Chapter Thirty

While Jo helped Joshua in the garden

 Tamara had noticed Smudge had been getting a little lonely from time to time

So she adopted a female cat, whom she named Sooty, to give Smudge some companionship of his own kind 

 The two cats immediately began getting to know each other and making friends

 After Tamara had finished her breakfast (and broken the dishwasher) she had a mysterious phone call from her father)

"Go down to the Equestrian Centre, I've got you a surprise"

 While Tamara obeyed her father's instructions, Jo cleaned the floor up 

And fixed the broken dishwasher 

At the Equestrian Centre, Tamara found a mare with a note from her father

"This is Pumpkin, train her up and sell her back to the Centre, you should make a nice profit so you can get started on giving your mother and I some grandchildren" 

Tamara rode Pumpkin down to the training grounds

Where she brushed her coat 

And checked her hooves 

 Before doing the same for Midnight, who had found his own way to the training grounds and had been enjoying himself on the jumps when she and Pumpkin had arrived

Joshua went down to the lakeside to fish in peace 

While Jo watched the cooking channel, with Smudge purring on her lap

 Later on Joshua and Tamara ate dinner together

Before retiring to bed 

 In the morning, Jo topped up the cats' food bowl with some special pet food she'd made herself

While the humans in the family tended the garden

The two cats enjoyed each other's company, playing "pounce"...

Grooming each other

 And generally nuzzling and getting to know one another

 Once the garden was tended, Tamara took Midnight and Pumpkin down to the training grounds where she trained Pumpkin on the easy jumps and Midnight on the harder ones 

Once Midnight was tired of jumping, she fed him with some horse granola 

 And groomed him carefully

 Before riding him over to the Equestrian Centre to compete in another race (which they won)

Joshua spent the afternoon fishing in the hills 

Before settling down with Smudge on his lap which Jo had another cooking spree 

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Challenge notes: Tamara's father didn't actually buy Pumpkin for her, I just wrote it that way because it made for a better storyline