CHAPTER II The Horse Bug Twenty-Four Years Earlier It was a hot summer day. With our windows wide open, my mom and I drove down the road in our Volvo, with a borrowed horse trailer attached, headed to the auction yard. We were going to rescue a horse. This was...
CHAPTER 3 A Horse in the Barn That first night in the barn with my new mare, hundreds of thoughts ran through my mind. I couldn’t sleep. Mom had come to check on me with a hot cup of tea; it was soothing on those hot summer nights. “Just go to sleep. This will help,”...
The Grange Hall Mom called me to come back into the house, reminding me about the early dinner at the Grange Hall. I asked my Mom again what she thought about what happened with Mike today. She said that she didn’t know what to think and that it was really odd. It was...
Mike is Glad to be Home Mike Chapman’s routine trip to that dairy in Washington became more bearable. Mike had had shared with me, “It was usually a lonely trip back to Alfalfa, but I was really looking forward to getting back home. I wanted to apologize to your...
