I just wanted to share a little family news with my BB friends: I have a new horse. 
For those of you who haven’t been keeping up with the “Baby Green Support Group” thread (and who can blame you?), my sweet and pretty homebred youngster – Tigger, he of the perpetual injuries and soundness problems – was recently diagnosed with ringbone in all four feet. So he is now a pet/riding horse and won’t ever be my next show horse.
Enter Sam, the horse no one – for no good reason – wanted. As his someday-show name of True Story would indicate, he took a long and winding path on his way to me. He is a big (as in tank), solid (well, except for a tiny star) black, appendix Quarter Horse who has never had much luck landing in one place very long (except for a pasture). He knows almost nothing, and what little he does know is the wrong almost nothing. But we’re working on that.
He is very sweet, very kind, and while he is clueless, he tries really really hard … you just kinda have to like a horse who, while out on a trial trail ride, was the only horse who didn’t freak out over the sofa in a neighbor’s front yard 
or launch into a panic attack when a herd of free-range guinea fowl started following him home.
He came by way of a trainer Merry and I know; she heard of my plight and suggested that Sam and I might be the right match, since I want a pal as much as a show horse and Sam needed a mom of his own as much as someone to teach him to be a show horse. So … Sam has found his home at last. 
As my very British mum-in-law said, “I hope he realizes that his butt has well and truly landed in the butter.” Given how he already follows me around and nudges for treats, I kinda think he does.
I see trees of green, red roses too. I watch 'em bloom for me and for you. And I think to myself … what a wonderful world. Yes, what a wonderful world." – Louie Armstrong.
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We do actually have a digital camera … Beezer bought it awhile ago for Mr. Beezer because he 