For as long as I can remember I've always wanted a horse. I mean, what girl doesn't want their own horsey, right? My extended family has always been extreme, avid, passionate horse lovers. We, ourselves, have just never had the space for a horse. Much less the extra expense of owning a horse. Ever heard the phrase "Eat like a horse"? Well, it's true, they do eat a lot! And you get no profit from horse, unlike chickens or cows. Even so, I still wanted a horse. So, my Granddad (the horse expert of the family) bought me one!
The Oreo Cookie
Yes, I finally have a horse. And even though he is just eating my money like it's hay, I wouldn't trade my handsome Oreo for the world. He is a black and white Tennessee Walking Horse. He is amazing on trails. Oreo is so sweet, but he prefers me to anyone else. He won't even let my uncle catch him, while he runs to me. Yeah, he is my big baby.
We still don't have the acreage we need to put him on, so for now I am keeping him at my uncle's 116 acre farm. Where he has a made a best friend, Ticon. Where one goes, the other goes. If I take Oreo out for a ride, Ticon will run the field and whine until we get back. If Ticon goes to the vet, Oreo will pace around the barn until he returns. It's so cute watching them play and roll around in the sand together.
Oreo and Ticon
So the name, "Oreo". How did I come up with that, right? His original name was "Lightning", but with his sweet temperament and slow steady pace, I just couldn't see him as a Lighting type. So for a week I thought and thought, racked my brain, bugged my family for help, when one day it was like a light bulb in my brain. "Oreo"! How simple. If you look at the pictures, you will see he has black from his rear to halfway up, then a little patch of white, then black the rest of the way. The white cream filling in between two chocolate cookies....ring a bell? Yeah, an Oreo cookie! (and it helped that I was eating an Oreo cookie at the time) So, Oreo Cookie it is! Usually I just call him Oreo for short.
So here are a few pictures of my handsome boy.
Oreo in the barn with his Buddy "Ticon"
This picture is Oreo standing on a stump
while we were trail riding.
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