AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF KEITH MALCOLM HUNT #22
The first three months with Goldie was getting her used to a horse and cattle ranch, the various ranges, the cows and calfs, the trails, the deer, and the streams. The first stream we came to she jumped over it; I thought maybe she might have some jumping ability, and so I would wait till she was 7; they say you should not do any serious jumping with your horse till he/she is 7 years old, when all the bones have fully matured. During her 6th year I did start to build some jumps, like in Show Jumping— painted them different colors. I did get her to about 3 feet high in jumping, but it was not anything she really wanted to do.
What Goldie loved was running fast. After three months having her at the Griffin ranch, I took her down to the valley that had a good running surface; I turned her around and said, “Okay girl, let’s see how you can run.”
O my, she flew like a bullet out of a rifle. I had a snaffle bit in her mouth, not designed to stop a horse quickly at all. We did a fast 220 yard run and it took me another 220 yards to stop her, she just simply did not want to stop; she was loving the run.
The next day I went out and bought a “curb bit” with long shanks; like Roy Rogers used on his Trigger. It is designed for quick stops on a galloping horse, or just keeping them under control. It was indeed what Goldie needed.
Some at the Griffin ranch saw how fast she could run, and said I should take her to the Milerville Stock Horse racing. I did not do so. The second summer, 2006, they told me the same thing. I thought I would go down and check the racing at Milerville. I found the race-track and the office. Three young ladies were working away. I said, “I hear you have Western Stock Horse Racing here in the summer.”
“Well yes and no,” one young lady answered. “We only have it on July 1st, Canada day, before the pro Thoroughbred racing.”
“Only one day, nobody told me it was only on July 1st. Well…..I do have a fast horse, so I would like to bring her down for that race. I only live up Cochrane way.”
“Welllll….. sorry,” the same young lady said, “but the race is only for local people, you can’t be in it.”
“My O my, you have to be jokin’—— tell your board to change the rules. You give no prize money and no trophy, and you say I live too far away, it’s only for locals— that is just crazy.”
So that was the end of the matter. Years later when I was relating this to a lady, she said, “Yes I know it all Keith, and the same lady has won the race 5 years in a row.”
I replied, “Yep, she has obviously no competition, to give her a good race.”
That’s where I was in 2006 with Goldie— enjoying our own fast runs, working in the summer camp for kids, and doing a little jumping.
I had bought a small one horse, horse-trailer, a BrenderUp. A Denmark European trailer— space age material, light, air-dynamic, and very well designed. A young lady was selling it after a year long use, for she wanted a double horse trailer. I bought it for a very good price deal.
Goldie had no trouble going into a North-American horse trailers, but this somewhat narrow one horse trailer—— that was a different story. I had to hire a guy who had the skill to get Goldie up into that Danish horse trailer. He did get her into it, after 45 minutes of moving her feet, and her sweating like no tomorrow. But in she went. It took a number of times, over a period of some weeks, putting her in and out, before she was relaxed and happy to go in and out. Every horse is unique to themselves. What is easy to some is hard to others.
I did join the local “Hunt Club”— nothing to do with my name; they gather on designated ranches to pretend they are chasing a fox. It’s a three hour course with stops every 20 minutes, and a refreshment break half way through. There are various jumps, but you do not have to jump them. I had Goldie going over painted show jumps as I’ve told you I made for her. I thought the “Hunt-club jumps” were much lower, and so easy for Goldie to jump—— what a shock I had when she refused to jump them. I could hardly believe it, but she wanted nothing to do with them— they were not painted!
I was with the “Hunt-club” for 3 seasons; they only went from September to October, every Sunday, weather permitting.” They had a great pot-luck dinner after the run was over.
So that brings you to about the first 4 years I had with my horse Goldie. With lots of taking out trail rides for the Griffin ranch. O yes there was one part, a way out, that was super great, I called it “the race track”— flat and wonderful to let Goldie fly. And how she loved it. So that area became know as the “race track” by all the workers at the ranch.
I have gone past the time that I got to know Jesse, at a local Messianic Jewish church; and her working with me on my website, to teach me how to maintain it myself. She was for about 5 years a co-worker with me in God’s work. Jesse had a sharp mind, and was wonderful with the English language, and a wiz at coding for websites.
She had started to build her own website with study articles, when the dreaded C came back— cancer!
Jesse had beaten the cancer 8 years earlier. But this time, over a period of a year, it was not to be a victory. She was concerned about her website. I told her to up-load it to mine, and it would be there as long as mine was up and running. My website, or I should say my “hosting” company is no longer in existence. I am so thankful for the company that invented recording all websites.
They are called “WAYBACK MACHINE”— I have access to my website as it was in April 2017. And so Jesse’s website is also there.
I know have to use my BLOG [themeltdowncontinues.blogspot.ca] and YOUTUBE [Keith Malcolm Hunt] to send forth the truths of the Eternal God, to the world. So I’m ever busy taking studies from my website and uploading them to by blog.
My Youtube is also where I put my music recordings, and my singing, and health videos.
So between the two open doors, I have a very large tables of spiritual and physical “goodies” for all out there that uses those doors open to me, for not one penny charge to me— quite the blessing. And I hope a blessing to others around the world. My blog gives me all kinds of stats. It is interesting to see people from all nations [well not so much in South America at present] of the world tuning into my blog.
Through the years of 2000 to 2007 I was busy doing the work on a Bible Story Commentary, as I was requested my a man in Australia. It started out as a commentary for children, on the four Gospels— to make it readable for children; then I was asked to continue to do a commentary on all the other books of the New Testament.
Over the 22 years I had my website it was a constant uploading of many subjects, of course Bible ones in particular, but also other educating and instructive studies. My website was HUGE. I had one man write me to say there was over 5 thousand URLs on my website.
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To be continued
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