***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