As is customary, my husband and I are spending part of Memorial Day weekend with his family.  His brother is getting our oldest nephew for the summer, and tomorrow we are going down to their house to visit.  We’ll probably barbeque on their Fire Magic BBQ island, which is always fun at their house because they have such an impressive selection off Fire Magic outdoor kitchen accessories.

This is different than previous years because my in-laws now live in the same state as we do.  They used to live two states over, so we’d drive out to visit them over the long weekend.  It was on our first of such trips that I experienced one of the biggest life-changing events in my life.

We had just gotten over to my brother-in-law’s house, and were getting ready to barbeque when we saw that their neighbor had an unfamiliar injured horse in his pasture.  It turned out he was buying the horse and her yearling colt from a backyard breeder, and he had loaded them up in a trailer with a hole in the floor.  Unsurprisingly, both mare and colt were injured.

We were unable to do anything for the mother, but a week or two later, we were able to rescue the colt by paying his vet bill in exchange for ownership.  So Memorial Day is important to me for more than one reason — as the anniversary of when we first found my horse, as well as an important U.S. holiday.

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