What did you do today?

[Charlie Horse]

A couple of my horses are very fond of being groomed, but they're already mostly shiny so its over for them. The horse that was left to me by my friend Dan is now 29 years old and too creaky to roll around on his back so the unshed hair has remained intact. The other day I got the shedding blade and had a lot of fun dragging mounds of winter hair off of him. He shed it like a camel sheds in big clods. But the most fun I've ever had was pulling the winter undercoat off of my yak Tibetty. If you worked under it with your fingers you could tear two-foot long sheets of two inch thick wool off of her sides and back. Lllammuz on the other hand are the worst. You have to go after them with electric sheers and their fine hair gets between the blade and guide and you end up having to service the cutter every few minutes. Meanwhile the lllawmuh is working on choking up the grossest glob of spit it can for you.