Horses & Other Interests
Awareness of the outside world. Illinois.
When someone makes the news for heinous reasons, I always wonder about the parents, and the second cousins, and the people the perpetrator went to high school with. What goes through their minds?
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When you are ready to go out but your roommate is still in bed.
Onwards!
Katherine
Awareness of the outside world. Per yesterday. “It has been a very long seven days, a week that will certainly show up in the history books. What may not make such a splash in the books, though, is how freaking exhausting it is to be living through this moment.” Richardson, Letters from an American: July 1, 2022. Preach! [Two Reins]
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This week. 15.8 miles, 7 rides, 6 hours 29 minutes, pace – walk.
Total. 92.8 miles, 51 rides, 40 hours 30 minutes, pace 26:11 min/mile.
To go. 7.2 miles in 12 days (8 days).
Ring Work
Milton
Ring work this week – 0
Ring work total – 16 miles, 10 rides
Ride Total if we include ring mileage – finished!
Rodney
Ring work this week – 3 miles, 2 rides
Ring work total – 8.15 miles, 5 rides
Ride Total if we include ring mileage – finished!
Ring work miles being kept in reserve. Trying to do it all with trail miles, if we can.
Notes
Counting all the steps. Not rounding to halves anymore. Logging to the hundredths. Rodney gets shod next week. Can take him anywhere from 0 days to a full week to recover from the experience. Need to be across the finish line before that.
Speaking of counting. Not sure all the numbers are working out each week. I keep finding misteaks. I am sure of the total mileage, the only number that counts at the end of the day.
[Perambulating With Our Ponies, Week 12, Virtual Tevis 2022]
[VT archives]
Onwards!
Katherine
Awareness of the outside world. Independence Day in the US. Not feeling the love today. Too much going wrong, with no end in sight. This causes me to imagine some segments of society saying, “Welcome to the party. Sucks, doesn’t it?”
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Horse, prefers to go in hackamore.
Rider, reluctant to give up bit.
Compromise, two reins. Rider uses hackamore rein most of the time. Keeps bit rein in reserve for times when horse decides to blow thru hackamore.
Everything Old Is New Again
When I wrote this, I looked up previous links, as I do. Remembered the first iteration. Forget about the second. What can I say, – to rephrase Whitman – Rodney contradicts himself? Very well then, he contradicts himself. Rodney is vast.
First time we tried this. November 2015 to September 2016
Tack purchased. [New Equipment: Hackamore Attachment]
Options. [Rodney’s Headgear]
Full minimalist. [View from the Top]
Experiment ended. “Yes, I know you prefer a hackamore. I don’t. You have not earned the cred. Therefore, you will wear a bit.” [Or Not. Rodney] 2016
Second Attempt. December 2021
“Dug up his old hackamore noseband. Rode with the bit as back up in case this was a bad idea … We gave it a week. Then stopped. He hated it.” [A Negative Result Still Counts As Data] 2021
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In other news, on misquoting, [I Am Vast, Fashion Forward]
Onwards!
Katherine
Art from the outside world. Photographer Walt Stricklin does composite photography, WS: Scapes Galleries. ““Your camera is not your eye,” he said. “Your eye is the best filter God made. A camera is just a dumb piece of machinery.” Shelby County Reporter: Putting together pieces of the panorama, 2013. Ten of the China Scapes, aCurator: Walt Stricklin: Made In China.
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Legend
J – Independence Day in the US on the 4th. Bastille Day in France on the 14th.
U – Stepping Stone Farm goes to the Lexington Junior League Charity Horse Show. I go vicariously. [2017, 2019, 2020, 2021]
L – Virtual Tevis Cup 2022, Mile 100. (🤞)
Y – We haven’t hit 100 degrees yet. It’s coming. Feels Like has gone way over already.
23 June 2022, 4pm
Archive [The Illustrated Month 2022]
Onwards!
Katherine
Intro. Posting now so that I can link to this later. [STOB archives]
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Hello!
I would like to use your name in a blog post. What level of publicity you are comfortable with?
Options
One. Full name and title with links to business or personal websites, blogs, social media accounts, and so on.
Two. Quasi-famous. First name. Single initial. Daphne. Trainer S.
Three. Full anonymity. No name. Details blurred.
Four. Some combination of the above.
Your choice. I’m good with any of it.
Credit
I want to give you credit but not have you be responsible for my misunderstandings. I try to make that clear. “As always, I present what I heard, which may or may not be what the clinician said.” [Thoroughbred Theatrics, Rodney at the Ellen Beard Clinic]
Content
I can’t promised a positive spin.
I don’t write bad reviews. Why put negative energy out into universe? I’m not exposing Watergate over here. If it’s bad, drop it and move on. However, I could write the most glowing, upbeat, happy discussion, and you might still hate it.
Unless the text is for a guest post, I don’t offer pre-approval.
Conclusion
It’s much less of a big deal than I make it out to be here. It’s a small blog, with less than viral readership. Mostly I write about myself and what I did and what my horse did.
a) I come from a journalism background. Old habits die hard … actually they don’t die at all.
b) Most folks don’t care one way or the other. I want to give you the option in case you feel strongly.
Please contact me with any questions. I want you to be happy with the result, or at least not annoyed.
Posts of Possible Interest
Blog link is Virtual Brush Box. Blog url is “rodneyssaga.com”. [Intro]
“I tend to write about myself & my horses, both out of self-interest & to avoid getting mired in privacy issues.” [State of the Blog, The Song of Me]
[At Least I Got A Blog Post Out Of It, Names]
Onwards!
Katherine
Awareness of the outside world. Breeden is on fire this week. Devil’s Panties 6/29/2022. In related news, Whatever: Authors Talking About Politics: An Archived Twitter Thread, June 26, 2022.
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Instagram account, virtual_brush_box.
Photo Back-Up
Caption. Using your brother as a pillow. Smudge and Skittles, the newest SSF barn cats.
Posts
Previous [Cat Photos For Friday, Instagram Recap]
Explanation [A Foto For Friday, Reopening The Blog Instagram Account]
Onwards!
Katherine
Awareness of the outside world. Falcon Hill German Shorthaired Pointers
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Trotting crossrails at Falcon Hill Farm.
No big deal.
(Posed photo. Rodney is so over these.)
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Pony Club Moment. Yes, the empty jump cups should be taken down. If we were going faster than 2 mph or higher than 6″, I’d be more uptight about it.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 