Awareness of the outside world. “Importantly, modern identity labels (gay, trans) didn’t exist in the 1400s so we don’t know what labels these people would’ve chosen … but … as long as I keep getting undergrads in my classroom whose educations-so-far left them with the impression homosexuality didn’t exist between Socrates and Oscar Wilde (sigh) we need to do better to show all these identities have histories.” Ex Urbe: LGBTQIA+ Renaissance. Ex Urbe is the blog of Ada Palmer.
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The ongoing, undraining mud had soaked and softened the horse’s hooves. Milton was fine. Rodney’s feet got chewed up.
Hmm. He’s kinda missing a hunk of foot over there.
Is the blacksmith gonna find anything to nail to?
If shoes will be difficult, maybe think about doing without?
However.
Fly season is upon us, with the attendant hoof stomping.
.Although the ground is soft now, in a few weeks it will – probably – be dry and hard.
This is the wrong time of year to introduce barefoot. Particularly for an oversized horse with thin, Thoroughbred feet.
We will revisit the idea later in the year.
In the event, blacksmith had no trouble putting shoes on. Damage was all below the nails, so lots of good foot above. More alarming looking than actually alarming.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Phew!
Jane
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