As I told ya'll in a previous message, NATIONS BANK hired our big 
arriage
to be in the Spring Festival Parade over in Lehigh Acres, FL.   The had the
cutest banner that they put on the back of our carriage -- it read:
    "Just TROT over to NATIONS BANK
     We don't HORSE around "
    We were in about the middle of the parade.
    It was a HUGE parade -- lots of floats and stuff.  We used SEDONA to pull
the carriage.  The wind was blowing SO hard (at least 50-60 mph) but that
didn't seem to bother her.  What DID bother her was the length of the parade
...... my "wimpy" horse got "pooped" out by the end of the parade.   We would
have used Mr X but we'd had trouble with his shoes.
    Other than breaking some breeching strapping (THREE times) all went well
(PHEW -- that was enough that went bad ).  At least we didn't break the
strappings until the end of the parade .... BUT, we had to drive back about 5
miles to where our trucks and trailers were parked.  Buddy pieced it together
from other parts we had with us.  That stuff never should have broken -- we 
had
just had everything checked out and redone at a leather/harness shop the 
onth
before (just before the LaBelle Swamp Cabbage Parade).
    Tomorrow we are going to look at a draft horse (the Belgiun I was talking
about before).  They are selling his harness stuff along with him.  We'll see
if he's what we need tomorrow.
    That's it ...... story of the Spring Parade -- don't know if we will do 
t
again ..... it was pretty well organized to begin with -- but getting back to
where we had left our vehicles parked at was a nightmare!!
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