Sunday Brunch #87 - Horses

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"

-William Shakespeare

1) Have you ever ridden a horse?

Yes. I last rode about 30 years ago in the Cascades (Western Washington). I rode alot as an adolescent in Mexico - every other week or so.


2) What is your favorite horse story or movie?

The book My Friend Flicka which they made into a half-assed children’s movie a couple of years after it was first published.

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My Friend Flicka - 1943
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My Friend Flicka was part of a trilogy which included Thunderhead and Green Grass of Wyoming.


3) If you had the means, would you own a horse?

Probably. I’d have to move, though. The clay soil here is saturated most of the time and I’d hate to have an animal founder due to hoof rot or other, similar water-caused ailment.


4) Do you think it would be neat if we went back to everyone traveling by horse and buggy or just an inconvenience?

No, it would be a terrible inconvenience. Here in the North Country, a simple task requiring one to ride to town (roughly 15 miles roundtrip) would almost certainly result in a frozen appendage, despite precautions taken. It was expected. Horses routinely died during mid-winter trips. I prefer cars. Safer, quicker, warmer. Keep horses for recreation.


5) Have you ever ridden in a hansom cab?

If the open air carriages along Central Park in New York City and in downtown Atlanta count, then I have. Otherwise, I haven’t.


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Move ‘em out [whipcrack].