You Have To Love A Good Weird Conversation!

I love those really odd, but very interesting weird conversations that come up every once in a while. Especially at things like holiday parties where you don't expect them... and more especially the weird conversations that come up between people you know, but not really that personally yet where this odd type of conversation just really makes you want to know them and hang out with them more.

The Vineyard staff Christmas party was this past Friday evening. It was held at our pastor Jeff's home where they served a nice sit down dinner for about 16 people or so. Really lovely. After dinner, Terra (the worship pastor's wife), Maureen (another staff member's wife) and I were sitting in the corner having one such really odd conversation, haha! it was great.

Maureen told us about a farm that's near their home, where a story about the fate of 2 horses would unfold. One of them apparently had slipped in mud and broke it's leg. Now I don't know much about horse care, but apparently it's really expensive to have a horse with a broken leg taken care of and kept off the leg because of the sheer mass of the animal. Thus, they had to put the horse down. She proceeded to tell us about what happens to dead horse bodies, ha. You can't just bury them.. it would take forever to dig such a hole. The horse buryer suggested to slice up the animal in order to more easily have it fit into the hole so it's legs wouldn't be sticking out of the ground! ...but the owners wouldn't have that, I mean this was like a beloved pet to them.. so they had to order a backhoe to dig a hole.

The other horse in the story apparently had some sickness and died, and had an autopsy to find the cause of death. Audy (Maureen's husband) happened to be walking around the barn behind their home one day, to find the horse on a table being disassembled! He got upset that his kids might wander back there and be scarred for life. I would be!

So as we were talking and listening to the details of Maureen's story, Josh (Terra's husband) comes up to our conversation and asks, "So what are we ladies talking about? hair? periods? purses?" haha ...