Salvation!
What I do really like about this thread is that the Mistress of the Hunt and I were having a discussion not three days ago about a Sheepskin pad. I was / am in the need for a new pad as my saddle is just a wee bit wide for my horse at the withers. I was told to get an “up-front” pad. We were searching for a new pad and in the stack of white pads I saw it. There in the middle of the stack was a thick, glistening, must have been made by angels, soft, luxurious full sheepskin pad. As my hands ran over it a choir of heavenly voices rang out. It was as if it was summoning me. I got the same rush holding it as I would running through the tool department at Sears. People who were having a conservation with me, their voices faded into the abyss as this pad and I retreated to a warm, safe place in my heart and childhood memories. I was reminded of youthful happy times when I could actually buy what I wanted without being told “NO!” …. Sigh….
Then, like a cold slap in the face I lurched from my delight having been ripped from my place of delight with “you know you can never get those clean and it is just not the right pad for a hunt!” Her voice scratch in my ears like a child with their fingernails on the chalkboard. I placed the pad back on the shelf and moped out of the store; head hung in shameful defeat.
But now I find my spirits rejuvenated and testosterone levels rising to learn that others are hunting perfectly well and cleaning their sheepskin pads in the washing machine time after time. So later today I just might “go get the car washed,” sneak down to the tack store, look both ways over my shoulders, slither to the pad section, turn off the surveillance cameras and emerge victoriously with a full sheepskin pad.
I can just feel the triumph building inside – so excited!!! Victory will be mine!
I know I’ll pay for it when I get home. But, I’ll have the pad! Whoooo Hoooo!
Thank you COTH for providing the elixir of freedom.
Gregory
