Category Archives: Thoughts

Awareness of the outside world. The Artemis II mission prompted me to look up the Europa Clipper, wherein my name is being sent to one of the moons of Jupiter. Launched 14 October 2024. Still going. Arrives in 2030. Mission, NASA: Europa Clipper. Names, NASA: Europa Clipper Vault Plate. [A Pair of Space Haikus] ~~~Continue reading “Sustaining The Shoeing Record”

Holidays of the outside world. Amateur At Large: Thursday’s Threads: Peeps Edition 2025. Also discusses holidays at barns. Needless to say, our horses don’t see much difference. ~~~ From an online presentation by Paul Jackson as part of The Paper Year by Helen Hiebert. Onwards!Katherine

Elsewhere on the Internet. XKCD: Creation. Be sure to check out each of the entries on the menu below the comic. Looks to be a regular feature. ~~~ What is the current count? This is post #5124. WordPress and I got out of alignment back in December. Awareness of the outside world. Post #5000. OrContinue reading “Counting Posts, State of the Blog”

Awareness of the outside world. Godspeed Artemis II. “Usually, when an astronaut belongs to a space agency other than NASA, that agency also creates a personal patch for its crewmember.” Canada.ca: Jeremy Hansen’s patch for the Artemis II mission. Also, NASA: Artemis II, Live Mission > Artemis II Crew Patch. ~~~ Daily 1 Mile Walks Check.Continue reading “Scenic Hiking, Fitness Photography”

Horses of the outside world. Horse Nation: #TBT: Potoooooooo: The Legitimate Story of a Racehorse, Kovatch, 2014. Hat tip to Author Jason Pargin via Bluesky. ~~~ Once again, no lesson(s) last week. [The Twiddling of the Thumbs] This time it was clashing schedules. Horse was available, I was not. I was available, the ride was not.Continue reading “The Pondering of the Pondering”

Awareness of the outside world. Happy March 32nd! “By the way, April Fools is cancelled tomorrow. Keep your jokes to yourself because this whole year has been one already. We tired. Tomorrow is March 32nd.” Chris J. Suggs @chrisjsuggs. As far as I can discover, this was originally posted on the old Twitter. It isContinue reading “Flavorful Folio, Edible Book Day 2026”

Awareness of the outside world. Trans Day of Visibility. Particularly in light of the IOC setting the calendar back 100 years. ~~~ Rodney has now decided he does our morning pasture walks at liberty, thank you very much. A few weeks ago we had one of those warm evening/cold nights that often result in morningContinue reading “Having Opinions, Morning Walk Stories”