[Leica] Just for the record

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Congratulations Herbert, and many more of them. At 61, I shall immediately 
seek out riding stables!

Seriously though, in my line of work, I've met a number of centenarians and 
they all seem to share an interest in life and some sort of hobby. My 
widowed mother at 88 is a competitive bridge fiend and we all have to make 
appointments if we want to see her, lest we interrupt bridge practice or a 
game. It's insane, but then again, maybe I'll take up bridge... on 
horseback.


Douglas
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Douglas Barry
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Republic of Ireland

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herbert Kanner" <kanner at acm.org>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 10:56 PM
Subject: [Leica] Just for the record


>I turned ninety yesterday, 9 June. Unfortunately I never followed Uncle 
>Ted's advice about regular exercise. I suppose I must have been influenced 
>by Robert Maynard Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago when 
>I was an undergraduate. His famous quote was: Whenever I feel the urge to 
>exercise, I lay down until it goes away." So my musculature has gone to 
>hell in the last year or so.
>
> For many years, the nearest I came to exercise was piloting light 
> aircraft. I suppose climbing into the cockpit could be called exercise.
>
> Then I discovered horses and for thirty years rode every week at a 
> minimum. The last few years of riding, I decided to take dressage lessons, 
> not to compete, just to learn more about communicating with the horse. I 
> was lucky; I found an instructor who, while I was studying with her, 
> qualified as an Olympics judge.
>
> The mistake I made was to stop. I had been leasing the use of this horse 
> from when she was six years old, and in time she became too old and lame 
> prone to be used by me. So, I set intended to rent another animal just as 
> the rainy season started and the horse ranch became a mud hole. My wife 
> persuaded me that it would be sensible to wait until spring, and I just 
> never got around to resuming riding.
>
> Moral: there are times when you shouldn't listen to your wife :-)
>
> Herb
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>
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>
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