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Fit To Ride Awareness of the outside world. GIVEAWAY. Loot included a pass to the Toronto Zoo, valid through December 2021. Does me no good. Free to first one to claim in comments. ~~~ Note. Slow week in other exercise. Decided to try three 5Ks in one week. [Strolling Along The Edges] Oasis Zoo RunContinue reading “Zoo Stroll, Walk Report, Oasis Zoo Run Virtual 5K, Toronto Zoo, September 2020, My Week of Walking 2 of 3”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. Effective advertising is not a clever story line, or pretty pictures, or awards. Effective advertising asks, do you remember the product? Given this criteria, the “Go to your Skiiippy place.” campaign is brilliant. The tune-phrase is on message andContinue reading “An Abundance of Attitude, Schooling Sequence, Falcon Hill Farm, October 2020”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. Two days of over an hour in the saddle has tightened my lower back to the point of pain. I’m okay as long as I am careful with certain movements. For example, rotating my head to look down isContinue reading “The Logistics, Virtual Trail Report, Tevis Sippy Cup, Miles 72 through 79, October 2020”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. Scale is weird. 200,000 sounds like a lot. That many vaccines a day for the US population is a period of nearly 5 years Vox. Math check, 330,000,000 USpop(USCB)/200,000 = 1,650 = 4.5. Or this. 1 second is 1Continue reading “Putting The Portable in Potty”

Images   Awareness of the outside world. Tis a gift to be simple, ’tis a gift to be free ‘Tis a gift to come down where I ought to be And when I am in the place just right I will be in the valley of love and delight ~~~     Exercise in drawingContinue reading “Straight Lines, Week 1, Inktober 2020”

Words Awareness of the outside world. Book rx. Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (Del Rey 2020). Ghastly premise. She makes it work. This from someone who does not enjoy ghastly. Only downside, the story pulled me along so thoroughly that I finished it in one day. Back to having nothing to read. Sigh. The curse ofContinue reading “Missed It By THAT Much, Almost A Boast”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. Pondering the “plantation” situation got me thinking on the subject of mascots. When I showed up at college, we didn’t have one. The Indian symbol had been eliminated almost 10 years earlier. There was still much hand wringing andContinue reading “Jump Decor”