A 'Plunk'-er Horse And The Older Rider

Oh, this is just about the last thing I want to think of but nature is forcing me, dammit all to hell!

Age is about the get the best of me and no amount of ibuprofen or Aleve will block the aches and pains on a body that has been abused and misused most of my life. Getting tossed off colts and jerked around by studs who thought they ruled the roost and having horses trip and fall down and foals who kicked me and falling off the barn roof (don't ask) and missing the fence that I was trying to bail over and falling down and getting pawed in the face by a bratty filly and that calf I was trying to brand didn't want to cooperate and...you get the picture, right?? All this stuff over a lifetime has really done a number on the ol' bod.

Now I have a nice mare who is well trained and will move off my leg and a smidge of rein and can stop and give you change...well, there are sure times I wished I had a plunker type horse instead. My mare has to be ridden, not passengered on. As a rule, I sneer, absolutely SNEER at plunker horses but the time is getting close that a plunker is looking pretty frickin' good. I think I'm having my come-uppance of sorts. The thing I despise is something that I'm realizing I may NEED. What a spot to be in!

I will deal with it though. I'll try to do it with dignity. I may not succeed but I'm going to try. I'm pretty sure, no, damn sure, there will be more of this as time progresses. My body is accepting a bit more than my brain wants to at this point.

Wouldn't it be nice, my body says, to have a plunker horse to go out and just slap a saddle on and boogey down the road without having everything perfect? Yep, it would, my brain is still in horsewoman mode and being proper.

So, without futher ado, I'll let this go for now and update when some new gem thought hits me about this. Maybe this is a progression that has to happen, maybe it happens to most other older riders too, although no one has said much. Maybe they are like me and slightly embarrassed to admit to physical shortcomings.

Sucks to be me right now...*sigh*...