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I am in-love. Deeply in-love. I am so smitten with an 800 pound senior horse, that I have little time to spend on my food blog, let alone anything else! When I sent my horse to a distant ranch (125 miles away), to enjoy her golden years in retirement, I had no idea how much I'd pine for her. Memories of watching "Savvy" pinning her ears, while being judged, in cutting (cattle) competitions and proving how she could work a cow by running circles around it and her athletic moves, still makes me smile with fond memories. I was too competitive nervous for me to do the cattle classes-- instead, I had a trainer who loved that horse almost as much as me.
That was before my son was born-- who turns 22 in November. Savannah Sue turns 27…
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