A Look Inside My Head

Seize the day! Seize the fucking day, already! Get off your sorry ass and do something. Anything. I don’t care what. A load of dishes perhaps. Or, I don’t know, maybe one of the 600 things you put on those To Do lists you are so fond of making.

Do you have any idea how lucky you are? Sure, you say so, but I’m not seeing any actions to back that up.

Do I have to put this comic in front of you again? Yeah, that’s right. One day, you will be dead. One day, you will have run out of time. One day, you will have wasted the precious opportunities that have been showered upon you. One day, it will be too late.

Don’t tell me to shut up. You know I’m right.

Awww. Is oo feeling poorly? See these two fingers. This is the world’s smallest violin playing the Sympathy Sonata. I don’t want to hear about whatever tiny ailments you think you might be suffering from. What if you had real responsibilities? What if you had kids? Or a job? What if you had a job you hated but needed to keep in order to pay the bills? You could get going if you had to.

Clearly, you are not sufficiently appreciate of all the good in your life. It’s time to get out the gratitude club. You should be grateful for …

… two beautiful horses.
WHAM
… space and time to keep those horses at home.
WHAM
… leisure to indulge whatever fancy crosses your mind.
WHAM
… food security. Food that you don’t have to shop for or cook.
WHAM
… better health than you deserve, given the amount of time you spend getting fit.
WHAM
… escaping the horrific tragedies that occur every day in headlines and down the street.
WHAM.
… the ability to simply move and breathe.
WHAM

WHAM

WHAM
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Anyone else ever feel this way?

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

The Sassy Equestrian

Saddle Seat Wednesday

My newest ASB t-shirt.

The Sassy Equestrian Glitter Saddlebred Back design
The Sassy Equestrian
Glitter Saddlebred
Back design
The Sassy Equestrian Glitter Saddlebred Front design (Not to scale. Front image is pocket-sized.)
The Sassy Equestrian
Glitter Saddlebred
Front design
(Not to scale. Front image is pocket-sized.)

From The Sassy Equestrian, http://www.thesassyequestrian.com, Etsy, Facebook

Sassy Eq

Shirt sayings include

Southern born & Saddlebred

&

Saddleseat, We Don’t Jump.

&

Top 10 things yelled by trainers in a show arena.

(Nope, I ain’t telling. You’ll have to go look.)

Products include t-shirts, totes, & onesies. They will print a custom profile of your favorite horse from your photograph.

They were the ones who gave out the Team Awesome shirts at Pro-Am [Report].

Taken by a helpful member of Team Awesome.
Taken by a helpful member of Team Awesome.

ProAm 2106 shirt 2

Disclosure: Yes, this is a blatant plug. However, I do so for the sake of friendship & from appreciation of their product, rather than for cash. The shop is run by a family at the barn. The blue shirt I bought as a regular customer. The Team Awesome shirt was free for being part of Team Stepping Stone.

One of the principles of The Sassy Equestrian wrote Why I Ride by Katie Wood.
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Blue & Arthur helped with the photo shoot.

Blue
Blue

TSE cat 2

Arthur
Arthur

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

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Melting Milton

We finally replaced our microwave, so I can start heating the horses again.

Milton melt 1

Milton approves.

Milton melt 3

Milton is good for 20-30 minutes. Then he’s done. He’ll stretch, pick his head up, and look about. He’s still happy but he loses the out-to-lunch look.

Milton melt 2

Rodney continues to be part lizard [Piling on the Therapy]. He stands in a heat stupor the entire time.

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

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Roping Rodney

rope 2

New longlines for Rodney’s groundwork [Progress]. Since I’m working closer to the horse, standard lines left too much in my hand with too much potential for tangling.

rope 1

A friend recommended APS New England Ropes Salsa Line. Nice rope. Nice sailing rope. My initial reaction is that, for barn rope, the material is too slick and the diameter too narrow. It’s here. I’ll try. I could be wrong. I may have found an exciting new source for horse gear.

Either way, I will probably trim off another foot or two. When I say close to the horse, I mean CLOSE.

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

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SSF Kitten Tweets

One last batch of tweets. Last summer, Stepping Stone Farm had a pair of adorable kittens. (Is there any other kind?) I sent out weekly kitten tweets.

I didn’t share these as a post at the time because halfway through the summer, one of the boys was gone. Sad. His brother has retired from the rigors of barn cat life and is now a happy house cat.

The pictures are too darn cute not to share. 19 tweets.

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I’m just full of happy cat news aren’t I? [Ghost Gallery]
Previous tweet storage [April 2016]

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott