{"id":2918,"date":"2014-08-21T18:32:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/?page_id=2918"},"modified":"2014-08-21T20:31:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:31:36","slug":"2918-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/2918-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A sad horse riding experience."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-row\">\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Bactrian-Moose.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2919\" src=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Bactrian-Moose.png\" alt=\"Bactrian Moose\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" data-id=\"2919\" \/><\/a> <\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><strong><strong> As you may have noticed I have depreciated myself as an animal person. What I forgot to mention was my HORSE PERSON escapades. The following picture is the horse I was given the pleasure to board. <\/strong><\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After my juju failings with my<a title=\"Big Red \u2013 an Angus steer\" href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/?page_id=1254\"> cattle raising venture.<\/a> I allowed a neighbor to board her two horses. In exchange we could ride them. These would be untrained and treacherous Arabians \u2026 at least by my estimation. They knew where to bite and even the owner got to close they bit her on her breasts.<br \/>\nNice girls huh. Anyway, they behaved around me and strangely with my youngest daughter. Not so for the older. She stayed away from them as much as she could. As I saw it, they had pasture and a safe place to sleep. What more did they want?<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-row\">\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brown-bear1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2920\" src=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brown-bear1.jpg\" alt=\"brown bear\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" data-id=\"2920\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\u00a0Now to the gritty: Naomi and I were riding together when the horse suddenly put on the four wheel brakes an option that horses have. (but not in the instruction booklet) Both of us were thrown off and nothing worse happened. It was a bear that was crossing in front of the horse. We got back on and came home. <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A time later I was riding by myself and this breakage happened again. This time I was not so fortunate. The horse simply braked in front of a stream (moving water) it did not like. This time I went over a cliff and got injured by discovering trees and rocks I had never known before. By the time the owner came riding up \u2026 she was screaming at me to recover her damn horse, blood flowing from all of my appendages, I walked 2.5 miles home. A friend who was house-sitting my daughters remarked upon the \u2018old man\u2019 hobbling up the road.<br \/>\nI would later edit this from a phone call describing this event.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-row\">\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cliff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2922\" src=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cliff.jpg\" alt=\"cliff\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" data-id=\"2922\" \/><\/a> <\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\u00a0By cliff, I mean<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;\"> cliff <\/span>and I bounced down meeting every tree snag and boulder my body could find. My arms took the brunt of it trying to protect my head. My legs remained were untouched though battered. What I neglected to mention is that the horse owner was a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NURSE!<\/span>, and didn\u2019t give a crap about my condition. <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Need I say that was the end to my boarding of horses.What should have forewarned me about horses was an episode in the past.<\/p>\n<p>As a \u2018Tenderfoot\u2019 Scout in more ways than one, my friend Huck and I decided to check out the nearby Girl Scout camp. As it turned out they were far more wily and knowing about boys than we were of girls. We came upon two horse backed Amazons and when questioned \u2026 assured them that we knew how to ride horses.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow they discerned our lies when they had to assist us to mount. They gave both horses a big slap on the rumps and watched us bouncing up and down, totally out of control. Mind you, our legs were not long enough to reach the stirrups so when we were finally thrown we were not dragged. They got back on the horses and gave us a laughing kiss goodbye.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-row\">\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gbronsonhorse150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2921\" src=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gbronsonhorse150.jpg\" alt=\"gbronsonhorse150\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" data-id=\"2921\" \/><\/a> <\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\u00a0Since then I have ridden Morgan\u2019s, Thoroughbreds, and Tennessee Walkers. None would be a problem. After the treacherous Arabians the Tennessee Walkers would be like stretch limousines. <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">That said, the last picture reflects how I view myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(C) Herbert Senft 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my juju failings with my cattle raising venture. I allowed a neighbor to board her two horses. In exchange we could ride them. These would be untrained and treacherous Arabians \u2026 at least by my estimation. 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