We had to give my donkey and Jakes horse away when he broke his back. The man I gave Rosie to had cattle and predators like bear and wolves. Rosie was a great guard donk. I loved that donk and horse as did Jake. But we could no longer take care of them at the time. Rather than sell them we gave them away with agreement we could come by and check on them and if they got rid of them we could get them back. Rosie would do a number on anything that came into our yard, we didn't have predators, also she was fun. Storms and age has made repairs less predator proof, this is where Leo and Foxy come in handy and we don't have to kill anything.
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I bought a bow and arrow to learn how to use basically as a hobby, plus a quite form of protection. That did not wotk out for me too good, all I got was whelps on my arm. Jake did pretty good with it, although neither of us has touched it in several years.
I really enjoyed softball, which I played from 1977-2000, I was the oldest in the league here and it was co-ed so I didn't like it, too many grown young men on the teams. I saw one woman get her chinbone broken by a batter, sounded like a firing of a 22 , very sickening.
I used to play on our work team in a softball league. It was co-ed, too and I loved it. I played short stop and had a collection of bruises and black eyes over the years.
Beth I was nervous when men were batting, although I went from always being first bass player to center field at 50, thank goodness. Rumor was, couple of them were semi pro which of course was illegal, but nobody proved it.
I played, "first base", on the team with Marie. Once two of strong hitters,who were "professional ball players", that were not suppose to be on our, "amateur teams", line drive one to me, and I caught it, and first base runner, came off first base; I put them both out, and the big old umpire guy, went nut's, bragging on me. Kept saying; "WHAT A PLAY".
They proved it when they kept line driving the ball to me, plus others kept talking about them, being pro's.
Our work teams were definitely NOT professionals. In fact most of the male engineers were wimpier than the women, haha.