We went out to dinner last night with J&J, and then drove to "Santa's Wonderland" to see their display of Christmas lights. Wonderland is a drive-through display of millions of colored and white lights, with all sorts of designs and Christmas stories along the way.... everything from the tiniest angel to a life-sized creche, and everything else inbetween. Last night was the perfect weather, too..... not cold, not too warm, no wind, and I guess everyone else thought so too because the place was jam-packed with cars. There's also a little village there with a Christmas shop, but it's always so crowded, with parking spaces at a minimum. This is the second year we've driven there to see the lights and it's a nice little tradition.
If all of those Christmas lights don't get you into the Christmas spirit of the season, then nothing else will work. We had gone to a Chinese restaurant for dinner, so after the trip to Wonderland, we stopped at another restaurant for dessert, being that we were all celebrating my husband's birthday which was last week.
On the way home, along a two-lane road that we take all the time between that town and ours, J thought he saw a horse on the side of the road. He insisted it was there, even though the rest of us hadn't seen anything at all as we were driving along. J made a U-turn and went back...... and sure enough, there on the side, right near the shoulder-less road, was a huge black and white horse. How did the three of us not see that horse?
J pulled the car over and called the sheriff's department, and my husband got out and tried to get the horse away from the road. My husband saw a car pulling into one of the driveways there and asked the man if he owned that horse or knew who did. The man said he didn't own the horse and his attitude said he didn't much care who did.
The horse didn't seem to be bothered by the bright lights of the cars, or by my husband urging him to get back into his pasture..... that horse just kept munching away on the grass, not paying much attention to anything else. Within minutes, a deputy's car pulled up with all his lights flashing, which slowed down the cars that were driving along the road. My husband and the deputy got the horse into a field away from the road, but there wasn't a gate there to keep the horse contained.
We all drove away at that point, leaving the deputy to find out who owned the horse and why they weren't keeping him from wandering into the road in the middle of the night. We were all impressed that the deputy got there so quickly, but we figured he must have been driving on that road when the call went through.
As we drove away, we were joking that we killed two bread puddings at the restaurant but we saved the life of one horse. Then we got serious and we were all upset that people can so easily acquire pets and animals but then just as easily ignore them and not take care of them.
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