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Best wishes for a speedy recovery with no coughs or sneezes from one 
who's also broken a few ribs.
Laney

Truman Prevatt wrote:
> It was a great weekend we made a lot more progress in getting the system 
> ready for flight test than we though we would. That was the reason I had 
> to cancel the convention. So this morning I decied to treat myself and 
> go out for a ride. I was riding my green horse and Katny was riding her 
> horse. We come to an area on the trails where a new pine tree was down. 
> We have a lot of dead trees still standing from the pine beetle 
> infestation of a few years ago and they fall from time to time. The 
> woods was pretty tight there but we get through.
>
> Avanti was a bit anxious about it, bursh in his face scrambleing over 
> logs - but we made it. Then Kathy decided to go through some more brush 
> instead of around it to get back to the trail. I got caught up in it, 
> Avanti got a vine around his leg and panicked. He tries to break out of 
> it by bucking through it. I managed to stay on for about 20 feet but by 
> the time we got out of it he had managed to throw the saddle up on his 
> shoulders.
>
> I went flying - knowing all along that it was going to hurt when I 
> landed and it did. I flipped over and hit the dirt very hard on my back 
> and wouldn't you know it I have a busted rib or two. There goes the 
> spring. Where is that Wild Turkey when I need it :-( .
>
> Truman


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