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LOCAL
PERSONALITIES
PRIMADONNA'S
BIRTHDAY
Story & photos
by John
Troesser |
After
discovering that the celebrated Carrousel in Brenham's
Fireman's Park is undergoing restoration, we drove to the Monastery
of Saint Claire, which is on highway 105 toward Navasota,
a mere 5.7 miles from the intersection of FM 577 and 105.
Here the Sisters raise miniature horses to support their habits.
Traffic on highway 105 is fast. The only explanation is that people
who have never seen Navasota are in a hurry to get there and after
seeing it are in a hurry to get back. The Monastery Gate is parallel
to the highway and is easy to miss.
Driving to the inner gate you'll pass perhaps 30 of the little equines,
some grooming each other, some resembling the Royal Family and others
doing assorted miniature horse things. We parked and found a small
crowd gathered around what appeared to be an oversized (yet attractive)
Chihuahua.
This was how we were introduced to the Monastery's first new arrival
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Born only that
morning, this miraculous little creature is the embodiment of every
little girl's dream. Far from shy, she walked toward the Sister who
was trying to photograph her for registration purposes. She seemed
to make no distinction between her mother standing by and the humans
and dogs who were outdoing each other in curious admiration (well,
maybe the dogs were just curious). The sisters explained that
after a few days she would become shy, but for now she was taking
it all in, except for a four minute nap taken with her front legs
braced far apart. She weighed about twenty pounds and was not averse
to being held. A beautiful time and place to be born, for sure. No
one was in a hurry to tell her about fire ants and Texas summers.
© John
Troesser
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