{"id":44,"date":"2015-06-23T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T07:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindchanging.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=44"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:55:44","slug":"and-then-there-were-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/and-then-there-were-two\/","title":{"rendered":"And then there were two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I was hoping by now we’d have a cast iron moving date sorted, but there is still a bit of dithering going on. I’ll keep you posted…<\/p>\n

In the meantime how about\u00a0I\u00a0entertain\u00a0you with the story of how I came to own a second\u00a0pony?\u00a0The astute amongst you\u00a0possibly already\u00a0having noticed the previous\u00a0reference to grass for ponies<\/a> (multiple) rather than pony (singular).<\/p>\n

Now, you will recall where we left off. I needed to buy more land than I\u2019d at first thought because I had, in rather precipitous sort of a way,\u00a0bought myself a horse<\/a>. The plan from there on in then was as follows.<\/p>\n

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  1. Buy land,<\/li>\n
  2. Move to land,<\/li>\n
  3. Increase herd by one large and docile horse suitable for use by\u00a0tall non-equestrian types\u00a0(such as\u00a0the Very Forbearing Husband).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It was a sound plan, and I was sticking to it — until my friend The Horsewoman rang\u00a0with an equine emergency. The closure of a riding school meant finding new homes for 14 horses. One of them was a miniature Exmoor pony by the name of Bonnie.<\/p>\n

    \"Bonnie\"<\/a>

    Bonnie, an unsuitable mount for anyone over 4 foot tall, and only intermittently docile<\/p><\/div>\n

    Bonnie is barrel shaped, nine hands high on her tippy-toes, and carries herself with the demeanor\u00a0of a 17.2 thoroughbred princess. I’ve seen her double-barrel horses twice her size when they ill-advisedly came between her and the salt lick. Bonnie, she\u00a0got\u00a0swag<\/a>*!<\/p>\n

    I approached the\u00a0Very Forbearing Husband.\u00a0He looked at the pony. He assessed the swag factor. He said “A miniature pony with attitude is exactly\u00a0what we need around here. What a shame there aren’t two of them needing a home.”<\/p>\n

    Well, I’m pretty sure it went\u00a0something like that. The man is a saint.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    * definition: sexy with a bit of gangster.<\/p>\n

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    Well, I was hoping by now we’d have a cast iron moving date sorted, but there is still a bit of dithering going on. I’ll keep you posted… In the meantime how about\u00a0I\u00a0entertain\u00a0you with the story of how I came… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonnie","category-exmoor-pony","category-moving","category-ponies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5887,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/5887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}