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<blockquote data-quote="Night" data-source="post: 108815" data-attributes="member: 2129"><p>Hi Sweetie:</p><p></p><p>My 11 year old daughter and I would like to tell our story in the hopes that you will be able to do the same thing. </p><p></p><p>We too don't have alot of money (certainly not enough to afford a horse). I grew up riding and my daughter has just started to ride. Well, very often we would ride our bikes past this little one horse farm. I happened to know that the guy that lived in the house used to have race horses. One day when we were riding past we went up to the door and asked if we could just look at his horse. The son in law of the man who lived there answered the door and said that we could go back to the barn as his father in law was back there just then. So we did. We found out that the guy was an old man (86 years old) and was having a bit of trouble lugging the water buckets around and the wheel barrow too. We offered to take care of the horse for him. We didn't ask immediately if we could ride her as we wanted to prove to him that we could do the job that we offered to do and that he could trust us to do just that. Well, that was over a month ago and we have been faithful to be there twice a day 7 days a week taking care of this horse. Well, Blondie, a couple of days ago the man offered to give us the horse (a 7 year old Thoroughbred mare) and he also offered to keep her at his house for free. Now...we are trying to figure out a way to pay for all of this. My daughter (who is 11) knows that there is no way that I can afford to do this on my own (and even if I could I wouldn't) because she knows that she has to take responsibility and earn the money to take care of this horse. She has asked several family members and friends if she could clean their houses for them or do any kind of small jobs to earn money. She also knows that every bit of extra money she gets will have to go toward this horse if it is going to work. I am willing to help out some, but not alot. We are very fortunate that this man will let us keep her at his house so that she will not be taken away from what she has known for 7 years and that he is able to order her shots and medicine and can administer this stuff himself. We have been very, very blessed and we have done much praying. I would suggest that you do the same. Things can happen even when you think it's impossible and I think our story says just that. Just keep on trying and don't give up. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Night, post: 108815, member: 2129"] Hi Sweetie: My 11 year old daughter and I would like to tell our story in the hopes that you will be able to do the same thing. We too don't have alot of money (certainly not enough to afford a horse). I grew up riding and my daughter has just started to ride. Well, very often we would ride our bikes past this little one horse farm. I happened to know that the guy that lived in the house used to have race horses. One day when we were riding past we went up to the door and asked if we could just look at his horse. The son in law of the man who lived there answered the door and said that we could go back to the barn as his father in law was back there just then. So we did. We found out that the guy was an old man (86 years old) and was having a bit of trouble lugging the water buckets around and the wheel barrow too. We offered to take care of the horse for him. We didn't ask immediately if we could ride her as we wanted to prove to him that we could do the job that we offered to do and that he could trust us to do just that. Well, that was over a month ago and we have been faithful to be there twice a day 7 days a week taking care of this horse. Well, Blondie, a couple of days ago the man offered to give us the horse (a 7 year old Thoroughbred mare) and he also offered to keep her at his house for free. Now...we are trying to figure out a way to pay for all of this. My daughter (who is 11) knows that there is no way that I can afford to do this on my own (and even if I could I wouldn't) because she knows that she has to take responsibility and earn the money to take care of this horse. She has asked several family members and friends if she could clean their houses for them or do any kind of small jobs to earn money. She also knows that every bit of extra money she gets will have to go toward this horse if it is going to work. I am willing to help out some, but not alot. We are very fortunate that this man will let us keep her at his house so that she will not be taken away from what she has known for 7 years and that he is able to order her shots and medicine and can administer this stuff himself. We have been very, very blessed and we have done much praying. I would suggest that you do the same. Things can happen even when you think it's impossible and I think our story says just that. Just keep on trying and don't give up. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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