Category Archives: Thoughts

Words Me: I almost got on the train with him. Julia: A complete stranger?! Dani: Was he cute? We sat at a cafe in Southern France, exchanging what we had done while our Term Abroad program been been on spring break. I had chosen to spend four of the seven days traveling on trains. OnContinue reading “Picking Up The Other Fork, Train Take Two, Fiction Pieces In Search Of A Plot”

Horsekeeping Awareness of the outside world. JPL: Rover’s Backshell Seen From the Air, April 27, 2022. ~~~ Rodney’s old man cardigan, WeatherBeeta Anti-Static Fleece Cooler Standard Neck. [Changing the Blanketing Protocol] You know how you can go out with a group of people and some folks are hot in a t-shirt while other folks areContinue reading “New Equipment, Horse Sweatshirt”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. BBC: Why do billionaires want to own the news? Hooker, 2018. ~~~ This post was supposed to be an ears photo from last weekend of us at Falcon Hill Farm applying the clinic lessons to poles and maybe a tiny crossrail. [Thoroughbred Theatrics, Rodney at the Ellen Beard Clinic] DidContinue reading “In Which We Learn Things But Not The Things We Were Setting Out to Learn”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. BirdCast. “Real-time predictions of bird migrations: when they migrate, where they migrate, and how far they will be flying.” BirdCast: About ~~~ tldr: Saddle seat lessons. Amusing sideline or distraction that is dissipating my energy? Ooooh that looks interesting I like the horses. I like the horses so muchContinue reading “Overthinking Saddle Seat Lessons”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. The Dartmouth: Dartmouth to return Samson Occom’s possessions to Mohegan Tribe, Rojas, 4/14/22. ~~~ Distance: 24.1 miles, both horses. Details: 12 rides, 10 hours 48 minutes, 2.23 mph, 26:53 pace. Notes Our GPS has been recalibrated. Once around the pasture now measures .4 miles, up from ~1/3 of aContinue reading “Help From Above, Week 3, Virtual Tevis 2022”

Horsekeeping Awareness of the outside world. Think you know about censorship? You probably don’t. The inquisition wasn’t a single organization, Orwell mostly got it wrong, and the most important change in modern times mostly went unnoticed. YouTube video, stay for the Q&A. Tracing Censorship of Radical Ideas Across Centuries: Historian Ada Palmer, U Chicago, JunContinue reading “Changing the Blanketing Protocol, In Which Rodney Plays The Old Man Card”

Images Images of the outside world. Balloon Juice: Saturday Morning Open Thread: Space Quilts, TaMara|,  April 23, 2022. ~~~ Quiltfolk is holding a yearlong workshop on making quilt blocks from book cover images. I am not particpating in the workshop. I did, however, run off with the idea of making quilt block image from aContinue reading “Books to Blocks, An Exercise In Image Making”