Falc,
I guess I forgot to mention that lad is 260lbs. with pretty much zero body fat?
I'm glad he's on my side.
Beo,
I rode a barn soured horse one time and tried to cure her wormy old ass. Come to find out, she was an ex bucking horse.
She would go into a fit and try to stick all four feet all the way to China. Bucking like that on hard ground makes your nose bleed from the shock. She and I tried to kill each other for about 2 weeks. She went from throwing her tantrum after 15 minutes to about 2 hours in that length of time. She had one eye swollen shut, I had a black eye. Her lip was bloody and I had a few loose teeth. We both had multiple other contusions and aches.
The lady that owned her wanted her girls to be able to ride her.. FFS, that old nag was a water moccasin in disguise. After she broke my saddle by rearing up and jumping over backwards ( trying her damndest to sqash me in the process), I saw that wreck coming and jumped loose before she hit paydirt.
I then sat on her head and smoked a cigarette. I was careful to dump the ashes in her nose.
I let her up and was in the saddle before she was all the way up. As soon as she got her feet under her, she went over backwards again, only this time into a tree! Finished off my saddle with that move. I led her back to the barn and offered to cure the bitch with a well placed 30-30 slug.
Her owner didn't agree to that solution. She did agree to turn that old wHorse out ot pasture as brood mare though.
Monte Walsh didn't have nothin on me when I was 18.
I rode horses and chased cattle every where except up a tree and down a hollow log from the time I was 6 until I was 45. Takes TOO damn long to heal up after the wrecks nowadays. I remember most all of them very clearly on cold damp mornings nowadays.
If ya ever get a chance, find a copy of MONTE WALSH. They made a 2 movies from the book. The first was with Lee Marvin and the second was with Tom Selleck. The book still outshines 'em all.
As far as ol JJ having a mean look in his eye? Nah, he's the easiest goin mutt I've seen in a lot of years. My nephew, on the other hand, can get sideways in heartbeat and tear up a lot of shtoof..
I like my insides not getting punched to my outsides.