Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Goal! After putzing about for the summer, I had dropped my weight from 160 to 158. Bleh. We – the culinary we – got serious at the beginning of August. The objective was 5 pounds a month. The method was straight-up calorie count. My in-house nutrition advisor doesn’t hold with variety diets. It all turnsContinue reading “Diet Progress”

Charles Owen microsuede. Much sleeker than the less expensive schooling helmets I usually have. One has to pay more to get the same safety rating with less material. Yes, it is a Charles Owen, but from the “lower” end of their price range. The number induces slight staggering rather than a full-on faint. Since IContinue reading “New Equipment 1: Hat”

My legs are well placed, as usual. Nice angle with the feet. Stirrups need to be on ball of foot. Upper body still pitched a little bit too far forward into hunt seat mode. I should sit back to give the horse’s front end room to come up. Arms and hands too floppy. I shouldContinue reading “Show Photo UPHA Chapter 8 in 2014”

Samples scanned. Cut-outs drawn with GIMP. Hand-drawn cutouts would have had more sympathetic shapes but less precise edges. A trade-off.

Continuing to post the entries from my previous monthly blogs Back To Eventing and Back To Riding. This was originally posted on the USEA website Tue, 2010-10-26, archived here. Back To Eventing: Installment 3 – The AEC, a Realization in Five Phases by Katherine Walcott (The author chronicles her return to eventing after 20 yearsContinue reading “Repost, BTE 3 of 9: The AEC, a Realization in Five Phases”

I almost quit, took a break, stomped off. Again. [Where Do We Go From Here?]. I had the post written & scheduled. Undoubtedly there was an element of snit. I have a bad habit of surrendering to despair [Hiatus]. Mostly, it was a problem of content. After a brief flurry of positive activity, I amContinue reading “Sine Die … Or Not”

Monday at 9 am, I had one of those annual check-ups that ladies must endure. Spotted was still in my bag from the show over the weekend. While I was changing into the stupid open-front gown, seeing her face poking out at me was surprisingly comforting.