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Post by Bara on Sept 6, 2010 5:26:39 GMT -5
For a moment, The Babe nearly stumbled as the hullaballoo from the campus broke like a wave across the dressage arena.
Candy crossed her hooves and tore the dark red love knot out of her long, blonde mane. Stella smacked Boo upside the head and he turned the right way round.
Cypress saluted the judges and Nasrullah screamed an echoing whinny to the object in the sky ..
It had failed, Cypress had scored a perfect test.
The black and white twins scurried over to Rad, their arms around each other.
"Excuse us," they whined, in unison,"but it's chaos! There are rabbits, ferrets, more horses than you could shake a tail at... Dogs - and cats! There are cats everywhere! And that ..." they pointed their noses to the sky ...
"The moor looks purple under that light," observed Louie.
Everyone looked up ...
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Post by Bara on Sept 7, 2010 12:38:14 GMT -5
Brooks screeched to a halt, wheels screaming.
There was a pause.
"Welcome, Lisa," said Brooks.
"Hello, Brooks,"said Lisa, shyly stepping forward in the dark corridors.
Outside, mayhem was breaking loose. The two girls clasped hands.
"THANK you," said Brooks, "we need you."
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Post by brooks on Sept 8, 2010 0:36:34 GMT -5
 Brooks went racing outside with Lisa right behind her. "Thank Goodness, she must have gotten my signal." The sky was dark, then the lightening struck  When the smoke cleared  Big Tee and Big M had arrived and with them came two humongous trucks and trailers with all the equipment the school would need. Brooks rolled over to Big Tee and asked " How did Rambo and Don like the ride?" Meanwhile Babe and Cypress decided that it was a draw and the school would only benefit from two Masters of Dressage. Over at the other end of Campus...........................
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Post by Bara on Sept 8, 2010 7:31:17 GMT -5
Brooks and Lisa tippy-toed, tippy-wheeled, hand in hand.
"Oooh LOOK!" said Brooks, squeezing Lisa's hand tighter than she meant to ..
"Owwww!" said Lisa. "sorry," murmured Brooks, "but LOOK!"
"Oooh," said Lisa, squeezing Brooks' hand tighter than she meant to.
"Oooh, LOOK!" They said. And hand in hand they advanced into the quadrangle, staring at the purple light in the sky and the purple light on the grass. And the big trucks.
Cypress and Candy stood there, eyes to the sky. Stella, Lexie, Boo, Tess, the twins - and all the dogs SAT!
All the humans were there. All the cats were there ...
Except Louie.
"Dis," he said, slapping his Mom across her knee, all claws extended. "Diss ain't write."
Tee tore her eyes away from the purple thing in the sky. "Whaa?" She looked up to where Big Louie was sat at the controls of his big John Deere tractor.
"Not right," said Louie.
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Post by Bara on Sept 12, 2010 11:37:42 GMT -5
"Oh, RATS!" said Louie, slipping the tractor into gear. Tee tried gripping onto the back of the tractor, but she just wasn't strong enough. Brooks and Lisa tried to hold onto Big Tee.
But Louie and John Deere rolled into the purple forcefield. Tee, Brooks and Lisa were left outside...
Louie and the Tractor rolled on into the purple forcefield...
"STOP!" Shouted Cypress. Everything stopped.
"Errr.." said Cypress ...
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Post by brooks on Sept 12, 2010 12:20:55 GMT -5
"Here I come" shouted Brooks (really I have not forgot just hard to see where this is going the first day seems to have lasted several weeks hehehehehe.)
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Post by adcooper on Sept 12, 2010 12:43:44 GMT -5
Editorial Comment [Brooks, you have only yourself to blame. You've gone all Sci Fi on us! Cypress majored in pre Raphaelite poetry and Boo in anthropology, which he still cannot spell. They know nothing of electromagnetic force fields and massive trailers arriving in a bolt of lightening. You MUST carry on the story.]
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Post by brooks on Sept 12, 2010 13:12:24 GMT -5
Editorial Comment [Brooks, you have only yourself to blame. You've gone all Sci Fi on us! Cypress majored in pre Raphaelite poetry and Boo in anthropology, which he still cannot spell. They know nothing of electromagnetic force fields and massive trailers arriving in a bolt of lightening. You MUST carry on the story.] Yes Ann right away  |
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Post by brooks on Sept 12, 2010 13:38:42 GMT -5
;D ;D
Well now the two magical trucks and trailers had arrived, this would allow the students and teachers the ability to travel the world to do their studies.
Housing would be the next thing on the Leaders list of thing to get done. Most of the horses were going to live outside with cute little stalls to find shelter in. The dogs had their own kennels to live in and cats of course would have soft, cuddly dorms.
