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. ^^

Comments

[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. ^^