"A-horse! A-horse!..." -Richard !!!

"...'My'-kingdom for a-horse!"

 

To wit: "Any-kingdom for a-horse!" -This-author

 

Mid-February with my 5-year-old, Beth, bluegill-fishing on an

abnormally warm late "winter-thaw" reaching 70-degrees. She

caught 22-sunfish; I got-none! Wouldn't have-it any other-way!

 

10 a.m. on a January-day; most "intelligent"-humans were busy

at-"work" honing-careers, climbing the-"ladder; not-"genius"-me!?

I'm home early on this literally-freezing winter-day to ride a-horse.

 

Tacked-up, we set out for a mile and a-half trek; down the road

descending the-bluff to come-out in the creek-bottom at the-spring.

On-up the steep-hillside, through the skeleton-tree-woods, home!

Later, in warming-spring, I'll saddle 2-horses, load 3-year old Becky

aboard old Lady-Belle, our little white Welsh-pony, and packed with

a picnic-lunch including colored Easter-eggs, bologna-sandwiches and 

cookies in our saddle-bags along with a canteen of cool well-water, lead-

line lead her behind my-mount to the-spring for a delectable-treat. Wow!

 

But---back to..."A-horse! A-horse! Any-kingdom for a horse!"-story.

 

That January-morn freezing-ride left me chilled to the-bone, so very-

cold that my teeth felt-frozen from the freeze of a strong north-wind.

 

By the-time I got home, unsaddled ole-Commander and made my-way to

the cozy-house on the bluff, I needed a wood-fire blazing in the fireplace.

 

So? Yeah!---I indulged my-fantasies! Always!..."Played"-a-lot! Fun!

 

The "steady"-boys got the-promotions (I turned them-down---Flat!) They

climbed the-ladder; this-Hedonist celebrated-life living the-Adventure!

 

Built and lived in some mighty fine-homes! Swimming-pools! Horses!

Pets! Sports-cars! Vacations! Travel! Santa Claus-gifts! Fun! Love!

 

My-kingdom!?---A Treasure-Measure-Treasure!...Living the-adventure!

 

Getty-up! Oh! Faithful-Mirage! Off on another-adventure! Sure-enough!

 

Amen!