Oh drats, I have to do this for FernV. I mean, I don't HAVE to.
FernValley haz branding iron. Does no-one know how to spell anymore??
kreativ. Jeeeeeeeeeeezzzz.
How creative!! Am I supposed to tag three other bloggers too?
Snivelling ALERT!
OH, the pain, the agony, the whining is getting annoying, I'll stop. Really.
Seven Possibly Interesting Things About Me.
1) I have clothes that are older than NicelyDun. WAY older than Mel:)
2) I'm really good with math stuff.
3) I have perfect pitch. No, really, I do. It's a curse. In MUSIC, you guys!! I can't not notice off key. I just can't. Sorry, Mick Jagger, you really SUCKED on the 2006 tour. Oh, Mickie Jagger just fractured several of his classics. My ears about burst. Even my husband, as deaf as a post from machinery operation for a gabillion years, noticed. The mighty have fallen into olden times.
(Tangent..Have you SEEN U2's commercial for Blackberry?? jeesh, hope he donates THAT money!)
4) I have excellent hearing. Drives people crazy, what I can hear.
5) Now that I think of it, I can smell really well, too, surprising, cause I (still, I KNOW) smoke, and I've
6) Had rhinoplasty.
7) Is my favourite number. No really!
8) Okay, I'm easily distracted, which is why I usually read comments from the bottom up.
(SIGH)
Three poor unsuspecting links to awesome blogs, are hearby nominated forthwithingly, by me, the kreativ blogger award recipientator.. I decided to go with randomest additions to my reading list. Flipping a coin is HARD, FV. (sobs)
(cough, cough, cough)
Ahem.
UnionSquareStables sounds way cool. In Florida, for crying out loud. Trade ya some heat and humidity! It was 50Frickin'Fahr degrees out this am. I'd love to be warm right now. Really.
Oh, that would be nine, but it really isn't interesting.. I prefer heat to cold. Why do I live here?? Oh right, place of birth..
Um, a a couple of blogs that haven't updated, in like forever. They have real lives. With horses. Must be nice.
Grey Mares are Always Interesting
Did you get the carrots, Trooper?
How was Mongolia, BHM? Kinda barbaric, eh? Darned bohemians, living off the land, eking out a living. How foolish! Rip that paper-thin top-soil UP! Put in a parking lot for the jeeps, FCS. How is UPS supposed to deliver the beer & carrots? Where will CNN set up?
That was sarcasm, by the way. Just tryin' to keep you up to speed.
And an extra, bonus special link, to an extra special artist, ND_Appy. She's busy painting, shhhh, don't bother her. She has enough to do. Very kreativ blogger!
Snivelling ALERT continues!
There, whew, my POOR fingers! Owowowowowowo. Ow!
Back to Horses, of the even older variety.
Thought I'd keep changing up the time line, keep throwing ya off. Backwards in time, we go. From 1981 to...
Aaaaaah. 1970. What a year. I got the HEck out of First/Worst barn, by way of Next/Worse barn, bonus points for no fear of inappropriateness towards my person. That's the log pile we'd school over. Yes, I am holding a piece of binder twine. Yes, I am wearing penny-loafers and chaps.
Where this log pile was, is now Hwy#407 & Dufferin Street, somewhere in there...
I can't tell where half the barns WERE anymore. Houses, houses, houses, liquor stores, banks, beer stores, BigOrangeRetailGiant, BORG stores. Drug stores, of course. Office towers where I used to hack. Weird...
This guy that I rode this mare for, had low clue power. Berry, Berry Low. Nice guy, loved horses, couldn't ride one to save his life, knew nothing about them, really. TruckDriver guy. He did feed them well. He did some deals...
F/W POS guy "set me up" with S/W, after learning I'd (finally) talked to some other friends at the F/W barn. I was lying, apparently.. In front of his wife, I was given the lecture about my lying. I'm 13, what the fcik did I know? I was a little angry about that. Some things aren't worth lying about. No, never told my parents... Are you kidding?? Saying ByeBye to horses was not in my plans.
