Eastern Iowa Farmer Spring 2017

Life Lessons
Brodi Bousselot
sits atop her
first horse,
Lucy, while her
grandpa Ray
stands close by
to assist.
eastern iowa
farmer photo /
contributed
Ted and Sharon Witt,
Owners
sassy pony, just introduced to Bousselot as her own,
was pregnant. Soon thereafter, Bousselot’s second
gift from Grandpa, Spirit, was born. A few years
later, Pennock took another older horse under his
wing, believing it to be malnourished and wanting
to restore it to health. That horse ended up fathering
Lucy’s second colt, Thunderbell, who was born in
the middle of a storm.
Now a sophomore at Iowa State University with
a major in animal science, Bousselot has dreams
of working with the Budweiser Clydesdale horses.
That dream was jumpstarted the day she got her
first horse, Lucy, from her grandpa.
“He taught me the basics,” she said. “How to
feed them, how to brush them, how to take care of
them in general.”
Grandpa Ray wasn’t a horse expert, but was a
modern-day cowboy with a love for nature, animals,
and hard work.
Each time Bousselot would go to her grandpa’s
“shop” near DeWitt to ride her new pony, Grandpa
Ray was there to guide the new cowgirl.
“The biggest thing was he taught her how to take
care of them, respect them,” said Bousselot’s grandma,
Joyce Pennock. “Those horses just thought the
world of him. No matter where they were, when he
drove in, they’d come flying up to the fence.”
Bousselot says although she believes she would
have grown up with horses even without grandpa
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26 Eastern Iowa Farmer | spring 2017