• mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    Not a historian but I did grow up on a horse in hot af weather. Long sleeves even in heat for a few reasons: 1 bugs, until you’ve sat on a horse you’ll never realize how many bugs they deal with in life, you do not want to get bit by a horsefly trust me 2 farmers tans suck 3 it’s really not that bad up there even in 100f/38ish c weather 4 you get used to it and the horse is doing most of the work 5 even if you’re not on the horse, you can always roll up the sleeve or unbutton the shirt it’s not like you’re trapped in a long sleeve shirt like it’s welded onto you or anything 6 it only sucks bad when you have to dig fence posts in 100f/38ish c weather, then yeah gotta be careful but generally you did the hard work in morning then kinda slacked off during midday

    I grew up in North Dakota though so dunno my knowledge is more like dances with wolves. Our hottest day growing up was 114f/45ish c, I didn’t do jack that day except sit in front of a fan in the house with ac on full blast drinking ice water.

    I do miss my horse from back then though, she was the best cow sense horse for wrangling cow herds. Miss ya Smokey.

    • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      (On Lemmy, what you usually achieve by just pressing enter, you achieve by pressing Space twice, then enter. So:
      1 bugs, until you’ve sat on a horse you’ll never realize how many bugs they deal with in life, you do not want to get bit by a horsefly trust me
      2 farmers tans suck
      3 it’s really not that bad up there even in 100f/38ish c weather
      4 you get used to it and the horse is doing most of the work
      5 even if you’re not on the horse, you can always roll up the sleeve or unbutton the shirt it’s not like you’re trapped in a long sleeve shirt like it’s welded onto you or anything
      6 it only sucks bad when you have to dig fence posts in 100f/38ish c weather, then yeah gotta be careful but generally you did the hard work in morning then kinda slacked off during midday

      Although, in this specific case, writing a "- " in front of each line will do the same even better:

      • 1 bugs, until you’ve sat on a horse you’ll never realize how many bugs they deal with in life, you do not want to get bit by a horsefly trust me
      • 2 farmers tans suck
      • 3 it’s really not that bad up there even in 100f/38ish c weather
      • 4 you get used to it and the horse is doing most of the work
      • 5 even if you’re not on the horse, you can always roll up the sleeve or unbutton the shirt it’s not like you’re trapped in a long sleeve shirt like it’s welded onto you or anything
      • 6 it only sucks bad when you have to dig fence posts in 100f/38ish c weather, then yeah gotta be careful but generally you did the hard work in morning then kinda slacked off during midday)