Reconsidering Lunch

Awareness of the outside world. Horse & Hound: ‘Why not?’: rider is the first to compete at top level dressage without spurs, Murray, 28 February, 2024. Rider not saying spurs are inherently evil, just that high level dressage is possible without them.

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Lunch may not prove to be sustainable.

Problem one. A third meal in the middle of the day means I have to be home to serve it.

Problem two, the larger one at the moment. In order to eat in peace, Rodney needs to be put up and then let out once he is done. Therefore, the time between turnout from breakfast to serving lunch, or the time from lunch turnout to serving dinner hay, is only a few hours.

If I were tossing two of hay piles & walking off, I’d still have to be here, but I’d have more time between. This would mitigate the issue but not remove it completely. Not that I have anywhere to go that takes me away from the house for the entire day, but I can tell this is going to get old eventually.

For example. Last month’s 5K made me late for lunch, even though the swamp is reasonably local. [Leaping Around The Swamp]

For example, I can’t hang when I go over to Stepping Stone Farm. By the time my lesson is over, I have to head home.

If it was life-sustaining, I’d figure it out, as I did for Mathilda. This is more precautionary.

For now? Fine.

For a year? Probably

For the next five, ten years? Every day? Not fine.

Possible new plan. Lunch as a winter event. Taper down & stop as they have grass. Pick up again when the eats go away. Things are easier to take if one gets a break. Plus, winter is more a stay-at-home season.

The Most Recent Incarnation of Lunch

[Stall Rest Chronicles 22 March, Lunch Is Served] March 2023

[Lunch Is Served. Again.] November 2023

[The Logistics of Lunch] December 2023

Onwards!
Katherine

Two No and One Yes, 36 Days of Type 2024

Awareness of the outside world. “The Navajo Nation, which also stretches into Utah and New Mexico, will reset clocks for one hour later despite being situated between two territories that remain on standard time: the rest of Arizona and the neighboring Hopi reservation.” AP: The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it’s a time of confusion, TANG, March 9, 2024. Hat tip to M.

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Single loop alphabet. Each letter & number formed from a continuous line. Unrelated alphabet included for visual interest.

NO

36 Days of Type is not being held this year. Combination of 10 years of effort and changes to Instagram formatting. “Making it almost impossible to manage a new edition as we used to.” Instagram @36 Days of Type 7 March 2024.

NO

I’m was not planning on participating. Because …

YES

I came up with an idea I like so much that I want to work with each letter rather than crank thru the entire thing in a month. But first, I need to finish the fractal project. Expect new letters later in 2024.

Previous

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[36 Days of Type, H to N]
[36 Days Of Type, Project Intro] 2022, full alphabet at end

[36 Days Of Type 2023] full alphabet

While I like many of the letters from the first year, the alphabet as a whole has no unity. I opted for consistency the second year.

Onwards!
Katherine

Kennings for Blog, Poetry

Words of the outside world. Allusionist 188. Lipread, January 28, 2024. “Visemes can often be humorous, as in the phrase ‘elephant juice’, which when lip-read appears identical to ‘I love you’.” Wiki: Viseme

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Kenning. “A metaphorical compound word or phrase (such as swan-road for ocean) used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry” Miriam-Webster: Kenning

Blog. “A website that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks, videos, and photographs provided by the writer.” Miriam-Webster: Blog

Kennings to describe a blog:

Public Ponderings

Digital Diary

Passé Platform

Online Ontogenisis

Afterword

Once again, I expected to be able to generate more. I keep thinking of kennings as word usage and forgetting about the metaphorical poetry aspect.

Kennings do not have to alliterate. That was a tangent I went off on my own.

Speaking of poetry, I use labels to warn folks when a post wanders off-topic, e.g. photography, fiction, graphic design. For Saturdays, I usually have fiction or non-fiction. I couldn’t decide which this should be. Hence the poetry label. [State of the Subtitles]

[Honorable Mention! Kennings Contest by Artifact Puzzles, Non-Fiction] Where I heard about kennings and description of what they are.

Onwards!
Katherine

Horse Ads Never Cease To Amaze

Awareness of the outside world. Speaking of sales pages. “She was also a torchbearer in the long legacy of Black contributions to Thoroughbred racing, a sport that was built on the labor of enslaved Black people.” Breyer: Cheryl White | Rider, Horse, and Book Set. I didn’t expect historical relevance on a toy sales page. Good for them.

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Here’s a new one, seen on a ‘Horses we have for sale’ page.

“On-site trial fees apply.”

I took this to mean one had to pay for the privilege of looking at the horse. Really? You have so many inquiries that you have to filter out the tire kickers?

Furthermore, are you sure they were tire kickers? There’s a lot of things a prospective buyer might not be telling you. From a post ten years ago & still true,

The horse is special but not special enough. His talent is average. Our ideas on his value are so far apart that it would be insulting to make an offer based on what I think he’s worth. Do you have any IDEA how lame your horse is?

[Note to Horse Sellers: We Are Not Idiots. We Are Polite.] 2014

You, the seller, have no way of knowing why we, the buyers, walk away.

A more optimist interpretation of the fee might be a form of in-house lease for a week or two. In which case, maybe?

Nope. Further investigation reveals a substantial cost to try the horse, refundable with purchase, along with several other rules, including a penalty for trying the horse a second time.

What?!?!?

Deep breath. Not my circus; not my monkeys. If it works for their process, more power to them.

This is me, looking elsewhere.

Onwards!
Katherine

Walking Milton

Awareness of the outside world. Ag Daily: Why I don’t buy anything that says ‘non-GMO’, Miller, February 27, 2024. Article thesis, the ‘non-GMO’ label is more marketing than science. Hat tip to K.

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It has been decreed that Milton needs to get in shape. He has a few activities very lightly penciled on his schedule this year. So, double session for him. Hence the team ride last weekend. [Saddles!]

First session is the morning walk, per usual. On the weekends, the second session is long-lining with our resident driver. On the weekdays, I take him for a second hand walk. If all goes well, we will work up to walking with tack and eventually long-lining.

In an ideal world I would be riding and doing trot sets. The on-ramp to that world is in the rear-view mirror. So, we are hoofing it.

Onwards!
Katherine