I didn’t feel great yesterday evening, so skipped the choir Zoom meeting and went to bed. And this morning….a migraine. Overnight clouds had moved in and a wind from the south. After a couple of hours trying to argue myself into wellness (waste of time and I know it, but often can’t act on it Read More…
Author: Elizabeth
Writer, photographer, married, mother. Also native plants, wildlife, music, horses, curiosity unlimited, time limited. Pronouns she, her
Rags & Tigger & Elizabeth Tales
Today I rode Rags again, since his hooves are now trimmed and in good shape. Rags was not thrilled by the honor (!) and Tigger thought he should supervise the whole thing and had to be gently chased away from time to time. Here’s Tigger’s expression while I’m haltering Rags. Rags has the posture I’d Read More…
Revision: Firing Up the Chainsaw
Like everything else in writing, there are many ways to approach revision, and I’ve written quite a bit about the process elsewhere. But every writer and every project has unique challenges. For NewBook, I’m choosing a slower (since I have no deadline) but thorough and reliable method to cope with its nature and history. I Read More…
NewBook Has an End
About 1:20 pm today, NewBook attempted the “trickling away” ending (which usually means the real ending is some pages back) and sure enough, the real ending was some pages back. It’s found its end. Now comes the chainsaw of correction, the gorilla glue of mending and patching, the jewelers’ rouge for polishing, and weeks more Read More…
Wild and Non-Wildlife
First it was the peacock. Some people toward the west end of our place have (or had) peacocks and peahens. We could hear them screaming. Anyone who’s heard a peacock in full voice (they don’t have an “indoor” voice) will recognize it again, unless the competition is another unusual (for us) bird I heard at Read More…
Music, Horse Videos, and Approaching Completion
Toward the end of a day, I write in shorter bursts, interspersed with taking a look at Elphick Event Ponies, Life on the Left Rein, Footluce Eventing, and other vlogs involving horses, both training and competing in things I like to watch. I also listen to music (non-vocal usually) to keep the longer sections of Read More…
Rags & Tigger Show: Dies Irae, Farrier Style
Let me just say that I have had horses that were easy to trim & shoe, OK to trim (I keep mine barefoot here), mostly OK to trim, and unreliably OK to trim. Then came Tigger. And, once I had him, Rags, who is only now willing to give a hoof (the fronts anyway) and Read More…
Reader Help Needed!
In COLD WELCOME, chapter 37, Grace, MacRobert, etc. are flying west from Port Major across the continent to a city on the west coast where they will meet Stella coming in from off-planet. I do not have the final version of this book on the computer; it has them flying to Portmentor. I also have Read More…
The Veteran’s Rant
Veterans have many reasons to be annoyed (!) with Donald Trump. Not all are, because not all veterans think alike (shock horror, we’re not a monolithic post-military mob.) But many are annoyed (or more) and we–my husband and myself–are in that group. We also have reasons to be annoyed with him beyond our status as Read More…
Rags & Tigger Show
The setup: We have a small barn with a 30 x 30 space in it for horses (one end is the feed/tack room and a tool & supplies for non-horse stuff room). On each side of the barn is a fenced area 30 x 40 feet (in other words, the full length of the barn, Read More…