When the farrier comes is one of the times that reminds me why I am so glad to live in the country, on a farm. The Normans often come with their daughter Nike, who lives a different kind of life than most kids in America. She is not raised in a phobic way, to fear the world around her, but is allowed to figure out it, have problems, solve them and understand real dangers from the ones we invent in our viscerally neurotic world. Nike understand to stay away from a donkeys’ leg, but thinks nothing of giving them a kiss on the nose, or of jumping on their backs and sitting on them while her father trims their hooves. She’s going out for Halloween as Tinkerbell.