[meteorite-list] Thanks for the OK Fireball well-wishes

From: Count Deiro <countdeiro_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:17:22 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Message-ID: <19314527.1301203042632.JavaMail.root_at_elwamui-karabash.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

I once had horses pasturing next to where I played ball with my friends. They were mean kickers and biters. "Rank" as the cowboys call them. Well...any way...this made recovering a baseball a serious matter. I found out that horses are suckers for both carrots and apples. Chuck them either and they would follow me around like dogs. I was working on getting them to retrieve when we moved to the city.

Guido


-----Original Message-----
>From: Linton Rohr <lintonius at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Mar 26, 2011 9:52 PM
>To: Robert Woolard <meteoritefinder at yahoo.com>, Greg Hupe <gmhupe at centurylink.net>
>Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Thanks for the OK Fireball well-wishes
>
> "they all 3 came charging over toward us. They were rearing their heads up
>and down, running quickly right up next to us off-and-on again and again,
>and even kicking up their hind legs very close to us."
>
>Great story, Robert.
>Grizzly bears do that charge thing, too.
>99% of the time, they're just bluffing.
>Just casually look off to the side. ;^)
>What could possibly go wrong?
>Linton
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Woolard" <meteoritefinder at yahoo.com>
>To: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe at centurylink.net>
>Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 8:56 PM
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Thanks for the OK Fireball well-wishes
>
>
>Greg, Rob, and all the many others,
>
>Thanks to everyone for all the well-wishes for all the hunters working the
>OK fireball. I also want to give a special thanks to Rob Matson for his work
>with the radar data. And, Greg, as you mentioned, even though we three
>decided to return home tonight (hey, its only a 5 hr drive from my home)
>without any stones in hand, we DID have a fun time. It was great seeing old
>friends again such as Todd, Dave, Jack, Karl and of course, the
>"safe-at-home" Mike and Robert. ( Those are the only hunters I ran into
>personally.) A special thanks to Todd and Robert for the
>"six-pack-of-refreshments" for my son Rob, and my hunting partner,Jerry and
>me!
>
>Yesterday was a perfect meteorite hunting day, with beautiful, short-sleeve
>weather and very nice landowners who graciously let us hunt every piece of
>land we asked about. Not one turn down. One landowner gave us permission to
>hunt her pasture, but warned us of the 3 horses on it, saying she wouldn't
>want them to kick us ( we wouldn't have wanted them too, either ;-) We told
>her we would keep or eyes on them ( but we really thought they wouldn't be a
>problem.) We were wrong. As we started our hunt, on the FAR side of the
>pasture from them, they all 3 came charging over toward us. They were
>rearing their heads up and down, running quickly right up next to us
>off-and-on again and again, and even kicking up their hind legs very close
>to us. Fortunately, since we had just started our hunt, we were still close
>to the fence line, so we were able to quickly make our way to a gate and
>scramble over it out of the pasture. The horses kept up their threatening
> charges and kicking as we made our way down the length of the fence to our
>car. If we had stayed in the pasture, I do believe they would have ended up
>kicking us.
>
> We awoke to very different weather conditions this morning. Completely
>cloudy skies, a very light and brief mist/drizzle, and worst of all, a
>BITTER cold North wind. The air temp was 41 F, but the wind chill had to be
>near freezing.
>
>The GREAT majority of fields in the area, perhaps 70-90%(???), are covered
>in 6-inch tall winter wheat. That was very disappointing to see, and wiped
>out a huge portion of any potential strewnfield.
>
>To all those still in the area giving it their all, the absolute BEST of
>luck in finding pieces!
>
>Sincerely,
>Robert Woolard
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