Tag Archives: Horses

=: Red, White and Blue :=

Posted on July 7, 2010 by K

Once upon a time, I wrote this post which will tell you much more about me and the 4th of July than you will ever want to know.  And I posted pictures of that celebration, much smaller than our wont. … Continue reading →

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And after that, a tail~:>

Posted on June 6, 2010 by K

And a BIRD.  Or a FISH!—> <“K It looked better in the headline, though, darn it – I still think it looks like a  pert little bird. Here is the progress on the horse pattern I’m working on. I started … Continue reading →

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Let me tell you a yarn~:>

Posted on June 5, 2010 by K

Ha.  Did you see that?  I came up with a mouse!!!  ~:> Murphy comes home in two weeks and three days.  I just had a sort of vision of me, two years ago, reading these words as I write them … Continue reading →

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May 3 week: pt. 4

Posted on May 28, 2010 by K

Loses some of its punch when I spread one incredibly dense and intense week over a months’ telling. Short-line real-time muses: A.  Today was the first time I’ve been outside since October that it made me happy to be there. … Continue reading →

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:::Minor Magic~

Posted on March 23, 2010 by K

Like children, horses have to be told everything a thousand times.  Puppies, too.  It’s called training, but really, it’s just dogged insistence on the part of the responsible party.  Some people have a gift for doing it, others have it … Continue reading →

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The Yule Shindig: pt.1

Posted on December 20, 2009 by K

Dec 20 How to get ready for a party. This is pretty much the only party you ever have, and it’s at Christmas, so you have plenty of leisure time to get ready.  No pressure. 1. First think to yourself, … Continue reading →

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Interlude – or where your steak comes from

Posted on December 16, 2009 by K

First thing in the morning: let the tide of puppies out of their crate.  Allow yourself to be carried along with the rolling surge: down the hall to tumble down the stairs, finally pooling – whirling around and around at … Continue reading →

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Oh—and incidentally . . .

Posted on December 7, 2009 by K

Okay, so I went by the post office the other day and waited in a HUGE long line at a counter that had six registers and only one human behind it.  We joked around, the other waiters and I, dark … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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