Wonderful sculptures!! Don't take DH tools- fasttrack to divorce court!!LOL Men love their tools & women love men that know how to make something with them. These folks sure knew what they were doing. Horse is awesome, just the planning would do me in! Vicki, I think that would be a wonderful memorial to your dad & would make you smile every time you see it!! Love the idea! Jan

See my post on Trash to Treasure forum. I will help you if I can. I have made 1 horse and my sister has made 19. I have to run right now, but will be back to see if I can help. Nancy

Clarification of the Rutgers Education info. about horse manure, regarding the high iron of 3614, that's ppm dry weight, and different from % dry wt. ratio of NPK, calcium, and magnesium. The equal measurement is to the far right of the table. Here's in % lb/ton: N of 2.8, P of 1.4, K of 2.4, calcium of 1.2, magnesium of 0.4, sulfur of 0.2, and iron of 0.5. Now it looks much better, and the iron is not out of whack. Adding lime to deodorize the stall varies with stables, so aged horse manure varies from 7 to 10 in pH (someone reported a 10 pH in a soil forum). The most accurate test done on the effect of different growing medium is found in this website: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/HLA/anderson/orgfert3.pdf The above experiment is to learn about the efficiency of organic fertilizers and composts: fish emulsion, Omega 6-6-6, horse manure, cow manure, and worm castings. Highlights of this study: "Pepper plants treated with Peter's are normal. Plants treated with cow manure are somewhat better. Plants with horse manure are smaller. In tomato: plants grown in the worm casting, the horse manure, and no fertilizer control are stunt. This demonstrates that the worm and horse manure were probably NOT fully composted and they stole nutrients from the mix. The composted worm castings had a high pH, and very high nutrient levels. The composted cow manure had a very low pH and low phosphorus, and high levels of nitrogen, calcium, and magnesium. The composted horse manure had a very high pH and high phosphorus and potassium, with typical levels of nitrogen, calcium, and magnesium. But the plants performed poorly in horse manure, probably because this was INCOMPLETELY composted. Their conclusion: Omega and fish emulsion fertilizer can be used to grow vegetable transplants. A 20% to 30% of composted cow manure may be effective for transplants ... but worm castings and horse manure were NOT effective. My conclusion: it's always good to measure the pH of any manure before using. Someone reported a pH of 4.5 in their cow manure, while others reported a pH of 8 in a composted horse manure (it depends how much lime the stable uses to deodorize the stall). In the UK garden forum, someone reported a low pH in the horse manure - so it all depends if lime is used in a particular stall.

Would the Trojan Horse have been activated I wouldn't think so. If you would have clicked on base_getstarted.exe or maybe even QuickBooks, it may have tried to do something but AVG would have popped up a red flag asking whether you wanted to heal or move to virus vault. Since it is in the virus vault, that means it was removed from the program file and is harmless now. You can delete it from the virus vault now. Since you have that wonderful Grisoft AVG anti-virus program, you don't need to worry about Trojans. Might want to try the AVG Anti-Spyware program and see how many spy cookies and other spyware you have. AVG Anti-Spyware Free Edition The free version is good enough to do a scan.