5 o'clock shadow

today polly took maddie to see brooklyn the horse. daljit & darshana couldn't go because they had violin practice & daljit is afraid of horses.

maddie gets picked up from school by a driver named bob. so bob drove papa, polly & maddie to the park in a big black town car. maddie said when she was a little girl before her dad went to jail for insider trading she had a horse farm in kentucky that had a lot of horses, even a race horse called 5 o'clock shadow. but she didn't have the farm anymore because mama said the feds took everything.

papa asked maddie if she'd seen her papa in jail & maddie said her brother had but maddie's mama wouldn't let her & got a divorce. papa could tell she didn't wanna talk about it so he was quiet & listened to his walkman.

at the park polly introduced her to brooklyn who looked even bigger than last time & cassidy, brooklyn's rider. she had a bag of baby carrots to feed him & maddie had some sugar cubes & apple slices. maddie like brooklyn a lot & hugged him around the neck.

afterwards bob drove polly & papa home & maddie said she'd email polly later.