a frightening look into the future

our friend val handed down an awesome rocking horse to olive. now ordinarily we'd be pumped about a cool toy like this rocking horse - especially because she loves it and will just stare at it and pet it forever. the problem is that i don't want to encourage her into the opium den that is equestrian riding.

her aunt karrie is a perfect example of this sickness - her life is consumed with the long faced demons.  all of her waking hours are occupied with horse shows, buying horses, selling horses, paying for horse food.  and turns out in the end you can't even sell them to elmers!

but on the upside, here's a cute picture of olive -