A Horse Tale, Chapter 3, A designer bag from the outlet mall.
Steph gets back to the house, sets the bag she found in Spirits pen on the table. She walks over and pours a cup of coffee. She sits down and stares at the bag. "What is Spirit keeping?" Bruno looks up and shakes his head.
A bag from the outlet mall sits before Steph, and after looking in the Walmart bag that Justice had, Steph is really concerned. "Ok, Steph, cowgirl up." Steph looks over to Bruno, "Did you say that?" Bruno nods his head.
Steph reaches forward, opens the bag, and reaches inside. Steph pulls out, a pair of swim goggles (big enough to fit a horse), two under 15 tickets to 'Wet 'n Wild Las Vegas water park', Brochure for the Chicken Ranch, a quote from Amber Pools & Spas for a lap pool, and two oatmeal cookies, mostly intact.
As Steph starts to move the now empty bag, she figures out something else is in the bag. Opening the bag all the way, she peers inside, the bottom of the bag is filled with coins. With all diligence she counts the coins, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.... $212.27. "What the heck has he been doing?"
Bruno looks up at the question and says in his way, "You are the cowgirl, you figure it out, don't like coins, taste bad....." Steph nods and looks at the array of items on the table...
Steph says "Well lets see what we got." Well out of Justice's Walmart bag, copy of a current edition of the "Horse Racing Journal", some chips from Pahrump Nugget Hotel & Casino, actually $137 dollars worth, a hotel key, and a photo of a bay colored thoroughbred mare, actually signed with a small hoof print in the corner, oh and two half eaten carrots.
Out of Spirits bag, pair of swim goggles, two under 15 tickets to 'Wet 'n Wild Las Vegas water park', Brochure for the Chicken Ranch, a quote from Amber Pools & Spas for a lap pool, and two oatmeal cookies, and $212.27 in coins.
Bruno looks up and says, "All junk nothing useful.", Steph looks back and says "Well maybe to you, but it appears to Justice and Spirit they mean something." Bruno, just lowers his head, "Horses Pfffft".
well its getting close to 9 am, Steph had planned some cleanup and maybe a few water barrels, but the array of items on the table has her baffled, concerned and a bit worried. If she tells Rob when he gets back from working, he will think she has gone off the deep end.
"Oh, the chat, it’s been an hour or more since I typed BRB.", dang people will think I got lost or something. Taking a swig of now cold coffee, she readies herself for humiliation, scorn, and barbs, from her friends and supporters from around the country... "I can do this." thinks to herself, Steph nearly in tears, looks over to Bruno, "Put the stuff back in the bags, give them back to the horses, and forget about it."
"Nope, I just can't leave it at that." Steph returns her gaze back to the items. Steph turns her attention to the computer screen, last few entries on the chat are about the weather in New York, bosses and the normal chatter. "Well let’s see what the world can make of this." Steph begins to type.
"Morning all, sorry got busy with things"....Morning Steph from several people follows. Steph in her best cowgirl fashion, types "Found two bags this morning in Justice's and Spirits pens.", "You would not believe what I found."..... Steph waits, and waits. Then the first reply comes in "What tell us.", "What did you find?", "Yes tell us."
Steph takes a deep breath, and begins to type.... "Nope can't do it.", which is followed by response from several people, "please tell us", "is it bad", "are the horses ok!!!", "OMG what is going on, just got here?"
"No, it’s not bad, the horses are ok.", " but it’s really weird.", " I found a plastic bag in each of their pens, I brought them back to the house to see what was inside.".... "what was inside?", "OMG,", "tell us"...
"Well when I was feeding this morning I noticed a plastic bag half buried in both Spirits and Justices pens.", "I brought them back to the house to see what was inside.".
"What was inside?", "Tell us", "Good Morning, what’s going on?".....
"ok, ok, I will list the things in each bag, I can't not figure out any of it, maybe you ladies can help."
"In Justices' bag he had.
1) copy of a current edition of the "Horse Racing Journal",
2) $137 dollars worth of chips from Pahrump Nugget Hotel & Casino,
3) a hotel key,
4) a photo of a bay colored thoroughbred mare, actually signed with a small hoof print in the corner,
5) two half eaten carrots.
In Spirits bag he had.
1) pair of swim goggles,
2) two under 15 tickets to 'Wet 'n Wild Las Vegas water park'
3) A Brochure for the Chicken Ranch,
4) a quote from Amber Pools & Spas for a lap pool,
5) two oatmeal cookies,
6) and $212.27 in coins."
"You ladies are going to have to help me figure this out. I really have no idea what they are up to."
The quiet that followed on the chat was as if the chat was broken, or that everyone had left......
Just as Steph was about to burst into tears, Bruno came up and laid his head on her lap, "They will figure it out, the Mom's and Aunties are a pretty cool group."
Steph looked down and rubbed his neck, "You are a very good dog.", Bruno looks up "Got any treats?"....
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To be continued... This chapter is meant to be interactive, responses will guide the next chapter of Horse's Tale.
Author....Samm
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