Virtual Brush Box

Art of the outside world. Michelle, rider & blog contributor, has been accepted as a member of an art gallery. Facebook: River Art Gallery of Pascagoula, 10 July. Whoot! [Macho Dresses Up As Dr. Whooves, Travel Posts & Cat Photos & More by Michelle D.]

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Ultramarine.

The Paris Review: True Blue, Mangla, 2015

Windsor & Newton: Colour story: Ultramarine

For My Reference

New this time. First image, border in Inkscape at same time as image. Second image, border in GIMP. Differences, no beveling in Inkscape, inner & outer liners to border. GIMP can be made flat; Inkscape beveled? Since the frame is a shape, stuck with both inner & outer liners, or neither. Different width, but that I can adjust.

[Fractal Alphabet]

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. “A portion of the proceeds from the Never Say Neigh-ver 5K will benefit Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement.” Breyer: Never Say Neigh-ver 5K – BreyerFest 2024. “On the Thursday morning of Breyerfest, Mackenzie and I made the very short trek to tour Old Friends.” Kristin Beverly: Old Friends, 2023.

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In honor of BreyerFest this weekend. Breyer: What Is BreyerFest 2024?

Inspiration. “Never Have I Ever prompt from Sputter Moo Productions.” Braymere Custom Saddlery: Never have I ever, Breyer collector edition, January 23, 2024. Sputter Moo Productions.

Never have I ever …

Gone To Breyerfest. Fractional points for virtual. [2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 no post]

Customized a model. Vague memories of a failed attempt to customize a model as a kid. Dunno if it was a Breyer or not.

Owned a decorator. Yes. [Shopping: My First Model]

Congo-ed a mold. A micro congo. Identify Your Breyer: Esprit. I have Fire (2014 Year of the Horse), Neptune & two Apollos. It was interesting. I’ve stopped.

Talked to my models. I have two on my desk at the moment. I tell them they are pretty. Both decorators, BTW.

Gone to a live show. [What Happens at a Model Horse Show?]

Witnessed the aftermath of model “dominoes”. Cue Catzilla. Loose models no longer live on the top of bookcases.

Owned a blue model. Yes. [Low Key Photo Challenge: Toys]

The blue Big Lex model is my one grail, Scale Farm: Breyer 9132. Otherwise mostly done, “Today is the first day of Virtual Breyerfest. I sense model horses slipping into the loose ends category. I will “attend” this weekend’s festivities, walk the virtual 5K, and then probably not think about plastic ponies until next year.” [Horse Brasses and Permission Not To Pay Attention, NHBS 2021]

Read this whole list. Braymere ends their post with , “Read this whole list. Not only did I read it, I turned it into an entire blog post.” Yup.

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Did you know the origin of the Me Too movement? I did not. U Chicago News: Tarana Burke discusses her me too movement, Hollywood’s hashtag co-opting of it. Gregory 2023. Hat tip to M.

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Lake George, April 2024

Difference in Orientation

Difference in Horizon

Gallery Comparison

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Per prizelist, grants awarded by the Junior League of Lexington: A Caring Place, A Sense of Place, Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning, Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass, Kentucky Cancer Link, Lexington Leadership Foundation, Repairers Lexington E7 Kid’s Cafe, Sleeping Lambs, The Kentucky Center for Grieving Children and Families,

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Stepping Stone Farm is at the Lexington Junior League Horse Show with five horses and four riders/drivers. I am at home, cheering virtually.

Love That Baby, Reagan Huguley riding.

Finnmaster, Jessica Kasperian riding.

Mr. Bubbles, Sharon Gray driving.

Screenshots from livestream by Richfield Video. Border added. Crawl blanked for in-class images to prevent confusion. Rider captions do not track images during the class. They match when one is doing a victory pass. Whoot!

Did not get pics of remaining SSF contingent. I am dependent on what RV chooses to show, and how fast I can press the buttons.

Kentucky Horse Park

The ASB show runs from Monday 8 July to Saturday 13 July. Also this week is BreyerFest from Friday, July 12 to Sunday, July 14. Also, One and Done Horse Trials, Friday, July 12 – Sunday, July 14.

That means on Saturday, there will be Saddlebreds in the Rolex Arena, cross-country out in the fields and model horse folks everywhere else. Only at KHP.

Helmet Watch

Helmets spotted in Pleasure Equitation, Age 14 to 17 and Walk & Trot Pleasure, Age 12 & Under. One in each class. In hunters, two helmets, six hunt caps in the adults; four helmets, one hunt cap in the juniors. I assume helmets in driven & ridden road horses for kids. I guess adult heads don’t break?

Anyway.

The lone helmet took third out of thirteen in Pleasure Eq. Yay! Random human. Not an SSF person.

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Flowing Data: Accuracy of temperature forecasts where you live, July 8, 2024. Secondary links require a WaPo account, but the landing image gives the basic idea.

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Past weekend, first time put to this cart since Nashville in 2018.

Saturday

Sunday

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Society of Women Engineers: STEM Rentry Task Force. Hat tip to Z.

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Virtual Tevis Cup 2024
100 Miles in 100 Days
10 April to 21 July

Rodney
100 Miles
10 April to 24 June

Milton
100 Miles
10 April to 1 July

Commentary

A huge part of endurance competitions is soundness of the horse. The IRL Tevis has multiple vet checks, including one at the end. The horse must be judged Fit To Continue. You can complete all 100 miles and still get bounced. Talk about sad face.

Clearly, the Virtual Tevis has no such system. The soundness of each horse is up to their human. After Rodney finished, he got a day off, mostly due to logistics, and then resumed the daily morning mile. Milton ditto, but without the day off.

Fit to continue? Check.

Virtual Tevis Posts [Archives]

Onwards!
Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. I dissent.

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This is a very exciting photograph.

New pallets for the hay stall, which has been emptied, swept thoroughly, and allowed to air. I will no longer repeatedly step on that one broken board.

The good news is that we can go back to getting hay by the truckload instead of a handful at a time to be stored in the aisle for the interim. Bad news is that we will have to do this again, sooner rather than later. Alfalfa sheds.

Onwards!
Katherine