Monthly Archives: April 2021

Horsekeeping Awareness of the outside world . WBUR: I’m Not Celebrating The Chauvin Verdict, by Pelton, April 22, 2021. Counterpoint. The Root: Black People Don’t Need Reminders That Chauvin’s Guilty Verdict Doesn’t Mean the Fight Is Over. It’s OK to Celebrate Small Victories, by Linly, April 21, 2021.~~~Pause for regrouping.~~~The Equine Amateur Dramatic Society isContinue reading “My Horses Are Weird, Separation Anxiety Version”

Riding Journal Awareness of the outside world. Earth Day.~~~First horse show since 2019. [Dressage, Jump] I had thoughts. NegativeI had my second vaccine the Tuesday before the show. This is relevant because I chose not to take any aspirin/ibuprofen/whatnot in the subsequent days. I was told it was okay, but why risk compromising the vaccineContinue reading “Pre-show Thoughts, FCHP Schooling Show, April 2021”

Riding Journal Awareness of the outside world. Dentist update. Onlay, as suspected. I’m usually a cheap drunk, but needed three shots to get the tooth numb. Does anyone else get their ass kicked by the epinephrine?~~~ Day Two. It took 11 years, but I finally got my fancy, mid-life crisis horse into a jumping class.Continue reading “Conversations With My Horse, Jump Class, FCHP Schooling Show, April 2021”

Riding Journal Awareness of the outside world. Dentist today. Been expecting this. Managed to hold off a good long while. Tooth finally cracked two weeks ago. In other news, within the last week, I’ve had vaccination, show, and dentist. That’s a lot of people-ing for someone who doesn’t get out much. [Same, Same, Not Happening]~~~Continue reading “Back In The Ring, Dressage and Jumping, Show Report, FCHP Schooling Show, April 2021”

Non-Riding Journal Awareness of the outside world. Atlanta. Boulder. Indianapolis. We use to have time to be horrified after each horror. Now I can’t even keep track. CNN: The US has reported at least 45 mass shootings in the last month, by Holcombe, April 16. 2021.~~~ Rain confined all of us to the round penContinue reading “Team Liberty Work”

Images ~~~Inspired by the image of a teddy bear made from masks in the Covid Art Museum, here. Artist, Sebastien Limet, @seblorigmi. Annoyingly, Instagram seems to have closed off the ability to look without logging in. Apologies to those without an Instagram account. Dose #2 done. Down The Rabbit HoleLogos are big biz. Pfizer: OurContinue reading “V for Vaccine”

Words Props to Jan Priddy of blog & shawl fame. Response to a comment from last week grew into this this narrative device. While it is still exposition, at least it’s fictional exposition. Imperfect Patience, [Wearable Art], [Lasso The Moon] Caveat: Moon Rats fiction is an deductive thought experiment, extrapolating from the idea that TerranContinue reading “Email from the Moon, Since You Asked, Fiction”