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RE: "Free to Choose None of the Above" - Day 350: 5 Minute Freewrite: Friday - Prompt: freedom
Being a kid when I did most of my riding, I usuallymounted from a fence, and am in no way too proud to do so now.
If we do actually get horses, I'll probably build a mounting bench, but then I'd likely have to have something more portable for mounting away from home . . . I'm envisioning something along the lines of a narrow version of a diving ladder, that could attach to the saddle, and be rolled when not in use.
And yeah, I'm a sucker for stories like that of Snowflake and the Lippizaners, and always will be. ;-)
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All those Hollywood stunt people leap onto horses from a a rooftop and land in the saddle, or run up alongside the horse and jump right up... meh. I like your idea. :)
Although, the horse-mounting scene in The Three/Four Musketeers, where (I believe) D'Artagnan jumps onto the back of a horse from a balcony, is still pretty hilarious, but then most of the film is. ;-)
Of course, when he jumps onto the back of the horse that is engaged in pulling Athos (Oliver Reed) from the well, and unceremoniously cuts the the rope and rides off, without realizing he has just dumped his friend back into the drink, is even funnier.
LOVE those films!!! ;-)