Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Sleigh Time



The greater outdoors is currently crusted in a glaze of ice, and our road might as well be a skating rink.  It’s a treacherous world out there.

Ice.  It happens.

Today our friend Kelly hitched her white mini-horse stallion to a miniature sleigh that seats only one passenger, and took a spin down our road.  We passed them whizzing along over the ice with two other mini-horse companions, one black and one buckskin, trotting alongside. Clippity-clop, clippity-clippity-clop!  I have no idea how they navigated the ice without slipping.

Kelly’s eyes were barely visible between a thick scarf and wooly hat.  She waved cheerily with her free hand while the other tended the reins. I thought she looked like a snow princess on her way to an elfish royal ball.


Our encounter only lasted a few seconds, a glimpse into another world of pure delight bordering on magic.



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