Nyssa

We decided that the time had come to replace the mailbox in our neighborhood… every time you

opened the door, it would fall to the ground, underneath the car. It had been welded and glued and welded again, yet it’s time had passed.

So, we purchased a mailbox and began the surprisingly arduous task of replacing the old, rusted one.

I’ve developed a terrible habit of feeding random animals the food I have in the truck. Guess what

happens when you do that? Do they go away? No. They actually become intensely interested in what you’re doing.

Sadly, I forgot this lesson when we were replacing the old mailbox… our neighbor’s delightful horse “Pepe” came over to say

“Hello” (at least that was my interpretation). So, I gave him an apple that I had lying around. Yeah, BIG MISTAKE!!!

I guess in the horse world, when you get a delicious apple, it means that REALLY INTERESTING THINGS are happening…

So, Pepe (after eating the apple and drooling on the tools, and sticking his head in the mailbox) became actively helpful in

our proceedings. Pepe was having so much fun that “Cowboy” (our neighbor’s more mature horse) came over to say “Hello” as well.

Now, we’re trying to work with two giant horses “helping” us, as only horses can…

After we got the new mailbox out of the packaging, Pepe walked over and began to explore. At first he licked the box, and then he picked it up. I was like, “Whoa! Hey, hey! We might have to return this…”

Yeah, apparently horses don’t care about return policies…
He picked up that box and well… this video should demonstrate what happened next:

Pepe completely destroyed the box, even tearing it into little pieces. He threw it in the air, stomped on it, and even tried to carry off bits of it.

We rescued the remaining cardboard, horse-spit-soaked pieces and put them safely away. Pepe did not actually eat any cardboard… i.e. “no animals were harmed in the making of this video…”

Our neighbor came by in a pickup truck. We stopped to chat. Pepe (the horse) started to pull stuff out of the back of the pickup! He pulled out a plastic bag full of pecans! Our neighbor said, “I forgot that those were back there…” So, I separated Pepe from his pecans and returned them to their rightful owner.,

Anyway, at the end of our hard labors, we got a new (non-returnable) mailbox and some highly amused/amusing horses. We are considering giving them more cardboard to abuse, before recycling, as they seemed to really enjoy boxes!!!