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Awareness of the outside world. BBG: Seed Exchange. Local, but there is probably one near you. ~~~ “Alba Vulcanis”Vulcan On Paradeby Melissa Shultz-JonesBirmingham Botanical GardensMarch 2024 Technical Details BBG Vulcan, f/8, 1/100 sec., 35.0 mm, ISO 400. Manual mode & auto-focus. Post production. Resized, border, & watermark. Border colors, gray for project, yellow for Nikon.Continue reading “Alba Vulcanis, Photography”

Awareness of the outside world. Pi Day. Mental Floss: How to Memorize Pi if You’re a Word Person, Okrent, 2015. ~~~ tl,dr: Stopped by new hunter/jumper barn. Promising. Lessons start in April. Actually, it’s an old barn under new management. Completely new. New barn owners, new barn manager, new trainer, new horses. We have beenContinue reading “Checking Out A Possible New Lesson Barn”

Awareness of the outside world. Meanwhile, in the real deserts. Earth.Org: 7 Most Endangered Species in the Desert. Lai 2022. Multiple causes, from habitat fragmentation to the pet trade. Earth.Org is a environmental news website. About Us. ~~~ .Horse shows that offer awards from the Thoroughbred Incentive Program in 2024. Please note that Alabama hasContinue reading “Living in a Show Desert”

Awareness of the outside world. USA Today: Behind the scenes at the Oscars: What really happens on Hollywood’s biggest night, Alexander, March 7, 2024, updated March 9, 2024. Speaking of movies, The Hollywood Reporter: “The Industry Is Not Back”: Bad News From Hollywood Crews, Kilkenny, March 6, 2024. ~~~ Hitched Milton for the first timeContinue reading “Weekend Update, Let The Hitching Begin”

Awareness of the outside world. Horse & Hound: ‘Why not?’: rider is the first to compete at top level dressage without spurs, Murray, 28 February, 2024. Rider not saying spurs are inherently evil, just that high level dressage is possible without them. ~~~ Lunch may not prove to be sustainable. Problem one. A third mealContinue reading “Reconsidering Lunch”

Awareness of the outside world. “The Navajo Nation, which also stretches into Utah and New Mexico, will reset clocks for one hour later despite being situated between two territories that remain on standard time: the rest of Arizona and the neighboring Hopi reservation.” AP: The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo andContinue reading “Two No and One Yes, 36 Days of Type 2024”

Words of the outside world. Allusionist 188. Lipread, January 28, 2024. “Visemes can often be humorous, as in the phrase ‘elephant juice’, which when lip-read appears identical to ‘I love you’.” Wiki: Viseme ~~~ Kenning. “A metaphorical compound word or phrase (such as swan-road for ocean) used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry”Continue reading “Kennings for Blog, Poetry”