Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 09, 2010

I’ve observed that tasks are always easy when you’re asking someone else to do them …

And that’s why middle management gets the salaries they do, rayannina…

I have always admired a horse with a vivid imagination. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t change the way that they think. LOL

(laughter)

The Perils of the Deep

Ha! I got a filly that does that. She wont cross even small puddles.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it sink.

Wiley fished out his haunting license today.

Classic example of a horse turning into a chicken!

Or she could walk over it…

Really!. She could get a running start and leap over it. It wouldn’t be much of a leap, either.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it seek professional help for chronic aquaphobia.

Horses do swim, however some swim better than others. I had a horse that couldn’t swim. Had to be pulled out of the creek on a couple of occasions when the water got too deep.

Had a horse (Dudley do-wrong) in Arizona the rancher said was GREAT around quicksand after storms in the canyon. He was right- that horse found every patch, and walked right into it. (BTW when your horse is thrashing his way out of quicksand that looks “dry” on top, you can just step out of the saddle and walk off.)

Oh, that’s a good one!!

The light at the end of the tunnel is a train!

Why do you think so many ghosts refuse to go into the light?

Lucy has her limits.

Love that ocean deep water lamp fish though.

Wiley, I hope you’re a lot older than I am. I don’t want to die before Non Sequitur.

My horse isn’t quite THAT bad and she’s good around trains (I found that out the hard way).

Dare I say it? I Love Lucy!

Sorry, couldn’t resist. Don’t forget that Lucy is really a stuffed toy horse, which would sink like a stone if she got wet.

Thanks Wiley, as always fabulous art and storyline!

U can lead a horse to H2O but you can’t quell it’s fear of fish with bio-luminescense… Or it that a sly representation of the self-illuminated “tea-partiers”?

I suggest a poll. Is Lucy a real horse (as I believe has been stated), or Danae’e equivalent of Calvin’s stuffed tiger?

My understanding is that she is a real horse of imaginary breed), but she only speaks to Danae.

No, she’s a real horse, supposedly a pygmy clydesdale. Danae found her at horse camp one summer, and Danae busted her out afterward. We had a horse that liked water so much, he would go in any puddle he could find and lie down. That kind of horse is called a kelpie, after the Irish demon horse that would drownd riders. A friend had a horse that behaved as Lucie is doing, terrified of even little puddles, who was born during a California drought, and had never seen a running stream. My current horse, see icon, is fine with water except the ocean, where the waves scare the heck out of him.

One of the problems horses have (and why mules fare so much better) on steep trails and boggy places is their vision. They can’t see their feet, and the patch just in front of them, because of the way their eyes are set to the sides. The mule can (although he has to want to go there for you, quite another thing!)

Yes, Lucy is real and was busted out of riding camp as Basqueian said. I love Lucy, too, as MatureCanadian said. I love Petey, too. I’d like more Katie and Petey but admit Danae and Lucy lend themselves more to the strip.