klaatu <klaatu@alt-teens.org> wrote in message news:<esfv10pdliuogo8qcmuch2v0ca914i8prh@4ax.com>...
> >> >> >Nicole:
> >> >> >I don't usually have to work except for on Sundays.
> >> >> >Life on the farm is very busy.
> >> >> >I enjoy riding my four wheeler and my horse
> >> >> >on our many acres of land.
> >> >> >We have a feed store that I work at some times.
> >> >> >Answering phones and writing tickets.
> >> >> >Living on a farm is a lot of fun. What are your hobbies?
>
> >> >> klaatu:
> >> >> skateboard some, but no good at it, really;
> >> >> ride bike a lot, and am pretty decent at that.
> >> >>
> >> >> also like to bounce around the woods
> >> >> and hang out with the animals, and make stuff.
> >> >>
> >> >> doesn't matter much what; just like to build things.
> >> >> a while back, hung ladders off the ceiling
> >> >> so i could go all around the ground-floor of the house
> >> >> swinging like a monkey,
> >> >> but took 'em down for painting outside.
> >> >>
> >> >> like horses, but haven't space to keep 'em right;
> >> >> what kind have you got?
>
> >> >Nicole:
> >> >I have quarter horses that I barrel race it is a lot of fun.
>
> >> klaatu:
> >> barrel-racing - YESSS !
> >>
> >> you must be really skilful - both of you.
> >> i can stay on a horse, but that's about it.
> >> haven't had much chance to ride,
> >> but enough to know one needs timing like a ballet-dancer
> >> to get good at that.
>
> >> >Nicole:
> >> >There coloring is Palomino they are really pretty I say.
>
> >> klaatu:
> >> ja, they look like they're standing in sun-glow all the time.
> >> then breeze comes up and wafts mane and tail around;
> >> when i was little saw that
> >> and it made me feel like something squirmed in my chest.
> >> couldn't figure it out.
> >> for days thought something supernatural happened.
>
> >Nicole:
> >That is very interesting! Barrel Racing really isn't that hard.
> >You should try it some time. Did you say you had a horse?
> >I can't remember.
>
> klaatu:
> don't have one.
> i'd like to, but haven't enough space to keep one right;
> it would be like tying a dog on a short leash.
> would love to try barrel-racing,
> even if i never get good enough for competition.
>
> surfing and snow-boarding also
> depend much on balance and timing,
> but i'm 200 miles from surf,
> and at least 600 from usable snow.
> <sigh>
>
> oh well, at least i've got a unicycle.
> <tries to imagine barrel-racing unicycles>
>
> hmmph !
> no good.
> maybe motorized unicycles would work . . . .
I work at a camp in the summer and their are some guys who ride
unicycles around the barrels trying to be funny. I think it would be
fun to snowboard but have never got the chance to try it. THey are
building a fake slope where I live so maybe I can try it.
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