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“You’d have seen it if you weren’t entertaining a guest at your place,” Dad adds

Yep, they’re going to razz me

“Jillian says she’s pretty,” Josh adds

“You’re a bunch of gossiping women,” I reply and shake my head “The woman was trapped in a storm I made her dinner”

“Spent the night,” Louie puts in mildly

“Whose side are you on?”

The old hs at me Louie’s one ofhere when I came to the ranch when I was eleven, and he seemed to be old then I have no idea how old he really is, but I’ve decided he’s living forever

Just out of spite

And that’s good because I don’t knoe would do without him

“So, are you all going to rag on et some work done?” I ask

“We’ve been working since before the sun came up,” Dad reminds me “Miles and Sarah were here, too, before school, to watch this baby be born”

“I’ll see them this afternoon They’ll be back out here to watch her” My siblings all love the animals It’s in our blood “Where was Troy? Is he sick?”

“Stayed in toith a friend last night,” Dad says “He’ll be mad that he missed it”

“There will be plenty more,” Josh says

“Where are your kids?” I ask him “I haven’t seen Kim and Mike in a while”

“Kim was here with the others,” Josh replies “Mike stayed at Grand Gram company”

I nod and look down at the new foal, just getting her feet under her We lost randpa last year, and none of us have fully recovered fro with Gram, adamant that she shouldn’t be alone

I don’t know if any of us will ever get over the loss of Gramps

“I’ll have all the kids co out with me at my place this weekend We’ll have some fun”

“They’ll like that,” Dad says “Now, let’s get the fence mended”

We all saddle our horses Magic’s beenas I can remember She’s the love of my life

“Hey, baby girl,” I croon to her as I saddle her up “How’s irl?”

She sniffsfor an apple or some carrots

“I knohat you want” I pull some baby carrots out of my pocket and offer them to her