Unexpected Company
Welcome back!
We had some unexpected company last week.
Our horses spend the winter in a brushy pasture on a bend in the Missouri River. It’s a nice place for shelter and they come in for hay and grain almost every day. The Missouri River is covered with ice right now, as well as a layer of snow over the ice. Usually there are several air holes (open water holes) in the area, but there must be some changes in the current this year because the river is frozen solid from bank to bank right now.
Last week we got a call from some folks on the other side of the river. They were missing some horses and suspected that they might have tried to cross the river on the ice. Sure enough, the missing ones showed up with our horses and had to be trailered home (about 30 miles by road and bridge) after their little half mile river crossing.
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