When my daughters were young we owned show ponies and the girls would ride
in horse shows. There is a lot of behind
the scenes work that needs to be done prior to arriving at a horse show, the
girls started in “lead line” went to short stirrups and onto jumping … those classes
where usually the first ones of the morning (8 am start) …
Back at the stable (barn) you had to feed and water the pony super early
in the morning, so it would not colic… after the pony was fed you needed to
take it out of its stall and brush / groom the pony, then came the braiding of
the mane and tail… picking and polishing the hooves… placing wraps or shipping
boots on all 4 legs of the pony and they load the pony into a horse trailer (sometimes
easy to do, sometimes not so easy. So you needed to have extra time) inside the
trailer you hung a hay bag so the pony could have a treat as it traveled… You
then had to pack up the kids … load saddles, bridles, lead lines, lounge lines,
halters, water buckets, brushes and picks, fly spray, saddle pads, blankets or
coolers … ugh it goes on and on…
Then you are all packed up and ready to roll out … and it would take
usually an hour to get to each horse show, sometimes longer… once there you
unload everything, take the pony out of the trailer, lounge it, tack it up and
place your kid on top of it and send them into the show ring … whoa baby that
was a lot of work …
You would have to arrive at the barn very early in the morning to do
all of this … I mean sometimes at 2 am if the horse show was far away … I would
also listen to the radio driving to the barn and while at the barn in the early
morning hours … this is when I found “Art Bell” broadcasting early in the am …
The topics that Art Bell would discuss blew my mind and made me think
of things I never considered prior … weird stuff… alien stuff … Sci-fi stuff … prophecies,
time travel, medical cover-ups, hell and demons, secret societies and so much
more … There are still many people who discuss these things on the radio or those who broadcast via a podcast
or are on YouTube … They do not hold a candle to the style and foresight Art
Bell had in this arena, Art Bell was the first and the best … I would say Art
Bell opened my mind to these things and made me research the topics … so thank
you Art Bell and rest in peace …
Check, it out he was cool!!!
http://www.artbellarchives.com/
Art Bell was also best buds with Malachi Martin (and interesting priest
to say the least) … Fr. Martin wrote “fiction” about the Catholic Church … but
was it really fiction??? I will post a
story about this in the future …
And I should have listened to Art Bell's advice in the early 1990's... he said, "invest in cell phone stocks, there will come a day when that is the only type of phone people will use"... I thought ... no that cannot be true ... people will never give up their landlines... I could kick myself all the way to the Sprint store now, for not listening to Art Bells' advice!
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| J and Smitty "in hand" Smitty was a NJ bred pony, beautiful lines |
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| Smitty had great form as a jumper |
