Entries from July 2006

July 9, 2006

She is Found!!!

Dawn found Ann (or Anne — I can’t remember or I never could decide PLUS spellling was and is hard) on eBay!  Altogether now as one, let us praise eBay because you can find anything on eBay, even your own grandmother!
Total cost for the horse, s&h included, is $24.15, a bargain in the popular world of something you [...]

July 7, 2006

Cold Feet

After playing phone tag over the 4th of July weekend, I finally talked to a very nice woman who has two horses for sale.  We had a great conversation about her walking horses — and the more we talked, the more I realized I was terrified. Maybe “terrified” is too strong a word (and it wasn’t [...]

July 5, 2006

Posting without stirrups

I’ve tried this a couple of times and I’m still a long ways away.  I admit, I sort of thought it wasn’t possible (not really) until I saw another rider doing it today.  She did not have her feet in the stiffups and yet, she posted!  I didn’t even notice that her feet weren’t in [...]

July 4, 2006

Dagnab it!

If it would do any good at all, I would hurl myself onto the floor and explode into a weeping rage.  By “do any good,” I mean if it (the tantrum) would produce a change in the weather.  A series of big-butt thunderstorms passed through Central Ohio. Yea and verily, I saw the multi-pronged bolts of lightning strike [...]