[redhead]

"Percherons are magnificent beasts."

Amen! We had a team of half-brother Percherons in MN. Wonderful, intelligent, powerful animals! We called them "Da Boys" (the chickens were called "the girls"), and named them after our sons, Joe and Doug. Lovely, lovely giants.

[knarf]

As I said, I had never been behind a team before, but my friend trusted my (then) intelligence and ability to obey instruction and my youthful strength ... taught me what to do and (under his watchful eye) turned me loose.

To see those animals dig in and pull is a sense as powerful as being beside a lightning bolt.

OK .. maybe that's a little much but obviously, Those guys made an impression on me.

I had been up on the hillside with my friend at other times watching them skid logs out of the woods ... now THAT was power I had never witnessed before.

All you hoss folks (we Bostonians say hoss, not horse .. ) are blessed.