Virtual Brush Box

Awareness of the outside horse world. Nationals this weekend. Living 50 Plus: Holding the Reins: Horse show created by Morgan County woman has raised $755,000 for St. Jude’s, August 10, 2023. [Nationals I Have Known], [Nationals I Have Known, As Seen From A Cart]

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Walking – New Place

1.24 mile walk
Patriot Park
Homewood AL, USA
October 2023

Walking track is 0.3 mi & 500 steps. Pacer: Patriot Park

Daily walks continue with the horses in the morning. [The Morning Constitutional], [Sunrise Stats]

Walking – Monthly 5K

First 5K since Sulky Sprint in July. [Two New Places]

Because I managed to miss 5K walks in August & September, I went to a local park for an easy stroll on a flat, paved walking track. Wasn’t a piece of cake. It was more difficult getting started than I was expecting. The first mile was the hardest. The third mile was the easiest. By then it was downhill, so to speak.

Signed up for a virtual medal as motivation. I will count each 5K toward the total. Adds another layer of incentive to get out and walk the 5K each month. I chose NY Challenge with Conqueror Challenge. If the question is when will I get back to NYC, the answer is not soon. [Mood On Monday, When?]

Biking

Once. A short proof-of-concept ride. This is my bicycle. This is how I make it go. Checkmark.

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. DST. Fall back Sunday morning. Various factoids, timeanddate: What Is Daylight Saving Time? Buckle and Hocken. “When Germany first set the clocks forward on April 30, 1916, it became the first country in the world to use DST on a national level. However, the town of Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada implemented DST as far back as 1908.” ibid.

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Updated Now Page

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November 2023

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Last Month [Q&A, State of the Now]

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. “Although the EV rush has reduced tailpipe emissions, it has also entrenched car dependence.” Vox: Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts, David Zipper Oct 31, 2023. Public transportation! Until I was 14, that’s how I got places: school, recreation, doctor’s appointments. We need more of it. Everywhere.

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Made contact with another barn.

They have horses for sale. Nothing suitable for us, i.e. green, young, & so on.

Still, I liked the way they talked about their horses & the decisions they made.

I have good feeling about this one.

Will anything come of it?

Will the image I have created match the reality?

We’ll see.

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Going Medieval: On Cats

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From LEGO set 40570, Halloween Cat & Mouse. LEGO.com. Bricklink

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Flu shot, accomplished. For later reference, right arm, Fri 27 Oct, CVS. [Rodney Update]

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Show Report [The Red Queen Returns]

Pro Photo

Terry Young Photographer

Video

Video by G.

TIL. My bobbles of diagonals and one lead didn’t look as bad as they felt, or I was behind another horse, or the judge wasn’t looking. My ring management was better than I thought, I felt that I had gotten too close to the center island at times. Mostly I was in the middle of the space. More saddle seat-y than last time. [Seeing Silver Linings] & [Show Media with video]

Second in the first two classes, 4th in the championship.

More Photos

Transformer
Alabama Charity Horse Show
October 2023

This one is for my mother. (Waves Hi!)

Photos by Greg Walcott

Previous Posts

[The Red Queen Returns, Show Report, Alabama Charity Championship Horse Show 2023]

[In The Warm-Up Ring, Guest Photography]

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Gendarmerie royale du Canada.

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Happy Rubber Ducky Day!

Constable Canard
The Officially Licensed RCMP Mountie Rubber Duck
Le Petit Duck Shoppe
Montreal
June 2023

“Constable Canard is part of the CelebriDucks brand of rubber ducks and has been designed exclusively for Le Petit Duck Shoppe.” LPDS: Constable Canard

While I was in Montreal, someone mentioned seeing a store that sold rubber ducks. Ears up! Within hours, I’d found the store, shopped, and posted my loot picture. Had I not been flying with a small bag, I would’ve had a much bigger haul.

Accompanying message, “So many side quests”

Other folks expressed interest. I encouraged them in their aquatic avian pursuits.

“Outstanding duck store. Brands and types I have never seen.”

“… and I say this as someone who has done more than the average amount of duck shopping.”, with a link to last year’s Amsterduck.

Rubber Ducks [Archives]

Trip [Milton in Montreal], [In Which I Go To A Foreign Country and Walk Around In Circles]

Onwards!
Katherine

Writer: Hello Muse.

Muse: Hello.

Writer: Guess what, it’s movie time again. That seems to be my niche these days. What can I say, it keeps my cat in kibble.

Muse: How’s it going so far?

Writer: Usually I don’t have enough. Now I have too much. Costumes. Costumes coming to life. Candy. Trick or Treat. Movies. So many Halloween movies.

Muse: Yes, there are a lot of the Halloween movies and also a lot of movies about Halloween.

Writer: Cute. That’s part of the problem. I don’t do horror. If they want horror, gonna have to find another writer.

Muse: Friendly?

Writer: (breaks into song) “Casper the friendly ghost, The friendliest ghost you know …” (stops). Been done.

Muse: Thanks for the earworm. Other countries?

Writer: They are less trick or treat, more All Saints/Day of the Dead. Which is fascinating but won’t sell toothpaste in the US.

Muse: So has to be US tropes?

Writer: Yup. trick or treat and pumpkins, one way or another. It can’t lean on the religious aspect either, it’s just not on the radar in the US.

Muse: Inversion?

Writer: What’s the inverse of trick or treat, running around giving candy away? The Halloween Bunny? I could do something with costumes, but costumes mean masks, and the whole subject of masks is so fraught these days.

Muse: Masks and masking have the potential for some really interesting narratives, especially given the feelings on the subject these days.

Writer: Absolutely, but not for a happy holiday movie.

Muse: Many of your other movies involve people gathering around a meal.

Writer: The Parable of the Pumpkin Pie? Meh. Maybe it’s just not going to work this time.

Muse: NO! This is my thing. I show up. I inspire you.

Writer: Muses have egos? Who knew.

Muse: You better believe it. We are quite proud of what our people come up with. One author was completely stuck on a book under contract. Bailed on it. Turned around and wrote a book in a month. That book went on to be a bestseller and win awards. His muse hasn’t stopped talking about it.*

Writer: Now I’m imagining you sitting around a green room over coffee.

Muse: Everyone imagines us within their own idiom. The Greeks saw us as embodied women. Jungians consider us to be emanations of the collective unconscious.

Writer: Which is true?

Muse: Both.

Writer: Both?! That’s not possible.

Muse: Both. Neither. It’s all an attempt to explicate the ineffable.

Writer: But the ineffable can brag?

Muse: Oy.

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*For the full story, see the Author’s Note at the end of KPS, “Then the entire plot and concept of The Kaiju Preservation Society dropped into my head, all at once.” Or Tor Forge Blog: On Giant Monsters and Having Fun, A Letter from John Scalzi

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