Oh, I was hard on this mare. For 2 years or so, and then, after arguing with S/W about jumping a two-year old, I quit. And, tahDAH parents finally caved, and bought me a horse. I was 15 and a half. I think:)
1970, same mare, London Horse Show, again, sorry.
I'm saving the other GoLightly picture I found, in our old family photo albums. Falling apart at the bindings, such precious, fragile, delicate memories our family has.
Thanks, Mom. I'd forgotten all about that picture.
It's posted, just not here:)
Some things need remembered. Some forgotten. Some should be cherished and nurtured, like a wood-burning stove in winter. Glowing embers of memory, fanned by the love of horses.
The Special Horses.
To Your Horses.
21 comments:
Wow, I like Woody!!! More, please.
Vision fail-
Wendy
From the Bono fan in the house... he owns like 20% of Research in Motion, hence the sponsorship of the tour.
Blackberry also sponsored the Preakness and the Florida Derby :)
Here's Natalie at Gulfstream Park, looking wildy around for Bono - he might be here!!!!!
Now I can't get an iPhone, only hard part.
I don't go online for a week and I come back to find a gauntlet thrown down. Flipped a coin, did yeh? I see.
US, LOL!
I was just flabbergasted. Okay, so Bono owns 20% of RIM.
My gawd, just think of the $$$.
wow.
I luz Bono. I wish he luzed ME.
Couldn't figure out WHY I was watching Bono on a commercial, it seemed. Like culture shock, in a way.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday?
No gauntlets. FernV MADE me do it.
She's tough, berry tough.
yeah, sorry, Concordiana = Wendy.
Silly name for a nice mare.
I've posted that pic before.
Originality FAIL.
US- you will get used to it. GL has us doing all kinds of stuff we never thought possible.
HA you are so interesting.
Like that Mare , thank s for sharing . You know even while you were learning I think you had a better seat than a lot of people who profess to be Pro's
Imagine my confusion, as a faithful Bono follower ...
... see commercial with Bono singing (then)favorite U2 song on iPod. Get iPod. With (then)favorite U2 video preloaded.
... Become (as a result of iPod) faithful Mac user.
... Get Blackberry for work, long for iPhone (as faithful Mac user, as faithful iPod follower, due to aforementioned U2 video commercial)
... Find out about RIM/Bono connection, plus major horse race sponsor that must be appeased.
Arrrgh.
I can't believe I shared all that, but I'm not deleting it. Now you know too much about me.
I have yearlings to torture. Back outside I go.
Yeeeesh! I've missed a bunch o' posts!
US, My Name is Mac.
Send me money.
I am Macgraphics.
No, ReallY!
AND, are you ready?
I/we/My company Doesn'T Use mac.
PC, all the way from the dawn of DOS.
My Kid Sister, the photographer, is a mac user. SHE has $$$.
I'm seeing a pattern, here..
Sure does takes me a while.
Cowering to the torturer of yearling TB's.
Loved your post on why you like yearlings. I mean, why you are crazy enough to work with yearlings.
I mean..
great blog, anyway.
How's the witchy red mare?
I rode a liver chestnut mare, the terror of the barn. Same barn, as GL, but after GoLightly.
I gotta write up a flow-chart..
That mare is my best riding memory... I dumbfounded people, with that ride.
Mare was an angel, went like anyone's dream of the perfect hack/hunter/pleasure horse.
sigh.
She liked me:)
Recognized/appreciated another bitch, maybe;)
Maybe you're too dern nice with her!
(light bulb goes off over head)
Who said I was grumpy?
Oh, right, I did.
A flow chart would be nice GL :)
Maybe we should all create flow charts, just for kicks...at least to help our memories stay inline.
You keep suprising us with more and more and MORE stories of the horses you used to know, and I have this hinkey feeling that there are WAY more where they came from.
I still strongly suggest a hard cover version. I would definitely buy it.
(maybe throw in an autograph)
I like the photo. Beautiful horse.
Thanks for the links. I just found an interesting book on the blog. The Fearless Horse.
Nicely dun - agreed. I was thinking the same thing ... I could write a book about all of GL's (er.. Mac's) mares. I am dying to write a book about mares, I can't even tell you. Fascinating bitchy things.
