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Re: [RC] First Horse - SHEILA A WALSH - Carrie - Kitley, Carrie E Civ USAF AFSPC 30 MDSS/SGSLFSheila - I had mentioned in an earlier post about my experience with "horse trading" and it was all about finding the right horse for my kids and admittedly for myself when I wanted a "Ford" instead of a "Farrari" ride. <g> I was so sure my kids would just be SO excited to have a horse of their own (that's me projecting) because after all, they came from my loins! They never got the bug either! Go figure. Every now and then, if I bribe them with the right amount of payment, they'll clean corrals for me, but that's about as far as it goes. :( I don't get it. They're just weird. Lol On the "first horse" note, I think my absolute first was my Grandpa's knee. I'd make him bounce me as high as he could for as long as he could stand it! Yeehaw!! Then when I was 3, I got my stick horse, Blackie. (Guess what color he was?) Carrie I wouldn't trade my upbringing for 145k acre ranch with no horses. I don't remember when I started to ride, cause I had "big" sisters that took me riding in my diapers, to get me out of my mother's hair. So, when I had my first kid, I rode all the way up until I went into labor and then I got back on with him in my front pack to shut up his crying. Worked great. He even rode until he was 14 and discovered that riding was for girls. I was bummed that he didn't have the bug. 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: marybenstover <merryben@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: ridecamp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [RC] First Horse Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:35:03 +0000 (UTC) I grew up thinking I was deprived.Â? I wanted my parents to be farmers and they were schoolteachers.Â? But my godmother had an old spanish land grant ranch of about 145,000+ acres in Hollister (California).Â? Every time we went there all I got to see was the airstrip, the indoor pool and the chincillas.....no horses.......I was so bummed.Â? But she did send cool Christmas presents. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carla Richardson" <richardson.carla@xxxxxxxxx> To: "marybenstover" <merryben@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 9:12:36 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [RC] First Horse Oh I LOVE that!Â? I was horse crazy, too.Â? My grandfather was a rancher, had cattle and also bred AHQA horses, I followed him around constantly.Â? I grew up in the barn, literally. Carla On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:03 AM, marybenstover < merryben@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: I was so horse crazy that my grandfather called me "Maryhorse." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evelyn Allen" < totaleclipse2007@xxxxxxxxx > To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 6:22:47 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [RC] First Horse My sisters and I were so totally nuts that our first horses were palomino coloured "suitcases" (yes, you read that right)Â?that we rode around the house.Â? We must have had very good imaginations...we had a lot of fun with those "horses" and never got bitten orÂ?bucked off!Â? 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Replies Re: [RC] First Horse, marybenstover -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous by date: [RC] First Horse - heidi larson Next by date: [RC] question about cleft palate - Alice Yovich Previous by thread: Re: [RC] First Horse Next by thread: [RC] First Horse Carrie Kitley 30th Medical Group, Vandenberg AFB DMLSS Database Sustainment Specialist (DSS) CACI International Inc, www.caci.com DSN: 276-1077 Fax: 805-606-1179 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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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