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What's A Girl's Best Friend, Horses Or Diamonds?
By Linda Shute
What’s A Girl’s Best Friend, Horses or Diamonds?
Can you answer that?
Some fashion magazines, writers and movies will tell you that diamonds are a girl’s best friend – but not in my case and here is why…
Hi, my name is Linda Shute from New Jersey, and here is why riding horses is one of my greatest passions in life…
As a child I think I was born with horses on my brain, they’ve always been in my life and very close to me in many ways.
Before I was old enough to drive I was very mobile because of my horses.
My uncle gave me my first pony Trotter, his color was chocolate palomino, he had no pedigree to speak of just your above average pony.
Trotter was very dear to me until I out grew him. He would perform under saddle or in harness. I started out riding western because it was the most popular where I live.
Sometimes I would ride bareback and jump over small obstacles in the yard.
Self made fences like two columns of a few baskets or boxes piled up with a broom across the top. Not much to look at, but creative enough for an eight year old kid and it served my purpose besides Trotter didn’t care what it looked like.
Mom wasn’t to happy a few times when we miscalculated and broke the broom handle then she had to go buy new broom to sweep the floor.
Trotter took me all over, sometimes I would ride him and we would go out roaming around for four or five hours we would travel ten or fifteen miles from home.
I would cut through farmers’ fields always careful to stay on the edge as not to harm their crops that were growing. My favorite ride in the summer was towards the small town of Swedesboro through the peach and apple orchards.
A diamond can’t take me to the orchards or share a piece of fruit with me.
As a small girl of eight or ten nothing was sweeter than a fresh apple or peach eaten on top of my pony. I would take a bite and give the rest to him, then pick another. I felt like the world was at my finger tips.
Trotter gave me freedom to explore the world he fed my sense of adventure.
Sometimes I didn’t feel like riding or a friend would go with me, since I didn’t want him carrying two us for that long I would hook him up to the cart and harness and drive him.
The only way a diamond can provide freedom is if you sell it for a high price and use the money to escape from something.
How can a diamond feed your sense of adventure? Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I don’t like diamonds. They do have a big sparkle and look nice. They can also be very expensive. I have a few, and I used my “secret cash machine” to get them. (I will reveal what is my “secret cash machine” later at the bottom of this story)
As I got older I out grew Trotter and sadly had to sell him for a bigger horse.
I still remember the person that bought Trotter coming to the house to pick him up. We loaded him into the back of his pick-up truck and Trotter was screaming (whinnying) and kicking he didn’t want to leave, my heart was being ripped out, yet I couldn’t keep two animals and I needed a bigger mount.
It was a hard lesson learned.
Horses also taught me responsibility because they needed to be fed and cared for everyday morning and night. Equipment and stables had to be taken care of and cleaned daily. Horses eat hay and we had farm land to raise hay. This meant harvesting. When I was in my teens sometimes I could be found driving the tractor raking the hay fields or using the baler, other times I may be on the wagon behind the baler stacking the hay for my horses. Then it would have to be transferred from the hay
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