Hairy!

It occurred to me as I was bandaging my poor horse Jessie's legs, that I spend more time thinking about human and equine dermatology and trichology than anything else. In other words, Im just about always fiddling with either her hair (the horse) or mine, or her skin (or skin conditions) or mine! She has the Vet, I have the dermatologist and Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon as well as Salon Tulio. The pretty blue bandages in the photo are covering up the wreck that her 'white' socks have become due to a fungal infection, the likes of which the vet and everyone around tells me is due to the organisms living in the soil. Ugh! Its like daiper rash/athletes foot/excema all at the same time. Poor girl! Its owwweeee every time I walk her to the wash stall to pick off the scabs and scrub with anti-fungal shampoo. She really hates this and does a dance that makes it even more difficult, so Ive learned to bribe her with a feed bucket to distract. (Well, a little sugar always makes the medicine go down better, doesnt it?) But seriously, by the time we're done with that procedure and Im done feeding her vitamins to make her coat shine, and grooming her, bathing her, clipping her, its time to get me to the beauty shop all over again. The roots, the highlights, the color needed for the month 'in between', the waxing, the cutting, the blowout and so on. And that's without even a mention of my skincare, dermatology and manicure stuff or hers for that matter -- the shoeing, the trimming, the hoof oil. Just two very high maintenance girls!! One blond and one brunette....