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…
Tag: life beyond writing
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…
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…
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…
Soup & Story
Many people–I among them–have used the image of a giant soup pot for the writer’s mind and stories. Everything around goes into the pot, the pot bubbles along, and at some point out comes a bowl of something good. I notice increasingly though that what comes out depends on how the writer conceives of story…should Read More…
Seasons
First week of November: our trees and bushes are changing color. Last week we began noticing the glowing green of leaves losing some of their chlorophyll…sun shining through, and not just on, them. But this morning I walked out into a display of yellow: the ash trees, the bois d’arc trees, the western soapberries…bright buttery Read More…
Rags & Tigger Show
This evening I fed the horses a flake each an hour before their supper, because, with the time change, they think they should be fed at 4 pm, not 5, and I’m easing them into the winter feeding schedule (I need light in the barn to measure their evening feed, and there’s only sunlight or Read More…
The Elephant in the Room
Two Elephants, actually. One is Election Day, and the other is one party of candidates. The first Elephant is a reminder to US citizens that voting is not just a privilege, but a duty…and a related duty is not interfering with anyone else’s right to vote. So please, if you haven’t voted during early voting, Read More…
Are Horses Off-Topic? Not Really
Most regular visitors here know I am a horse lover, longtime rider, and occasional horse owner, with a list of horse-related injuries to prove some level of inexpert experience. I have fallen off horses over fences, been spun off, bucked off (both western & English tack), and have had broken bones and concussions. Still, the Read More…