Monday, March 31, 2008

Mustang Adoptions

Had hoped to make this my first cool, and extra-Texas video post but the video only allows me to copy the link as opposed to the embedded code.

From today’s Austin American Statesman:

ELGIN [about 20 miles east of Austin where I had a fantastic barbeque plate on Saturday]— Two hundred wild mustangs stamp and snort, eager to escape the 18-wheelers that have carried them on a two-day journey from rural Nevada to Central Texas.

With a clank and a rumble, the door at the back of one of four tractor-trailers rolls up. Fifty horses pause, curious. Then they charge down a ramp, pushing and shoving their way into a series of holding pens at Southwest Stallion Station, one of the largest equine breeding farms in Texas.

Here’s the link to the video. The little mustangs are awfully cute.

2 comments:

love johnson said...

Where in Elgin(I never knew until I went there that it is pronounced L-gen, not L-gin)did you go to eat? Was it one of the top 50 per Texas Monthly? The parents/C and I are trying to hit every one that was on the original list (some, in far west Texas or the Panhandle) we'll never make. If you haven't been to Louie Mueller's in Taylor, you should make a trip (not that far for you actually). It's the best in Texas (so far).

Scooter said...

Yes, and it's a hard g (goat) not a soft g (gyroscope).