Category Archives: Family

End of August Stuff

Posted on September 6, 2009 by K

I don’t have any more caveats.  For now.  If your life has been anything like my silly series of misadventures in the last month and a half – or seriously, if it’s been more stupid or truly challenging, then bless … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun Stuff, Horses, Just life, Seasons | 7 Comments

Why We Discourage Early Dating

Posted on August 24, 2009 by K

You see what I’m talking about?  You SEE???   Whose children ARE these?  Where are their MOTHERS?  More to the point, which one of those mothers is taking this shot?  This is the peril.  This is the danger.  I mean, … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, The kids | 12 Comments

He’ll be going round the mountain . . .

Posted on August 23, 2009 by K

M will be home, ten months from yesterday.  That was the first important thing about yesterday.  The second is that we ended up taking the colt for his FIRST LONG RIDE up the mountain.  It was a miracle of circumstance: … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, friends, Fun Stuff, Horses, Images, Images of our herd in specific, Just life, The outside world | Tagged , , | 17 Comments

Me, me, me

Posted on August 17, 2009 by K

          Today, I rode three horses.  I keep noting these things because I am living a long dream.  I have loved horses all my life—except during a certain period of my life spent in college and pursuit … Continue reading →

Posted in Horses, Just life | 9 Comments

Frazz and the mirror eyes~

Posted on August 11, 2009 by K

There are two places where I always end up feeling nervous and small.  One is the airport.  When I was young, my dad worked for TWA, and we’d always fly standby – free to see my grandmother, cousins.  The catch … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Gin, The g-kids, The outside world, Visits | 11 Comments

Frazz and the Slithering Tails

Posted on August 10, 2009 by K

On Friday, I suggested that Frazz might want to go outside and play.  We have a great yard—trees and rope swings and hills and little forests.  I had visions of myself propped up in a lawn chair with a book, … Continue reading →

Posted in dogs, Family, friends, Fun Stuff, Gin, The g-kids | Tagged , , | 14 Comments

Frazz and the Exploding Pony

Posted on August 9, 2009 by K

So much to write—so little time. When the Gin set comes to visit, all of the family together, Frazz cannot touch the horses.  This is because he does not want his mother’s head to explode.  Or her eyes either.  Or … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Horses, The g-kids | Tagged , , | 14 Comments

Flipping Sweet Sorrow

Posted on August 5, 2009 by K

          We living creatures are constantly swimming in a confluence of diverse and dynamic systems.  I know that.  And I know that a peaceful day is something of a miracle.  And any series of peaceful days is … Continue reading →

Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, friends | 16 Comments

Brave Max

Posted on August 4, 2009 by K

  This is Nice Max . . .     champion of dogs who need to go OUT, friend to stuffed animals, the comfort of his mother’s old age. This is Brave and Strong Max.   VERY strong Max. This … Continue reading →

Posted in dogs, Family, Fun Stuff, Gin, The g-kids | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

July: not just fireworks

Posted on August 3, 2009 by K

It’s not easy to write about life at the same time you are living it.  What did Wordsworth say?  Poetry is strong emotion as recollected in tranquility?  Yeah.  Tranquility.  A poet who was obviously not a mother.   Because I … Continue reading →

Posted in Epiphanies and Meditations, Family, Images, Just life, Texas, The g-kids, The kids, Visits | Tagged , , , , | 10 Comments