It’s clearly too early for Christmas, so it must be something else entirely…
I was working in my office last night, when the dogs started barking. This isn’t particularly unusual, so I ignored it. But they kept it up, bark! bark! bark!, so I went upstairs to take a look. I was just in time to see 4 miniature horses go trotting down the street. Even in our neighborhood, that’s not something you see everyday - especially not without a person leading them. I grabbed my keys, and got in the truck to try to chase them down. One had already been caught at a house down the block, they said the other three headed off to the park on the next corner (across a fairly busy intersection). I drove to the park, and saw the remaining three trotting around the park, thoroughly enjoying themselves. I slowly walked up to the group, and when I “clucked” to them, they came over. I grabbed the halter of two of them, handed them off to another helpful neighbor, and went to find the owner - I knew where the horses lived, but I’ve never met their owner. Turns out, they were headed to the park already. When I drove back, they had all the horses in tow, and were walking back home.
I love this neighborhood.
I thought it would be about those late night carousing Amish teens. They drive up and down the streets with their parent’s horse and buggy half the night showing off their ride.
I used to live in a small apartment next to a horse pasture. The horses escaped frequently. The first time it happened was late at night and I heard heavy breathing outside my window and the dogs got quite excited. I looked out to see a horse looking back at me. Scared the crap out of me. They did this a lot, I think the horses were peeping Toms, they always came to my house to look in the windows and never went to the main house. Eventually I got the number of the owners of the horses so I could call them when they got out. Fortunately, there was a lot of pasture around there so the horses never wandered out to the main roads.
:smack: I’ve been reading too much snark on Fark. I opened this thread wondering why it was no in Cafe Society because I thought it was about the news tidbit that Sarah Jessica Parker is having twins via a surrogate.
