RUBbette Wives & Housework, si man

[visaveteran1 33]

When I was young we all had horses. I was riding about the time I could walk. Alla thinks it would have been just great! My sister's horse kicked my teeth out for no reason whatever when I was 9, I still have false teeth in the front and look like a hockey player without them. Mine tossed me several times and left me for dead. Broke my leg, my wrist. Not to mention bites, holy ####### they can BITE! They are big animals and can hurt you without trying or even meaning to. As soon as I could I started using a pickup truck to get around the place even though my father and grandfather restricted me to roads, in most cases I would rather walk than ride a horse. I preferred rattlesnakes to horses. I was never injured by a rattlesnake.

Ouch! Getting kicked in the mouth by a horse is a serious pain event for sure. And yeah, they can give you a nasty bite along with the classic throwing of the human body through the air. I guess that's why the old cowboys were so rough and tough...they had to deal with horses on a daily basis.

[Gary and Alla 3,696]

Ouch! Getting kicked in the mouth by a horse is a serious pain event for sure. And yeah, they can give you a nasty bite along with the classic throwing of the human body through the air. I guess that's why the old cowboys were so rough and tough...they had to deal with horses on a daily basis.

It was one of those things you never forget, kind of funny now. I walked behind her horse for the 4,000th time, bent over to pick something up and when I stood up I saw the foot coming and still remember seeing the horeshoe nailheads I remember thinking something like "This is not go..." My next coherent memory was from the hospital emergency room though I have a groggy one of looking up and seeing a bunch of faces looking down at me. Very fast way to remove teeth.

The last time I was in a horse wreck was 1989, riding a horse around a bend in the trail on a mesa, scouting ahead of deer season and rode a horse for old time's sakes. Bad idea. It was late October and still quite warm. The horse passed an outcropped ledge under which a rattlesnake was was laying. I never saw the snake until the snakes head flew out like a rocket aimed at the horse's left eye! I remember the thought "This is not go..." and then I was on my @ss with a dislocated shoulder, and a rattlesnakecrawling around somewhere with me in the brush and the horse was galloping across the prairie toward the barn. My dad always hated it when a horse came back "empty" so he went out looking for me and found me walking back saying some bad words about horses, snakes, rocks, etc.

Other than a few trial rides with Alla I have not been riding since. My grandfather and father have passed away and my grandmother, the family sold the property against my vote and I don't hunt anymore. I guess without horses to kick my @ss it was not so much fun anymore.

Edited February 15, 2012 by Gary and Alla

[eekee 182]

I rode horses as a child, but then when I got older I started getting paranoid about something like what happened to Gary happening to me and I stopped.

[visaveteran1 33]

I rode horses as a child, but then when I got older I started getting paranoid about something like what happened to Gary happening to me and I stopped.

Yeah, I think about what happened to Christopher Reeves. Glad I never inherited my fathers love of horses.

[baron555 934]

I rode horses as a child, but then when I got older I started getting paranoid about something like what happened to Gary happening to me and I stopped.

My mother grew up on a 300 acre working farm in southern Illinois; it's still in the family.....so my family and we kids spent tons of vacations "down on the farm".

My sister was the horse lover; I'd rather drive the tractors or go shooting at the junk pile down by the crick!

I've had a horse bite me; #######....but the worst was when a cow stepped on my foot!!!

[Gary and Alla 3,696]

My mother grew up on a 300 acre working farm in southern Illinois; it's still in the family.....so my family and we kids spent tons of vacations "down on the farm".

My sister was the horse lover; I'd rather drive the tractors or go shooting at the junk pile down by the crick!

I've had a horse bite me; #######....but the worst was when a cow stepped on my foot!!!

I never got hurt by a cow, oddly enough. One of the cows sh*t on my sister's leg which she deserved for her horse kicking me. She pretty much flipped out when that happened That was about 40 years ago and she still talks about it!

Alla likes her fresh milk and she will even go pet a baby calf if they have one at the farm where we get the milk, but otherwise does not want anything to do with the animals. she likes to ride horses but has ni desire to own one. She was taking riding lessons when we lived in our old house and there was a stable about 1/2 up the road that had lessons and trail rides.

[Inna & Brian 11]

I love riding horses but I have to share my horse horror stories. When I was 4 or 5 we kept an old broken down horse on the property. The horse was nice enough but one day, totally out of the blue, the damn horse stretched out it's head and bit my stomach. That hurt!

