l'esprit de l'escalier

I knew there was something else I'd meant to put in yesterday's 5 things post, and I found it just now: this cake wreck (from this post). Because if it had been done purposely as a zombie wedding cake or a splatterpunk wedding cake or a Kill Bill homage cake or a Titus Andronicus Olivier remix cake, it would be SO INCREDIBLY AWESOME instead of just horrifyingly funny.

Winter Interlude with Horses

Quick trip out to the barn today, to bring Milo his new winter hood. I went into his pasture and showed it to him (he is phenomenally not-spooky, but he hates not knowing what's going on) and put it on. To my relief, it fits. (The sizes are medium and large, so his trainer and I had to guess whether he's what Dover considers a "medium" horse.) While I was doing that, Milo's pasture-mate came over and explained to me that he is a NEGLECTED horse whom NOBODY LOVES. Certainly nobody EVER scritches his poll the way it needs scritched.

Incidentally, it is difficult to fasten a buckle with a horse's nose in your ear.

So I petted both horses a little, and then, as it was their dinner time and my ears, fingers, and toes were all beginning to freeze solid, I came home.