Category Archives: Horses

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Graphic from NJ Department of Health, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Assist to Instagram: @dr.berthahidalgo. (In case your viewer is squashing the image, larger vertical format below.) ~~~ Proof of jumping lesson! !!! We jumped this. It wasn’t horrible. Well, actually. Hank jumped this. I wasn’t horrible. This is Hank. HankContinue reading “Hank Got Hops, Jumping Lesson”

The Horse World, and Elsewhere Awareness of the outside world. Tired from lesson. I got nothing.~~~ A leather martingale to display this year’s horse brass. Cox The Saddler: Leather martingale to take 1 horse brass. [NHBS 2021] I was surprised to find out the leather widget was called a martingale. All right-thinking people know aContinue reading “What’s In A Word, Martingale”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. When a social media influencer burbles on about living your best life, does anyone else hear Voltaire?~~~ We’ve had our first meltdown for this year’s trail ride. Everyone stayed on. It was over in a matter of moments. Still, maybe we make it one & done, guys? K? Thanx.Continue reading “Fit The First, Virtual Tevis, 25 Miles, 17 Days”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Have not read the book. Was taken with the author’s comments on Chinatown. “The Chinese language newspapers and tv shows you can hear through people’s windows are actually made in the U.S. for U.S. citizens and residents … I’m as American as fortune cookies, chimichangas, and Cuban sandwiches, allContinue reading “The Looming of the Lesson”

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Dear Laura: Just a quick note. Looks like I will be going up to the company’s lunar orbital lab after all. I was on the reserve team, which only goes up if crystal production exceeds projections. It is, so we are. I’ll be catching the first shuttle tomorrow morning. Weightlessness, here I come. Ironic thatContinue reading “Email from the Moon, Orbital Lab I, Fiction”

Fit To Ride Awareness of the outside world. National Recreation and Park Association. ~~~ Three more local parks from my walking adventures. I realize that Birmingham-area parks are of limited interest to people who do not live in the Birmingham area. a) Humor me. Now that I’ve started this project, I like to keep trackContinue reading “Pottering Through Parks, July Walks”