Re: RC: AERC Board Minutes

[Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net>]

Rides 2 Far wrote:
> 
> Actually, I do love awards.  Any award. Doesn't matter. If it's a bag of
> feed for last place I'll out drag'em all. If it's a reflector for middle
> of the pack I'll keep doing math trying to figure out how to get it. I've
> never gotten rid of anything that vaguely resembled an award.

My first award in a 50 was a last place "tail end of a horse" award
which still sits on my bookcase.  Actually, I didn't get it myself...I
came in so late the ride meeting had started and I was over at the
trailer soaking my horse's leg, drowning my sorrows, and trying to find
the Ibuprofen.  I think Ann Stuart felt sorry for me and gave me the
completion after watching that hopeless half-arabian get thumps at 40
miles every ride. I finally sold him to a very nice lady and he turned
into a great trail horse for her.  Unfortunately, he dropped dead in her
paddock one morning about two years later. Hmmmm...

>I went a long time getting nothing but t-shirts.

I have so many I used to wear them to work under my suits at IBM.  Since
I didn't have anything else I would just rip open my shirt like Superman
and show them off!

> I've had a good horse for a few years. Do I
> need or want more stuff? You bet! I've seen hard times and I know they'll
> be back. If I  start a new horse that's a dud like the last one I had
> before Kaboot I want to be sitting on an old 1st place ice chest when
> everybody comes by to feel sorry for me when I get pulled AGAIN.

Bring it on.....I've only had a good horse for a year and "I ain't got
nearly 'nuf stuf".  In the immortal words of male over-achievers "He who
finishes with the most stuff wins".
> 
> Buckels aren't very good for me, because I don't wear boots any
> more and I'm short, sorta dumpy. It's hard to bend over and tie your shoe
> when you're puncturing a lung, but I've got a buckel I'm proud of of and
> it sits in my bookshelf next to the Lexol so bring'em on.

I only have one...the brass one for the OD 50...but I suffered and
whimpered a lot for that...probably gonna take a lot more suffering and
whimpering to get the silver one.  Thought I was going have to carry the
poor little guy up Massanutten.

I don't wear boots either...that way you don't have to worry about
squatting with your spurs on. 
> 
> I guess what I'm getting at is that I am in favor of awards.  Here in the
> Southeast Nikki Young has been both FIRST AND SECOND in the points for a
> couple of years. That's incredible to me. It deserves notice.
 
Yeah...we oughta make her ride carrying two cement blocks! :)


> Enough said. I'll guarantee I'll like whatever I get. I appreciate those
> who get for us. My daughter was up all night with a stomach virus and
> I'll have it soon anyway...then none of this will matter to me any more.
> I'll be very very sick soon. So if you flame me and I don't answer, just
> enjoy the fact that I'm probably curled into a fetal position on the
> bathroom rug.

Make some chicken soup, toss down a couple of Old Grandad's with sugar
and lemon and you'll be OK. Angie....we appreciate ya, no matter what. 
The SE wouldn't be the same without you.   Remember, some people learn
by reading, some people learn by observing, some of us have to pee on
the electric fence for ourselves.

> 
> Angie (not feeling optimistic)

Regards, Jim and Sunny