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Category Archives: Horses
The 4th: part uno
A little (HA) photo essay about the things I loved this 4th— Part One The Hometown Parade: we make it a science Every year as the kids grew up, we made our way to Ginger’s house, a lovely pioneer … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Stuff, Horses, Images, Just life, Seasons, The outside world
Tagged 4th of July, balloons, family, holiday, Horses, Scooter
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Hot to trot
If a horse is going to blow up on you, there’s a good chance it’s going to happen in the rough seam between a trot and the canter. Which makes sense: if you’ve got a kid doing the dishes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Horses, Images, Images of our herd in specific
Tagged Brennan, colts, Hickory, hoses, light, Photoshopping, Rachel, storm, training
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Facing the elephant
There’s all this stuff I want to write about. Even if nobody ever read this, I’d want to remember it, talk about it. But life is like this moving sidewalk on steroids, and things whip past before you have a … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Fun Stuff, Horses, Images of our herd in specific
Tagged colt, happy, Horses, riding, trot, Zion
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Scrap Quilting
Not really. Scrap life-ing. Bits and pieces out of my image library. Not showing off my technique, just cool little moments. Grandson Young moms doing lunch in the park. They let me stay. Old dog. Losing his hearing. But never … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Horses, Images, Images of our herd in specific, Just life, Seasons
Tagged dogs, family, grandkids, Horses, season, stuff
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Saturday
HUZZAH for the husband who’ll come out in the drizzle and fire up the hobby tractor (with the reluctant battery) and muscle a 5000 pound roll of no-climb horse fence and a fence stretcher and still be patient with me … Continue reading
Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Explanations, Family, Fun Stuff, Horses, Images of our herd in specific, Just life
Tagged fence, grass, Horses, husband, rain, spring
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Rachel, Sophie and the Blustery Day
If I ever decide to go riding on a windy day again, remind me: this never turns out well. It was on a blustery day that I fell off my horse (for the first and only time in the real … Continue reading
Posted in friends, Horses, Images of our herd in specific, Just life
Tagged Rachel, sophie, wind
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Luba
I found Peter Hagerty when I was cruising the web, looking for instructions as to how to make a simple felted wool ball. Don’t ask me why I wanted to do this; there are just so many fascinating materials to … Continue reading
Posted in friends, Fun Stuff, Horses, Images of our herd in specific, Making Things, The outside world
Tagged felt, horse, Luba, peace
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What a diff a day can make
This was yesterday: It was Levi’s birthday, and so Rachel decided that she would give him a present she could open herself: an afternoon’s ride. So I ran down to the (farm, pasture, stable???) to tune up my Sophie—who put … Continue reading
Whoop-de-do!
Rachel came over today to hash over an idiotic book that had driven her nuts (which was fun – and she came on her pink bike. Wait. Red?). Before too long, we had stumbled into an entirely accidental idyll of … Continue reading
All tractor, all the time—
John Deere and my GM (good man, not general motor). Finessing the box scraper. Kind of like trying to fix a watch with a hammer. Jetta. Impressed. GM doing other manly things with the tractor. Did I tell you we … Continue reading