Virtual Brush Box

Sports of the outside world. OmegaBall. Three-sided soccer.

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Swim supplies from Dick’s Sporting Goods

I do remember that the original goal of Fitness Friday was getting in shape for riding. A dog can dream.

Swimming

Haven’t been since pre-pandemic.

Got new gear. Found bathing suit. Went swimming. Lasted 10 minutes.

Only went once. We moved into a period of afternoon thunderstorms.

It’s a start.

Biking

Did a bunch back when husband was working from home. Haven’t done much since.

Dusted off bike. Went for a short ride.

Also once.

It’s a start.

Walking

All walking was in the pasture. No new places. [The Morning Constitutional]

While I went out every day but one, some days I didn’t get the full mile.

Therefore. This is the first month in over three years that I haven’t walked a 5K. At the beginning of the month I was stressing about the horse show & work. I figured I had the rest of the month. As turns out, I didn’t. During the second half of the month, I wasn’t finishing my daily mile. Trying to do 3 miles didn’t make sense. So I gave the 5K a miss for the month. I am oddly unperturbed by this.

Fun Fact

Post pandemic (I assume), the Y no longer supplies towels. This is a piece of information one would like to have before one arrives. Ah well, it was a hot day. I dried off fast.

Onwards!
Katherine

Time of the outside world. When is now? Fervent thank you to the person who reminded me that an interview which takes place at 11 am PDT is at 1 pm CDT, not 9 am CDT.

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Updated Now Page

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September 2023

Let’s do this!

Andiamo!

Allons-y!

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Last Month [Here Comes That Month, State of the Now]

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Went to the dump. Went to get hay. Saw a lot of my truck. Did not see a lot of news.

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Horses and humans go for a walk each morning.

Get up. Get horses. Walk back and forth for a mile. Go on about our day.

Even weekends.

Some days they wear tack. Some days they wear halters. Some days they long line. Some days they stroll along. Some days they work after. Some days, one mile and done. On hot days, it is the only time work is possible. We’ll see what happens on cold & dark days. Rainy days are a miss, but the weather model around here tends toward wet in the afternoons, mostly.

We started the practice with this year’s Virtual Tevis. We needed to get our daily mile in before Milton’s (metaphorical) rider went to work. [Archives]

We keep it up as good exercise for everyone.

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Mark your calendars. FEMA: FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023.

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We have a few names to contact. They have horses available now &/or might be helpful in the future.

Not local, but in the same time zone.

I, of course, am wallowing in a sea of overwhelm. [Status, I keep citing this post, it’s a good recap of my situation]

Thank you to the kind people (waves Hi!) who have taken interest in our search for Tertium Quid. [TQ, Redux]

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. US News: Have We Forgotten the True Meaning of Labor Day? The first Labor Day was hardly a national holiday. Workers had to strike to celebrate it. By The Conversation, Sept. 1, 2023.

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Rodney is getting less anxious, which is good.

Warm weather?

Supplement? [Dumbo’s Magic Feather]

Unrelated movement of the spheres?

Who knows.

Unfortunately, the layer under anxious is pushy. [The Many Faces of Rodney Over Fences] & [Peeling The Emotional Onion]

Rodney is learning new things. He now has a designated spot to wait for the stall door to be opened.

I will stand over here.

I will not rush the door.

I will wait politely for stall door to be opened.

I will not crowd the operator.

I will keep my feet behind this imaginary line.

I will wait for the human to tell my is it time to go in.

I will accept that a small correction is not the end of the world.

Yesterday he stood in his spot without prompting from me!

Onwards!
Katherine

Art of the outside world. CNN: Dragon Con program art through the years, 2013. Program covers from 1987 to 2012.

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Process Notes. Original work, but the result feels familiar. Would not be surprised if obvious influences were lurking in cobwebbed corners of my brain.

Shapes, in order of appearance.

Onwards!
Katherine

The same interview. Again. Off camera, I made fists. It kept my patience.

“No. Aliens are not visiting us.”

Pause.

“The theory is that visitors would understand our technology. Ergo, a contact email address.”

Pause.

“No false positives.”

The password required confirmation through SETI.

On my computer, an alert beeped.

You’ve got mail.

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Afterword

Submitted!

My entry for the Press 53: Free Monthly 53-Word Story Contest. The August prompt was “Write a 53-word story about a search.”

The story probably could be more original, more clever, more a lot of things. However, I don’t hate it and it’s a start.

Since I do not know if older prompts are kept on the website, recording it here.

This month in 1587 Elenora and Ananias Dare welcomed their daughter, Virginia, as the first child born to English parents on American soil. Little is known about the lives of these teenage parents, especially their fate as a family of three in the Lost Colony. There are still those, though, continuing to look.

Press 53: 53-Word Story Contest, downloaded 1 September 2023

Onwards!
Katherine