Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 23, 2020

I didn’t know Lucy was such a scaredy-cat!

Horses are well known to shy at sticks that look like snakes, rocks that look like predators and spooky sounds.

AKA – How to Give a Little Kid an Extra Bath! ;)

I’ve been around horses that easily spooked.

So lucy is a Hydraphobohippus imaginarii

Not sure who has the horse sense here.

So Lucy is a tad(pole) skittish.

You just wait – it’ll turn into the TOAD MONSTER!!!

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make her fight river monsters.

My first horse (not pictured) would cross rivers and creeks without hesitation, but he’d tip toe around puddles.

My current horse (see icon) has no trouble with ponds or rivers, but fears the ocean with its waves, as if he had seen Jaws. My last horse feared nothing but approaching air brakes which always seemed reasonable to me. On trails I am often called to the front to prove to other horses that things wont, after all, eat them

That’s a very Watterson-esque river monster!

Hey I cross the Piscataqua River regularly, but I use the bridge!

What is a polly-wog?

Yer kidding.

Which Piscataqua River? There’s one between Kittery ME and Portsmouth NH, and another one north of Bangor. I think they live in NORTHERN Maine!

“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”

(Attributed to W.C. Fields.)

Seven claws. Very rare in nature!

Okay, now I have to wash out my imagination to go scuba diving again. Rats! Just when I was getting over “Jaws”.

Considering that the Piscataqua river is formed by the confluence of the Cocheco and Salmon Falls Rivers, it is at no time so narrow as to be a brook.

I’ve always felt that Nature is BEST enjoyed from inside. . .looking out the window (house/car/train/bus). . .or between the covers of a book. . .say, Gerald Durrell’s “My Family and other Animals”. . .

Lucy must be related to my mare.

I’ve always wondered, is there a difference between a tadpole and a pollywog?

It’s not hot big, but how SCARY it is.

Stay away from the Miskatonic.

Vacation time…

Lucy should get a date with Iggy at C Kennel.

So that’s how that horse got up there!

Ah, a New England childhood! Plenty of imagination and the great outdoors! What decade was that? For me, late 60s…early 70s…

Why would they want to go to New Hampshire anyway?

OMG, so funny. Feeling very down today, thanks so much for the great pick-me-up…

I just like Lucy’s hairdo.

So I now know for sure Wiley Miller has first hand experience with horses, cause this is total insider knowledge.