crankymessiah wrote:
] ] Clutching her new cowboy hat, 2-year-old Carson Weigart
] ] nodded as she surveyed the array of four-legged critters
] ] moseying around Maury County Park yesterday afternoon.
] ]
] ] ''Haflingers,'' she said matter-of-factly when her
] ] grandfather asked what type of horses those were.
] ]
] ] He grinned at her knowledge.
] ]
] ] This pint-sized Bethel, Ala., cowgirl %u2014 clad in
] ] Wrangler's, a fancy belt and cowgirl shirt %u2014
] ] sauntered through her first Mule Day experience like a
] ] seasoned cowpoke, eyeing the mules and petting the
] ] horses.
] ]
] ] Tomorrow, she will join her family for the 11 a.m. Mule
] ] Day parade %u2014 riding in a wagon pulled by her
] ] grandfather's set of Haflingers, a popular breed of horse
] ] that traces its origin to the Tyrolean mountains of
] ] Austria and northern Italy.
] ]
] ] Mule Day festivities got under way yesterday in Maury
] ] County Park, with visitors first having to walk a
] ] gauntlet of food vendors hawking everything from roasted
] ] ears of corn to fried Twinkies.
]
] Can you say roasted corn and mullets?

LOL!!!!