I got a call from my neighbor, James Brady Ray, maybe two months ago. James Brady said his daughter Cammie wanted to come up to my place and “work with the horses”. I don’t remember the exact words but it was something different from “ride the horses” and I took it to mean that she wanted to learn about horses. I have always been quite curious about Cammie because James Brady once told me “I could not get the calves up. I’ll have to wait until the kids get home.” I questioned him about that statement. He told me that one of the girls was real good with the calves and hopefully she could get them up. I asked which girl. He said the little one, Cammie. Cammie was in kindergarten that year and I was real curious about a kindergartener that could handle cattle.
I have been busy re-building the house and have not spent much time with the horses. I was happy for her to come so I would spend more time with the horses. The first time she came we trimmed the ponies feet and worked them a little in the round pen. Since the ponies are kind of cantankerous even though they are little bitty, I decided to show Cammie how a good horse works in the round pen. I got Little More because he is the kindest, best mannered horse I have. It was a cool day in the spring. Little More jumped, bucked, kicked and reared up and pawed the air then started running. I caught him before he hurt himself and told Cammie that’s the way horses are on a nice cool day.
Cammie kept on coming up to learn about horses. We worked some in the afternoon. Summer afternoons are hot and that slowed us down a bit. Recently Cammie started coming up on Saturday morning. That works a lot better. Callie, Cammie’s older sister, started coming along and said she also wanted to learn. Saturday they came at nine and left at two in the afternoon after Madelyn called and said we had to quit. Callie and Cammie are very nice people. The horses and I are very lucky they come to see us and we enjoy it very much.
Callie is in the ninth grade. Cammie is in the fourth grade.