Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 23, 2018

Yeah, he could have warmed up his hand just fine — up the other horse’s golf hole.

The melted lard wasn’t enough?

You have to have the feel for this job. Not everyone can be an apprentice news reporter.

‘But that’s the wrong end to put the peanut butter in to make it look like Mr. Ed is talking,’ a young crew member said.

‘Shut up,’ said Mr. Ed.

‘Yeah,’ smirked the man with his fist up the horse’s bum, ‘looks like you’re the next “butter boy”!’

But where would be the fun, in that?

Horses really do stick up for each other.

It still worked when at first I misread that as ‘named’ instead of ‘warmed’.

“That’s what I’m doing. You’re up.”

Gives a whole new meaning to “farmhand” …

Other horse: “Is that you, Cheech?”

Daves not here, man.

—Just another one of the quaint practices Down On The Farm that we City Folk have forgotten about and/or snicker about.

Animal husbandry is one of those fields I would never enter, just like a Horse’s 4$$….

Periodic boundary conditions: it’s all the same horse.