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[Apr. 19th, 2012|12:57 pm] |
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Oh, I just read that Susan Sexton died... way back in 2009. I didn't know that. It makes me sad. :( She was my favorite horse photographer. I still have a picture she took of my first horse. RIP Susan. |
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| Why horse stuff is a ripoff, part 3 ( or something- I have complained at least twice before). |
[Mar. 18th, 2012|08:40 pm] |
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Stock ties. A strip of plain white cotton fabric runs about $20 - $30. I am not joking. I bought my kid a pair of shorts today- they cost me $8. EIGHT DOLLARS. For PANTS. They have about 5x as much cotton fabric as the stock tie, and they are plaid. (FYI, white cotton doesn't even NEED dye. COTTON IS NATURALLY WHITE). They have a button and a zipper and an elastic waist. And yes, they were BRAND NEW. The cost of material for a stock tie is about $1.35. I don't think there is actually all that much labor seeing as how you only have to sew along the edge. Were I a less crappy seamstress, I would make one myself. I may still try just out of sheer annoyance. |
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| Bad carma. |
[Feb. 8th, 2012|11:55 am] |
Was in a car crash this morning- I had the green and was going 45 when I saw a car cutting across my path- I tried to stop, hit him, and veered off to the right where the traffic light post stopped my car for me. I'm ok- the other guy had some cuts on his head but was ok- his car was drivable, mine is not...
Thankfully there was a witness- the police came and gave the other driver a ticket for careless driving.
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| Watching old videos |
[Feb. 2nd, 2012|12:44 pm] |
Can you imagine what beautiful, long-eared, skinny blazed, little-front-sock babies he and Trudi could have made?
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Sorry, can't embed it-
Donnerhall |
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| Fashion alert |
[Jan. 14th, 2012|09:59 pm] |
Dear Equestrian world:
Polo shirts are formal insomuch as working at McDonald's is formal. Which is to say, not at all. They are unflattering unless in the absolute most pristine condition (even a clean, unwrinked polo with part of the collar wanting to curl looks terrible) and only when worn by twenty-somethings with slim, perfect figures maintaining perfect posture.
Ditch the polos already. The wraps, too- boots are way faster and offer more protection. |
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[Dec. 28th, 2011|08:08 am] |
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Oh, the weather was warm yesterday, even into the night...and I was stuck working 14 hours. With any luck we will finish tonight and maybe I will see the pony and the family... in any case, a nice forecast for the rest of the week, so I have great hopes for the 4 day weekend, which I will pretty much desperately need.... |
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[Dec. 19th, 2011|08:58 am] |
So I have purchased another new girth for Trudi this year- she still has hairless spots on each side so apparantly cutout-for-elbows-forward-girth-groove-girth + plushy girth sock is not going to cut it. *sigh*
So, I am trying a padded nylon girth with fleece. Old girth was just padded nylon, so hopefully this will work.
Poor sensitive red mare...
Had a lesson on Saturday where I kind of sucked. I was just weak and could not really get my body to do what I wanted, although I was feeling some changes in my hips and legs- interestingly, the work I've been trying to do on my hips seemed to make my lower legs seem very stable, like they didn't seem to want to move the way they sometimes do when I post, so that's probably a good thing. We did just a little canter work from trot spirals- trot 20 m circle, spiral to 10, back out to 20, canter,back to trot, repeat.
Things to remember on trot lengthenings- stretch legs down and put hands down while stretching up with my body and thinking about riding her up.
Yesterday built a pre-baked gingerbread house with a friend and the kiddo. It comes with the cookie parts, frosting, and some candy, but of course I felt the need to supplement with skittles and M&Ms. It worked out well, there is a little plastic tray that helps hold things up, and so all you have to do is frost things and stick them together. After we completed it, took pictures, and ate dinner, I fulfilled a childhood dream of actually eating some gingerbread house (always as a kid I would see one and be told I couldn't touch it, much less EAT it). It was sturdy gingerbread, but pretty good, and the icing definitely made it better. It's amazing what a lot of gingerbread actually goes into the walls and roof of even a small house though. Of course the kiddo didn't even like the gingerbread, he only likes to pick off the candy and eat that.
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Darn that little blond menace Hansel,always eating my house...
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[Dec. 7th, 2011|07:56 am] |
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Ugh, wretched cold continues- maybe it will warm up enough to ride tonight... |
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