Life in the Country
Next to my front door. Had to go horizontal to catch the full spread of the antennae. Didn’t want to intrude, so I left. When I came back, the white was gone. Fell? Eaten?
“A grasshopper molts, shedding its outer layer (exoskeleton) and leaving a hollow shell (exuviae) behind.” Encyclopædia Britannica – exoskeleton: grasshopper molting The Amateur Entomologists’ Society says this would be a cricket, due to the length of the antennae, AES – Grasshoppers and Crickets (Order: Orthoptera). The EB entry on crickets didn’t explain molting as well.
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Bag hanging in an unused corner of the barn. Residents left the day before.
Ad Critique II
If I insist on being snarky [Ad Critique], then it behooves me to point out when an equine ad is done well.
Vanity Fair, June 2015
Nice looking horse. Clean, well-fitted tack. No gaping flaws in horse management. Simon Baker is actor, so I assume the photo was staged specifically for this advertisement. It is not a case of, as so well-stated by ridexc, “an art director (who) has five minutes to select something that sorta says elegant and swanky.” [ibid].
Good on you, Longines.
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch: Nada
Monday’s head cold [Delay] kicked my ass. My brilliant medical advisor came home with Sudafed for pressure and pain. Sweet relief. I could move.
On the other hand, I over-react to drugs in amusing ways. Percocet has made me paranoid. Pain-killers have made me hysterical. A half-dose of Sudafed left me without the will to do … to do … anything. I bailed on my riding lesson. I scheduled the show posts then staggered back to bed. I spent most of last week sitting in dark rooms, playing video games, and listening to Terry Pratchett audio books. This would have been a delightful vacation in the garden of sloth, except for that still, small voice:
What are you DOING? You have WORK. The house is a dump. The DISHES are taking over the sink. How about the horses? You remember horses? Okay, Rodney is on the slow plan. However, you have a NICE horse who is ready NOW. Get your sorry self out to the barn. Do SOMETHING. Do I have to remind you that life is SHORT? Do you realize how much of a HASH you are making out of the opportunities so generously piled in front of you?
I would never talk to another person the way I talk to myself.
Driving Around in Circles
MSSP 2015
Sandra Hall Photography
I prefer interesting editorial shots to pretty presentation pictures. I wish the official photographers took more of them. When given the opportunity to show off, I tend to get fired up. I’ve had several moments of equine exuberance in victory passes that would have made great images.
A more standard shot, wherein I kept my act together for the v.p:
MSSP 2015
Sandra Hall Photography
(A web image is an authorized, low-rez version from the photographer of a purchased photo. Not one that I took off the website.)
Update: [Show Report]
Text Art: Sticky Notes
Source:
Tweet Storage as of May 30, 2015
Saving tweets for posterity, or at least for my own amusement.
19 tweets.
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#HorseHour tweets
End #HorseHour and my commentary thereon.
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Show Report & Tweets: Winter Tournament 2015 #3, B&W Stables, February 18, 2015
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Show Tweets: ASAC 2015, March 19, 2015
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Show Tweets: Pro Am 2015, April 9, 2015
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Retweeting for a contest. I won!
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Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, Cross-Country Day, April 25, 2015
My retweet of Ms. Potter’s post
A clever response to the same tweet.
https://twitter.com/LisedeLuavull/status/592013421845032963
My retweet of Lise L’s post
End Rolex
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Lunch at the picnic table at Stepping Stone Farm + carrots in lunch + free-range donkeys = Carrots? Did you say carrots?
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Show Tweets: Dixie Cup 2015, May 6, 2015
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Show Tweets: MSSP 2015
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