In the 1950's a lot of folks just walked to the various grocery stories in Nephi; the Venice; walked to school; church, work or play in the Old Holler. My older brother often delivered papers on his horse. Back then horses were the go to "smart machine" that only needed pasture and water, both of which are quickly fading in our once rural community. But along with "progress" came Tote Gotes and such. Bob Garrett is now 82, but still uses his horses to round up the cattle and without a ladder! A first cousin of his was the late Kirk Sanders, and both Kirk and his Dad Glade brought in the new Honda 50's, and that changed our mode of travel. But when no potential customers were around Glade and Kirk used horses to hunt deer, as the three together each had an excellent eye with open sites. Kirk and Bob continued to defend each of their mobile machines as to which was safer. Well, for this writer, who has experienced severe breaks and aches with both, let the debate continue. Any who, todays story from 94 year old Dean Bowles will share one of his horse stories, and I think all can get a little "horse sense" from it, knowing those four legged mobile units are dang tricky, but a heck of a lot easier than this computer which has hobbles on it or its user has!
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