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i visiting home or something. i get an email from clare that i should come see her. it's a 2 hour drive away. i go ahead and go. she's staying at some big horse ranch place called humboldt highlands. she's happy to see me.

we're looking at horses. at some point she decides it would be a great idea to buy me a horse. she names it sally. she's pretty cool.

the ranch is owned by some duke or lord or something like we're in england but we're not. at some point i look at the title stuff and it says duke so-and-so and then on the back has a effective owner or someting like that. it seems weird.

i follow sally around a big field. she's trying to get some stallion to do her. they get a little rambuncious and she screws up her foot and limps back to the barn thing. clare looks at her foot and she's pulled something i think. i'm relieved because it looked broken while she was running back.

eventually i leave. it's this weird trail thing that comes to a big vertical drop. there's a ladder on the face of the cliff but it's hard to get on and the part that extends above the top seems flimsy. it's also slighly greater than verticle right near the top i think.

i'm coming down and i see dad. i start talking to him about how he's been, what's he's up to. he works for yahoo. i ask him about what he's doing and he says he works on input stuff.

at the bottom of the hill we get on this floaty thing and go down this stream, apparently an intake of some sort. there are a bunch of weird sorter type things to deal with random stuff that floats in. eventually we end up in this room filled with people in shallow water that's filled with starburst. they're grabbing it out of the water and putting it in these bags hanging on wire racks that are being taken away. for some reason when we come in there are a zillion starburst in the water.

having seen that we head back out. i have to climb up this thing to get out. there are some ants outside. i step near the edge and their trail diverts inward a bit where my foot was. that sort of worries me. i climb out but in the process have to lean or put my knee on some surface with random black stuff on it. ]i'm not sure what it is but don't really want to know so i don't go back and check.

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