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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-23
Off to help a friend pack… hate to see them move but they have found a great opportunity. # Bike ride and horse ride yesterday. Hopefully horse ride on the youngster today, if it isn't too wet after a night of thunderstorms. # RT @tweetmeme Three Science Fiction Writing Exercises http://bit.ly/9hBpAe # Empire Strikes Back b-day. PacMan Google log. And I just hung up a TARIS bead curtain in my office. #geek #...
Continue reading...Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-16
Wanted to ride today but was only able to get grain and hose off the horses. Hopefully tomorrow. # Headaches suck. Massively. Hope this sinus front clears out. # Anyone else out there using #Glass (see http://writeonglass.com) Would like to add some contacts… # Horsemasters = Pony Club for adults. Great fun. Crazy people of all ages who are into serious fun with their horses. # Good night all. I'm off to Horsemasters....
Continue reading...Prize has a grand time
Sylvana, a friend of mine at the barn, and I both have four year olds we are working with under saddle. Our two Arabs (okay, he’s technically an Anglo-Arabian) have the Arab herd-brain: when one snorts the other automatically snorts and looks around. Even if nothing is there. It just takes a snort. Funny to see when a llama is following you around the pasture… Sylvana is taking her four year old, Renegade,...
Continue reading...Riding lesson translates to regular riding
I had a riding lesson up at Mom’s on Saturday. I rode Piccolo (Hanoverian warmblood schoolmaster horse) in a dressage lesson with Lauara, one of Mom’s new instructors. She was very good. She explained how to do a half-pass properly by pushing with my inside leg every time I felt his inside back leg move (i.e., when his belly swung towards the outside). She had me cantering this huge warm blood without any...
Continue reading...Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09
Opera Finds Flash Unappetizing For Web Video – Opera – Gizmo.. http://digg.com/d31QR2j # Stella's blood work is pretty comparable to last tests 8 months ago. she is not anemic. now we are testing for a uti, just to be safe. # Vet pulled bloodwork on Stella. We will see what that says. Stella is curled up in her carrier and didn't want to be held. # Stella at the vet for a check...
Continue reading...Happy birthday to Stella, and a vet visit
Stella is 21 this month. She is the oldest cat I’ve ever had. She has been very healthy and spry for the most part. Since the move to the new apartment, she has been losing weight and not looking as good. She is looking more her age instead of being so kittenish. (She did play with her tail last week in the bathtub. First time she had done that in a while and...
Continue reading...Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02
Had a great play day with the Bay Wonder Mare Junior… She met llamas and survived! 🙂 Walked right up and met one with no problem. # RT @archaeologynews: 7 Medieval castles you can buy today: Have you got extra cash burning a hole in your pocket? http://bit.ly/bnlzo4 # RT @archaeologynews: (Egyptology) Graeco-Roman tombs, an intact coffin, Ptolemaic coins and whale bones http://bit.ly/bok2i6 # Looks like Legend of the Seeker has been canceled:...
Continue reading...Kasane had her first real ride today
Sylvana, an awesome natural horse trainer (and mentor), met me at the barn after work to help me with Kasane. Sylvana and Chris, the barn owner, have given me tips and suggestions for working with young horses using natural horsemanship methods. I’ve always done traditional training methods and always enjoy learning new techniques and methods. Sylvana watched me work Kasane. The Bay Wonder Mare Junior was frisky at first: she bucked at me...
Continue reading...Back at the barn
After over a week of being away from the barn, I finally got back out there on Sunday. Sunday morning I realized just how much stress I’d been living with because I felt shaky and off kilter. The best solution when I feel like that is to go to the barn. Not to ride, but just to see the girls. Just putting my hand on Isis washes away the stress and everything is...
Continue reading...Moved. Finally.
For the past month, I’ve been packing and coordinating a move. Finally finished the move on Friday, cleaned like mad on Saturday, and turning in the keys to the old apartment on Sunday morning. I used a moving company for the first time: Trosa Moving. These guys were great. It took five guys about 3.5 hours (they estimated 4 hours) to move my stuff from a third floor apartment to a third floor...
Continue reading...Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25
Have moved into new apartment. Have box city to unpack. Am rebelling and watching Time of Angels. # Stuff is moved. Now it is time to clean my old place…Arg. All I want to do is go to the barn… # Got the keys to the new place. Now the fun begins… # RT @svgeesus: Leaked Copyright Treaty and Net Freedom: http://bit.ly/8XuCi7 via @thetyee # http://twitpic.com/1hqycf – The pile of stuff to move…...
Continue reading...Lessons from riding
I’ve had a riding lesson for the past two Saturdays. It has been a roller coaster where my riding skills fluctuated from newbie to advanced. Had my skills degraded? Muscle tone wasn’t as good as it had been in 2008 when we were able to ride more. In 2009, riding time was minimized due to Isis’ and my medical issues. Even though it was hard to ride when Isis tripped several times every...
Continue reading...Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-18
Worked two horses. Played D&D. Played with cats. Ren faire tomorrow, then riding. Packing panic for move to follow. # Found out Christina Cox was in Defying Gravity (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184965/) She was great in Blood Ties (based Tanya Huff's novels) # Dentist appointment this morning. I just love dentists. No, really. I do. Really. # RT @bookviewcafe Today's Special from Judith Tarr: – new chapter in Ars Magica – read it for free at...
Continue reading...Swedish ad for horse racing
If horses lived and worked with us, maybe it would be something like this… Interesting how some ideas don’t even need words to convey meaning. 🙂 Especially with horses. Related Images:
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