My daughter is in kindergarten. It's a gifted and talented class and she is doing really well. She was very upset that she got this wrong. I asked the teacher. Teacher says it's a ram. I pointed out the goatee and that it's horns are not curved. I pointed out the goat next to the Gg worksheet title. Nope. It's a ram. I asked what the fifth item was that starts with G? It's the girl. I thought that was a doll.

G is for Ram.

After almost 6 years of dating my partner, her and I are finally married as of yesterday! Proud to say that she has been the biggest support throughout the years, and has always stuck by my side and shared my interests. I’m a very happy webhead 🕸️🕷️

Breaking news: baby black bear discovers… toes.

(Little guy and his 2 equally fluffy siblings are staying with us temporarily while their main foster is away. Wish I had them longer but let me tell you long haired kittens are a hot mess.)

Theres other food available, but why is this even put out? University of Minnesota TC, the meal plan is $6k per year and is required your first year. I’m out of state, in-state tuition is about 25k

Close enough

Edited to add: We’re going to make it fit. When he gets home from work tonight we’ll give the people what they want.

Horses hauled coal underground in France for almost 150 years.
The first one went down a shaft in the Loire region in 1821, and the big coalfields of the north followed in the 1840s. Their job was to pull strings of loaded coal wagons along the rails from the coal face to the bottom of the shaft.

Getting them down was the hardest part. Until 1930s there w
no cages big enough, so a horse was blindfolded, had its legs bound, and was lowered down the shaft in a harness or net on the end of a steel cable.

Most never came back up while they could still work. A pit horse commonly spent 10 to 20 years below ground, living in stables cut into the rock. The mines used heavy draft breeds from northern France and the Ardennes, like the one in this photo.

Miners often grew closer to the animals they worked beside everyday
By 1926 there were about 10,000 horses in French mines.
Conveyor belts and small locomotives replaced them over the following decades, and by 1960 only about 130 were left.

Émile Zola put two pit horses, Bataille and Trompette, at the heart of his 1885 mining novel "Germinal."