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reminds me of the "Black Stallion" and the garbage truck!

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heidi larson


--- On Tue, 9/9/08, Dawn Carrie <rdcarrie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Dawn Carrie <rdcarrie@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [RC] doom and gloom
> To: "victoria thompson" <vascthompson@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Ridecamp Correspondence Correspondence" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 8:08 PM
> <<Watched my horse run away up a busy street and
> disappear around a corner
> only to watch seconds later as the horse came back around
> the corner
> followed closely by a city bus.>>
>
> I'm sorry...I shouldn't laugh...but this one just
> paints a hilarious picture
> in my mind!  It's like a cartoon!
>
> Dawn Carrie (still chuckling)
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:02 PM, victoria thompson
> <vascthompson@xxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of having my heating and AC
> system replaced and they're
> > relocating the AC condenser.  I've heard nothing
> but horror stories about
> > what happens when the system isn't installed
> properly and it's got my
> > stomach in an uproar.  I haven't been this nervous
> since I first started
> > teaching and entered a classroom filled with first
> graders.  Now all I can
> > think of is doom and gloom.  So, what better way to
> pick up my spirits than
> > talk about horses.  But since I still have feelings
> about doom and gloom I
> > thought I'd give a listing of some of the boners
> I've pulled over the past
> > 47 years and see how many of you can top them.
> >
> > Started to drive off and realized the horse was still
> tied to the outside
> > of the trailer.  Taught my horse to turn and face me
> whenever I said whoa
> > and when she was doing as taught on a narrow trail
> while I was behind her
> > she wound up falling over the edge into a deep ravine.
>  Got my horse stuck
> > in quicksand.  Had my horse standing on the lawn
> waiting to be shod and have
> > the sprinklers come on right underneath her (she wound
> up jumping onto the
> > shoer and his tool stand).  Watched my horse run away
> up a busy street and
> > disappear around a corner only to watch seconds later
> as the horse came back
> > around the corner followed closely by a city bus. 
> Tied my horse to a fence
> > rail and watched as he pulled the fence after him on
> his way home.  Had a
> > horse step on a nail out in the pasture and after
> several weeks in the barn
> > turned same horse back into the pasture without
> checking for more nails and
> > have the horse step on another nail two days later. 
> Approached a skittish
> > pony from the rear and basically was laid out flat,
> face first, in the pee
> > pile.  Insisted I knew the directions to a ride and
> wound up lost.  The
> > biggest boner of them all was passing up on a nice
> weekend at home with my
> > horse and instead went camping in the snow!
> >
> > OK.  Those are my big boners.  There are hundreds of
> little boners, but
> > that should get the ball rolling.
> >
> > Tori
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