Archiving the non-show tweets April 11 – August 15, 2014 32 tweets Lesson on Trump. Relaxed but flashy. Baby Horse is growing up! — Rodney's Saga (@RodneysSaga) April 12, 2014 Trump is tall, thin, long-legged, exuberant but with a lazy side. No wonder we get along. — Rodney's Saga (@RodneysSaga) April 16, 2014 Alas theContinue reading “Tweet Storage as of August 15, 2014”
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re: Posting Trot in Saddle Seat
(I had this as a response to a comment yesterday. Then I thought, Aha A Post and moved it.) Q: How on earth do you rise in the trot without the stirrup leg to balance you? Core strength? … The basic assumption I am making is that you are pivoting from your knee in SaddleContinue reading “re: Posting Trot in Saddle Seat”
Back To Basics
The posting trot is the centerpiece of saddle seat, at least as long as one is three-gaiting. In equitation, you wow the judge at the trot and then try not to lose the class at the canter. However, it has been a red-headed stepchild in everything else I’ve done. In hunters & jumpers you trotContinue reading “Back To Basics”
Guest Post: California Girl becomes a Southern Belle
A cute story from a boarder at the barn where I take saddle seat lessons. Welcome Meg: Story and photographs by Meg McKinney Have you ever imagined what your life would be like, if someone sent you a horse? Or what the horse’s new life would be like? “Slim,” a registered American Saddlebred mare, 11Continue reading “Guest Post: California Girl becomes a Southern Belle”
Is A Joy Forever
Or until the next time the horses are watered. If the sight of a well-coiled hose makes you sigh with happiness, you might be a Pony Club graduate.
Watching the Tevis, Take II
Once again, I spent the day following the Tevis Cup online: main site, webcast, Facebook. As with last year [Watching the Tevis], I remain fascinated by the race but convinced that a 100-mile ride is not for me. Forty-five seconds of a jump-off is about my concentration limit. But still, you don’t have to rideContinue reading “Watching the Tevis, Take II”
Text Art: Old School
For those of us who used a typewriter in college, the Courier font causes an immediate knotting of the stomach. (Gimp’s Nimbus Mono L used here is a variant of Courier. “URW++ produced a version of Courier called Nimbus Mono L in 1984.” Wiki)
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