Fast forward about 25 years and i still loved and rode horses. One year I was in Colorado and I was riding a friend's horse. We were riding from Aspen to Vail. That is a three day ride. The instruction were to watch out because the horse likes to rub off riders. Sure enough the horse would casually walk too close to branches and rocks. On the first day, I made sure the horse knew I was aware of his sadistic tendencies and I was in charge. No more problems. Then on the third day, the horse jumped a small creek and aimed right for a tree. The little SOB drove my knee into that tree. god I still hate that horse.

All horses are stupid and stubborn and some are plain evil. But there is nothing more beautiful and awesome.

[slim 1,533]

All horses are stupid and stubborn and some are plain evil. But there is nothing more beautiful and awesome.

Ever heard of poontang?

[Laveau 67]

Ever heard of poontang?

omg.

[TBoneTX 48,158]

Back to topic: Our laundry room (doubling as the entry to the house from the garage) was smelling. Mrs. T-B. thought that it smelled like rancid humidity; I thought that it was either that or cat-shat.

Mrs. T-B. determined that the stench arose from the cloth towels that she uses to mop the floor (with use of the infamous rag-on-a-stick) that she then dumps on the laundry-room floor. She put the culprit towels in the washing machine. She either forgot to use soap at all or she used the cheap liquid stuff with no scent, because now the washing machine smells like the towels did. She forgot to use a fabric-softener sheet in the dryer, because now the dryer smells like the towels did.

However, she somehow did remember to clean the lint-trap (!!!?!), which almost caused me to spontaneously file for her USCitizenship, si man.

[visaveteran1 33]

Ever heard of poontang?

Good analogy.

[visaveteran1 33]

Back to topic:

Well...we're at 13,500 views and 630 or so posts...so who remembers the topic? We've had about 7 distinct subtopics and counting.

We have established one fact...climate zones don't effect cleaning habits. Whether near the equator or Arctic Circle, women all are lousy house keepers. And our great grandmothers are rolling over in their graves.

Edited February 17, 2012 by visaveteran1

[Gary and Alla 3,696]

Back to topic: Our laundry room (doubling as the entry to the house from the garage) was smelling. Mrs. T-B. thought that it smelled like rancid humidity; I thought that it was either that or cat-shat.

Mrs. T-B. determined that the stench arose from the cloth towels that she uses to mop the floor (with use of the infamous rag-on-a-stick) that she then dumps on the laundry-room floor. She put the culprit towels in the washing machine. She either forgot to use soap at all or she used the cheap liquid stuff with no scent, because now the washing machine smells like the towels did. She forgot to use a fabric-softener sheet in the dryer, because now the dryer smells like the towels did.

However, she somehow did remember to clean the lint-trap (!!!?!), which almost caused me to spontaneously file for her USCitizenship, si man.

Alla has always wanted a "work room" (utility room) and she is going to get one someday. We have all the appliances and items we need, even a steam ironing machine like they use in fancy clothes stores but she wants it all in a neat and finished "room" not an unfinished basement.

She would kill for a "mud room" even if it were combined with the work room. I built a little porch coming in from the garage and enclosed it so it is sort of warm in the winter and built in a "wardrobe" for coats and shoes but the area is very small and only big enough for one person which means when we come home I have to wait at the bottom of the stairs while she does the "shoe dance" and gets herself into the house with her slippers on. And when we go out, the door stays open as she puts her shoes on (putting on shoes is actually much more of a process than it would seem) Her dream mud room ain't happenin' at this house, too small for that.

And she never empties the lint filter! If it were part of the citizenship test she would fail and be deported.

[Brad and Vika 129]

Back to topic: Our laundry room (doubling as the entry to the house from the garage) was smelling. Mrs. T-B. thought that it smelled like rancid humidity; I thought that it was either that or cat-shat.

Mrs. T-B. determined that the stench arose from the cloth towels that she uses to mop the floor (with use of the infamous rag-on-a-stick) that she then dumps on the laundry-room floor. She put the culprit towels in the washing machine. She either forgot to use soap at all or she used the cheap liquid stuff with no scent, because now the washing machine smells like the towels did. She forgot to use a fabric-softener sheet in the dryer, because now the dryer smells like the towels did.

However, she somehow did remember to clean the lint-trap (!!!?!), which almost caused me to spontaneously file for her USCitizenship, si man.

At least it wasn't the cat #######

[visaveteran1 33]

At least it wasn't the cat #######

Well, it could have been cat ####### on the towels. So, putting this in a "Clue" context, Professor Cat used the towels in the laundry room.