The Horses Next Door

"I can't think of nothing better than riding a fine horse into a new country." - Capt. Augustus McCrae

About 100 yards to the east of our home, is a beautiful pasture bordered with a white fence, filled with green grass, yellow flowers, with red barns as a backdrop.  There's also four beautiful horses that call that place Home.  They aren't our horses (unfortunately).  Our five acres is just not big enough for a horse, although we've always wanted one.

Now that the days are getting longer and the weather is still quite nice, we've been walking every afternoon along the road that runs east.  Rice fields and crawfish ponds border the road.  Ducks fly over the road as we walk and splash down in a pond with cypress trees growing on the edges.  It is a truly peaceful time.

The horses are curious with our presence and come to greet us.  They are big and strong and they gallop up to the fence.  We pet their soft noses and smell their "horse" smells.  

We had our dog, Belle, with us and they were very interested in her.  She's always been the biggest animal around.  I think she was intimidated by their size and didn't want to come near them.

For a very long time we watched the show, "Heartland" on TV.  It's about a girl up in Canada named Amy Fleming who had a gift with horses.  She had a keen ability to connect with them and train them. 

Of the four, the one with the white stripe was the most friendly.  Seems like the buckskin took a particular liking to Tricia.

The sun was setting so we needed to get home.  We promised them that tomorrow we'd bring some carrot tops for them to eat from some carrots that we need to harvest.  Maybe one day if we could get just a little more land, we could get a horse of our own.  Who knows?