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Christmas Gift

Off Topic I can’t buy everyone a book, so the gift is the recommendation. A Christmas Cornucopia: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Yuletide Traditions by Mark Forsyth (Penguin 2016) Author’s book announcement, Inky Fool: A Christmas Cornucopia. May I also recommend his blog, Inky Fool. He hasn’t posted often in recent years, but youContinue reading “Christmas Gift”

Low Key Photo Challenge, Holiday

Captain Nutcracker by Breyer. From Carousel Tack Shoppe, cleverly displayed next to the check-out counter. Process Notes Taken with phone. Brought big camera to barn. Planned to hang ornament. This set-up caught my eye, after Milton checked the ornament for treats, but failed to do so photogenically. Not enough hands to do with bigContinue reading “Low Key Photo Challenge, Holiday”

Rollerskates for Grandma, Milton’s New Jump

In our family, rollerskates for grandma is giving an item that you plan to use. Well, Stepping Stone Farm has its first jump. My amazing carpenter chose to make short standards so that a) we could lunge over them and b) any weenie, teenie jumps I eventually take would look more impressive. We bought twoContinue reading “Rollerskates for Grandma, Milton’s New Jump”

Let The Festivities Begin, SSF Christmas Party 2018

Can you imagine! Coach Courtney called me a saddle seat rider! The nerve! As part of the year-end wrap-up, she introduced the National Academy Team [Show Report]. She started off by saying that I ride in another discipline. Then she said I was really a saddle seat rider! How dare she! It’s not like I’mContinue reading “Let The Festivities Begin, SSF Christmas Party 2018”

Milton’s Missing Photos

Last winter, Milton has surgery for his bump. I finally got around to organizing the photos. Since I do not know everyone’s tolerance for gore, I have put them behind the jump, here, along with tweets & post links. The wound was superficial but messy. You have been warned. January 22 to May 12, 2018Continue reading “Milton’s Missing Photos”

Milton’s Missing Lesson

While the blog was on break last spring [Struggle Bus], Milton and I had a dressage lesson with a new instructor. It did not go well. Horse and rider were shivering wrecks for the next four days. I kept meaning to blog about it, but it kept threatening to turn into a 2000-word epic. HereContinue reading “Milton’s Missing Lesson”

Dabbling in the Art World, Graphics 2018

Looking Back I’m happy with the quantity of graphic art I produced. Of 42 Sundays, 33 were/will be original work of some sort or another, for a batting average of almost 80%. Only two Sundays had absolutely nothing to do with graphic design. Plus 8 illustrations on non-Sundays. The quality? Less so. I know IContinue reading “Dabbling in the Art World, Graphics 2018”