So Cute!!!

Who's the fellow in the picture, Froz? Somebody renting pasture land from you?

I saw the foal and thought - Oh No ! What Bad Thing Happened To That Little Horse ! - and then I saw - Oh look, it's Froz. Everything is safe and good. I can look now.

That newborn critter is actually a North Carolinian. The fellow is Phil. We lived at the edge of his farm the last year in NC, off Old Hillsborough Rd, after we sold the place in Mebane. It's the next house up the dirt road from where we lived. I'm pretty sure you met him. He's just hard to recognize without a beer can in his hand.

That's Phil! Of course it is. I assumed the new arrival was out there in California and you had a neighbor who kinda resembled Phil.

owlmother, I understand. At first, I counted the number of legs, heads, and tails, and then wondered "What's this picture doing on Apostropher?" Then I saw the author.

At first, I counted the number of legs, heads, and tails, and then wondered "What's this picture doing on Apostropher?"

Ditto. Except, before realizing it was posted by Froz, I then thought, "Well maybe it's a link to a video of the little thing kicking that guy in the crotch or something."

Beautiful!

3, 6, 7: I've put Froz in charge of the earnest posts here.

Adorable.

Except--"family portrait"? Phil's the Daddy? Damn.

That's why I love this place. I post a cute little photo essay about a baby horse - a baby horse, sick people! - and what follows are almost wistful longings for freakish mutations, groin injuries, and beastiality.

You go with what you know.

It is a cute horse, and I liked it! I was just momentarily confused because it didn't, um, fit the pattern.

and what follows are almost wistful longings for freakish mutations, groin injuries, and beastiality.

I wasn't longing for those things, I was bracing myself for them. It's a Pavlovian response due to posts like this.

John, I left a comment on your blog, but neither typing the href manually nor using the link button made a link appear. Which meant I ended up leaving three comments. Am I doing something wrong?

I fixed the link. I'm not sure what's going on, but with 10,000 spam comments caught up in my spam blocker in the last two months or so, I'm afraid to tweak too much. (And I didn't see any of your links caught up in there anyway.) So I don't know what's going on.

Back to your regularly scheduled normal horses.

Yeah, I don't think it's a spam filter issue, as that would have blocked the comment altogether, right?

Could be a blog administrator error ;)

Spam made from horses? That's gross.

Not as gross as Krispy-Kreme bacon cheeseburgers. Maybe someone can invent the Krispy-Kreme horse-spam cheeseburger, when I'm long gone.

15: Now you know how we feel, Apo.

Not as gross as Krispy-Kreme bacon cheeseburgers

Now you're just trolling.

Just think, someday that little critter will grow old, and then end up in Japan as sashimi, sukiyaki or shabu shabu ...