Horsing Around

As stated on my previous blog, we spent the weekend about 11 miles southeast of the town of Jasper, Arkansas...population 498. We've stayed at Red Rock Retreat the last four visits to this area. RRR is off the beaten path and has some extras that we've all grown to love.

Take for instance the horses. Sandy, our host, used to raise Lipizzaner Stallions. She doesn't raise the Lipizzaners any longer, but she still has plenty of horses. In fact, I believe she has about a dozen or more on her 130 acres. On our first trip to her place a few years back, Daniel hit it off with Luna, one of her trotters. We were there that year with some of our friends, Chris and Julie Coon. The Coons have a daughter, Courtney, who is Daniel's age; and a son, Jonathan, who is about four years younger than Courtney. The kids bonded with Luna, but especially Daniel. Look at the photo below and you can see what I mean.



Before, we left that year, Daniel wanted to go say "good-bye" to Luna. So we went back up to the pasture and another "Kodak moment" was captured. It made our trip so special to see Daniel enthralled by this horse...and Luna appeared to be just as captivated.



Now, here it is, about three years later. We wondered if Luna was still okay. We wondered if she would remember us. The answer: Yes, she's just fine; and as long as I had a carrot, everything was going to be just fine. Before we could even exit the van, Luna came to say "hi". Luna comes in the window first...followed by her step-sister, Picchu.