Minimor
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This is just too weird. Tonight I was doing chores, had just fed some of the horses behind the barn & was coming through Echo's corral (Echo is our Morgan mare) to the yard for some more hay. Next thing she was looking down toward the end of her corral, at the pasture gate & the side pasture--her head shot up, then she was snorting and blowing and flagging her tail & sort of prancing around, and kept turning to look out toward the pasture. My dogs were out with me, but Arielle, the shepherd is just a pup & not real observant yet--she paid no attention to whatever was out there. I called my heeler pup, Lily, but she didn't come--she'd been with me a little earlier & I assumed she'd tgone to the yard. I didn't even have my flashlight so went on to the yard & got my next load of hay--then went into the house & got my spotlight. I had to take that load of hay out Echo's pasture gate, across the corner of the side pasture to the gate into the back pasture then I give it to the mares out in the back pasture--that's the easiest way to get their hay out to them.
The side pasture is 6 acres, all open, but there is a bit of a hill one place. The road runs along the front--very few trees there--there are trees along the neighbor's on the far side, on his side of the fence, and there are trees between that pasture & our yard. As I went across Echo's corral she was still prancing around & snorting, so I shone the light out the gate & across the end of the pasture. I thought maybe there was a deer or a dog out there, but I saw nothing. Had I known, I shouldn't have put the light on until I got to the gate. I went on out the gate & around the corner & then stopped to shine the light around the rest of the pasture.
Imagine my surprise when I saw something--two somethings--out there. There was a wooden box, and a few feet past it one of those 2 wheeled moving dollies. I shone the light around again & saw no one, so walked over to look at the box. It's just a plain wooden box, shaped like one of those pedestals that a circus horse would put his front feet up on--about that height and the sides taper in so the top is smaller than the base--only there's a circular hole in the top, maybe 2 1/2 or 3" across. I was going to take the trolley with me then decided to leave it. I went back to the house & told Mom that she has to come out with the other light & keep watch, I'm not going back out in that pasture by myself! While she was getting her jacket on I went back out to the gate, shone my light, and saw that the trolley was GONE. The wooden box was still there. I shone the light all around--there was no sign of anyone, and no trolley. CREEPY. The person had to have been lying down in the tall grass when I was out there the first time, or else he/she had run to the trees & hid when I first shone my light. Then as soon as I left they went back & grabbed the trolley & ran away with it. I don't know if they intended to leave the box, or if they just left it because they didn't think they had time to take it with them.
This wooden box is empty--I looked in the hole & there's nothing there. It's just a box. I don't know why anyone would be hauling it across my pasture, or where they'd have been going with it. My pasture isn't a short cut to anywhere--the neighbor behind us isn't home, the one across the pasture, well, I very much doubt he was trundling a wooden box across the pasture...he'd haul it home in his truck! Perhaps someone was heading to the pasture to teach one of my girls to be a circus pony??? In the dark???
I checked Lily's doghouse--Lily was gone. She's very friendly & so I figured she'd seen the person & went after him, & followed him when he left--I was thinking I'd drive around looking for Lily, and if I found her then I'd know who had been here. I fed the mares & then came in & called the police, and asked if they'd do a drive through the neighborhood. I told the officer that it's really nothing much, but weird & with it creepy. His reply was "some weird things happen, believe me"--oh, I believe it! He was out the other side of town but said he'd swing around this way a bit later. He told me that if anyone comes back, if there's a vehicle get a license number but don't follow--don't worry, I had no intention of giving chase to anyone, though if I'd caught the person in my pasture I probably would have shrieked at them to get out of there!!
After I talked to the RCMP officer I went back out & Lily was in her doghouse, looking very subdued. So, I don't know if she did actually follow the person off & they got after her to get rid of her, or if it was just coincidence & she just happened to be gone at the time--she's really good about staying home so I sort of doubt that one.
I do have to go back out later & check on the horses...I do not like people prowling around anywhere near my horses. I will take my spotlight and my trusty pitchfork and no one better make the mistake of being within reach! Wish I had one of those cell phones that is also a gun....saw that on TV the other night & thought it would be handy!
The side pasture is 6 acres, all open, but there is a bit of a hill one place. The road runs along the front--very few trees there--there are trees along the neighbor's on the far side, on his side of the fence, and there are trees between that pasture & our yard. As I went across Echo's corral she was still prancing around & snorting, so I shone the light out the gate & across the end of the pasture. I thought maybe there was a deer or a dog out there, but I saw nothing. Had I known, I shouldn't have put the light on until I got to the gate. I went on out the gate & around the corner & then stopped to shine the light around the rest of the pasture.
Imagine my surprise when I saw something--two somethings--out there. There was a wooden box, and a few feet past it one of those 2 wheeled moving dollies. I shone the light around again & saw no one, so walked over to look at the box. It's just a plain wooden box, shaped like one of those pedestals that a circus horse would put his front feet up on--about that height and the sides taper in so the top is smaller than the base--only there's a circular hole in the top, maybe 2 1/2 or 3" across. I was going to take the trolley with me then decided to leave it. I went back to the house & told Mom that she has to come out with the other light & keep watch, I'm not going back out in that pasture by myself! While she was getting her jacket on I went back out to the gate, shone my light, and saw that the trolley was GONE. The wooden box was still there. I shone the light all around--there was no sign of anyone, and no trolley. CREEPY. The person had to have been lying down in the tall grass when I was out there the first time, or else he/she had run to the trees & hid when I first shone my light. Then as soon as I left they went back & grabbed the trolley & ran away with it. I don't know if they intended to leave the box, or if they just left it because they didn't think they had time to take it with them.
This wooden box is empty--I looked in the hole & there's nothing there. It's just a box. I don't know why anyone would be hauling it across my pasture, or where they'd have been going with it. My pasture isn't a short cut to anywhere--the neighbor behind us isn't home, the one across the pasture, well, I very much doubt he was trundling a wooden box across the pasture...he'd haul it home in his truck! Perhaps someone was heading to the pasture to teach one of my girls to be a circus pony??? In the dark???
I checked Lily's doghouse--Lily was gone. She's very friendly & so I figured she'd seen the person & went after him, & followed him when he left--I was thinking I'd drive around looking for Lily, and if I found her then I'd know who had been here. I fed the mares & then came in & called the police, and asked if they'd do a drive through the neighborhood. I told the officer that it's really nothing much, but weird & with it creepy. His reply was "some weird things happen, believe me"--oh, I believe it! He was out the other side of town but said he'd swing around this way a bit later. He told me that if anyone comes back, if there's a vehicle get a license number but don't follow--don't worry, I had no intention of giving chase to anyone, though if I'd caught the person in my pasture I probably would have shrieked at them to get out of there!!
After I talked to the RCMP officer I went back out & Lily was in her doghouse, looking very subdued. So, I don't know if she did actually follow the person off & they got after her to get rid of her, or if it was just coincidence & she just happened to be gone at the time--she's really good about staying home so I sort of doubt that one.
I do have to go back out later & check on the horses...I do not like people prowling around anywhere near my horses. I will take my spotlight and my trusty pitchfork and no one better make the mistake of being within reach! Wish I had one of those cell phones that is also a gun....saw that on TV the other night & thought it would be handy!
