Hey, I forgot to mention that I’ve been cantering Mo without stirrups! How cool is that? We just rock along (probably not today; the air quality is forecast to be very very bad) and I don’t have my feet in the stirrups and it’s just fine and dandy! Hooray!
I was watching an episode of The Wild Wild West last night and, of course, it was appallingly acted and written but way back, when that show was current, I thought it was soooo cooool! Now that I am an adult and a callous sophisticate, even my favorite character, Artemus Gordon, seems two-dimensional. And OMG the [...]
It’s funnier if you remember when Nancy Reagan was First Lady. Lee Atwater, that scamp, once appeared in public wearing a “Just Say Moe” t-shirt.
My friend Dawn loaned me a copy of Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards. Damn! It’s one of those can’t-put-it-down books! I sat up very late on Friday night and read and read until I got to the end. And yes, I was tearing up and snuffling a bit.
An abused animal walks into Susan’s [...]
“She’s a nice horse,” said one of my fellow students.
“She’s not a nice horse,” I said.
“Yes she is.”
No, she’s not. Gabby is not a nice horse. She’s beautiful. She’s drop-dead beautiful. She has lovely eyes and a soft, soft coat and she’s just dazzling, dazzling — but nice? Nope. Not nice.
A couple of weeks ago, [...]
You know what that little buzzard did to me yesterday? He bit me!!! Me!!! The one who leases him and puts linament on his feet and pays for his hoof care and buys special horse vitamins and brings graham crackers — yeah, me! He bit me! OK, it was more of a nip. No broken [...]
