Virtual Brush Box

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

Rodney’s (relocated) Bookstore
Cambridge MA, USA
August 2023
Photo by Thomas Noriega, Thank you!

Cambridge Day: Replacement for Raven Used Books in Harvard: likely Rodney’s books, seeking home since 2020, Levy, July 29, 2023

Facebook: Rodney’s Bookstore

Previous location. [Rodney’s Bookstore]

Now I wanna go buy books!

Onwards!
Katherine

Another one from the reserve pile. On the shedule was a lovely guest post with lots of wonderful photos. Alas, compiling it has been too much for my meager resources. I feel fine. It’s just taking a ridiculously long time to get my energy back.

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All the colors of the toilet.

I am enchanted with the idea of cataloguing the different colors of porta-potties.

New colors

Tan
Convenience store facilities.
FusionSite
Glenn’s Grocery
Franklin TN
November 2022

Dark Grey
Public toilets
HHH Sanitation
Outside the BJCC
Downtown Birmingham
November 2022
I assume they are on the sidewalk for crowds at big events.

Tan again. Cute name.
The Shed
Public park/beach
Gloucester MA
November 2022

Colors So Far

[Little Pink Horse Show Hut]
[Pretty Potty] Light Gray
[A Princely Porta Potty] Blue

Portable Toilets [Archive]

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. The AEC starts today in Lexington. I do not plan to be in a good mood about this.

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tldr: Activity. No progress.

Barn Visit

Had a long, lovely, in-person chat with a barn owner/breeder. Nice horses. Alas, nothing even remotely suitable. At least not for many, many years.

Yelling Into The Abyss

Sent emails to two out-of-state barns.

Big name trainer. This one was a cold-call longshot. No response. Not hugely surprised.

Trainer we know on the acquaintance level. Confirmation then nothing.

Message Log

As before, my useful, all-purpose husband sent the contact messages. His record at this is better than mine.

We are interested in what you might have available/know about for sport horses and ponies.  My wife and I currently have two thoroughbreds in the backyard, one that is getting a bit long in the tooth, and starting to look for a new horse/pony.  Currently, she rides and I drive.  She would like to get back to jumping and some lower level eventing.  I’d like to be able to do 2-3 driving derbies/year and maybe a lower level CDE if possible.  

Not looking for anything specific. Mostly looking for a good match.

Exactly.

Why a pony or a cob? Aren’t I too big? Not by weight.

Best time I ever had on XC as on a 13.2 pony.

Also, as he added in another email:

(We are) Old enough now to not care about the horse/rider picture, but rather looking for something to have fun with.  

Exactly.

Horse Hunt Posts
Posted in 2022. No change.
[Status Of The Horse Hunt, Needle Pegged at Overwhelm]
[Horse Shopping, What I Am Looking For]
[Wondering If What I Want Is Really What I Want]

Onwards!
Katherine