Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Driving Awareness of the outside horse world. Driving Digest: Going the Distance w/ Robin & Wilson Groves, Pringle. ~~~ Coach Kate brought driving instructor Robin Groves, R&W Horse Drawn Services, down from Vermont for a clinic. We went up to Tennessee. Saturday was moved to a local indoor when the rain showed up on theContinue reading “Milton Rises To The Occasion, Clinic Report”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Show benefits St. Jude Children’s Hospital. ~~~ Screen shot from Facebook, taken 5 October 2022. Border added. No Stepping Stone lesson last week. Barn was at Nationals. Did I miss going? Yes, because horse show. No, because super stressful horse show. [Where I Am Not] Last month, Nationals chose aContinue reading “Caught With My Mouth Open, Again”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Voting in the US today. Whatever: I Hate Your Politics. ~~~ Rodney has lost hackamore privileges. [Two Reins] On the upside, he goes well in it. Giving aids to his nose does not cause the overly-dramatic curled shrimp reaction that using a bit does. On the downside, he ignores it.Continue reading “Removing The Second Rein”

Horsekeeping Awareness of the outside world. Color The World Orange & NERVEmber. ~~~ Fortiflex, 5 gal. Flat Back General Purpose Horse Bucket, Black Hunter Green, Tractor Supply. We needed more buckets – how could we possibly need more buckets? – so I bought them in Rodney’s color. If he ever needs to go for aContinue reading “Wishful Shopping”

Images Art of the outside world. Museum of Bad Art. ~~~ ~~~ Not as sad as most years. Horse Nation: The Idea of Order: Hello Darkness, my Old ‘Friend’… 1) Working horses in the am. Will benefit from morning light. 2) The last time?! Reuters: U.S. Senate approves bill to make daylight saving time permanent,Continue reading “Sad Clock”

Words Awareness of the outside world. The Verge: Welcome to hell, Elon, Patel, Oct 28, 2022. Aside from the amusingly hyperbolic language, the author raises interesting points about the problems facing a global social media platform. ~~~ Blog humming along. Nothing pressing to say for the monthly State of the Blog post. [STOB archives] So,Continue reading “Recent Reads, Mostly Memoir”

Fit To Ride Awareness of the outside world. My choices for travel. Masked: door to door for airport & flights, at service, shopping in big stores. No mask: outside, in private house (small group & felt rude, which is NOT a good reason but it was family and I’m human), in restaurants (because eating). InconsistentContinue reading “Rearranging the Admin, State of the Fitness”