The following is a story written by our blog friend, Carole Mercer, who submitted many great stories earlier this year. Carole has been very busy farming this summer but was able to send this story to me to post:
The Copper Pot Pony
This story starts about 25 years ago when I first move to Southern Oregon. Money is tight as the economy is in a downturn somewhat similar to the economic downturn happening today.
I buy a ranch and set about to live my life long dream as a “cowgirl/rancher/ farmer hand” on my own ranch. I love my new life and I love my job, but I find myself always short of money. I begin to do some “horse trading” to stretch my income and help the out flow of dollars from owning a ranch. I dabble in quarter horses, but my heart is with Morgans. I begin to dabble in Morgans and find out that I can buy, train and sell Morgans as long as the horse is a “Classical Morgan”. I buy and sell two to four horses a year. I am not a big time operation. I just get the horses going really well and then sell them.
This side line brings me to a couple of horses that I will call “Chuck “and “Samson.” These two hoses have lots of Brunk and UVM breeding in their background. Samson is black and Chuck is the color of a shiny copper pot.
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