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Starlight, moonlight, sunlight, total eclipse light, northern lights. Here’s to all of the light that we have traveled in this year. What an amazing and beautiful world. (Photo taken by Steve, at Vatnaleið, Snæfellsnes, Iceland, using Nikon D500, 10mm, f/3.5, ISO 22800, 1sec exposure hand-held with camera braced against the […]

Light

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These days, I spend most of my time working with horses, but I used to be a food writer. Once a year, at Thanksgiving, I have an excuse, and give myself the time, to pull out all of the cooking stops. For Thanksgiving I bake pie for my Pie Party. […]

Pie Party Recap

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Last week, Steve and I traveled to Iceland. He had one of those decade-beginning big 0 birthdays, so we thought we’d celebrate it by seeing the northern lights. We actually saw them from the airplane window flying into Iceland! and then again when standing in the dark on a windy […]

Iceland

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It’s October, Halloween month. Which means that people are dressing their pets up in costumes. I’m not one to call my animals “fur babies” (I think that does a disservice to seeing and appreciating their true natures) but yes, even I have succumbed to the silliness of Halloween. Here are […]

Halloween Horse and More

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Where Tonka lives, there are six paddocks, and each has a sparkling clean tub of water.   The other day, after I rode Tonka, I cooled him off (as best I could in hot, humid weather), put on his fly mask, sprayed on bug repellent, and put him out in […]

Tonka Tells Me To Fix It

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It’s as hot today as it’s been all year. So hot that even Scooter doesn’t want to sunbathe. It’s humid too, which makes the air feel like a heavy obstacle to move through. I rode this morning at 8 am, at which time it was bearable to do physical activity, but […]

The Trees Know

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In a shameless attempt to attract more readers to this blog, I am forgoing my usual thoughtful post that takes hours to compose, and instead I’m sharing cute photos! Alas, I do not have an adorable cat to drive viewers here (I’m allergic.) So, instead, let’s start with these two: […]

Faces

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I have been working on a thoughtful training post. I was planning on writing it today. But the cherry blossoms are blowing off of the trees, and my thoughts have blown right out with them.   It’s May. This happens.   Hopefully, I’ll have something more cogent to post later […]

May Thoughts

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