Originally Posted by: john of MT[p]
The past decade I bought guitars, she bought horses. ...snip
On the other hand, I frequently pet her horses ...snip
I'm envious of where you live john of MT. Love mountains. A beautiful part of the world, and America. In the course of a couple of working stints in the US over the years, I've seen most of it courtesy of the means provided by what I used to do.
I'll let you in on a secret and a regret. I've [u]never[/u] ridden a horse. Never jumped out of a perfectly good airplane either, but never had any desire too even offered lots of oppportunity. Dropped lots of those adrenaline junkies over the years though. Riding horses on the other hand, does really appeal to me, so I get where your wife is coming from. In my imagination, at full gallop I think it'd be like riding a cross-country on a dirt bike with a will and mind of its own. My paternal grandfather was an expert horseman, a Huszar in his younger years, but come 1915 the machine gun, static trench warfare & artillery put an end to that even in the reconiassance role. Too late and too expensive to start with all the agistment, veterinary and stabling of a horse now unfortunately.
