After feeding, raking poop and checking on all the alpacas this morning, we headed to town to get our mail.

Usually it is just a quiet ride down a winding county road by the goats and cows, across the bridge over the Medina River, past the Baptist Church and on to Texas Scenic Hwy 16 in to town.  But this morning’s drive proved to be a bit different that other days. 

First we drove by the goats – all was well with them.  Then we passed by the cows and calves all lying under the pecan trees keeping cool, but we did notice something a bit off.  The tank that supplies the cows with their water had a bit of a problem.  The hose that connects water to the tank was just blasting away, flooding the ground in about a 100′ circle.  We called the owner who lives a county away and asked if we could do something to stop the water flow until they could get over here and fix the problem.  We did and the flood was temporarily stopped.

Then as we drove around the curve in the road heading towards Moffett Park adjacent to the Medina River we saw two beautiful mares standing in the circle drive.  Well, that’s not something we’ve ever seen before and we knew that they didn’t belong there.  Off to rescue horses I went……………

I love horses – always have, ever since my first nursery school that had a horse that we got to ride.  These two girls were just casually grazing and as I approached them they came right to me.  They smelled so good – I love the smell of horses!  It was evident that they are calm around people and had I had a lead the one with the halter would have let me take her home.  But, we really needed to find out where they came from and return them….

We called our County Constable, Don Walters, and he told us to call the Sheriff’s Dept.  I also asked a couple of our neighors if they knew these girls, but no one did.  One neighbor said she knew that they had been at the park since early this morning -about 6:30am.

The Sheriff’s Deputy just now stopped by our place and said that they have the horses in a pasture with the cows and I guess it’s now their job to find the owners. 

So after the flood was fixed and after the horse rescue was in progress, we headed home to start packing for our vacation.  I love living in the country.  Some days are common and then there are days like today – a little excitement added in.