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Tuesday April 30, 2013

Mule Woody and I departing Oriental, NC for what we thought would be a leisurely stroll across North Carolina. Thirteen months later, we set hoof in the Pacific Ocean (Melinda Penkava photo)

Spring’s in the air and if you’ve got any sap left, it’s rising and you’ve thought of running away. Here are some thoughts on just chucking it all and taking to the road.
Also on tap, three upcoming “Hoofing It” programs, about what it’s like to cross North Carolina with a mule.

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Friday March 29, 2013

Wagon nights. Mule Polly hunkers down for a wintry night on The Rock. (Trinity, Newfoundland)

What’s the last thing you hear before you drift off to sleep? A car? The TV? Your spouse snoring? Tonight, I want you to hear day’s end in my wagon world. That would be the sound of a mule chomping away in the night.

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Saturday January 26, 2013

Smokey the RiverEarth weather burro says, “Stay at home follks.” This morning he woke to an inch of ice on the ground – and even more hanging from his bony brows. The “Newfoundlander” program scheduled for January 26 has been postponed. Mule Polly and Smokey were planning to attend. The program has been re-scheduled for Saturday, March 2. Here’s a closer look at Smokey’s icy crust.

Saturday, January 26: The Newfoundlander program scheduled this morning at the Caldwell County Public Library has been cancelled. Conditions – an in inch of ice on the roads – were just a little too Newfoundland-ish. The program has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 2 at 1:30p.

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Sunday December 23, 2012

RiverEarth staff Polly and Smokey gettin’ down at Corporate.

Wishing you happy holidays from RiverEarth.com is fine and dandy and, well, sorta boring… I was thinking something more along the lines of a corporate Christmas party where animals outnumber humans. Wanna come? Well, you missed it. But you can still get a glimpse of what went down at Corporate…

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Monday November 5, 2012

Homeward bound: mule Polly appears to be following new friends Eric and Karen home. They live in Trinity, Newfoundland. A few days after this photos was taken, Polly jumped into her trailer and together, she and I returned to North Carolina.

Howdy. Just wanted to let everyone know mule Polly and I have arrived safely back in North Carolina. The drive from Newfoundland to the Tar Heel State took a week. The plan now is to spend the holidays with our respective families – me with my human kith and kin, Polly with the Mule Nation. Then, in that Will the Circle Be Unbroken kind of way, we may set out again. We’ll keep you posted. Cheers!

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Monday October 15, 2012

Old Bonaventure, Newfoundland on a calm October morning. The fishing season is almost over. The frost season has begun.

Since June, mule Polly and I have been traveling across Newfoundland in our little red wagon. We’ve started our mornings with black flies, horse flies and nippers – mosquitoes as they call them in these parts. Lately, it’s been frost, not warm sunshine, that’s greeted us at dawn. Time to load Polly and her wagon into the trailer and head south. We’ll keep you posted of the journey back to North Carolina.

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Sunday October 7, 2012

The front half of my wagon after it was struck from behind by a four door sedan. The collision was powerful enough to separate the wagon in two pieces. The front half of the wagon came to rest approximately 80 feet from the point of impact. Inspecting the wreckage is Jesse Peddle. Mule Polly is okay. (Lethbridge, Newfoundland)

Not the way I’d planned to end my voyage across Newfoundland. After over 1000 km of wagon travel, about 5 km from our final destination, a vehicle collided into the rear of my wagon. Mule Polly, the driver and I are okay. More details are here…

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