Everyone was busy getting signed up for their classes, each student had to have at least 10 units. There were 5 Degrees given: Dressage, Cowhorse, Search and Rescue, Police Work, Hospital Work. This didn't include all the undergrad work that could be explored.
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Post by Bara on Sept 13, 2010 13:12:32 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFSaqFzSO8... said Candy. Cypress started quoting 'Goblin Market'.. Boo got confused between anthropology and anthropomorphism, so Stella had to slap him upside the head and remove his tutu.. "HOLD IT!" neighed Rad ... ps, growled Boo, I can do you a diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum OUCH!!
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Post by adcooper on Sept 13, 2010 19:38:48 GMT -5
Now that the academic departments had been established, someone needed to organize the whole hairy mess. Claire LVbrarian and Louie the Cataloguer donned their bifocals and went to work. Louie's dyslexia concerned Claire, but none of the students seemed to mind that their books were in Albaphetical order.
Meanwhile, Rad had retrofitted one of the truck cabs so he could drive comfortably. (He needed more tail room), while Lucy's husband was hand weaving haynets out of organically grown hemp. A crucial design flaw went unnoticed until Oz accidentally ate an entire net and grew strangely glassy-eyed.
Zen and Flynn were decorating one of the trailers with Mayor Daley memorabilia, but Candy kept covering up their knick-knacks with Jimi Hendrix posters. Flynn didn't mind. He thought Candy was sweet.
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Post by Deb on Sept 14, 2010 6:46:46 GMT -5
Candy thanked Zen and Flynn for putting up with her Jimi Hendrix fixation and gave Flynn a "peck-of-kiss" on his right cheek just to let him know she thought he was "sweet" too. She went on to explain that from where her "Hendrix Mania" originated she had not a clue. "You see, I was always a country girl at heart most of my life" she related to all. Then she recalled Oz's reaction to eating one of the hand-weaved hemp haynets and conceded to her having taken more than a few mouthfuls herself, "Ah Ha", she exclaimed, "that is the reason my taste in music has been converted to heavy metal". She immediately went into research on the properties of Hemp.
With having accepted the position of the Head of the Special Needs Department and teacher of Braille to the blind she went into a full research mode on dyslexia to see what she could do for Louie's affliction. Louie was resentful at the onset of Candy's interest, but came to realize she just might be able to help make him a better, super-dooper John Deere driver.
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Post by Bara on Sept 14, 2010 9:20:33 GMT -5
"HOLD ITTTTT!" yelled Brooks, losing it for just a moment. ("I just SAID that," whickered Rad.)
"Hold it," said Brooks, more calmly.
Everyone held it and looked at her. The hemp smoke wafted over the campus ...
"Who," asked Candy, gently, "Who is smoking that purple haze stuff?" Several of the animals looked ashamed and stubbed out their cigarettes ...
"Thank you, Candy," said Brooks. Candy bowed. "Now," continued Brooks, "now can we get this educational programme on track?"
Flynn raised his hoof : "Please?" he said. "Do we have a programme for Senior Citizens? I've always wanted to drive a big truck - and to try out for dressage." Louie saluted him from the cab of his big tractor. Cypress made a note.
Next thing, all the tutors were sitting or standing or lying behind their desks, whilst a long line of students queued up before them.
"American Sign Language - with hooves? Easy!" Candy was saying.
"Hello. Are you a goat?" Rad asked, scribbling in his notebook.
"Quantum Physics? Easy-peasy," said Boo. "Dya wanna PLAYYYY???"
Stella slapped him upside the head. Tess bandaged him and threw him a ball... awww, well, THAT's physics ...
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Post by Bara on Sept 16, 2010 7:19:48 GMT -5
"Next?" Sighed Candy, in English, American Sign Language and Braille.
"No-one ever said it was going to be easy," she explained to Deb, resting her head on her hoof.
A large cat in a John Deere tractor rolled up to her registration desk.
"And you are...?"
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Post by brooks on Sept 21, 2010 10:42:34 GMT -5
It has been several months since the school opened and finally classes started. Immediately there were two huge problems that they over looked. One was money, the animals were allowed, in the zealous to get opened, to attend for free, the other was of more concern what to do with all the waste. They already had local farmers taking as much as they could use and Ann had decided to start a organic garden. But even with that it was becoming a stinky mess. "Oh what should we do with all these stuff?" asked Edgie "I just don't know" replied Rad " What do the human usually do with it?" "I am not sure, it also seems to just disappear" said Forry The three decided it was time for some human assistance and went in search of Bara, Ann or one of the horseowner peoples.
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