Chinese Year of the Horse. Breyer model # 1715, mold # 717. “The Esprit mold was designed specifically for the 2010 World Equestrian Games (WEG). It was sculpted by Kathleen Moody.” Identify Your Breyer: Espirit As I understand it, “model” refers to the paint job, “mold” refers to the underlying body type. Breyer has retiredContinue reading “Shopping: My First Model”
Category Archives: Horses
New Equipment: Grooming Bats
Okay Milton, wave that back foot at me one more time. Go on. I dare you. I do not advocate fear, or pain, or abuse. I do advocate respect. Me for the horse. The horse for me. A horse needs to know that a misstep will receive swift retaliation from the herd leader. That wouldContinue reading “New Equipment: Grooming Bats”
Spring Forward!
Milton is mobile! We went to Stepping Stone on Sunday! Test run of horse, truck, and trailer! Success! There and back again! Milton thinks the peacock is darn weird! Milton has a point! Rodney got ridden! Twice over the weekend! A handful of minutes at a walk! The ring was in a different place! HeContinue reading “Spring Forward!”
Text Art: E is for Eventing
~~~ Alphabet 2015 D is for Dressage C is for Caesar B is for Boot A Is For Appaloosa
Repost, BTE 8 of 9: Spring Fitness
Continuing to repost the entries from my previous monthly blogs Back To Eventing and Back To Riding. This was originally posted on the USEA website Tue, 2011-04-19, archived here. Illustration by Jean Abernethy. At this point in the column, the rot had started to set in. It’s was becoming more obvious that I would notContinue reading “Repost, BTE 8 of 9: Spring Fitness”
Art Foto Friday: Threshold Cat
Source photo Effect achieved in GIMP, photo-editing software, from Color > Threshold or Tools > Color Tools > Threshold. It’s not black&white photography. There are no gray tones. It’s just the color black and the color white. I am enchanted with this process for outline and texture. Spotted, Rodney Milton, SSF
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch 3.4.15
A commenter was kind enough to ask how Rodney has been doing [Queen]. I knew there had been a lot of saddle seat posts lately, but I didn’t realize how much other stuff as well. It has been a week since Milton appeared [Revisited, Feb 24] and two weeks since Rodney has [Gold Star, FebContinue reading “Meanwhile Back at the Ranch 3.4.15”
Virtual Brush Box 