood Tekee in the doorway just watching me. It seems as though he had broken the fence and came to check out what I was doing.

Well I took him to the barn, turned off the electric fence, repaired it, put Tekee back inside the fenced area, turned back on the electricity, and went back to the garage to resume working. A few minutes later I looked up a there stood Tekee again. The whole procedure was repeated and I went back to work. A little while went by and Lo and behold, there Tekee was again. I thought that something must have been wrong with the fence but upon touching it found that it had plenty of zip. That fence knocked the holy fire out of me.

Well, I went though the procedure again, only this time I watched through a crack in the door to see how Tekee was breaking that fence. It was in the fall of the year and Tekee had some winter hair growth. What that rascal was doing was hunkering down, rubbing up against the wire fence with his chest until the fence snapped. He was using that winter coat to act as an insulator against the electrical wire. Pretty smart if you ask me.

By this time I had become quite aggravated to say the least because I wasn't getting anything accomplished. So I decided to fix ole Tekee up. I first tied Tekee to the garage, got the sheers out and shaved his chest. Next I filled a 5 gallon bucket of water and poured it on the ground where he had been breaking out. I went through the procedure of repairing everything again and after turning Tekee loose ran back to the garage to watch through to crack. Well after a few minutes ole Tekee eased up to the fence and POW! That blue blaze of electricity connected with his bare chest and I'll swear, he jumped 6' straight into the air..... LOL

Was he one surprised horse. Needless to say, I wasn't hampered with ole Tekee any more that day.... I will say, that evening I felt a little bit bad about doin him such, knowing he was just wanting a little lovin from me, so I gave him a extra bucket of sweet feed and an apple.

And yes, he still loved me! He was a very special stallion...........

Want to thank you for letting me share some Of my stories with you and I hope that you'll look at the rest of this ole' man's Horses Section.

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