At Exploratorium-style science museums, exhibits are full of buttons to push and levers to slide. Many of the displays work with optical illusions. Stare at the black dots on a white background until gray false dots appear in the interstices. A concave model of a face will appear convex. Lines misbehave. It’s all about theContinue reading “Blades of Progress”
Category Archives: Horse Behavior
Turnout
For the last week, Mathilda has been given the option to go out at night. Callooh! Callay! Mathilda loves it. I suspected free-choice turn-out would do her good but I didn’t expect to see her this perky this quickly. Her spirit is positively bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Her body is not as exhausted as I thoughtContinue reading “Turnout”
Weekend Report, Redux
At the risk of repeating myself, Rodney is still freaking out about trotting in hand, yet he lets us bop him – ever so gently – on the nose with a neon pink, plastic kickball. WTF?
Weekend Report
In addition to his regular walks, Rodney did two new exercises: 1) Trotting in hand. B) Walking through a ring. Which one do you think he handled? Saturday It was finally time to get back to the trotting in hand that got derailed two months ago by his freakout over the new halter [Slow Lane].Continue reading “Weekend Report”
Noodling with Rodney
What a wonderful horse. Hubby bought a handful of 5′ plastic “noodles” often used as pool flotations [Wiki]. Ours are a rainbow of neon colors for eventual use in ground exercises, for example, asking him to walk through an arch with noodles. The plan for the day was to bring the noodles into the field,Continue reading “Noodling with Rodney”
Taste Vs. Authenticity
Derivation of this post: I asked the following question of a few folks. They thought that it was funny & that I should poll the group at large. So here we are. When put the photo from this post [Doctor Whooves] as my desktop background, I finally took a look at the non-scarf end ofContinue reading “Taste Vs. Authenticity”
Rain Games
When it came time to take Rodney for his morning walk, an unnamed tropical mess was dropping massive amounts of rain from an upended bucket. Warm water, no wind, no flash bangs. Well, says I, eventing definitely happens in the rain. Jumpers and dressage may also. Off we go. I put on the Halter ofContinue reading “Rain Games”
Virtual Brush Box 