Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

GDB2222

Spirit wrote: »

That made me laugh out loud.

Simple pleasures.

I've just come back from a 3.75 mile Fit Together walk, run by Active Norfolk. It started raining 30 mins before we set off and stopped raining almost exactly when we finished. The simple pleasure of taking off my soaking wet trainers and socks and putting on spare dry ones, taking off my soaked-through so-called rain jacket and wet T shirt and putting on a dry warm sweat shirt.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

A sign of moving on. All good. We need to take the same steps.

We still have Spirit's ashes ina casket in the garage awaiting burial..5 1/2 years on. Her saddle is on a rack in a stable. DD has a plastic box with some of Beth's stuff (double bridle etc) under her bed. It is not even allowed to go out in the stable...eight years this month:( OH did throw out some mouse nibbled blankets a few months ago.

Spirit is a problem for me, she died the same weekend as the boys and I just can't face it. Beth had a pulmonary rupture and died in a scene from a horror movie. DD was blood soaked from head to toe, brilliant in the crisis (I was not, I was hysterical), calm afterwards but paid a long term high price.

I'm not getting rid of tack :eek:

Spirit_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

I've just come back from a 3.75 mile Fit Together walk, run by Active Norfolk. It started raining 30 mins before we set off and stopped raining almost exactly when we finished. The simple pleasure of taking off my soaking wet trainers and socks and putting on spare dry ones, taking off my soaked-through so-called rain jacket and wet T shirt and putting on a dry warm sweat shirt.

The walk sounds good. Did DW go too?

It also sounds like it is time to buy a new rain jacket and some waterproof walking boots.

In the boot of my car I have my walking boots and a lightweight beach chair. Last week I drove to places in my flip flops and then if the walk looked at all rough underfoot I put my boots on. I love them. OH bought them for me few years ago to replace the good but heavy boots I had had for about the 20 years. These are so lightweight with a little pull cord to fasten them rather than miles of laces.. Another simple pleasure and my feet feel comfortable and protected. It was a genius gift on his part

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm not getting rid of tack :eek:

You might be able to help me understand.

What is it about tack? Why some has to be kept but others can go?

Beth's saddle was a Stubben Dressage Saddle. It was lovely and a few years old..it had been a Christmas present to DD from us. She did sell that. Spirits is an old GP..still here. The double bridle was almost new. I am not even allowed to look at what else is under the bed.

There is a large wooden tack chest in our stable which DD tidied out a couple of years ago, making several mice homeless. She carefully folded up the blankets and put them back in. She had donated rugs to an equine charity..so I am not sure why she kept these one's to perish.

GDB2222

Spirit wrote: »

The walk sounds good. Did DW go too?

It also sounds like it is time to buy a new rain jacket and some waterproof walking boots.

In the boot of my car I have my walking boots and a lightweight beach chair. Last week I drove to places in my flip flops and then if the walk looked at all rough underfoot I put my boots on. I love them. OH bought them for me few years ago to replace the good but heavy boots I had had for about the 20 years. These are so lightweight with a little pull cord to fasten them rather than miles of laces.. Another simple pleasure and my feet feel comfortable and protected. It was a genius gift on his part

DW was on a train back to London at the time. I have some very heavy boots that I have not yet fully broken in, plus some fairly lightweight ones that I cannot find.

Oh, and I have some proofing spray. I'll give that a try on the jacket.

PasturesNew

I bought some "walking shoes", which to me looked like trainers, about 14 years ago. They leak from the bottom now, so no good to go out in the rain ..... they were a good brand, really posh, Hawkshead .... it was one of those bizarre things you come across once in a lifetime ... they'd had a sale, then a bigger sale, then final reductions ... and this solitary pair of walking shoes was for sale for £10 on the day ... and I'd not spotted the "Manager's Special extra 20% off Today" signs, so walked out with them for just £8.

If I could do that again I'd be in there like a shot to get more, but when I've peeked into the regular shop they're about £50-70 .... so they can keep them and I simply won't go walking

Actually, I've no shoes for walking in the rain .... at all. One of the reasons I don't go out of the house when it's raining.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

You might be able to help me understand.

What is it about tack? Why some has to be kept but others can go?

Beth's saddle was a Stubben Dressage Saddle. It was lovely and a few years old..it had been a Christmas present to DD from us. She did sell that. Spirits is an old GP..still here. The double bridle was almost new. I am not even allowed to look at what else is under the bed.

There is a large wooden tack chest in our stable which DD tidied out a couple of years ago, making several mice homeless. She carefully folded up the blankets and put them back in. She had donated rugs to an equine charity..so I am not sure why she kept these one's to perish.

Well some has value, your daughter did well and correctly to sell the saddle, it would still have had resale value.

The rest loses resale but not 'worth'. Old tack is better worn in, more comfortable, and often vastly superior quality. I cannot buy bridles now for three times the amount I could twenty five years ago.

Somewhere in the last fifteen years, and more dramatically in the last decade or so stuff got weird.

That's practical, its too good to throw away.

Less practically, but still some what so. Its often like....your best wooden spoon, seemingly identical to the others, but somehow fits your hand perfectly, or glides across the pan best. And your best pan......everything you possibly can make in it you do, because it never lets you down, where as the 'right' one, doesn't.


Less practically, its a lover't t shirt. It still smells of them. Even when cleaned.
You have your sweat, your horses sweat, the scent of the rides you had, the memory of that sublime canter pirouette, or the memories of how she'd play chicken with the big vehicles on the road if you let her. Its like...holding hands often, the physical memory of the conversations you had. The hours you spent cleaning it compared to the much fewer hours using it, lol, and now its all that's really left. And its not worthless. It reminds you of something special, and its not a mouse chewed rug, or bulky. In their own right they are beautiful, so if they hang around for ever, so what?

Doozergirl

Is there an award for procrastination that I could nominate myself for?

When I get round to it, of course.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Is there an award for procrastination that I could nominate myself for?

When I get round to it, of course.

Probably the only award available's been given to me .... it'd have to be given as I'd not get round to picking it up.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Is there an award for procrastination that I could nominate myself for?

When I get round to it, of course.

I just fed the dogs ( early) and asked RP to do them and birds this evening and came to bed.

On the plus side I didn't nap today:D.