Tag Archives: Horses

Swelter

Yeah, I know I was complaining about the rain—the dreary, chilly rain – was it just a month or so ago? Well, I’m taking it back. Not all of it, but some of it. Because now it’s hot.  Hounding hot … Continue reading

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July scrap

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

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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

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More scrap 2(?)

I hate it when I got a lot to write about and no time or opportunity to do the mind-data dump. It makes me jumpy, keeping all these things in the air. So I think I’m going to do bullets, … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Just a dumb day

I couldn’t sleep last night. Who knows why? Just, sometimes, you can’t find the soft place – the place where you sink down and it swallows you. I keep landing on ledges – maybe because I have a yucky full … Continue reading

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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

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Riding Freedom: a review

It began to be my practice, some decade and a half ago—just about the time we started making enough money to actually buy some of the things we used to spend our “date nights” lingering over as we tolled the … Continue reading

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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

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