How We Met

Grandma went to Las Vegas Cowboy Christmas in 2003, where she purchased a beautiful photograph of two wildly colored stallions. shes had it hanging in her living room ever since she bought it.
In January of 2005, this horse, along with 5 other older flashy pinto stud horses, appeared on the BLM's quarterly Internet Adoption.
Just as the Internet Adoption was getting started, the new sale law went into affect, and the BLM had to pull the 6 older Oregon horses off the Internet Adoption (since they are no longer eligible for adoption under the new law - they can only be sold). Grandma was one of the people who called to see what was up, so they put her on a list of "Interested Parties" for when they figured out what to do. In the meantime, someone pointed out to her that the other horse in the photo was also in the group of 6.
And then people started sending her all these photos (such as the ones below, which Andi Harmon took 10 years ago) with these same two horses together, so it became clear that these two had been together most of their lives.
It seemed to Grandma that these horses, who had brought so much pleasure and beauty to so many people over the years, deserved better treatment than a feedlot and a trip to the slaughter house. AND, she thought it only fair that they should get to finish out their lives together.
What the BLM decided was that they would hold a special auction for just the 6 horses that had been pulled off the Internet Adoption, limited to the people who had already called in, which included her. So she faxed in her bid and waited to hear. One morning in mid-March Don Glenn of National BLM called and said she is the "winner" of both!

they named them "Lewis and Clark.".