Mulan (aka Arwen), the Bad Lummox, and the Chocolate Pony...

... Today Carmen and I rode up to Boone to pick up our 11 year old friend Mulan at our favorite Chinese restaurant. Then we came down the mountain where it is about 10 degrees warmer. It was a lovely day, bright and sunny. We decided to take one of the best walks in Wilkes - out along the Reddies river trail by the dam. Mulan loves dogs, so she loves the lummox, and she was hoping we would see Chocolate Pony who lives at the end of the trail (she loves horses even more than dogs)

Luckily Chocolate was there, as if he were waiting for us. He has gotten shaggy this winter and has what looks like a long beard - Mulan thought he looked like a bison. She fed him some carrots and then started feeding him anything green that she could find and Chocolate was enjoying every morsel.

Lummox, however, was getting overly excited. Two yippy little terriers had gotten in his face a few minutes earlier (he was trying to be good) and now Chocolate's dog up on the hill was barking at him. Suddenly lummox decided that this was all Chocolate's fault and lunged towards him and bit him right on the nose. Chocolate jerked back, more from surprise than pain, and Carmen drug lummox off kicking and barking. What a bad dog. Even Mulan said he was very bad today, and Mulan loves lummox.

But Chocolate didn't seem to really care. Just as long as Mulan kept feeding him green stuff through the fence.