Re: AERC Board Minutes

["Cora" <bandc@teknett.com>]

ACTUALLY...ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE HAVE A JAR OF "PINK BEANS", FROM A RIDE NO
LONGER HELD, THEY STILL SIT ON MY SHELF....CORA
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Holland <lanconn@tds.net>
To: Rides 2 Far <rides2far@juno.com>; Ridecamp <Ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: RC: AERC Board Minutes


>
>
> 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
>
>
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