Horses & Other Interests
The costume class at the Stepping Stone Farm Fun Show [Report]. Possibly the most anticipated class of the year.
Entries included: Bobo the Clown, Hula Girl, Fish & Fisherman, Cop & Prisoner, Thing 1 & Thing 2, The Headless Horseman, Dory & Nemo, Giraffe & Zookeeper, Peter Pan & Captain Hook.
Update: Eeyore & Pooh
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Saturday before the fun show [Report], Coach Courtney sends a message asking if I have extra back numbers. She had 15. Needed 18. This was my answer:
That’s 21 numbers from three years of showing. Plus 5 more I found after the show for next year.
I’m too sentimental to toss my number immediately after a show. So, I heave it into the pile with other ASB stuff. (Yes, I have numbers from Previous Horse as well. Not all of them. Just the good shows. But I digress.) I didn’t keep track of which number went with which show. I might have kept my first number, if I knew which one it was. Some shows I would just as soon forget. It’s hard to feel pangs in the aggregate.
This is why I never throw anything out. If one waits long enough, the item turns out to be useful.
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I am the points recorder for the barn. Since this show doesn’t count for year-end, I don’t have to hunt down the results. Therefore, I don’t have exact titles for my classes. I know the first one was driving; the cart gave that away. I know the third one was equitation; the pattern, ditto. Otherwise, I simply stayed in the ring until they tossed me out. Oh, three blues and a white. I know that.
Greg took home a red from the driving. He got out-horsed.
It was a home show. That means if one isn’t riding, one is on the go. I need a girth. Take this horse into Leadline. No, no, that horse does not wear that bridle (pause to shudder). It’s a bit of a blur.
Greg was also a bit of a blur. He knows his way around barns, so I leave him to it. When I looked around for him, he was usually in the thick of things: harnessing both horses for the driving class, washing paint off a costume class entrant, and so on. What a star.
Next stop, Nationals!
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Empire State Plaza, Albany NY, USA
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Oaklands Historic House Museum, Murfreesboro TN, USA
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U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville AL, USA
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Back in the stone age, I went to a summer camp called Fire Place Lodge, on Gardner’s Bay in Long Island, NY, USA.
Aside. The camp no longer exists physically. I believe the buildings were burned down as a local fire department exercise. However, nothing goes away in the digital world. Research for this post turned up a FPL page on Facebook. Totally flashback. That’s not me any of the pictures, but it could be. It so could be. Weird. End aside.
The camp had the standard suite of scheduled activities: swimming, drama, arts & crafts, etc. After three years of this, I announced that I wanted a riding-specific camp. My mother let me choose. I wrote away for information. I poured over catalogues. In the end, I chose Camp Longacres, East Aurora NY.
Aside. Still exists.
One of my other choices was Bobbin Hollow.
Aside. Ditto.
Longacres is hunter/jumper. Bobbin Hollow is saddle seat. I remember that I liked Longacres for their lack of fixed schedules. I don’t think I knew the difference between riding disciplines at that point. Imagine if I had gone to a saddle seat camp at the age of 10.
The forks in your road?
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A counterfactual conditional is a type of if-then logic statement.
Counter Factuals is a game played on The Big Bang Theory.
The annual, in-barn, just-us-chickens show today.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show IMDB
TRHPS fan site
A Tim Curry retrospective: This is What Twitter is Made For, 10/12/15 on Whatever
TRHPS on RS
My Confidence Has Increased
Monster Alphabet Book
With apologies & respect to Richard O’Brien, creator of TRHPS.
Thus endeth the reposting of my previous monthly blogs Back To Eventing and Back To Riding.
Coda
All done here.
When I started daily blogging Rodney’s Saga in December [of 2011], I intended to keep this Back To Riding as a monthly column. I fabricated an elaborate scenario wherein the two blogs reinforced each other. The word synergy was probably involved. OTOH, there is no reason I can’t throw the occasional longer post into the daily blog and consolidate the two. Occam’s razor wins again.
One of my goals in starting the second blog was to hear voices other than my own. I invite you over to say hi. Then as you see fit, please follow, comment, & forward to friends who might be interested.
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Timeline
July 30, 2011 – Started Back To Riding [July 2011: SITREP]
December 22, 2011 – Started Rodney’s Saga [We begin. Again.]
January 11, 2012 – Ended Back to Riding [Coda]
May 30, 2013 – Started Off Topic [The Spirit In Me Greets The Spirit In You]
February 6, 2014: Began cross-posting occasional Off Topic posts on to Rodney’s Saga [Off Topic: Yay or Nay?]
March 24, 2015 – Most recent Off Topic entry [Online Flower Journal: March 19, 2015]
Off Topic appears to have retired for the moment. A second blog may reappear at some point, if history is any judge.
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Rodney’s Saga repost locations
Back To Riding
Repost BTR, July 2011: SITREP
BTR 2 of 7, August 2011: SIT[uation]REP[ort] II – The Horse
BTR 3 of 7, September 2011: My Two Horses
BTR 4 of 7, October 2011: Aftermath of an Explosion
BTR 5 of 7, November 2011: Weekend with Wofford
BTR 6 of 7, Livin’ Large: December 2011
Or
The original Back To Riding blog
Back To Eventing
BTE 1 of 9: How I Won the Training Level AEC
BTE 2 of 9: The Cast Assembles
BTE 3 of 9: The AEC, a Realization in Five Phases
BTE 4 of 9: New Horse Blues
BTE 5 of 9: Buying the Horse is Only the Beginning
BTE 6 of 9: Back To Square One
BTE 7 of 9: Getting to Know You
BTE 8 of 9: Spring Fitness
BTE 9 of 9: Forward Planning
Or
List of all nine direct USEA links
