[LRflex] Re: Plugs
- From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:55:27 -0700
David Young showed:
Subject: [LRflex] Plugs
Good Mornin'!
Throughout North America, there are many hundreds of licensed,
wilderness outfitters. These are people who take hunters,
photographers and simple pleasure seekers on horseback treks into the
wilderness, often hundreds of miles from the nearest human
habitation, for weeks at a time.
Of these, just a dozen - perhaps fewer - are women. My wife, Rose,
is one of them... though she retired from that business over a decade ago.
Rose had two old plugs .. Banjo and Archie. These old guys are
retired pack horses, from the days when Rose ran her own outfitting
business ("Wild Rose Outfitting") who were used to packing 400 pounds
of gear over steep mountain trails of the Willmore Wilderness, for a living.
Three years ago, she gifted them to our nieces, Marissa &
Jenaya. The girls were 10, the "boys", Banj & Archie, were "just" 25.
Now the old boys are 28, and the girls have them show jumping!
Show jumping is a sport for much younger horses (32 is a very old
horse!) trained to it from "colt-hood". Thus, the following shot is
not about the quality of photography, but testimony to what two
determined young ladies can do with a couple of old plugs!
http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/Banjo_1.htm
Hi David & Rose,
Now if that doesn't beat all! Usually a couple off old timer horses like
this end up in some kind of unmentionable factory at their ages.
Give the girls a big "Good on you" and the horses an extra handful of oats
for their efforts all round.
ted
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