Wrangler Scott asked each of us what type of horse we'd like to ride. He said, "If'n you don't know, ask yurself if you are a feisty, or timid, bold or reserved, enthusiastic, or mellow type of person and I'll match you up with your horse. Now I had the privilege the night before on the Campout to have met Wrangler Scott. I was making my first leather tooling project and couldn't figure out how to lace the coin-purse together. Scott had wandered into our camp and showed me how to tie some fancy lace work and we got to talking about cowboys. Somehow the topic got into poetry and music. I guess he goes to Elko Nevada and recites poetry and is trying to buy an accordion! I told him about being a Buckaroo leader and how I work with young boys. - We hit it off right away. Wrangler Scott led me to a beautiful chocolate colored horse named RAZZ. He said, "Ma'am, this'll be yur horse for today". I reached into my pocket and cut an apple into quarters with my Gerber Tool and fed it to RAZZ. I told RAZZ that he and I were going to be riding together. As some quickly mounted their horses, (totally ignoring Lesson #1 -Introduce yourself to your horse), you could hear nervous neighing by some of the horses and one boy was butted to the ground. Wrangler Scott scowled in disapproval and warned, "If'n you don't introduce yurself and be polite, kind and thoughtful to your horse you can jes LEAVE RIGHT NOW!" One boy anxious to ride, grabbed his horse's saddle and nearly pulled it to the ground - only to have his spirited horse step on his foot. As the boy yelped, he startled his horse and a painful lesson was thus learned. Everyone then put their hands on their horses backs and started talking to their horses - introducing themselves. -....more to come... _______ To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eat the hay & spit out the sticks! - A#1's mule" RTKB&G4JC! http://rangernet.org Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
