taking i-80 home gave us the chance to impose on our friends owen & kim who live in ft. collins. as they raise and train horses, their house is like an amusement park of sorts, with no end of barnyard chores to take part in. cleaning stables, feeding and watering horses, moving tractors. even more amazing is the fact that owen is a computer programmer, which forces me to conclude that they know civilization exists, and that they chose to live this way.
penelope was absolutely taken with her newfound equine responsibilities. she learned the safe way to give a horse a cookie, (which involves putting the cookie in a bucket and sliding the bucket under the fence) and kept asking to "pet the horses' locks". kim (who also gives riding lessons) was really in her element, and pen went home believing that she is a fully qualified rider/trainer/caretaker. in fact, now when she cries, instead of asking for her "lovie", (comfort blanket) she says she wants to ride a horse. this demand has the added benefit of being impossible to meet, so she can basically keep crying as long as she wants to.
lucia had her own animal encounter...
eli, on the other hand, stuck with what he knew...
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If only you could teach Pen that waking up in the middle of the night to give Lucia a bottle or to change a diaper is just as fun as cleaning a stable or sliding a biscuit under the fence.
I'm an enigma...that, or Kim pretty much does all of the barn chores.
Does Penny really need an excuse to do ANYTHING as long as she wants to?
You all need to travel to the east coast where having horses at your place is an elite privilege enjoyed by the select few, not the redneck experience you infer!
If the directions to your house say "turn off the paved road", you might be a redneck.
kim,
i would never call you a redneck- it's just that imposing work in any form upon myself is contrary to my nature (which is why sofas and televisions give me the kind of feeling which i imagine horses provide for healthy individuals like yourself).
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