Cuzco's Glamour Shot o' the Day

[Charlie Horse]

Once I hit one of those flies with my car on the highway. It wedged under my wiper blade and popped.... A stream of horse blood made it all the way to the top of my windshield. It was most satisfying.

I see one or two of those flies per year. One went after my Morgan horse, Libby, but didn't persist for some reason. I see welts on horses once in a while that have to be something other than a mosquito and I figure it was one of those guys. Horses need to evolve a symbiosis with small monkeys with big slapping hands or something.