***Thanks, Annie, and
please don't give up on me. My husband will attest to the fact that I
am trainable! :-) *** Ahh! But the important question is... Is he
trainable? To carry water buckets, mix up beet pulp. move corrals, and rigs, and
work his tail off in the vet checks, have supper fixed, and horse feed at 4am?
All with a cheerful smile, and a good back rub??? Come join us! Annie
G.
Oh, yes, he's trainable. We've been married 14 months.
He wasn't a horsey person at all when we got married. He likes animals but
isn't really an "animal-lover" (he had no pets when we got married). Now
he hauls & unloads round bales out of the back of a pick-up truck out in the
rain, by himself. He jumped right in without hesitation in helping me load
hard to load strange horses. He feeds, doctors, & enjoys watching the horses
at play. He drops his plans and drives me all over Texas to pick up and
deliver horses. He traded in his precious 1/2 ton truck for a nice, big
1/3 powerstroke diesel to pull the big 4 horse trailer he bought for me.
He joins me on every trail ride & horse campout, even bought a camper for
the truck so we don't have to sleep in a tent. I talked to him about
different things we could do with our horses and he said he'd like to try
Endurance. He traded me for one of my Arabs (said he wouldn't feel like
she was really his if I just gave him to her). She full of pee &
vinegar, hates green riders, so he now takes riding lessons in the Texas heat
once a week to learn to post so he won't tire her out as quickly on the
ride. When I said I was sick of farriers not showing up and wanted to
leave the state & go to Farrier school, he gave me his blessing &
checked the fluids on the car. When I got back, he spent hundreds of
dollars on tools for me and found a man that I could apprentice with. He
stands behind me all the way, he's the greatest. To top all of that, he's
a widower with a young daughter, so he knows how to cook, clean, and do the
laundry, and he chips right in any old time.
Is there a "best husband" T-shirt for self-sacrificing guys
like him who follow their Endurance-groupie wives hundreds of miles across
Texas?
Antoinette