For Mulan: The Chocolate Pony and his summer look....

.... Mulan has not been down for awhile, not since she had her long talk with the chocolate pony. Yesterday was hot, but I decided to take the little lummox for a walk along the Reddies River, out to where the pony hangs out. MFH was busy in the house, tearing up the living room so she can put it back together again after giving it a coat of paint, and disgression dictated that the two males of the household have some quality time elsewhere.

I feel that interspecies male bonding is important.

Anyway, hot as it was lummox was full of energy and trotted along nicely. We found Chocolate right by the fence as if he were waiting for us. He is a different animal! He used to look like one of those little Mongolian ponies, short, fat and shaggy, with fuzzy thick legs and mane and tail trailing the ground. Scruffy but loveable.

Now he has his summer cut - someone has trimmed him all up. He no longer looks like a shaggy mean steppe pony, but like an elegant miniature horse. His legs look trim and neat, as does the rest of him. I could hardly believe it. Lummox was so phased that he was actually good with Chocolate - didn't lunge or bite at all. For the fist time I realized just how small Chocolate really is - if Mearead got on him, and she is only four, she would look too big. If Mulan tried him, her feet would drag the ground.

So the little lummox and I had another quiet and uneventful walk. Or at least we did until he found an inviting mud puddle, walked into the middle of it, and sat down. Wet dog smell all the way home.