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Riding Awareness of the outside world. Rome celebrates its 2775th birthday today. The Local: Why Rome celebrates its birthday on April 21st, April 2021~~~ Lesson with Optimus, last Friday at Stepping Stone Farm. Worked on adding pizzazz. Learning to stand out from the crowd. At first, I filed this as a group class dynamic, aContinue reading “Catching The Judge’s Eye”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. This was a while back. I’m just now coming alongside. DOI: Secretary Haaland Takes Action to Remove Derogatory Names from Federal Lands. Press Release, November 2021. I stand by what I said before. Respect your fellow humans. Change the name. Lose the mascot. Take down the statue. Move on.Continue reading “Chugging Along, Week 2, Virtual Tevis 2022”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Four free ebooks. “The Library’s role is to make sure no perspective, no idea, no identity is erased.” NYPL: Books For All: NYPL Supports the Right to Read Banned Books, Marx, President of The New York Public Library, April 13, 2022.~~~ tl;dr. Nothing new. Felt like time for anContinue reading “Status Of The Horse Hunt, Needle Pegged at Overwhelm”

Images ~~~ Legend A – “Though April showers may come your way …” Jolson via Bugs Bunny. loonytunes.fandom.com: Wet Hare P – Easter for the Observant; egg hunts & chocolate bunnies for everyone. R – Call it what you will; the last weekend in April will forever be Rolex to me. I – The 44thContinue reading “The Illustrated Month, April”

Words Wait. What? Where was I? I shook my head. Didn’t help. I was standing in the middle of a kitchen that I didn’t recognize. Oh, shit. Not again. Looked around. The kitchen was small but sleek. All of the latest appliances. Probably never used if this was in fact my kitchen. “Hello?” It didn’tContinue reading “If I Had Gotten On That Train, Fiction Sketch”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Speaking of searching for the right word. MW: Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2021, ‘Vaccine,’ plus ‘insurrection,’ ‘cicada,’ ‘perseverance,’ and more of our top lookups of 2021.~~~ Y’all are awesome. I asked for words. You came up with words. A few days ago, I wrote a post asking forContinue reading “Don’t Drop The Puppy, And Other Words To Yell In The Warm Up Ring, A Follow-Up Post”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Huffington Post: Air Force Offers Help To Military Families Hurt By States’ New Anti-LGBTQ Laws, Bendery, Apr. 13, 2022.~~~ Small victories. When the cheap hardware store gloves come in your colors. Greg wanted to try riding with grippy gloves. The ones I like are no longer available. [Navigator Gloves] ForContinue reading “Small Victories, Gloves”