And all the horseman knew her.

My Great Uncle Ralph has an amazing sense of humor. I promise you that if you were around him for 10 minutes you would think he is the funniest man you had ever met. He also leads a fairly amazing life. At 82 he still goes on canoe/fishing trips with his nephews, takes an annual trip to Hawaii and Poland to teach kids English and work with their Lutheran camps. I hope to be like that when I am 82 instead of sitting in a worn out lazy boy watching my net worth plummet like fireman and his pole. Do they even have those things anymore?

But this article is not about him and his jokes it is actually about horse manure and a newspaper article from the early 1900’s that my buddy’s grandpa gave him. I did not get to read the article, but it went something like this:

"The average home is a one horse home. With the growing population in the country and the average size of the American family increasing we are going to see that average increase to a 2 horse household. This is alarming. Where are we going to get all these horses from? How are we going to breed them fast enough? But more importantly, with more horses the amount manure goes up exponentially and that cannot be good for the cities or the environment."

Are you kidding me? This world is in a crazy cycle. 100 years ago we were worried about horse crap now we are worried about cars, their exhaust systems and how they affect the environment. This leads me to believe that nothing will change 100 years from now. Right now we are trying to develop these new cars like the Prius’ that are battery and gas. They get great gas mileage, but we haven’t figured out how to dispose of the batteries yet…those are more toxic than a gas vehicles entire life of puking exhaust on this earth. Where is the balance in that?

My associate and I are in process of picking out a shirt manufacturer that is 1) environmentally friendly and 2) doesn’t abuse their workers. I think I have found the place, but I am afraid that 10 years from now that super green company wasn’t so super green, it was more like a sloppy pea green. I guess I should not worry about that and just go with what is advanced today. The cycle continues and that is for sure business as usual.