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Hi everyone,
Thought maybe we could all use a good goofy trail story, so here are the
posts Ruth Bourgeois and I have been sending back and forth the last day
or two, after the original Water Sports story about my friend Liz whose
horse Gulliver liked to swan dive into the reservoir and pretend to be a
very small migrating gray whale. Liz always saw the bright and funny
side to every situation and was always a great pleasure to be around. A
good lesson for everyone, eh?
Ruth Bourgeois wrote:
Great story! I needed a good laugh today and that sure did it! Do you
s'pose Gulliver was a seahorse in a previous lifetime?
Ruth
Susan Evans wrote:
It wouldn't surprise me---after that ride, my friend Liz made it a
regular habit to take the U-Boat Commander up to the reservoir so he
could paddle around---eventually Gulliver found out it was just as much
fun NOT bucking Mom off first, so Liz stayed on (this time on a bareback
pad, not the very expensive Western saddle) and they cruised all over
the place. It was a scream to see them (as the Navy would say, Haze
Gray and Under Way) because you could never really see Gulliver, just
Liz from the waist up mysteriously cruising back and forth. It sorta
looked like Walking on Water if you haven't quite got the hang of it
yet!
See ya, Susan
P.S. Liz also had a list taped inside her trailer door of things to take
on excursions, and we were always sneaking over and adding things to her
list, like "snorkel", "scuba tanks" and "water skis". We also suggested
scattering bread crumbs to get the ducks to follow her, then she could
have her own private Maritime Parade.
Ruth Bourgeois wrote:
This story gets better all the time! Have you considered getting a
video of this and sending it to that TV show for funniest home videos?
Bet it would make quite a "splash"!!
I've tried to get my horses out in the lake. They'll go out a little
ways, but don't want to try swimming. Sounds like fun. I'd like to try
"walking on water" just once in my life!
Ruth
Susan Evans wrote:
Unfortunately, I've since moved and lost track of Liz and Gulliver. Too
bad, she was lots of fun to ride with...here in L.A. it was not uncommon
to be bothered by "flashers" on the trail---during one summer one
particular (naked) man that would try either frightening the
horses so they would unseat the woman rider or even try pulling women
out of the saddle. One day Liz and I were riding along a narrow trail
and sure enough, this guy jumps out of the bushes, naked as a jaybird
and proudly displays the physical appendage of which he was most pleased
(though, if you ask me, it wasn't worth bragging about). Liz looks for
about half a second, whips out this enormous deer-sticker Rambo knife
she has hanging off her saddle and always rode with (she says she
wasn't allowed to carry a varmint rifle like she really wanted to),
yells "OH BOY! TROPHIES!" and goes thumping ol' Gulliver into a
dead-out gallop towards the flasher. This guy turns white as a sheet,
turns and goes running just as hard as he can up the canyon, with Liz
and Gulliver right behind him, waving that damn machete and whooping
like a Comanche.
I was laughing so hard I fell off of Mikey onto my butt. (And no, Liz
didn't get her "trophy"---she came back a few minutes later, very
annoyed that the flasher hadn't played fair and had dove head-first off
the trail into heavy brush and, judging by the screams, cactus.)
By the way, we never had any more problems with flashers on that part of
the trail that summer. Wonder why? ;->
Susan
Hope this brightens everyone's day :-> !
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