A Bout of Bodywork for Both Horses

Horsekeeping

Awareness of the outside world. Gothamist: Creatively costumed canines at NYC’s 2022 Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Festival, by Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky, Oct 22, 2022.

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Horses got bodywork from Anita A. Miller & Michaela E. Miller of Robin Hood Therapy, LLC. Social media & website coming soon.

Rodney. MagnaWave & massage. Color him dubious. We are taking this as a good sign. Rodney has had so much bodywork that he usually very accepting of it. He loved the massage part. MagnaWave is supposed to get deeper than other modalities. The fact that he thought it was weird might mean that it was reaching new places.

Milton. BEMER & massage. Much yawning and relaxing during. Appeared not happy to have it end. All good. The next day, went terribly. Refused to trot. Much swearing and lifting of hip by horse. Stayed at a steady walk, just completely refused to upshift. Driver maintained an admirable calm. Eventually coaxed horse into decent trot work. The following day? The best Milton has ever gone in harness. Correlation? Causation? Unrelated training moment?

We hope to make Robin Hood Therapy a regular visitor to our barn.

Both are CESMT (certified equine sports massage therapists), CMWP (certified MagnaWave practitioners), Bemer specialists, trained infrared and red light therapists, and headed for equine accupressure training in December. Anita is currently in training for essential oils therapy in animals and herbology.

Onwards!
Katherine

C is for Cookie, C is for Costume Class, Halloween 2022

Holidays

Awareness of the outside world. Does anyone else remember Trick or Treat for UNICEF? Do kids still do that? I wonder what they did with all those pennies we collected. I looked. The Internet was not forthcoming on either question (gasp!).

Update. Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. It was right there when I searched. Dunno why I didn’t find earlier. Hat tip to K for the heads up.

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Cookie Monster with Chief Cookie Dispenser
Costume Class
Stepping Stone Farm Fun Show 2022

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Links

Muppet Wiki: Cookie Monster

Smithsonian: Cookie Monster’s First Name Is Sid, And Other Icon’s “Real” Names, Colin Schultz, 2014

C is for cookie.
C is for cookie.
Cookie starts with C.
That’s good enough for me.
Milton’s abridged version of the Cookie Monster song.
Muppet Wiki: C is for Cookie (song)

SSF Costume Class
[Neither Sound Nor Light, Halloween 2019]
[Minions of the Night Unicorn] 2018
[It’s a Rat Race, Halloween 2017]
[Macho Dresses Up As Dr. Whooves] 2016

Update The Rest of the 2022 Costume Posts
[The Return of Cookie Monster, Guest Photos]
[The Return of the Son of Cookie Monster]

Onwards!
Katherine

A Plentiful Postcard Parade

Images

Art from the outside world. MFA Boston: Postcards at the MFA.

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World Postcard Day was October 1. Through Postcrossing, I sent out five postcards and received 8. Woot!

Links

Interesting things I discovered from the postcards & postcard messages.

Syksy-terveisiä is Finnish for Autumn Greetings.

“Olomouc Zoo, is a Czech zoo, located in Svatý Kopeček, Olomouc in Czech Republic. Olomouc Zoo is one of the largest breeders of South African Gemsbok in Europe and the stud book keeper of the East Caucasian tur.” Wiki: Olomouc Zoo. Website, Zoo Olomouc.

Hohenschwangau Castle

How’s this for a subway stop? Metro In Moscow: Station Komsomolskaya

Live Science: Who invented the bicycle?, Palermo, March 04, 2022

Atlas Obscure: Tampere Cathedral Frescoes

Royal Delft Museum. Switch to English, as needed. Click on Museum collection > Visit the museum online. In Dutch, “Bezoek het museum online.”

[Postcrossing & postcard post archive]

Onwards!
Katherine

Architectural Photography Linkfest

Images

Awareness of the outside world. Architectural Photography Almanac.

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Have signed up for a class in Architectural Photography taught by Meg McKinney at Samford Academy of the Arts. [Archive]

This is why I bought a tripod and cable release. [Photo Safari The First, Beeswax Creek Park]

I would define architectural photography as an image where building or structure is the subject, not that it just happened to be in the photo.

Do water towers, stairs, bridges, windows, bollards count as architecture or just buildings?

Since I have not done any homework yet, it is time for a cheesy clip show, cue The Simpson’s music.

Update: the class was canceled.

