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Originally Posted by rockfan4
Regarding the "want kids" checkbox. Unless there's a separate box to say "It's okay if you have kids", that is what I'd interpret that box to mean for someone over 40.
I'm going to post this in my own thread, but here's the time suck part of owning a horse: I went with my wife to the barn tonight, she need help training him.
We left the house about 4:00pm today. It's at least 30 minutes to the barn. Between catching the horse, grooming him, working him on the ground (no riding tonight) cooling him down, feeding him, drying him off and taking him back to the pasture, and then driving home, it was 7:30 when we walked in the door, and I'm now eating dinner at about 7:50 pm.
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You got off light. That's just a casual maintenance.
My grandparents that were up near Bakersfield CA had horses before WWII and beyond to my teen years. I had a horse kept there. My grandfather died the year before I was born. In his time he rode with the Kern County horse something or other. I don't remember the name. They rode in the Rose Parade with silver studded saddles and tack. I remember seeing all that stuff covered up in the stable.
I rode when I was there and was taught how to care for the horse while I was there, which was not a lot in the course of a year being in Long Beach during the school year. I'd get up there 2wice in the summer and some of the holidays.
Care equaled riding time. Someone had to do that all year long. Unfortunately that horse was not ridden enough and was pretty nasty when saddled up. So there's that, you have to ride often. And the cycle goes round and round.
It's pretty stupid if there is no working need for a horse. My uncle lived for horses while working the oil patch for a living. He lived in Oildale outside Bakersfield.
I can only say I'm grateful for the exposure to that life of farming and culture. Doesn't mesh well with being a racer gearhead. Tractor pulling is an outgrowth of the life of gears and dirt. I had little ongoing interest in the dirt part.