Looking at houses in the Apple Valley, Hesperia, Victorville area (“high desert” or “Victor Valley”) there are quite a few houses that are advertised as “horse properties.” At least, they’re zoned to allow horses. Most don’t have any equipment, stalls, barns, or other necessities, but if you want to invest a few tens or hundreds of thousand dollars in building it, you too can have horses!
Of course, there’s also the place that had all of that, along with at least two mules. We thought about it, especially if the mules could be included in the sale price. (Didn’t happen – probably dodged a bullet there!)
I am not completely ignorant of the ways of the equine critters – just 99.9999% ignorant. When I was a kid growing up in Kansas City we lived on the edge of the housing tract, with a farm over the back fence. Shetland ponies were always there to feed and pet and play with.
And I have been on a horse more recently than 1967. 2005, twenty years ago, to be exact.
Thank goodness we found a slow, old, swayback nag that was safe for me to get on.
God knows what happens if our fantasy forever home has two acres, a barn, a watering trough, and more horse stuff. Of course, I’ll have to learn the real words for all of that horse stuff.
Adventures await!
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