John has a coworker that lives out Capital Circle NW with his wife Leslie. Leslie has grown up on a "farm" with horses and chickens. Her parents live right down the street. She runs a horse camp, teaches private horse lessons, and takes care of the property. I believe most of the horses that she owns, she rescued from abusive situations. They have chickens both at Larry and Leslie's house as well as at her parents house. Larry told John at work that they have so many eggs that they cannot get rid of them or use them fast enough. Larry invited all of us over to "gather" eggs and visit the horses. We went today and it was a lot of fun. We got a little lesson on chickens and talked about the horses. Ms. Leslie let my kids brush the horses and ride them. John Daniel actually really took to it all and brushed and brushed the horses and was so excited to ride on one..Emily was a little more timid. They rode on a horse named "Yuck" and brushed a horse named "Tater". Tater was quite funny in that she kept nudging all of us with her nose because she wanted to be rubbed on more. Ms. Leslie and Mr. Larry were very sweet to do all this on their day off from EMS shifts and horse camp. We came home with two dozen fresh chicken eggs. Ms. Leslie said that they have a richer taste than store bought eggs. The kids gathered some of them just seconds after mama hen got up from sitting on them. It made John and I want chickens...sort of!!!
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