” Renee hugged her mentor tightly, her melancholy mood vanished with the news.“So, go get changed. We'll do some shopping then eat dinner downtown... nothing too fancy so wear comfortable shoes.”Renee beamed, “Not to worry, I have some in my bag upstairs.”She kissed Lauren's cheek before heading off to get ready. Lauren smiled then made her way upstairs to change. She'd thought about altering Renee's routine at work and this would be a good time to discuss how things were going and if her intern. Meanwhile, we had a little rodeo to get started, but even that worked more easily than we could have hoped for. Our pen wasn't large enough to hold the whole new group, since it was much larger than the original one with Buster.I took the time to get a good count, and even though I'd been looking at them and working with them for more than a day now, it was still surprising. There were thirty-one mature mares, seventeen of them had nursing foals and there were twelve obvious yearlings. We also. Little hints and subtle comments were the order of the day all that week, like “how would you fancy Megan she seems to have the hots for you my lad, and I must say I fancy Gethin” [to Mark by Olive,] or the Megan remark to Gethin that did he realise Olive fancies swapping … by Friday after work the two men were looking forward to the evening big time! It was a mind-boggling evening, the women taking charge, and the end of which, partners had been temporarily swapped, screwed, and enjoyed. The. I agreed and hit my sleeping bag as Barney and his brothers drove off with Brian to the beach.I slept for about 3 hours and woke up feeling good. Brian and the rest of the family were still at the beach. Sam commented that I looked like I needed a shower and she would start up the hot water heater. With no electricity Brian had made a wood burning water heater which could heat water from the rain water tank, the only hitch was you needed someone to man the pump at the tank and pump the water.