It's gonna take a week for me to post everything that's happened since Friday.
First: I threw up almost all of the pix I took on my Flickr. I've got shots of Merri, Mel, Karen Chaton, Zach, Trot on Hank, and Jonni's arm. Also lots of the racers and random characters. I still need to post my iPhone pics and try to process the videos. I videoed a lot of arrivals and vet checks.
Second, we're probably getting House #2. I don't want to jinx it so I won't talk TOO much about it yet, but we're planning on closing August 31.
Third, but not least, that is definitely a Ride among rides. Totally amazing. What a surreal weekend.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Au revoir
Off to Tevis. Not really au revoir, either - I should have internet most of the time I'm out there.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Let her eat cake
So yesterday I was societally obligated to eat a piece of cake. (I am not actually a wuss, I turn down sweets at least 2x a week at the office, but this time was different.) It was good cake - from Nothing Bundt Cake, local buddies.
Oh my god, it was unbelievably sweet. Almost too sweet to eat. I felt all weird and jittery while the sugar high lasted, then it crashed and I got SOOOO tired. Cake is really not worth it.
I mean, sure, I'll have birthday cake and special occasion cake, but I just can't see regularly eating sweets again.
House: we will know by Saturday afternoon. I hope the S responds by today - tomorrow I'm going to Tevis with C. Yippie! I won't be out of touch, but it would be nice to know beforehand.
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Oh my god, it was unbelievably sweet. Almost too sweet to eat. I felt all weird and jittery while the sugar high lasted, then it crashed and I got SOOOO tired. Cake is really not worth it.
I mean, sure, I'll have birthday cake and special occasion cake, but I just can't see regularly eating sweets again.
House: we will know by Saturday afternoon. I hope the S responds by today - tomorrow I'm going to Tevis with C. Yippie! I won't be out of touch, but it would be nice to know beforehand.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Get right back on that horse!
We are making an offer on another property. We'll see how it goes!
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
One down
Well, the house is going to someone else - there were a lot of other offers. Back to square one.
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Personality tests
I've been watching this meme spread for a couple weeks, and I guess it's time to take part. This time, the quiz says my horse is a DECA - Macho Man.
"If you have a serious job to do, this is the horse for it. You will have to get out of the way and allow them some freedom in how they do it. Sit down, shut up and hold on! It is initially hard to get them to accept that you do know what you are talking about, so training in the beginning can be challenging. Use psychology and variety and start them into their career at a very early age."
Sounds perfect for endurance, yeah? The problem is that I don't really think these things are accurate for self-administering humans, much less for what we're projecting onto our horses. I usually think stuff like this is self-fulfilling. "oh, I took a quiz that said she's dominant so I have to be more dominant and not let her push me around" leads to fighting with the horse which leads to thinking she's contesting my authority which reinforces the original decision.
Over on Aarene's blog, Evensong commented:
"Having studied psychology and being familiar with M-B and similar "inventories", I see such questionnaires as simply "jumping off points" for discussion. They are merely snapshots of one moment in time, from one person's perspective. I tend to take the "results" with a grain of salt."
That's a really good way of looking at it. (I'm so lucky to have such smart blog friends!)
Some of the quiz questions are things I haven't witnessed in months or years. For instance, Dixie eats alone now. She's too bitchy for me to take the chance of her hurting someone else's horse at feeding time. Still, every time I've fed her with others, she eats first and she eats from the haypile of her choice.
But other things, I'm just guessing. One of the questions (IIRC) was "does your horse like to go new places?" That's a question I feel we can only guess about. I really think almost all horses only want to go to new SAFE places with GRASS or other horses.
If we're lucky, our horses feel safe with us, so they're comfortable going where we ask. Or maybe the horse doesn't feel threatened and is curious about the new place. But the answer to the question is ALWAYS dependent upon circumstances.
Back to my horse: I have never understood that critter. I don't know if I ever will. I do feel like I get more moments of insight when I put aside my preconceptions about what she'll do and just observe.
I hope this stupid program doesn't eat this post like it ate the last one :(
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"If you have a serious job to do, this is the horse for it. You will have to get out of the way and allow them some freedom in how they do it. Sit down, shut up and hold on! It is initially hard to get them to accept that you do know what you are talking about, so training in the beginning can be challenging. Use psychology and variety and start them into their career at a very early age."
Sounds perfect for endurance, yeah? The problem is that I don't really think these things are accurate for self-administering humans, much less for what we're projecting onto our horses. I usually think stuff like this is self-fulfilling. "oh, I took a quiz that said she's dominant so I have to be more dominant and not let her push me around" leads to fighting with the horse which leads to thinking she's contesting my authority which reinforces the original decision.
Over on Aarene's blog, Evensong commented:
"Having studied psychology and being familiar with M-B and similar "inventories", I see such questionnaires as simply "jumping off points" for discussion. They are merely snapshots of one moment in time, from one person's perspective. I tend to take the "results" with a grain of salt."
That's a really good way of looking at it. (I'm so lucky to have such smart blog friends!)
Some of the quiz questions are things I haven't witnessed in months or years. For instance, Dixie eats alone now. She's too bitchy for me to take the chance of her hurting someone else's horse at feeding time. Still, every time I've fed her with others, she eats first and she eats from the haypile of her choice.
But other things, I'm just guessing. One of the questions (IIRC) was "does your horse like to go new places?" That's a question I feel we can only guess about. I really think almost all horses only want to go to new SAFE places with GRASS or other horses.
If we're lucky, our horses feel safe with us, so they're comfortable going where we ask. Or maybe the horse doesn't feel threatened and is curious about the new place. But the answer to the question is ALWAYS dependent upon circumstances.
Back to my horse: I have never understood that critter. I don't know if I ever will. I do feel like I get more moments of insight when I put aside my preconceptions about what she'll do and just observe.
I hope this stupid program doesn't eat this post like it ate the last one :(
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Pictures of prospective house
We're going to make an offer on this place. Can't get back in to take interior pictures, so you'll have to trust me on the fugly paint job and kind of weird layout, but the property + outbuildings is just dreamy. Needs a lot of work to be horse-ready, but I love where I board now so I don't have that sense of urgency.
Pictures!!
Pictures!!
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