Edible Book 2024, Food Art

Art of the outside world. The Brothers Brick: Jewelled eggs for all occasions. Fabergé-style eggs in LEGO bricks. Joyous Easter and/or Sunday, whichever you celebrate.

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My edible book for 2024.

Ate the result. As I did not do last year. [Edible Book]

Elsewhere

There doesn’t appear to be a central source for Edible Book displays or contests. Each school or library has their own rules. The College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University libraries in Minnesota require that the Edible Book refer to a well-known book, that the source book be recognizable from the design, and that it be 75% edible, Instagram: @csbsjulibraries 29 March.

Inspiration

This year. Make: How-To: Edible Books, Cox, 2011, from Hungry Happenings: Fruit Leather Books, white text block with fruit leather cover.

Another simple idea, possibly for next year. Wendy Welch: EDIBLE BOOK CONTEST SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2014. Scroll down for simple pages with Japanese binding

Onwards!
Katherine

Creek, Photography

Awareness of the outside world. The Pulitzer Prizes: 10 images from the Newseum’s Pulitzer Prize photo gallery, A Q&A with the curator of the popular Pulitzer Prize-winning photography exhibit. Pepitone, approx 2016. Content warning, some seriously disturbing photos. News-worthy photos do not arise from the happy moments in life. I keep forgetting this fact. “A significant percentage of our visitors are schoolchildren, so we do have a warning on the wall at the entrance of the gallery. However, I think visitors understand that these are news photographs and that we live in a troubled world.” Babic, ibid. Still, interesting to read how the exhibit was put together.

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Creek
Shelby County, Alabama
28 March 2024

Technical Details

Creek, f/11, 1/125 sec., 18.0 mm, ISO 100. Manual mode & auto-focus. Post production: resized, border, & watermark. No cropping.

Border colors. Gray for project, yellow for Nikon. [Photo Safari The First], [Quarry, Photography, Things]

Onwards!
Katherine

Saddlebreds In My Mailbox

Awareness of the outside world. USDF: Where Your Dollars Go. This seems to be a new feature that folks are adding to their pages. [Signed Up, intro]

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The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) offers year-end awards for different breeds that compete in dressage.

This year, the American Saddlebred Horse and Breeders Association, Training Level Open & First Level Open were won by Paddyngton’s Gold Glory. Intermediate I Open was won by Rockin In Vegas. There were no other competitors. USDF Connection March/April p156, Your Dressage: Chosen By a Saddlebred

This means the door is wide open for someone with a jumping Saddlebred to win the year-end title in Training Level: Adult Amateur. Ahem. [Finding A Horse To Match The Hat]

In addition, this was when I learned that the American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA) is now the American Saddlebred Horse and Breeders Association (ASHBA), and has been for three years. Oops. ASHBA: Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: The Urge to Merge

There’s no hope for me. I still think of them as the USCTA & the AHSA rather than as the USEA & the USEF. Those changed in 2001 and 2002, respectively. USEA: About Us, Equisearch: AHSA Changes Name to USA Equestrian, Jaffer, 2002

Maybe I would be better with the alphabet soup if I showed at higher levels more often … or at all … or … stop, that way lies the drama llama.

Onwards!
Katherine

Signed Up, Virtual Tevis 2024

Awareness of the outside world. The Tevis Cup: Where Does All the Money Go?

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We have registered for the Virtual Tevis Cup 2024, 100 Miles in 100 Days. This will be our fifth year.

As last year, the bulk of our mileage will be one mile of hand-walking each morning. Since this is our daily activity, we would do close to 100 miles in that time period anyway (crosses fingers).

However, doing one mile each day for 100 days does not leave any buffer for life to happen, either for good or for ill. Therefore, we plan to do a second mile each Saturday and Sunday, perhaps even under saddle.

Until the start on 10 April, we will be working to get Rodney alongside the idea that a quiet stroll in his own pasture is in his retirement contract. [Saddles!]

Archives [The Western States Trail Ride, aka The Tevis Cup, Virtual & Otherwise]

Onwards!
Katherine

Seven Weeks!

Awareness of the outside world. The Atlantic: DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest, Zhang, March 18, 2024. Did not read. Required sign in. I was struck by the headline. I’d heard about paternity issues but hadn’t thought of this. I wonder if, in 50 years, people will be living with a level of information detail that we cannot imagine & will have adapted in ways that we cannot currently comprehend. To paraphrase Pohl, predicting the future is not predicting the car. It is predicting the traffic jam. But I digress.

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Horses went 7 weeks between shoeings! Well, 7 weeks minus one day per blacksmith schedule. Rodney was ready but he might could have gone 8 weeks if he’d had to, as last time. [What Goes In The Mouth Effects The Feet]

In the past, the horses have been done around 5 weeks. Six at a stretch. Sometimes as short as 4 weeks in the summer. Milton could go longer, but he gets done when the team gets done.

I suspect that the period will shorten as we get into mud season and then stomping season. Perhaps they can go 5 or 6 weeks in the summer instead of 4 or 5 weeks.

Since I know at least one reader who is not up on the minutia of horse shoes (waves hi!), here is why this is exciting news.

Going longer between shoeings gives the horses time to grow more foot.

The change is a sign that their feet are stronger.

An accumulation of additional weeks means having to pay for one less shoeing at some point in the future.

All good.

What is not good is how hard it is for me to write about horse shows shoes. I make that typo every. single. freaking. time.

Onwards!
Katherine