Monthly Archives: August 2020

Horsekeeping Lucky enough to have a horse. Awareness of the outside world. Are you registered to vote? Have you checked? ~~~ Spent two days last week keeping the horses company while they valiantly recovered from their round of completely standard vaccines. Milton had his hay an elevated feed bucket so he didn’t have to stretchContinue reading “Woe Is Us, Seriously Look At Us, We Are The Very Image of Woefulness, We Radiate Woe In Waves”

Lettering & Graphic Design   Awareness of the outside world. Be still. Psalm 46:10 ~~~   2020 Tevis Cup, Virtual Western States Trail [Archives] Stay safe. Stay sane, Katherine Walcott

Words   Awareness of the outside world. “The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.” The Science of Discworld II: TheContinue reading “Fiction Restart”

Photography Awareness of the outside world. Why do some disasters make world headlines and others slide off our radar? [Today] ~~~ [New Equipment] Been talking with Photo Guru Meg McKinney about online photo-processing lessons. Manipulating photos is not a new idea. Whether you are in a darkroom using chemicals or at a computer shifting electrons,Continue reading “Pondering Post-Production Processes”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. Beirut. Speechless. Lebanese Red Cross. ~~~ Overall Rodney may be coming alongside the idea that a ride can be fun. Milton is still loving it. Both being really good about seeing our smiling faces four days in a row,Continue reading “The Start, Virtual Trail Report, Tevis Sippy Cup, Miles 1 through 6, August 2020”

Horsekeeping Lucky enough to have a horse.   Awareness of the outside world. AVMA: Covid 19. ~~~ Annual routine vet appointment yesterday. Turned out to be a non-event, covid-wise. Semi-outside in the wide open, run-in shed area. We all wore masks. Stayed a few feet farther apart than normal. Coggins, shots, check teeth, everything looksContinue reading “Vetting In The Time Of The Virus”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. Trying to become a better consumer of information. News outlets on both sides of the aisle exist to sell stories. Drama makes a story more interesting. Therefore, even the most fact-based analysis will still have the gain turned up.Continue reading “A Bit of Change, Because We Always Have To Be Tweaking Something, Don’t We?”