At 5:30 the other morning, I was standing at the kitchen sink when something caught my eye out the window. I looked out into the early light to see a horse walking up the driveway. It detoured toward the back of the house where there’s a precipitous drop.
My husband was upstairs getting dressed. I called up to him, “Scott! There’s a horse in the yard!”
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(Suck on that, Elon Musk.). You had to bring Politics into your awesome story. Anyway alls well that ends well. Love horses so was glad to have a good ending for this horse.
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