new trend?

Wash. dentist's staff saddles up to beat gas costs
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Jun 27, 3:25 AM (ET)

ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) - When gas prices hit $4 a gallon, the staff at Dr. Keith Leonard's dental office figured it was time to pony up.

Since more than half of the dental assistants and office staff own horses, on Wednesday the crew saddled up and rode in to work.

"We decided that when gas got to $4 a gallon, we would all ride in," Leonard said.

Ten riders and two bicyclists met up at Leonard's home about four miles north of his office for the commute. City officials in Arlington, located about 50 miles north of Seattle, granted them a special permit to ride as a group.

"We can't dictate how much oil companies charge, but today we're not buying," Leonard said. "We're using one-horse power."

Leonard said the ride was a way to encourage his patients to use alternative forms of transportation.

Our Oregon Governor Kulongowski and his staff are now riding to the capital office building at least two days a week on bicycles, too. Sounds like anything getting us off oil/gasoline keeps my hope up (just a tiny bit, though, )

Our dogs are almost big enough now to ride! hahaha!

Oh for heaven's sake! lol...Ok, I'm so sorry, Two and I don't ever log out of our accounts when we are on, he especially doesn't log out of anything....lol....and sometimes I think it's me logged in when really it's him. Sorry. Anyway, yes, the dogs are big! Huge in fact! I wish I had enough land to keep a horse....

Of course! (There once was a flea who sat on a mouse, who was eaten by a cat who was swallowed by a dog who was kicked by a horse of course who swallowed a missionary). (I don't know why I used to slip that last phrase into the riddle, being from a strict Baptist family!) When I was four, reading signs along the route where dad took us all to sunday school, when I first swa the sign "Watch out for Pedestrians", I blurted out, "Watch out for Presbyterians!" :laugh: They still kid me about that every now and then......

Our Governor really is a dog, we just call him Governor Ted Goofy! (Like Portland's former Mayor the whoop. whoop mayor who posed for one of our bronze sculptures of a man opening up his raincoat with nothing on. It's called, really this is true!: "Expose Yourself to Art"!!!!

Wild Dove, your Presbyterian story just reminded me of my daughter Chelsea, when she was little. She thought those handicapped parking places were for people who had to go to the bathroom really badly....lol...cuz, you know, it looks like someone sitting on the toilet.....hahahaha.