Here be dragons

[oloriel]

One of the horses on the meadow below our house has a cold.

I know nothing about horse colds, so I have no clue whether this is a bad thing or rather the sort of mild nuisance that a cold is to most of us. What I have learned about horse colds is that they SOUND terrifying.
Seriously. When it started sneezing (I ASSUME it was a sneeze), I thought there was a medium-sized dragon, or maybe a Nazgûl, lurking in the raspberry thicket. SNORFLERNORT. SNORT. CHHHHHHH. GIVE US THE RING, HALFLING.

It's not a sound you get used to, either! Maybe I just have an overactive imagination. ^^

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[http://users.livejournal.com/macalla_/]

Du könntest versuchen einen Bach drauf zu hetzen ... *G*

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

RIMMO NÎN EIFGEN DAN IN ULAER!

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Tut nix. Schade. ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/macalla_/]

Verdammt! Dann hilft wohl nur "ABER ICH BIN KEIN MANN!" zu brüllen und persönlich auf das Tierchen los zu gehen. Vielleicht erschrecken sich dann die Viren so, dass sie flüchten *G*

[independence1776]

This had me laughing!

[hhimring]

Did you check the raspberry thicket, just in case it was Benedict Cumberbatch?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

But it's a raspberry patch, not a cucumberbatch!
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OK, that was an awful pun. I'm sorry!

[hhimring]

It's a great awful pun!

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Poor horsie. Yeah, it's not a good thing when they're coughing; I hope somebody's looking after him properly, keeping his chest warm and so on. Human rhinovirus gets passed around so much because there are lots of humans; we're always putting our germy hands on our germy faces and going around touching everything. Horses don't do that; it's not even that common for them to be exposed to viruses from a strange horse any more, so my worry-wart mind jumps instantly to bacterial infection

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

The lady who owns these horses checks on them every day, so I'm assuming if she sees anything untowards with the sneezing and snorting, she's going to have the vet come by!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I've never heard a horse sneeze!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I heard them sneeze on occasion, but never with the snot and snorting! O.ó

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the time cousin from the big city came visiting for summer holidays, and one of the cows in the stable across the road was calving... and I suppose a loud, bellowing, panting (and repetitive!) noise is enough to scare a kid unfamiliar with the sounds of rural living into thinking Here Be Monsters, especially when he sleeps with the windows open (they're still audible with the windows closed, after all).

But I think I like the Nazgûl horse better, although I'm hoping it recovers soon.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Now THAT reminds me of the "cows" in Tad William's Tinkerfarm series...

(I dreamed of you a few nights ago, BTW. You were visiting and I wanted to make tea and then I discovered that we only had bagged tea. So I went into the garden to make some sort of herbal concoction from scratch, all the while panicking that I would take too long and you would have disappeared by the time I came back inside! O.ó)

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever read that one, but then that (or this whole post, really) just goes to prove that sometimes real life skims pretty close to fiction. :D (And in this case that's a good thing, I suppose, neither Nazgûl nor monsters would make very good neighbours).

(oO Okay, that dream has it wrong. I'm fairly sure I'd put up even with bagged tea - ewwwww - if that were to be had in your company. Besides, if you tear the bags open, you may get dust in your cup, but at least there won't be any of that awful papery taste, so if that situation ever happens, there is no need at all to panic!)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

It's fun. More for a teenage audience (and some of the teenage behaviourisms of the protagonists are sort of irritating, and not quite in the "Oh well, teenagers" way, but rather in the "teenagers as written by people who have long since stopped being teenagers" way), but entertaining.
(The "cows" are, indeed, dragons. Not a spoiler because it's on the book cover anyway.)

(Completely wrong. If nothing else, we ALWAYS have loose Friesentee in the house. Otherwise, no breakfast would be complete! -- The panic wasn't so much due to "OMG NO TEA", but rather due to "OMG IF I TAKE TO LONG SHE'LL BE GONE". However that would work!)

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Dragon!cows (or just dragons) do sound entertaining. I'm currently gnawing my way through several fics, but once I have more of a head for reading (I even abandoned my annual LotR re-read, *gasp*) I'll see if looking up a summary will tickle my interest (no point doing that now since my brain will take it and run off with it if it does in fact interest me). Heh.

(Hmmm, but the idea was that even with bagged tea there would be no reason to pick herbs for a concoction in the first place since the bagginess can be worked around. :D And I'll forever be amused about Friesentee - I'll have to bring/send you some real stuff from up here at some point. :P)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I'll have to bring/send you some real stuff from up here at some point. :P

By all means! :D

We have lovely herbs, though. Well, by now there's really only peppermint left (and stinging nettle if you count that), but I still have lots of dried stuff. In fact, it's more likely I'd raid the attic than the garden. ^^