And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
What would you wear to keep from getting wet? After a while, I mean. Chaps would inadequate. Leather would work for a while, but then it wouldn't. Sooner or later, it's going to be coming through. That snow is going to melt, and it's going to make for a wet seat, no matter how you slice it.
I remember hearing that there is no such thing as bad weather, instead there is inadequate clothing. When I worked a night shift I would leave the house in warm sunshine and return in the cold pre dawn, either way I was inadequately dressed.
Horse has never seen a lazy boy ,fire place or bourbon, it's a wonder they ain't all mean as a snake, horses be tough period most horse think a blanket is a chew toy.
Hard horse, too.
ReplyDeleteWhat would you wear to keep from getting wet? After a while, I mean. Chaps would inadequate. Leather would work for a while, but then it wouldn't. Sooner or later, it's going to be coming through. That snow is going to melt, and it's going to make for a wet seat, no matter how you slice it.
ReplyDeleteThen you slice it a different way. Fer instance, a floor length oiled canvas duster. Put one on the hoss too.
DeleteYou use paraffin to keep you duster and chaps waterproof.....
DeleteBultaco. It's called a poncho. Covers body,saddle and legs
ReplyDeleteI remember hearing that there is no such thing as bad weather, instead there is inadequate clothing. When I worked a night shift I would leave the house in warm sunshine and return in the cold pre dawn, either way I was inadequately dressed.
ReplyDeleteHorse has never seen a lazy boy ,fire place or bourbon, it's a wonder they ain't all mean as a snake, horses be tough period most horse think a blanket is a chew toy.
ReplyDelete"Hard Man In Hard Weather".
ReplyDeleteNah, I think that's the saddle horn.
Ten million snowflakes in this picture, but the man on horseback ain't one of them.
ReplyDeleteDad sad the coldest place on earth was horseback in weather like this. He would know.
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