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Raeonaire

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If I could become anything, I would be torn between a unicorn and a dragon. A unicorn can heal, purify and run faster than anything that exists. A dragon is massive, mighty rage, with teeth, claws and flames.

Hm.

Rawr.

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Have a fledglings out-of-nest-too-soon situation and would appreciate any advice. We think they might be kestrels, and there are two small, dead rodents by them so I assume parents are bringing food. We have coyotes. Should I move them to higher ground in that shed? There’s a feeder.

June 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM

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Muro had her baby a few minutes ago, a black filly! tiny band of white around her front ankle and we think a short white sock in the back. not sure what they’re gonna name her

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a newborn black foal laying in straw and white towels (and some blood) while her mother licks her shoulder clean

May 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM

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Val is getting bigger 😁

May 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM

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Remember when I mentioned that working with horses was inherently dangerous? 😁

April 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM

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More baby footage! Her back legs are fine, I asked after taking the video

April 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM

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been on foal watch the past two nights!

April 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM

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A short drive!

April 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM

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April 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM

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Got curious about parallels between the profound weirdness of “day to day life” in Nazi Germany and now the U.S.

It is not reassuring.
www.historyextra.com/period/secon...

Q: Did most German citizens fear the Nazis or simply acquiesce?
A: I think the answer is both, really, it depends who you were. The Nazis kept a very close eye on former activists for the socialists and communists. They had what were called block wardens; in every city, every town, every street block was looked after by an active Nazi. And in working-class areas with high degrees of support for the communists and socialists, the Nazis put in middle-class or lower-middle-class Nazi party members who had no love for the socialists and made sure that if there was any resistance movement - secret meetings in flats and so on - they would be found out and punished.
People had to put up their flags on Hitler's birthday.
There was a lot of coercion. The numbers of people imprisoned shot up in the Nazi period. I've talked about the concentration camps. There was a lot of fear.
But at the same time, there was a lot of
acquiescence. Most people wanted a quiet life. They wanted to get on with their jobs and their lives, raise their families. There was a certain retreat into private life under the Nazis, because to take part in public life, you had to be an active Nazi and do all

wanted to get on with their jobs and their lives, raise their families. There was a certain retreat into private life under the Nazis, because to take part in public life, you had to be an active Nazi and do all sorts of things that many people really didn't want to do.
By 1939, there was a kind of tacit agreement that people wouldn't object to the Nazis or oppose them (apart from very some very small resistance groups), and in turn the Nazis wouldn't make too many demands on them either. This agreement changed during the war, because one of the main objects of Nazism was to make the Germans love war, and the great majority of Germans didn't. They had been through the First World War and had seen the death and destruction; they didn't want that repeated. Nazi foreign policy up to 1939 was very successful not least because it made Germany great again, as it were, without very much bloodshed. The great foreign policy triumphs, such as the remilitarisation of the Rhineland and the annexation of Austria, the Anschluss, the annexation and destruction of Czechoslovakia, the victories over Poland and then France and western European countries, were all achieved very quickly at a minimal cost in lives and made the Nazis incredibly popular.

European countries, were all achieved very quickly at a minimal cost in lives and made the Nazis
incredibly popular.
6 There was a kind of tacit agreement that people
wouldn't object to the Nazis or oppose them
Probably 1940 is the height of the Nazis' popularity.
But after that, as the war became more destructive and claimed more lives, people began to lose faith in the Nazis. How German people reacted to the Nazis is a complicated picture. They, I think, appreciated them for restoring the economy, though a lot of that was done by statistical manipulation and trickery. But ironically, there was popular appreciation of the Nazis' restoration of law and order, even though in the late years of Weimar Republic, a lot of the disruption on the streets had been caused by the Nazis. Most people didn't like their attacks on religion, particularly Catholics did not at all like the Nazis' attempts to curb the Catholic Church and bring it under Nazi control.
They didn't particularly like the Nazi education system, and a number of aspects of the regime were also unpopular. It was a very mixed picture.

April 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM

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I play Jenga with the hay bales 😅

April 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM

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Here’s a bonus pic of Fina, the owners’ (adorable) mutt:

April 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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Happy Birthday!

April 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM

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We moved the two-year olds to a new pasture and they were quite silly! Tinkerbell is the black filly with four white socks and the white on her nose; Baby T is the black filly with two white socks, and Tera is the goofball with her tail flagged

April 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM

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Tried to get one of BayBay but the sun was shining into the camera 😅

April 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM

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Pic of my half-feral tabby whom I catnapped from the hay bales and whom now steals half of my pillow at night

A picture of a tortoiseshell tabby curled up on a pale blue pillow, looking up at the camera with a perplexed and alert expression

April 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM

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Saw some cool clouds today!

April 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM

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Lily wanted to know where the heck the treats were

March 31, 2025 at 3:38 AM

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Short one today of Sen Shenanigans (TM)

March 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM

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Sorry about the loud music, I’ll make sure to pause any songs before recording from now on 😖 Putting a blanket on Paris in the video (the recording cut off for some reason)

March 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM

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this is a video from a few months ago when it was still pretty cold! These three ponies are our foals; they’ll be yearlings in a month or two, though they’re younger in this vid.