Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. Pay it forward. I will adopt 6″ of trail for every mile completed. If they both finish, I will adopt 100 feet of trail. The trail should have a future, even if I never set foot on it. Adopt-the-TrailContinue reading “The Tevis Sippy Cup”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. I got nothing. I’ve run out of words for appalled. If you are reading this from elsewhere in the world and are wondering what exactly the US is thinking, I don’t know what to tell you. I live hereContinue reading “Let The Morning Rides Begin”

Travel, of a sort   Awareness of the outside world. Upside of a weekend away: virtual vacation. Downside of a weekend away: the alarming psychic thud of returning to the wider world. ~~~ Woo-Hoo! I’ve done BF! Spent the weekend (virtually) roaming Kentucky Horse Park. Plastic Ponies! People! Seminars! Shopping! Much fun was had! UpsideContinue reading “I Came, I Saw, I Sat On The Couch, Show Report, Virtual BreyerFest 2020”

Thoughts Awareness of the outside world. As has been my habit lately, Mondays are about pondering the moment we all find ourselves in. All really means all this time. I wonder if this qualifies as the first truly global event. ~~~ Woo-Hoo! I’ve done BreyerFest! Spent the weekend (virtually) roaming Kentucky Horse Park. Plastic Ponies!Continue reading “Mood On Monday, Upside, Hard To Be Happy”

Celebrating Art   Awareness of the outside world. “That electric blue that all of us dream of pinning on our horses’ bridles.” Calling All Horse Girls: One In Six Hundred and Sixteen, by July Urschel. No, I’m chopping onions. Why do you ask? ~~~ Recent Additions. Thank you to Identify Your Breyer: for the model/moldContinue reading “Carpet Herd 2020”

Welcome Meg! [Archives] Meg McKinney, Photographer [We – The Unicorns … Arrive] [We – The Unicorns … Go On A Road Trip] ~~~ We – The Unicorns … Bring their magic, to the Magic City Story and Photographs by Meg McKinney Until now, we’ve only seen our visiting unicorns in daylight. But they go outContinue reading “We – The Unicorns … Bring Their Magic To The Magic City, Guest Post”

Travel, of a sort   Awareness of the outside world. Beneficiaries – BreyerFest 2020. ~~~ Today is the first day of Celtic Fling, Virtual BreyerFest 2020. I’m not completely sure how everything is organized. That’s okay, no one else knows either. Breyer has been around for 70 years. BreyferFest for 31. This is the firstContinue reading “Happenings at the Horse Park, In Which I Live Virtually and Vicariously”