Bob's Dream: The Horse Fair

Last night Bob told me he had a dream about Harvey. My first thought was, this is a good New Year's dream to have. I have an New Year's resolution that I have never articulated -- to continue Bob's immersion into the horse world.

The dream as Bob describes it...
"We were at a big, long open air building, kind of like a mall and kind of like a stable," Bob said. He went on to describe a bustling, noisy, energy-filled atmosphere.

"A festival marketplace?" I offered. "A horse fair?"

"YES!" he said. "You were getting all exercised about measuring Harvey and some other horses. I had a ruler and you wanted me to measure the horses' height and from nose to tail."

"Well, measuring horses can be an important thing at horse shows, especially ponies," I said.

"I had devised a new means of measuring horses using Euclidian geometric principles," Bob continued. Now I know this is Bob's dream. "You know, like knowing the angle and one side of a triangle, let's you determine the rest of the triangle. We can take a picture of each horse at a specified distance to know the ratio of picture height to horse height. We could also bypass this by introducing a ruler into the picture -- then we just determine the scale."

I'm paraphrasing here, since I'm not terribly mathy.

Bob took Harvey out into the evening air, walked around a carnival area past some slot machines and ferris wheels. They came upon an open-air stall bedded with yellow straw. Bob led him into the stall and fed him treats while they watched the bright lights of the big fair together.