This might look like the girls are out on the road taking the dog for a walk. But it is a moment Emma thought would never come – the day a horse came to the farm!
The person we bought it from (The Jolly Rancher) preferred not to turn around her horse trailer in our yard, but was kind enough to bring it to the beginning of the gravel road, 1/3 mile away – so the girls got to walk/run the horse home!
The horse is a 6 month-old miniature horse named “Chelsea.” She won’t get too much bigger. We saw some at the Iowa State Fair pulling carts and Dad softened from his hard line of “no horse ever on this farm” to “I could see having one of those for the girls to train to pull a cart.” The upside is they don’t eat much and aren’t as dangerous as a full-size horse. So here’s Chelsea, the latest addition to high hopes gardens.