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My friend Bob kept a blog, most of which he took down a few months before he died. This passage below is from the entry dated Wednesday, October 17, 2007, "The randomness of it all."
"The only thing I really learned from Poppers was how social horses are - how they ust like to be in the company of people and how they really don't like being alone. It's nice remembering the times in summer when you'd be reading a book in a lawn chair and Poppers would just be grazing close by - pretty happy to have the company. And it was also funny to see him in the middle of a bunch of grazing sheep. I guess it really didn't matter what kind of company Poppers kept - as long as it was something that grazed and made a little noise now and then- and as dumb as sheep are he was pretty happy to have them around. It must have been an interesting change for Poppers because he was actually trained for equestrian events - which is pretty precise training - and then all of sudden one day he finds himself in the middle of nowhere hanging out with a bunch of sheep."
Bob told me a story once of a huge win at horseracing, and how he used that money to pay for his and Lori's wedding. He told me another story too, of how his daughter, Cady, saved all her babysitting money for a couple of years so she could send her parents to Hawaii. She must have been 12 at the time, which meant she started saving at age 10. They'd never had a honeymoon -- come to think of it, he hardly took time off from Salon. But that year and ever since, they spent a week in January on the beach in Maui, all three of them.
He was a very cool guy.
February 22, 2008
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