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    Almost Hopeless Horse
    Almost Hopeless Horse
    Almost Hopeless Horse
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    Almost Hopeless Horse

    By Kathryn Judson

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    When the Forresters' favorite cow horse has a colt, everyone assumes he'll be a good cow pony just like his mother. As it turns out, Billy isn't good at any sort of ranch work. He's silly, friendly, and lots of fun - but the Forresters can't afford to keep a horse who doesn't earn his keep. So Mr. Forrester keeps trying to find something Billy can be good at.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKathryn Judson
    Release dateJan 16, 2014
    ISBN9781311195463
    Almost Hopeless Horse
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    Kathryn Judson

    Kathryn Judson was a newspaper reporter and columnist for many years, before switching over to working for a small indie office supply company that morphed into the Uffda-shop, one of the largest indie bookstores in Oregon. (It has since closed.)Almost Hopeless Horse was inspired in part by her horse Yob, who was afraid of cattle. Trouble Pug combines a love of history, time travel stories, and her late husband's fondness for a pug that traveled the country with him in his younger days. Why We Raise Belgian Horses got its start in stories from her husband's Norwegian-American family, including a story his grandfather told of a horse with an unusual phobia. The MI5 1/2 series started off as a spoof of spy novels but ended up being more serious than that in places (although still fairly silly overall). When she got tired of dystopian novels that ignore God and don't seem to understand that conversion is an option for people, she launched into the Smolder series, which also pokes sharp sticks into the evils of racism and social engineering, while still having fun with romance and friendship.Mrs. Judson is an adult convert to Christianity. You will find, if you read her books, that the ones from early in her walk are generally more in line with an Americanized national religion than with the Sermon on the Mount (found in the Bible in Matthew chapters 5 through 7) and other foundational commands of Christ Jesus. It took her a while to realize that some of what she was taught in church and had acquired from pop culture and from reading "Christian" books was often at odds with Jesus and His apostles. Therefore, with many of her books, you'll find American "conservative" values and ways of thinking more than Christian ones. In all cases, you should always compare what is presented against what Christ teaches. When there's a difference, go with Jesus.She has lived most of her life on the rain shadow side of Oregon but has also lived and worked in a number of other states. She also long ago traveled through Central America, and Canada, and to Japan. Also way back when, she toured with Up With People, and as a lowly flunky helped put on a Superbowl halftime show. In her school days, she was active in community theater, both on and off stage. One summer during her newspaper days, she took time off and worked for a summer stock theater company in the Black Hills of South Dakota. In 2017, she asked her church in Idaho to plug her into something and got sent across the country to Kentucky to take care of babies and toddlers of women who were in prison, jail, or drug rehab. She did that for three years. Since then, she has been a live-in caregiver in private settings. She currently lives in Indiana.Always a history buff (even in grade school!), Mrs. Judson switched in recent years to studying the history of the church, from the teachings and trials of the apostolic church right on up to the present day, with an emphasis on the persecuted church. She finds the Radical Reformation (the rise of the Anabaptists), and other 'radical reformations', like the American Restoration Movement and the rise of the early Methodists, etc., especially interesting.

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      Almost Hopeless Horse - Kathryn Judson

      Almost Hopeless Horse

      By Kathryn Judson

      Smashwords Edition

      c. 2001, 2011 Kathryn Judson

      Minor revisions 2016

      All rights reserved.

      This is fiction. No resemblance to actual persons (or horses) is intended.

      Most baby horses are rather silly. They like to buck and run and sometimes they just turn in circles. They forget to watch where they're going. They try fancy stunts and fall down. You never know what they might get into their heads to do.

      But one year, Mr. Forrester's favorite mare had a colt that was sillier than all the other foals. Worse yet, as he grew up he stayed a little silly. Most horses, like most people, get calmer and more even-tempered as they grow up, but not Bonnie's colt. He loved people, thank goodness, or he could have been dangerous.

      No matter where you were or what you were doing, he wanted to tag along and stick his nose in. If there happened to be a fence in the way, he'd just jump the fence and go wherever it was that he wanted to be. Mr. and Mrs. Forrester and their son Dan and their daughter Libby couldn't go anywhere on the ranch without this increasingly big horse following them around like a puppy dog and getting in the way. What a pest!

      He liked to butt his head against a person's chest, and sigh, and just stand there with his eyes closed, head tight against the person's chest, waiting to have his ears scratched. What a pest!

      One day, Mr. Forrester heard an awful racket. He looked out the window to see the young horse up on a flatbed hay wagon, dancing away and slapping his hooves down as noisily as he could, like some kind of crazy drummer pounding an oversize drum.

      Mr. Forrester went outside and across to the hay wagon. He looked up at the horse, and asked, Hey, you silly creature, do you think you're a billy goat, getting up where you aren't supposed to be, and clamping around like that?

      The colt jumped off the wagon, accepted a friendly pat on the neck, and then hopped back up to do some more drumming.

      After that, everyone called the colt Billy. It wasn't the name he had started with, but it fit him better.

      After that, the Forresters parked the flatbed wagon in the barn from time to time, so they could have some peace and quiet.

      -

      Billy learned how to wear a halter, and follow on a lead, just like the other horses. He was actually pretty well behaved when someone was working with him.

      It was mostly when he was loose and not busy with something that he acted different from the other horses. Billy would stand at the far end of the pasture, up on a small hill, and watch for cars or trucks headed to the ranch. Then he would race them to the ranch house, sailing over fences and gates as needed. If he could get there in time, he'd run up to whoever

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