You know how men Vets are with their cars, guns and toys. I suppose the most enviable would be a  high-calibre, magnum 4-wheel drive if there were such a fabled tank. For all the rest of us old cowboys, there can be no finer addition to the garage than a 16 ½-hand, 10-year old Thoroughbred freeloader angling for a permanent bunker at LZ Grambo. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Cooper who is a far cry from mini. You need binoculars to see his ears up close.

4-wheel drive/off road 16.5 H Magnum Cooper

Cooper’s claim to fame is he taught kids how to ride for years but his owners can no longer keep him. We built a big barn last fall and there’s one room left. Kona needed a companion to romp around with so the circle is complete. Our Goat Wally was never any substitute for Kona as a pseudohorse. It would be like hanging around the drive-in with your sister trying to pick up chicks or riding a Vespa. Fun? Yes, but you’d never want your horse friends to know you were cruising the pasture with a sawed-off Nubian. You’d be the laughingstock of the barnyard and never live it down.

Even horses close their eyes at the wrong time too.

Two kids, 1 parrot, two dogs, one cat, two horses, one goat, one wife. Good thing I’m not one of those offshoots of the Mormon faith.