Cherwill, your DH works really long hours-- wow! But he does sound like a good guy. I think my DH shows his love by cleaning all the toilets around here if you are going to translate love into clean floors! LOL!! I get it, though. They are not all touchy-feely, have to say what we are thinking type of people. They do have their own language. I'm doing a LOT of talking with my boys and teaching them to clean and cook. I sure hope my boys don't end up like our DH's! hehehee!! Even though we all have great men, it would be nice to have someone who can understand and at least speak female.
Prairie, yikes, you broke a bone in your back?!!? That's really bad! I don't know if I'd want to chance that again either. Okay, I've done some really dumb stuff, but I keep getting back on. But I have great horses, the dumb things are usually my own fault. I've walked my horse over a large fallen tree and he hit the tree with his hooves and out sprang like a million wood bees all wanting to kill me. He took off bucking and running and I dropped the reins. It ended well, but that was a scary ride for a while, I remember when he stopped I was so shaky I nearly fell off trying to dismount. Another time, we were out on a trail and the vines coming down off the trees were getting REALLY thick-- I kept pushing him on thru, even though I should have probably gotten down or started to cut them back or gone around, nope! He got his foot caught up in a vine and it wrapped tightly around his foot. Fortunately, he just stopped dead and refused to move. I had to get down and cut him free. Another time, I was at Kanopolis and we went right down into a sand pit that I KNEW I should avoid, I only went thru that trail because everyone else had in front of me, but he refused to stay to the outside of it and we went down the middle. He dropped to his knees and I nearly fell off! He struggled and I was starting to realize how dangerous a position *I* was in, when he dug his nose down into the sand and used that to help him lunge out of it. I just hung on! Another time, I got swiped off of my horse because idiot me wasn't paying attention and I was talking or singing or who knows what and we went under a tree that had a large limb that sprang out at me from the rider in front, and the next thing I know, my horse is still walking and I'm hanging on and I'm dragging the saddle down under his belly with me. As soon as I'm upside down, my horse realizes something is wrong and stopped. I fell off under him and he neatly steps over my head so he can turn around and look at me like-- "you idiot!". On the upside, I didn't hurt myself since it wasn't a very far drop from under his belly to the ground. There are many, many more. I have such good horses! LOL!! Other horses would probably have killed me in those circumstances or just flat ran off and kicked me. And you have to realize, I'm not usually an idiot-- these things have happened over several years span in between! LOL None of this happened all at once. There are more stories, but I could write a book of dumb things that didn't kill me.
Prairie, yikes, you broke a bone in your back?!!? That's really bad! I don't know if I'd want to chance that again either. Okay, I've done some really dumb stuff, but I keep getting back on. But I have great horses, the dumb things are usually my own fault. I've walked my horse over a large fallen tree and he hit the tree with his hooves and out sprang like a million wood bees all wanting to kill me. He took off bucking and running and I dropped the reins. It ended well, but that was a scary ride for a while, I remember when he stopped I was so shaky I nearly fell off trying to dismount. Another time, we were out on a trail and the vines coming down off the trees were getting REALLY thick-- I kept pushing him on thru, even though I should have probably gotten down or started to cut them back or gone around, nope! He got his foot caught up in a vine and it wrapped tightly around his foot. Fortunately, he just stopped dead and refused to move. I had to get down and cut him free. Another time, I was at Kanopolis and we went right down into a sand pit that I KNEW I should avoid, I only went thru that trail because everyone else had in front of me, but he refused to stay to the outside of it and we went down the middle. He dropped to his knees and I nearly fell off! He struggled and I was starting to realize how dangerous a position *I* was in, when he dug his nose down into the sand and used that to help him lunge out of it. I just hung on! Another time, I got swiped off of my horse because idiot me wasn't paying attention and I was talking or singing or who knows what and we went under a tree that had a large limb that sprang out at me from the rider in front, and the next thing I know, my horse is still walking and I'm hanging on and I'm dragging the saddle down under his belly with me. As soon as I'm upside down, my horse realizes something is wrong and stopped. I fell off under him and he neatly steps over my head so he can turn around and look at me like-- "you idiot!". On the upside, I didn't hurt myself since it wasn't a very far drop from under his belly to the ground. There are many, many more. I have such good horses! LOL!! Other horses would probably have killed me in those circumstances or just flat ran off and kicked me. And you have to realize, I'm not usually an idiot-- these things have happened over several years span in between! LOL None of this happened all at once. There are more stories, but I could write a book of dumb things that didn't kill me.
There was one time I was out riding bareback, and we must've made a lone bee mad. The bee started chasing us, and my horse started backing up frantically. She realized she wasn't gaining any ground, so she pulled a 180 (she has a wicked left-hand turn) and started "running" from the bee at a quick walk in the forward direction. When she pulled the 180, I of course slid off and, thankfully, landed on my feet. I took that as a sign that maybe I should chase the bee who was chasing my horse, now in circles because I was still holding on to her. I was eventually able to bat the bee out of the air and step on it, which made my horse quite happy. 
