Out Our Way: Tov Shabbat

Out our way, one learns to take the time to do it right — and sometimes that means slowing down and tsking a rest. Charlie and I, if we were riding in rough country on a hot day, knew that now and then we needed to give Doc and Jet a rest if we expected them to make it through the rest of the day.

We didn’t mind having some time off as well, although the horses really did all the work.

For Charlie and me, pushing cows was not a daily thing — maybe only once or twice a month except when things got really busy. Same was true of our mounts. Truth be known, we were all a bit out of shape. And that...