Category Archives: Just life

Would you like a little caveat with that?

Posted on August 27, 2009 by K

Okay.  So I have not answered comments as I have wished to.  I have not even answered email.  I have spent the last month doing – I don’t know what – at about seventy miles per hour, which may be … Continue reading →

Posted in Just life | 17 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

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

Craft and cleverness

Posted on July 18, 2009 by K

I love handmade stuff. Love it, love it, love it. And I love buying from the person who makes the stuff. Especially magical things like pottery and lampwork and stained glass and jewelry and onions. I wanted to show you … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun Stuff, Making Things, Pics of Made Things | Tagged , | 13 Comments

~:: having a hay day ::~

Posted on July 15, 2009 by K

Now, ya’ll may not find this interesting.  But as a dyed-in-the-wool ignorant suburb-baby, I find it absolutely and utterly fascinating.  Stick with me and I’ll have you well educated in the art of angsting over the coming winter and knowing … Continue reading →

Posted in A little history, Explanations, friends, Fun Stuff, Horses, Images, Just life, Seasons, The outside world | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

July scrap

Posted on July 11, 2009 by K

I love the Car Guys on public radio.  I’m serious.  I LOVE those guys.  This morning, as I was winding my way home from manure shoveling (don’t tell the leg dr.), they were winding up the show with their usual … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun Stuff, Images, Seasons | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments