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Re: [RC] First Pony - Beth LeggieriBecause I had three older sisters who were teen-aged, there was little time or money left over to indulge my horse fantasy. I filled the gap with old tack found in the storeroom, left over from my oldest sister's horse days.
This tack was fastened to a 6' privacy fence, and that fence became my horse. I was probably the only 10-year old kid in Corpus Christ, Texas who sported a cast on a broken left arm -- having been "thrown" by a fence.
Didn't matter--in my mind, it was a horse and I had earned the first stripe in my army of horse injuries, later to follow from "real" horse accidents.
Beth in Texas
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Beth Leggieri Denton, TX "Slow down. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for." (Ride the Dark Trail by Louis L'Amour) From: SHEILA A WALSH <tondi313@xxxxxxx> To: richardson.carla@xxxxxxxxx; totaleclipse2007@xxxxxxxxx Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 10:49:13 AM Subject: Re: [RC] First Pony My first (and only) pony was Chico, a two year old Shetland. I got him for my 9th birthday and he kicked me, when I went into the corral to meet him. I had to break him, starting with a halter. I used to drag him to the far end of the arena of the ranch where my parents rented a house and hop on him. He would crow hop the whole way to the gate and I would fall off somewhere along the way. I would do that for an hour or so and then I would get tired and go ask the resident cowboys to help me. They wouldn't. They laughed and laughed. I finally got big enough to muscle the pony and we became a racing team. We would run all over the ranch and I would pretend I was Will James. *sigh* I wish my kids had that life. As Winston Churchill said, "No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle." As Shakespear wrote in Henry V, "When I bestride him, I soar, I am like a hawk; he trots the air, the Earth sings, when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical that the pipe of Hermes." > From: "Carla Richardson" <richardson.carla@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "Evelyn Allen" <totaleclipse2007@xxxxxxxxx> > CC: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [RC] First Horse > Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:37:44 -0700 > > My first horse was "Brownie" and he was simply the arm of an outdoor metal > swing. My cousin and I would sit on the arms of the swing, her horse was > "Blackie" and mine was "Brownie." No imagination in naming them <G> but > lots of imagination in riding! > > It was pretty exciting when I got my first real horse, on Christmas morning, > a little gray QH with a red ribbon tied to his halter. Rawhide was his > name, and he was one of those bombproof wonderful horses for kids. > > Carla Richardson > Colorado > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Evelyn Allen <totaleclipse2007@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > My sisters and I were so totally nuts that our first horses were palomino > > coloured "suitcases" (yes, you read that right) that we rode around the > > house. We must have had very good imaginations...we had a lot of fun with > > those "horses" and never got bitten or bucked off! Thankfully, it was only > > a few more years before we got to start riding the real things. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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