The seventh ride came at the end of a long day, which began the day before by my starting a friend’s Christmas present pie later than I should’ve. So after getting to bed after midnight (pies can take a hour to bake, and then another two hours to cool enough to cover without their condensing Read More…
Month: December 2021
Back in the Saddle, Ride Six
Today wasn’t foggy at dawn, both cooler and crisper. I’m expecting a business-related delivery today, so wanted to ride early. As always, getting ready took longer than expected but I was finally up on Rags. Slightly more difficulty mounting, probably the result of my day off yesterday feeling icky and a slight remaining internal wobble. Read More…
Back in the Saddle: Fifth Ride
Tuesday’s ride completed the first week of work under saddle for Ragtime. He’s now fine with the ride length of 15 minutes. It was a lovely ride (again), this time up the east side of the dry woods, with only one hesitant moment from Rags, when he heard Tigger calling from the barn area. But Read More…
Back in the Saddle, Ride Four
Today was cloudy and kind of windy, and I didn’t ride until the afternoon. As if my getting on a horse made the clouds part, the weather changed abruptly and it turned sunny–a bit hazy, but not cloudy. Too warm for my warmer riding tights, so I wore the lightweight denim ones. Sure enough, Rags Read More…
Merry Christmas, Christmas Pony, Christmas Cooking (Post Recovered)
In this very scatterbrained year, we wish you a Merry Christmas (if you observe that) and wonderful winter holiday of whatever kind you prefer, previous to, overlapping, or after Christmas. Rags and I had a good ride this morning, while the Christmas chocolate fudge pecan pie cooled on its rack (yes, I started it immediately Read More…
Back in the Saddle, Day Two
I managed to mount from the rock block yesterday, and though dismounting still required assistance (more practice on the western saddle on its sturdy rack should help!) and ride Rags for the very short amble around that is what he needs at this stage of coming back into work. He thought ten minutes was five Read More…
Ragtime Apollo: Hay Bandit, Pellet Thief, Back in Work.
Rags discovered this morning that he was expected to be caught, saddled, bridled, and made to DO THINGS. He was ready to be unwilling for all the above, but he is (in his persona as Hay Bandit and Pellet Thief) strongly food motivated, and the foods he likes better than hay or pellets…come in packages Read More…
Soup Again
It’s time to make winter soups again. The ingredients for a good hefty winter soup are now in the house, and the beans–which always before I measured only by volume, 4 cups for a full batch in the 12 quart pot–I also weighed, this time. One pound, eleven point three ounces. Very close to one Read More…
Recoveries and Second Feasts and 80 Acres Mystery Fungus
R- recovered enough from his version of my disease by this past weekend for me to redo the feast of the weekend before. Success, we enjoyed it, our guest enjoyed it, and in the process I invented a post-invention-obvious pie. Having been less than thrilled with the commercial pie I’d ordered to satisfy a yearning Read More…