The coyote head-shaped dents in the bases make them unsteady to work on.
When Mrs Trep and I got married (back in the '80s) my future parents in law’s next door neighbor’s son was a blacksmith - as in, a proper professional one. Lots of people, when they get married, are given decorative horseshoes or cards with horseshoes on them - we got a real horseshoe. I always thought that was pretty cool.
Happens. The guy who made our horseshoe had to give it up around age thirty because of back problems.
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About 13 years ago my parents were getting rid of a lot of their household stuff in preparation for a move. One of those items was a big anvil, maybe 100 pounds, with a solid wood base. He had no idea what it was worth, so he put it up on craigslist for $25. VERY soon after listing it, he got a call from someone who was very excited about buying it and quickly came by to close the deal. It was only well afterward that my dad started looking around at anvil prices and realized he probably could have gotten $600 or so for it.
Might be. All I can say is in northeast it’s a rare find now when someone doesn’t know the value of their anvil. I assume there are pickers who get to some when the owner doesn’t know the value, but I’m limited to what I can find being sold in ads or at used tool suppliers.
I don’t know if it’s interesting as much as musically horrific. The Riverside County Department of Public Social Services in the 90’s came out with an album to be played on the phone, elevator, or PA system.
I think you’re being whooshed.
Oh jeez… one should have landed right on my head!
Thx @markn_1. Sincerely. A successful whoosh is a thing of beauty 
Uh, hello, I was the one who brought it up.
Oh great. Thx @Robot_Arm, unthanks @markn_1. I expect shortly to step out of the way of an anvil falling from the sky only to step under a much larger one that will land on me and punch a hole through the stone outcropping I am standing on causing my flattened body to somehow accordion itself between the hunk of rock with an anvil profile and the anvil itself until finally stretching my flattened body to maximum extent before the stone hits the ground and the anvil follows now crumpling my body into a form no thicker than a sheet of newsprint. Ok now?
A friend of mine is involved in strongman/grip competitions and is always on the lookout for cheap anvils.
Today I learned the Air Force will soon launch a prototype satellite. It’s a new GPS system, but much more advanced. I am guessing the positioning accuracy is still classified.
Navigation Technology Satellite - 3 (NTS-3)
Has a cool look to it.
The other day my wife was watching that “Home Town” show on HGTV. We like to joke that it’s such a small town that they’ll eventually run out of houses to renovate. But I got curious about just how big Laurel MS is so I looked it up on Wikipedia. (It’s population is around 17K.)
But then I scrolled down to the list of famous people from Laurel. For a town that small it was a surprisingly long list. Ray Walston (“My Favorite Martian”), Tom Lester (Eb from “Green Acres”) and Lance Bass were some of the names I recognized.
It also says that close to 2/3 of the population is African American, but boy you sure wouldn’t know it from watching the show.
Maybe some of you know this already, but I learned recently that the Addams Family TV/movie/video game franchise started as cartoons in the New Yorker magazine in the 1930s, drawn by Charles Addams.
The top four best-performing artists on the US singles charts during the 1960s were…
- The Beatles
- Elvis Presley
- Ray Charles
and (ahead of the Supremes and The Beach Boys) - Brenda Lee!
Her secret? She would put an up-tempo Rock and Roll song on Side A and a slower ballad or Country song on Side B, and both sides would make the charts. In fact, her biggest hit, “I’m Sorry” (which everybody involved in the recording, save Brenda, hated) was a B side.
I think a lot of us do know this, but the later works inspired by those cartoons do little to point that out. They are fantastic cartoons too, not just the Addams Family, but all of his cartoons in his horror and surreal style. I’m surprised Addams eccentric personal life hasn’t been made into a movie as well.
But it has been made into a book. Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, by Linda H. Davis details his eccentricities at length.
Interesting.
Probably wasn’t the horseshoes, more likely the horses. Farriery is notoriously hard on your back. My farrier does yoga stretches between horses. And that’s with compliant, obedient horses. A cranky or untrained horse can put you in the hospital very easily.
Yeah, our horses are very cooperative with the farrier, There are crossties in the barn and he comes on a regular schedule. But I couldn’t do his job for a day.