Category Archives: Horses

Celebrating Art   Awareness of the outside world. “That electric blue that all of us dream of pinning on our horses’ bridles.” Calling All Horse Girls: One In Six Hundred and Sixteen, by July Urschel. No, I’m chopping onions. Why do you ask? ~~~ Recent Additions. Thank you to Identify Your Breyer: for the model/moldContinue reading “Carpet Herd 2020”

Welcome Meg! [Archives] Meg McKinney, Photographer [We – The Unicorns … Arrive] [We – The Unicorns … Go On A Road Trip] ~~~ We – The Unicorns … Bring their magic, to the Magic City Story and Photographs by Meg McKinney Until now, we’ve only seen our visiting unicorns in daylight. But they go outContinue reading “We – The Unicorns … Bring Their Magic To The Magic City, Guest Post”

Travel, of a sort   Awareness of the outside world. Beneficiaries – BreyerFest 2020. ~~~ Today is the first day of Celtic Fling, Virtual BreyerFest 2020. I’m not completely sure how everything is organized. That’s okay, no one else knows either. Breyer has been around for 70 years. BreyferFest for 31. This is the firstContinue reading “Happenings at the Horse Park, In Which I Live Virtually and Vicariously”

Fit To Ride   Awareness of the outside world. World Toilet Organization. ~~~ 5K at home Sunday, June 14, 2020 Pasture Time – 1:05:37 Pace, clock – 21:11 min/mile Pace, calculated – 2.9 mph Medal from Virtual Strides. No real-world location associated with this walk. Virtual Strides: Gotta Go. The Plan Walked the day before.Continue reading “Bear With Me, I’m Strolling As Fast As I Can, Walk Report, Gotta Go Medal, 5K”

Horsekeeping Lucky enough to have a horse.   Awareness of the outside world (& friend brag). Photo guru Meg McKinney was hired to take the photos of the Montgomery mural in this article, Alabama News Center: Black Lives Matter murals paint Alabama in a different light this 4th of July. More on the mural, AL.com:Continue reading “Feed Change, Milton Joins the Senior Set, What’s In The Feed Scoop, Summer 2020”

Awareness of the outside world. Blackout Day. ~~~ This is wrong. The horse is happy. While it’s not quite as thick as the photo makes it appear, there is a lot of padding stuffed in there. How did we get here? The minions can be slow. The Week Before. Rodney was a star. Cantered toContinue reading “You Can’t Fix Saddle Fit With Padding, Until You Do”

Thoughts, Horsekeeping, Training Journal   Awareness of the outside world. During a televised horse race from the UK, one of the commentators said that some of the horses prefer racing in front of empty stands. Less noise? Less tension in the air? ~~~ Back on this side of the Atlantic, our horses are adapting wellContinue reading “Mood On Monday, Upside, At Least The Horses Are Happy”