[Leica] Just for the record

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Herbert Kanner OFFERED:
Subject: [Leica] Just for the record


>I turned ninety yesterday, 9 June. Unfortunately I never followed Uncle 
>Ted's advice about regular exercise. <<<<<<

Hey Hey Herb! :-)

Good on you lad. That's wonderful! Just wait around 7 years for me and we 
can have a wee dram together! :-)

Well riding horse back can give you a good work out any time. Particularly 
if you get a rangi old mare who doesn't want any part of this... "Guy on my 
back!" And keeps trying to buck you off! :-)

Well in my case the mare knew I was a rookie eastern city folk and kept 
testing me to see if she could buck me off?  Unfortunately she did one day 
right there in the barn yard manure pile! Then stood there looking down at 
me with an expression of..... GOTCHA!"

Stay well young fella, see you along the way some day! :-)
cheers,
ted




I suppose I must have been
> influenced by Robert Maynard Hutchins, the president of the University of 
> Chicago when I was an undergraduate. His famous quote was: Whenever I feel 
> the urge to exercise, I lay down until it goes away." So my musculature 
> has gone to hell in the last year or so.
>
> For many years, the nearest I came to exercise was piloting light 
> aircraft. I suppose climbing into the cockpit could be called exercise.
>
> Then I discovered horses and for thirty years rode every week at a 
> minimum. The last few years of riding, I decided to take dressage lessons, 
> not to compete, just to learn more about communicating with the horse. I 
> was lucky; I found an instructor who, while I was studying with her, 
> qualified as an Olympics judge.
>
> The mistake I made was to stop. I had been leasing the use of this horse 
> from when she was six years old, and in time she became too old and lame 
> prone to be used by me. So, I set intended to rent another animal just as 
> the rainy season started and the horse ranch became a mud hole. My wife 
> persuaded me that it would be sensible to wait until spring, and I just 
> never got around to resuming riding.
>
> Moral: there are times when you shouldn't listen to your wife :-)
>
> Herb
> -- 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
>
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>
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