Situation. You are in the ring with other riders. Everyone is doing their own thing. You & your horse are chilling at the walk.
I was always taught that you yield the rail to those who are working. You stay OFF the rail to stay out of the way.
In a saddle seat ring, you never pass between another rider and the rail. Therefore you stay ON the rail to stay out of the way, so that folks can pass you on the inside.
You can see how this would lead to a certain amount of confusion for those of us switching between disciplines.
Milton Ring work this week – 9 miles, 7 rides Ring work total – 14.5 miles, 9 rides Ride Total if we include ring mileage – 80 miles
Rodney Ring work this week & total – 1 mile, 1 ride Ride Total if we include ring mileage – 66.5 miles
Ring work miles being kept in reserve.
Notes
A few days off. Princess (Rodney) took longer than usual to adjust to his new pea (shoes), probably because they stand around under the fans all day rather than grazing and walking. I think he actually manage to register a 0.25 lameness, which is a new mildness record for him. [My Horse Needs Tougher Tires]
One double-session day over the weekend for the additional mileage.
Turns out there are only so many ways to repeat a motif. “A wallpaper pattern (also known as a plane crystallographic group) is a pattern with translation symmetry in two directions … In 1891 E. S. Fedorov proved that there are exactly 17 possible wallpaper patterns.” Mathematical Association of America, maa.org: wallpaper pattern.
Not reviews. Imagine we are in a bookstore. I wander up to you, hand you one of these books, say ‘Have you read this one?’, then wander off. Whereupon you look at the cover, turn it over, look at the back cover, read the blurb, flip through the book, and decide for yourself if you are interested. It’s like that. Enjoy. [HYRT]
On Friday posts, I usually talk about my fitness efforts, such as they are. It’s difficult to generate content – particularly fitness content – with one’s foot in the air. [Bored]
Second Caption: Reopening account while I am on stall rest.
Unembedded copy of photo, in case Instagram decides to take their toys and go home.
Props
Got the idea when the main character in a book posted to Instagram, “Anything that matched the brand she was trying to build for herself.” Since my ‘brand’ is random shit, dunno why this spoke to me, but it did. Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, by Ashley Herring Blake (Berkley 2022, Kindle)
Yes, I am a straight person who reads gay romance novels, either M/M or F/F. I find them restful. It is a similar situation to saddle seat versus hunter/jumper. I have few opinions on the conduct of gay relationships. I have many opinions on M/F relations. Have you ever noticed an incident written as cute in a novel that would qualify as sexual harassment in real life? But I digress.
Past
This was my Instagram page from November 2018 to now. Actually, it was more complicated than that. Instagram shut this account down. I started another one. And so on. [Contact]
Anyway.
This was the one I reopened.
Future
One photo so far. I’ll see what else turns up. At the other end of the scale, I’ll see if I can keep Instagram limited to an occasional, interesting side project.
Awareness of the outside world. Did civic stuff at county courthouse & city hall this week. Saw more masks than I was expecting. Only a few, but enough that I didn’t feel like a lone weirdo.
Virtual Brush Box 