Spangles

Hmm, the beaded headgear for Champagne needs some work.

I put it on him for the first time a couple of weeks ago and took a few pictures, but I wasn’t happy with them because he doesn’t look photogenic enough. I figured I’d try again later when I had a willing assistant to catch his attention.

Meanwhile we rode on the trail, and he looked quite splendid. But the next time we rode on the trail he kept tossing his head, and some of the beads and bells fell off and rolled away. I think it was a failure of the crimper things I used to hold the ends of the strings. I also wondered if the beads were annoying him and that was the reason for the head tossing.

Sunday that was answered by riding with the plain fly mesh and still we had head tossing, so I think it is flies around his eyes, not the beads. But I’ll have to reengineer the whole thing, alas.