[Jamo]

Bill, that was great. I damn near cry every time I hear that song anyway, so it's use in that ride was even mo betta.

Grew up with horses...percherons mostly. We would get them from the retirement ranch up in the hills near Porterville...where the Disney, Knotts and other entertainment horses would go...to use for work. See, in the old days, we would use them to plow in between staked tomatos (before someone developed highboy tractors with elevated chassis to over the stakes). they were so used to kids touching them as they pulled carriages down Main Street USA that tomato plants wouldn't spook them (knocking over one row in the middle of a few hundred acres of staked tomtos is one of the bestest assamples of the domino effect you would ever witness).

I used to run them bareback for exercise and to/from the fields...a percheron at gallop is the BB of horses.

BTW...two labs, 11 cats, one bunny, a pairing of foxes by the creek out back that munch out of the cat food bowls, opposums and one smartass raccoon and her family making raids into the cat food bags in the garage every week or so. Everyone gets along, although the smaller animals haven't quite understood lab humor yet.