No School Day 13

No school day 13

Home ec- Brittney learned how to make Scott's famous mint brownies last night, They are divine! Usually we like to share, but Corona Virus you know. I guess we will have to eat them all.

PE-Music- Cleaned up the yard Carissa and I sang the nursery rhyme 1-2 buckle my show, 3-4 shut the door, 5-6 PICK UP STICKS, 7-8 LAY THEM STRAIGHT. Certainly the song was written to get kids to clean up the sticks in the yard. It is an endless process when you have 30+ trees in the yard.

History- Brittney did learn a valuable life lesson, lock the tack room door on the horse trailer BEFORE driving away...or you end up with broken stuff on the road.

PE2-History-So after that life lesson we rode horses at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. Glad the trails on our public land are still opened! Since two of our horses lost shoes and one is lame, we borrowed 2 fast horses from Lori, Classy and Babe so we could get our ride before the rain came. Our plan was to go fast, out and back across the battlefield trail to the trail of tears but NOT go across the river as the flood waters are still high. Used my new riding app, we went 6 miles in 90 minutes and that included stopping to switch stirrups between the two kids. And we beat the rain! Got home just as it started.

US Government- on the drive to our ride we continued on with our discussion topic of the problem with the wild horses in the US. Brittney came up with her plan as to how to fix the problem. She decided that all the cattle will be removed from public land since they outnumber the horses 50 to 1. Then the wild horses in the BLM stock yards or ones being rounded up will be given 1 year limit to be in the corrals. After that time if they are not adopted they will be sent to slaughter. But that there should be slaughter facilities in the US only. The meat will go to feet prisoners in jail and anyone on government assistance. But then after researching the laws she realized she is going to have to change a bunch of them since they are so crazy and don't make any sense at all. Like the law that says you can't sell horse meat without a USDA inspection, but there are no USDA horse meat inspectors because there is another law that says it is illegal to pay a USDA inspector to inspect horse meat. Sounds like the US Government right? So perhaps she is going to have to be a politician now.

Going to continue on with the topic since it hits close to home as horse lovers. No easy answer, but keeping 50 million "wild" horses in corrals indefinitely is not a great plan either.