Thanks for the heads up. I'm still catching up on all the posts I missed over the last two weeks. My hubby is going to a long-term care facility and I am getting physical rehab. Just didn't bounce back from that last hospital stay and before I do more catch-up, I will read the latest TGIF batch. :)

It sounds like a good plot. If she's a trick rider, she needs a steady gait, nothing fancy. Practice, practice, practice, until she and her mount are of one mind, one reflex, one entity.

I always loved watching them rack on at the shows. Grew up riding western, ended up novice dressage. Love them both.

Very handsome and it must be fun at your place! I miss my horse. I only had one, but spent a lot of my growing up time riding. As well as some adulting time too.

The trick riding protagonist is of a French family who moved to Belgium and they raise horses. The year is 1914.
Elsewhere in France her eldest brother part in a French cavalry in which gaits are called out leading up to a charge against the German invasion. Keeping that simple.
The trick riding protagonist uses different gaits for different stunts but I'm trying to keep that simple too. She was inspired by lady riders doing circus stunts when she was a little girl.

We had some ASBs, many years ago.

We have 16 of them, all ponies, from a 9hh Shetland to a chunky Haflinger. We put little kids up on them at parties and fairs. The oldest (and best) is a grey who is about 48 years old. You can see him at https://ponyspot.com/

The new TGIFfunnies just published: https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

Laughed a lot with this batch, Carl, and really needed it. Jimmy's "A Pirate Looks at 40" has been my theme song for years. I want that T. All in all, loved them all :)

Ah! Another horse lover!

There are variations on those gaits, like the running walk bred into Tennessee Walkers and the rack, done by the American Saddlebred, but those gaits don't usually appear in a story :).

His left arm and hand are not visible but should be . . . maybe it's in his pants!
Wondered if the "girl" is a boy?

In the meme, can't tell if that guy has a wired pickle! If so, where's he trying to put it?! LOL

I don't wana pickle, just wana ride my motor cycle . . . sophisticated lyrics for simple folk. Singing that song for 8 years . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvLtN...

Yes, she gives that impression.

Got quite a few chuckles out of this bunch.
Liked the one of the t-shirt. Love to get one to send to Whitmer, the governor of Michigan. We here in Indiana refer to her as Governor Witchmer.

As a collector of vintage tools, I can boast I can sharpen and SET sawteeth, including crosscuts. I have several sets of braces and bits; box planes; handsaws, including crosscuts of various sizes and lengths; a single bit, double bit and a broad ax. I am ready for when the grid goes down. Oh, yes. I also have one of those.

OUC, you outdid yourself this time! Fluffy cows, Baby trucks, Driving a stick, and Goth vs Hippie all made me LOL.

And very sad to hear of Jimmy Buffet's death ... he had a way of putting life in perspective.

Thanks big time. I have a book entitled "Trick and Fancy Riding" but I do not recall reading anything about 'the pace.'
I'm writing down all these various trots down to look them up later.
BTW, non-primate cartoon animals with hands go way, way back well before Bugs Bunny began to HAND Elmer Fudd smoking sticks on dynamite.

There's also the pace, which is like the trot, except that the two legs moving forward at the same time are on the same side, rather than the diagonal. Some breeds have a four-beat gait that's like a walk, except much faster. The rack, the slow gait, the running walk and the Icelandic tölt are some of them. These gaits are generally known as ambling, and can be a lot more comfortable to ride than the trot, which can be quite jarring and hard on the human nethers.

The trot is probably the most efficient gait, and is excellent for a driving horse, where the jarring of its vertical aspect is not transmitted to the human.

The astute observer will notice that the horses in the cartoon have forelegs that serve as arms, and are thus wholly incapable of most equine gaits.

Jimmy. Simpler times my friend, simpler times.

I couldn't stop laughing. GREAT set!

Headboard, horse, headboard! Hey, why are you looking back at me like I'm stupid?

They work quite well. I have a few different sizes in my workshop mainly just on the wall as antiques, but I do use them on occasion. One big one has a shoulder butt like a rifle butt for drilling large holes in fence posts, etc.- I'm guessing it was made in the late 19th or early 20th century. I also have a set of gimlets that work well for drilling small holes. No electricity required, LOL.

FINALLY a good use for those useless ridiculous masks! Take me to that island! My wife wants one of those stick shirts.

Very entertaining set this go around, OUC, thanks!

RIP Jimmy. Sad.