My chestnut mare is becoming an equine social experiment to me. "What happens when I try... THIS?"
Oh... I thought your mare's name was Weedy. Thanks for clearing that up NC. I thought Weedy was cute, though. Wendy's nice.
My Mac's broke and my iPod has been taken over by my five-year-old son so that he can listen to the Killers all day. Yeah.
US- I think a book on GL and her insight would be fabulous.
Um.. Miss Mac... ever hear of Scribd.com?
I'm seriously thinking, when I do write, of just self-publishing. Hell with publishing houses. Why not self-publish and then just do the rounds of tack shops and horse shows? Much more fun and you actually reach your intended audience..
Back.. had to say..
Horse Heaven was fabulous. We still call horses Justabobs when they like to win by a nose.
Too bad Smiley is such a space cadet. I can imagine any conversation with her, her eyes getting wide and dreamy and you're just edging towards the door like, ummmmm sorry I said anything.
Like Professor Trelawney in Harry Potter.
Off her rocker.
Still can't believe she thought electrocuting her mare and feeding her to dogs was a good humane plan.
Yeesh. I only buy her books second-hand so she doesn't get any money from me.
Oh, crap, smiley was a kid. Rather unfortunate looking, as the legally blonde would say.
Good call, definitely a Trelawney type.
Great writer, great book.
I knew a guy..
actually it was that guy
<<<
the owner of Wendy mare..
nah, save it for the book;)
It's an ego thing, isn't it, writing?
I gotta go work on my ego.
A rich lady ex-farmlandlord of my husband's, had her book published herself.
It was pretty funny. Spiral bound, I know printing, kinda/sorta, from my work.... She had pictures of giant fruit bats in her "animals around the farm" shots. I just didn't have the heart to tell her.
I do need an editor. Or maybe I AM an editor.
no idea.
Lots of horsey people out there. I don't think they get me:)
Heck, my husband doesn't get me.
See, I don't own a horse now.
sighhh.
I have a 18'x 30' shed Bonnie would fit into nicely. She wouldn't wander far, would she?
:):):):)
kidding....
off to read a bit more while lunching as usual, at my desk..
Giant fruit bats - my favorite thing to see at Animal Kingdom! Might be the only reason I go! Wish I had them around my farm. I want to build a bat house like the one in the Keys.. you know, the giant one that absolutely no bat has ever gone into. A tribute to Florida's follies.
Honestly self-published books these days can be so nice that only a bookseller can tell the difference. They're practically small press, just print-on-demand instead of a printing of 5,000. Laffit Pincay's book is like that. My husband ordered it and we were like, "Wait - that's self-published!" It's a hardcover with a nice jacket and black and white photos.
That's why, if I write my book about mares, I will do my own. I could shop it, but it will get so little sales on a mainstream press (say, Doubleday Equestrian, for example) that it will quickly get remaindered and end up selling on the bargain tables for 5.98.
The only exception might be Trafalgar, I would work with them, since they're the only exclusively equine press of any size, and they hardly ever remainder hardcovers and print paperbacks instead.
Wow yakety yak yak yak right?
Cooling off, just trimmed a yearling's hooves. It's 92 and humid. You're not missing much, O Canada.
GL, the harlot, stole my husband and broken up our happy family of fruit bats. The young ones are crying. I hope you're happy.
bhm, well, if you're going to go to Mongolia with Trooper, while the cat's away...
Meow;)
Giant Fruit Bats are way coool.
Same landlady woman called us to her farm in a panic, because she was SURE she'd found this weird exotic spotted beetle that's been destroying our forests.
Spotted somethin' or other. She was all set to start cutting down all her trees, call the Ministry of natural resources, brouHaHa.
What she'd caught was a plain old pine beetle. Normal, and indigenous. It had one spot.
A teeeny little spot.
She seemed weirdly disappointed.
Not this beetle
She'd found a white-spotted pine sawyer. Can someone please explain why a beetle that is spotted all over ISN'T called a spotted beetle?
One lousy white spot, and it's called a spotted beetle?
Bug Scientists. Odd bunch;)
I had two bats swirling overhead this morning on my way to feed up this morning. Way cool.
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