Category Archives: Horses

Riding Awareness of the outside world. “According to the World Federation of the Deaf, there are more than 70 million deaf people worldwide. More than 80% of them live in developing countries. Collectively, they use more than 300 different sign languages.” UN: International Day of Sign Languages 23 September.~~~ [A Dog Can Dream] So why areContinue reading “Instructor Woes, More Thoughts”

Not Riding Awareness of the outside world. NPR: What We Know (And Don’t Know) About ‘Missing White Women Syndrome’, Demby, 2017. “News outlets might be deciding that missing white women are worth more in terms of eyeballs and ad revenue.” Article closes with thought that it may play into the perception of women as victims.~~~Continue reading “Shoulder Time and Time Off”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. The Sacramento Bee: New aerial video shows rugged terrain, Auburn landmarks, planes attacking Bridge Fire, Caraccio, September 09, 2021. This is the area of the IRL Tevis.~~~ Hurricane/Tropical Storm/Tropical Depression Nicholas never got closer to us than Louisiana, but it made its feelings known. A week of light, constantContinue reading “Waiting For Nicholas To Pass By, Virtual Tevis, 99 and 86 Miles, 59 Days”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Reads that Norm McDonald died at the age of 61. Thinks, ‘That’s old.’ Counts on fingers. Realizes that’s self in three years. Huh. ~~~ Struck out with another possible instructor. Schedules and shipping-in did not mesh. The horse world is not set up for AOTs anymore, at least downContinue reading “Instructor Woes”

Images Awareness of the outside world. The plan was to use math to make art. Ended up being a deep dive down the rabbit hole. So much cool stuff out there.~~~ Process Notes. Programmed font, the idea being having shapes to work with rather learning thru drawing all those fiddly curves. Inkscape/GIMP. ~~~ Remember Spirograph?Continue reading “Math Art”

Dear Laura: Talking about new faces last week reminded me of tourists. As in, we don’t have any. The original habitat builders certainly expected Lunar Tourism to take off. So to speak. We have the Welcome Center that I mentioned. Other than Landing Day, it doesn’t see a lot of traffic. Then there is thatContinue reading “Email From The Moon, Tourism, Fiction”

Fit To Ride Awareness of the outside world. Library of Congress: National Book Festival. Starts today, runs through September 26.~~~ Virtual New Balance 5th Avenue MileOfficial – September 4 to 12, 2021Me – September 6, 2021Location – Jemison ParkTracking App – Strava. Testing the join-up for a future walk No medal but the entry was free,Continue reading “Replicating The Setting, Virtual New Balance 5th Avenue Mile 2021”