[cloudmountain]

Mules are donkey-horse hybrids, as you know: the strength and speed of a horse and the disposition of a donkey. Mules are FABULOUS.

The missionaries of the back country areas in the Yucatan Peninsula used to use them all the time.

[Resettozero]

Mules are FABULOUS.

As a youngster, I watched my dad and others plow with control. As a teenager, a mule embarrassed me by doing nothing that I said or wanted when I tried to plow the garden. Later, a different mule attacked my lovely green '60 Falcon, breaking both driver's side windows, practically taking off the whole side, and made me trade for a '63 Fury II in about 1965. Dang mules.

Here in S.C., the backup mule been replaced by a faded red and white '78 F-150. Don't know if it would hold up for a 4-hour roundtrip in Wisconsin to see Sarah Palin, though.