Chapter Twenty Eight

Midnight soon settled into his new home, the hay Tamara had forked out for him was much more delicious that grass

He had no trouble getting used to sleeping in a stall rather than under the open sky

In the morning, as the family gardened they discovered the downside of having a horse around - Midnight turned out to be very partial to carrots and started grazing on Joshua's crops!

Joshua scolded him for eating the carrots

And quickly built a fence around his precious crops

Tamara mounted up ready to practice her riding, but managed to get herself all back to front

Jo had recently been promoted to a five star chef - the highest accolade possible in the culinary world

Joshua took some more crops down to the consignment store

Before spending the rest of the day fishing peacefully in the lake

Having finally managed to get herself facing the right way, Tamara rode Midnight down to the training grounds where the practised together

Once they were done, Midnight ate some of the hay left out 

While Tamara bought an ice-cream from the (rather creepy) ice-cream van

However creepy the van was, the ice-cream tasted wonderful

That evening she visited the city hall to register as a horsewoman

The next morning Jo decided to try one of the French recipes Joshua and Tamara had brought back for her

While the young couple worked on Joshua's garden

The crepes turned out brilliantly

While the humans in the family ate, Smudge introduced himself to Midnight

Tamara forked out some more hay where Midnight had eaten it all

While Jo and Joshua worked on the garden

Tamara then rode across town to the Equestrian Centre where she was able to earn a nice amount of money having Midnight stand stud

They then rode around for a while enjoying the beautiful scenery

Before entering their first race, a beginners trophy

Tamara was delighted when they won and showered Midnight with praise

Before realising she hadn't quite got the hang of dismounting  as she fell off in the process...

Jo had whipped up some special horse granola for her and Tamara fed this to Midnight as a extra prize for his performance

Back home, Smudge decided to join Joshua in fishing in the nearby park