> A shame it isn't like it used to be.
>
> Becky in FL
I agree 100% Becky. We've litigated ourselves to the point where it's
almost fool-hardy to "be neighborly" as in letting the neighbor kids ride
your pony, letting someone try out your horse to feel the tolt, letting
people use or ride your property, etc. etc.
When I was a kid, a group of us ran all over the countryside on
snowmobiles in the winter. My Dad was a part-time beef farmer with 70
acres and most of the farms around us were larger. We kids never had to go
on the roads to get to each other's houses -- we just went across fields and
woods. No one minded (as long as you stayed off the winter wheat and the
hay fields!). It was just the way it was and nobody thought a thing about
it. I'm sure people remember being able to ride their horses like that
too.
I sure wish my girls were growing up in similiar circumstance. Sigh.
-- Renee M. in Michigan
