Category Archives: Horses

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. Scale is weird. 200,000 sounds like a lot. That many vaccines a day for the US population is a period of nearly 5 years Vox. Math check, 330,000,000 USpop(USCB)/200,000 = 1,650 = 4.5. Or this. 1 second is 1Continue reading “Putting The Portable in Potty”

Images   Awareness of the outside world. Tis a gift to be simple, ’tis a gift to be free ‘Tis a gift to come down where I ought to be And when I am in the place just right I will be in the valley of love and delight ~~~     Exercise in drawingContinue reading “Straight Lines, Week 1, Inktober 2020”

Words Awareness of the outside world. Book rx. Deadly Education, Naomi Novik (Del Rey 2020). Ghastly premise. She makes it work. This from someone who does not enjoy ghastly. Only downside, the story pulled me along so thoroughly that I finished it in one day. Back to having nothing to read. Sigh. The curse ofContinue reading “Missed It By THAT Much, Almost A Boast”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. Pondering the “plantation” situation got me thinking on the subject of mascots. When I showed up at college, we didn’t have one. The Indian symbol had been eliminated almost 10 years earlier. There was still much hand wringing andContinue reading “Jump Decor”

Fit To Ride   Awareness of the outside world. “We’re happy to announce that October 1st, the day in which the first ever postcard was sent, will henceforth be known as World Postcard Day!” Postcrossing Blog: World Postcard Day — the day to celebrate postcards. World Postcard Day ~~~ Note. Third walk; first post. WaitingContinue reading “Strolling Along The Edges, Walk Report, Bronx Zoo Virtual 5K, September 2020, My Week of Walking 3 of 3”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won.   Awareness of the outside world. I have deliberately not followed the “plantation” brouhaha in eventing. I lack the bandwidth for horse-world drama at the moment. Respect your fellow humans. Change the name. Lose the mascot. Take down the statue. Move on. ~~~ We wentContinue reading “We Take A Small Hop Forward, Schooling at Falcon Hill Farm, September 2020”

Training Journal If you’re riding a horse, you’ve already won. Awareness of the outside world. Whatever: What We Knew, What We Know, and Why It Matters. What he said. I would add that I get the sense Trump wants to win the reelection because it is a contest and he must be victorious in allContinue reading “The Figure Eight, Virtual Trail Report, Tevis Sippy Cup, Miles 67 through 71, September 2020”