THE FASTER WE GO THE BEHINDER WE GET.
NOT SURE HOW THIS HAPPENED BUT LAST NIGHT WE HAD 99 ORDERS FRO THE WIX STORE????? AND LINDA SAID I BETTRR GET TO MAKING MONKEY FISTS.... I THINK IT WAS CAUSED BY THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF.... DOGFEST TEE SHIRT-- OF PAM DANCING... ALTHO ONE THAT I OPENED WAS FOR ANNA'S VIAL OF PUPPY BREATH FOR $8... I WAS VERY HAPPY WITH THE TEE SHIRT DESIGN IF I MUST SAY SO MYSELF....SOMEONE ELSE ADDED EYES SO PAMS HEAD DID NOT LOOK LIKE AN ACORN.
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN. ??CALENDARS???
TEH CONCEPT OF "STUCK IN CHINA" IS BEGINNING TO HIT IN PLACES I DID NOT EXPECT.... I HAVE GIVEN. UP LOOKING FOR A WESTERN SADDLE AND WILL FIND A GIRTH AND USE JANINE'S ENGLISH ONE.-- LESS TO HANG ON TO.. BUT I SHOULD MANAGE...
HERE IS THE UNHAPPY CONCEPT FOR TEH DAY....... SADDLES IN GENERAL AREA BAD THING.... IF YOU RIDE BAREBACK AND FALL OFF... YOU ARE OFF... DISCONNECTED FROM THE HORSE... VARIOUS PARTS MAY BE BROKEN, BUT YOU ARE DISCONNECTED....THE PROBLEM CAN BE... IF YOU FALL OFF THE TOP OF THE HORSE. AND GET ONE FOOT STUCK IN THE STIRRUP YOU BECOME THAT WILD THING CHASING THE HORSE AS YOU GET DRAGGED IN THE VICINITY OF HIS BACK FEET... TERRIFYING THE HORSE TO GO FASTER---MANY PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR LIFE IN THIS MANNER... I HAVE TOLD OF WHY A HORSE WEARS BLINDERS WHEN HITCHED TO A WAGON... BECSUSE THEY THINK THE THING IS CHASING THEM . THIS ONE STIRRUP HANGUP. IS VERY CLOSELY RELATED AS FAR AS THE HORSE IS CONCERNED...( PPEOPLE WITH DOGS HAVE SOMETIMES HAD IT HAPPEN BY TYING THE POO BQG TO THE HANDLE OF THE LEASH-- THEN DROPPING THE LEASH-- -- SOME DOGS WILL PANIG AND RUN AS THE BAG CHASES THEM...)
ENGL;ISH SADDLES HAVE A QUICK RELASE STIRRUP BAR-- WHICH IF PULLED BACKWARDS WILL RELEASE THE STIRRUP--- AND IT DOES SOMETIMES WORK -- WHICH IS BETTER THQN NEVER WORKINGL.....
WESTERN SADDLES GET AROUND TH PROBLEM BY HAVING COWBOYS WEAR BOOTS... WITH SIGNIFICANT HEELS SO YOUR FOOT DOES NOT GO THRU-- SO WHO WEARS BOOTS??? KIDS ALL WEAR SNEAKERS-- WHICH ARE TH E. WORST RIDING FOOTWEAR...
BUT THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF KIDS AND STURRIPS AND HORSES IS A BAD ONE. BAREBACK MAKES A. B ETTER RIDER TOO... AND THEN THERE AE HELMETS...-- ALL ENGLISH RIDERS JUST AUTOMATIALLY WEAR A HELMET-- WESTERN RIDERS NEVER....
AND TEH ONLY THING I THNK I REMEMBER ABOUT HELMETS IS... IF SOMEONE FLLS OFF AND TH HELMET GETS RAMMED ON THEIR HEAD--- I THINK THE PROTOCAL IS --- DON'T REMOVE THE. HELMET..---- (ANN .... IS THAT RIGHT???)
ANN AND I TOOK AN EMT COURSE TOGETHER SO WE COUOD BE TEH "AMBULANCE CREW" FOR THE HUGE GROTON HOUSE 3 DAY EVENT HELD AT HER PLACE.--- WE DID COVER IT FOR 2 YEARS THEN CHRISTOPHER REEVES HAD HIS ACCIDENT AND WE HAD TO RETHINK-- WE WERE IN OVER OUR HEADS...
I REMEMBER THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE EMT COURSE-- TEH INSTRUCTOR SAID HE DID NOT WANT ANY AGING GRANDMOTHERS THAT JUST COULDN'T CUT THE MUSTARD IN HIS CLASS..---SO TEH FIRST THING HE HAD THE CLASS DO IS TO LIFT A PATIENT ONTO A GURNEY--- OF COURSE HE GAVE ANN. AND I SOME 250 POUND GUY- WE GOT ON EITHER SIDE -- OUR GLANCES CROSSED AND WE LIFTED-- ANN SAID TO THE INSTRUCTOR "WHERE DID YOU WANT US TO PUT HIM?" HE DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD BEEN LIFITNG BAGS OF GRAIN AND BALES OF HAY FOR YEARS....BOTH OF US HAD MORE CALLOSES ON OUR HANDS THAN HE I DID.
HE NEVER SAID ANOTHER WORD ABOUT AGING GRANDMOTHERS...
ANYONE WHO ATTEMPTS TO ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING LARGE IS BOUND TO HAVE SCREW UPS--- TEH GROTON HOUSE EVENT BECAME HUGE. STARTED OUT A PONY CLUB EVENT FOR OUR KIDS..-- GREW QUICKLY TO ?ONE OF THE BIGGET IN TH ECOUNTRY.... 500 HORSES OVERNIGHT IN CIRCUS TENTS... WITH NIGHT WATCHMEN SLEEPING ON TOP OF THE TEMT??????PROBABLY DRINKING BEER????
I WAS INVITED TO HELP BECAUSE I WAS THE ONLY WOMAN ANN KNEW WHO OWNED A CHAIN SAW...AND SHE WAS THE "COURSE DESIGNER" -- THINGS HAPPEN-- LIKE TIPPING OVR THE TRACTOR AND HAVING IT CONTINUE TO MOVE AROUND TEH BACK WHEEL AS ANN CRAWED FOR SAFETY....LIKE LOOSING A RIDER INTHE 3'DEEP RIVER CROSSING BECAUSE HE WAS GERMAN AND WE IN TEH FRANTIC ATMOSPHERE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND SOMETHING ABOTU "UPSTREAM. NOT DOWNSTREAM"-- OR MY FAVORITE-- TEH 200 BOILED CHICKENS READY FOR THE BBQ SAUCE AND GRILL-- AND ANN FORGOT TO INVITE TEH RIDERS... A NEIGHBOR HAD BOILED THE CHICKENS FOR THE EVENT.... AND HAD THEM IN GARBAGE BAGS ALL READY FOR THE BBQ SAUCE......THOSE 200 GREY LOOKING BOILED CHICKENS STAYED WITH US FOR A WHILE.
IT WAS BEFORE THE INTERNET-- SO NO ONE WITH ANY SENSE- EVER THOUGHT OF CRITIZING TEH MANAGEMENT -- THERE WERE LOTS OF FUNNY STORIES.....
IF ANY HAPPENED NOW FACEBOOK WOULD PICK.THE EVENT APART....INSTEAD OF A GOOD LAUGH AT THE THINGS THAT JUST HAPPEN....
YOU CAN STILL GOOGLE "GROTON HOUSE FARM EVENT'. IT WAS A BIGGIE-- OLYMPIC RIDERS--- BUT ALSO LOOSE HORSES AND KIDS.....
