Foto Friday: Instagram January 2017

January Instagram pictures from @rodneyssaga.

Comment: ❤ ❤ ❤

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Comments: Such a cute picture of him!, love the blurry tail wag!

Comment: Looks like F—-'s place.

… in THE South.

 

Procedural note: I have learned to embed Instagram posts rather than cut & paste my feed, as I had been doing before.

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Upside: 1) So much easier. 2) Get to keep the captions.

Downside: 1) Bigger images makes the post longer. 2) Pretty sure this is not archiving the posts. Underneath this is a list of links to individual Instagram pages, as with Twitter archive posts [SSF Kitten Tweets]. If Instagram or Twitter goes, so goes the content of the related blog posts. OTOH, is any record truly permanent? The 2,212-year-old Rosetta stone is gonna outlast whatever is done by me & thee.

Neither up nor down: Repeated images from show reports. Not worth clicking over for two photos. Unlike a show’s worth of tweets.

[Instagram December 2016]

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Alabama Whips and Wheels Carriage Club

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AWWCC Website
AWWCC Facebook

AWWCC had an organizational meeting at the end of last year. We went. I held off the announcement until the club was official. So far, the plan is for a competition in February, a clinic in April, and fun drive in the summer. I shall keep you posted.

Carriage Clubs, e.g. AWWCC & MTCC, cover combined driving and pleasure driving, which refers either to driving for fun or to Carriage Pleasure Driving classes, see the Pleasure-driving Show at the CAA Carriage Festival. This we do with Coach Kate at Whip Hand Farm.

Saddle seat driving is filed under saddle seat riding, e.g. ASHAA. ASB Show Pleasure Driving, ASB Country Pleasure Driving, Open Pleasure Driving, & Academy Driving are specific classes at saddle seat shows. This we do with Coach Courtney at Stepping Stone Farm.

Confused yet?

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

ASHAA Banquet 2017

Saddle Seat Wednesday

Riding Awards
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Champion WTC Adult Showmanship – ribbon & trophy
Champion WTC Adult Equitation – ribbon & trophy
High Point Adult Academy Rider – grooming box with plaque
Groom box passenger is a memento for competing at Nationals

Driving Awards
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Reserve Champion Academy Driving – Katherine
Third Place Academy Driving – Greg

Team Stepping Stone

Photo by Becky Anderson
Photo by Becky Anderson

Sure, we have the standard line-up shots. I’ll share them on the Rodney’s Saga Facebook page when I post this. But this may be my all-time favorite banquet photo. If memory serves, I was saying Yay! or Go Team! rather than trying to bite Miss Courtney’s ear off.

Barn Awards
Stepping Stone Farm
High Point Adult Academy
High Point Junior Academy
High Point Junior
High Point Amateur

High Point Academy Barn
High Point Performance Barn

Yes, we swept the awards.
American Saddlebred Horse Show Association of Alabama

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2016 Banquet for 2015 Show Year
Annual Awards 2015
Banquet Today

2015 banquet for 2014 show year
Banquet Photos
Why I Ride by Katie Wood
Recursive Photography
State of the Blog: Lightning in a Bottle

2014 Banquet for the 2013 Show Year
Awards
Spotted at the Banquet
Silent Auction

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

What Is Work?

I get myself into the state wherein if I am not working 110% every day, then I am not working hard enough, and am therefore a failure. It’s fun being me.

Greg pointed out that the horses may have a different definition of work. I think work is riding, or jumping, or intense groundwork. They think work is anything that takes them away from hay, or grazing, or napping.

Anytime a human puts a halter on a horse and imposes her will over his (or his will over hers, or hers over hers, or … when will we arrive at a generally-agreed-on, gender-neutral, third person singular pronoun? Impose their will over them? Ones will over one? But I digress.), the horse is being trained, i.e. doing work.

Which is a roundabout way of saying the horses and I have been doing a lot of walking around the field lately. Rodney continues to handle it without stressing [Hillwork]. Milton continues to plod along [Counterbalance]. While he would rather give Rodney his dinner than admit this, I think Milton enjoys the attention. The part of me that is not screaming with frustration is enjoying the low-key, off-season work.

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Hyracotherium, Guest Post

I love it when my friends travel & bring back blog posts. Welcome Michelle.

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Photos by Michelle Duplichien.
Houston Museum of Natural Science  
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Spotted is a big fan of equid history.

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Spotted in Boston
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Previous Travel Posts by Michelle
NACHS Recovery Day 1 Disney zebras, Orlando FL
Driftwood Disaster Statue Biloxi MS
Mardi Gras Parades, A Guest Post Metairie LA

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Letter Art, AlphaBooks: B is for Brown

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A Good Horse Has No Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse
Nancy Marie Brown
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Previous Icelandic Horse Posts
[Riding in Reykjavik, a Guest Post]
[Iceland Imports, Guest Flyer]

B Authors on Rodney’s Saga
Broadhurst [Have You Met the $700 Pony? A Guest Plug] & [$700 Giveaway]
Benson [Guest Blogger: Linda Benson, writer of The Girl Who Remembered Horses]

2017 Alphabet


[A is for Anderson]

[2016 Alphabet]
[2015 Alphabet]

Project explanation [AlphaBooks 2017]. Open to recommendations for the remaining letters. Which books would you choose?

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

State of the Blog: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One

To paraphrase the poet:
I repeat myself? Very well, then I repeat myself.
The blog is large, and I forgot what I said.

In 2013, Lola and I won first, second, and fourth. That would be blue, red, and white for those of you in countries what do their ribbon colors the wrong way around. Since the American flag is red, white & blue, I made the comment,

What can I say, I was feeling patriotic.
Show Report: ASAC, Clemson, SC

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In 2017, Robert & I won the same combination of colors. I made the same joke.

Show Reports, Winter Tournament #1 & # 2, 2016/2017

Okay, so I repeated a one-liner. No biggie.

In 2012, I used a story about my father to make a point on inverse snobbery,

The idea that I am so cool I don’t have to prove to you how cool I am.
Cultural Commentary

In 2013, I told the same story at greater length,

Inverse snobbery means being so cool you don’t have to dress for the party.
Why I Drove a Beat-up Jeep to My Senior Prom

This was on different blogs. Excused on a technicality.

In 2016, I used a comparison between two barns to talk about how surroundings influence motivation,

The frog/pond ratio had altered dramatically.
Motivating Me

Imagine my surprise to find the same anecdote, told to the same purpose, four years earlier. I even used the pond analogy in the title. News to me.

It is better to be a small fish in a big pond.
The Fish/Pond Equation

The only solution is to go forth, do more, and have more to talk about. Onwards!
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Previous State of the Blog posts, list.

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott