Curly and the Umbrella!!

Since it is a rainy day out there are bound to be umbrellas out..right =D Anyway I went out to Curly this afternoon with an umbrella and he was like what in the world is this?!?! So I see he is pretty scared of it so I close it up which I think mystified him =D I let him sniff the closed umbrella and just by the way he kept sniffing it and not getting over the fact it was so small is what caused me to think that he didn't get what happened to the huge umbrella. Once he was ok with it I ran it all over him and he did good with that. Then I led him outside (he was in his barn) and opened up the umbrella. He got curious enough to sniff the open umbrella and bump it with his nose a few times. He bumped it enough that the wind caught it and blew it up to the fence. This scared Curly so off he ran!! I just laughed at him and went and got the umbrella and opened it up again and urged him up to it. He sniffed it again with a few snorts and then he decided to bite it. I was like ok he is fine with it so I went up and held the umbrella with me under it. He sniffed it and seemed fine with it. I figured I am not going to do more with it becuase he did so well. But it made me think I am going to get him used to bags of trash with my eventual goal (if he is here that long) is to put the trash in the dumpster with me on his back. I like thinking up things like that. So I guess we shall see!