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Landmarks & Public Buildings

Bridges

Walkways & Sidewalks

Homes & Hotels

Stairs

Stores

Horse Houses

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Process notes. For my reference. This is where I discovered tiled gallery, which places the photos much better than regular gallery. Also used for Pastureau’s Palette post. To edit a tiled gallery – because I won’t remember – open list view, select, convert to gallery, add photo, convert back .

Links. Also for my reference. Clockwise, starting at upper left.

Landmarks & Public Buildings

[Circling The Capitol, Walk Report, Montgomery 5K]

[Strolling In Another Park Another Day, Walk Report, Savannah Bridge Run, Virtual 5K, December 2020] Regions Field

[Spirit Of Mississippi, Toomsuba, MS] brick rest stop

[Murals at the Birmingham Zoo]

[Mood On Monday, When?] Empire State Building & skyline from Rockefeller Center.

Bridges

[Exercise and The Illusion Of Social Contact, State of the Fitness, March 2022] lake, Veteran’s Park, Alabaster

[Over and Over and Over, Walk Report, Savannah Bridge Run, Virtual 5K] walkway with railings

[Skirting the Swamp, Walk Report, DIY 5K, Kymulga Grist Mill] covered bridge[

[Strolling In Another Park Another Day, Walk Report, Savannah Bridge Run, Virtual 5K, December 2020]

[Finding My Own Peace, Bridges In The Gardens, Walk Report II, Calgary Virtual 5K] with feet inset

[Repeating The River, Year of the Ox Challenge, Walks 7 and 8, Cahaba River Walk Park]

Walkways & Sidewalks

[Following The Signs, Walk Report, UAB Hospital Concourse]

[Flying Low, Walk Report, DragonCon Virtual 5K] airport

[Blog Logo in Blue] snow

[Greenway Stroll, Part II, Baltimore Running Festival Virtual 5K, October 2020] residential sidewalk

[Hitting The Bricks, Walk Report, Splash of Color Dash Virtual 5K] brick lined

Homes & Hotels

[Horses of NYC 2017, Home Again Home Again Jiggety Jog] apartment building

[The Road Leads to Lexington] housr

[Horses of NYC 2016] hotel window

Stairs

[Found Art, Screening Stickers]

[Foto Friday: Caeruleus Descending] blur lights

[Gratuitous Cat Picture: Stairs]

[Greenway Stroll, Part I, Virtual Queen Bee 4-Miler, October 2020]

Stores

[My Spirit Animal, LEGO Horse NYC]

[Equine Logos of Grand River]

[REI Vulcan]

Horse Houses

[Spotted in NYC 2017 at a Special Place] Madison Square Garden

[I am not back. This is not a post] metal chicken barn

[New Arena]

ETSA

[Collision of Worlds] stalls

Onwards!
Katherine

Little Pink Horse Show Hut

Horse Life

Awareness of the outside world. UN: Water Quality and Wastewater.

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No SLEC lesson last week. Nothing to talk about there. Pulling one from the vaults.

Continuing my fascination with little blue huts, or in this case pink. Don’t think I’ve seen that color before.

Seen at Middle Tennessee Carriage Club Driving Derby, September 2022. Supplied by VannGo. Styled by Coach Kate. [Tennessee Travels, Driving]

Blue, gray, and now pink. What other colors have you seen?

Portable Toilet [archives]

Onwards!
Katherine

Getting a Leg Up

Riding

Awareness of the outside world. AL.com: The history behind Birmingham’s favorite slogan, Birmingham Magazine, 2018.

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Verily, I am a light unto the next generation … er … more like a warning beacon.

I used to be able to get a leg-up onto a horse. This was particularly complicated with a side saddle, when you have to be thrown extra high to clear the leaping head and then twist as you sit down since both legs stay on one side of the horse.

For those not familiar with the leg-up maneuver. Stand next to horse. Bend your knee. Someone grabs your lower leg. They heave. You jump. You swing your leg over. You float, light as a feather, into the saddle.

Somewhere along the way, I lost the knack. I don’t know whether I jump too soon, or too late, or not at all. With the best will and strength in the world, people heave yet I remain earthbound.

This becomes a problem in saddle seat Academy classes when one is likely to be sharing a horse. The second rider needs to mount in the warm up area. Stepping Stone Farm finally gave up. They started bringing a portable mounting block to the ringside. It was just easier.

At summer camp this year, SSF had leg-up practice. The activity was duly noted on Facebook. That lead to the following exchange.

Me: Post-graduate work will involve giving me a leg up. (For those who haven’t seen me at a show, I’m horrible about these. Splat all over the horse.)

Coach Courtney: you were my inspiration 😂😂

I’m so … proud?

Onwards!
Katherine