posting and running
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electriclandI am just off to dinner with Kelly and Jean (yay!) so can't post much. First day back at work not so bad although it always takes me ages to ease back in. And it's SO dark and SO cold and SO rainy *whine*. Huge list of things to get done, but I'm ploughing through it fairly efficiently.
...before I go any further, congratulations to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monkeycommando and emjayne for their upcoming domicile changes (hope that's not premature, MJ, but you have Right on your side and that counts for a lot). Also to crankygrrl for getting the Internet at home (now I just need to rememeber that I have it as well). I'm still working through everyone's posts so if you have had any life-altering events recently, please be patient -- I probably just haven't got there yet! (Oh yeah, *fingers crossed* to elissa_carey -- I had chicken pox 2 years ago, in the dead of August, and it SUCKED. Hope you have had it already and that your son bounces back quickly. Benadryl and Aveeno are what you need if he's itching. And thassalia, stay safe, you!)
As I said earlier, it was a WONDERFUL vacation. We avoided most of the rain the rest of the province got. We didn't wind up doing many wild and exotic things (the rodeo in Chilliwack got rained out -- when I mentioned this in a meeting this afternoon Richard and Martha started trading lyrics* and memories of Loverboy and Journey, it was quite scary for the younger members of the party) but we played with horses a TON, went on 2 long ( > 4 hr) rides and lots of short ones (and no, I didn't fall off anybody), helped shear sheep, hung out in Kelowna proper a couple of times, bought me a pair of jeans and a cowboy hat and a bunch of used books, explored tack stores, saw a movie, ate delicious food, read, drank gallons of coffee, listened to the radio, went driving, went to a wee horse show, looked at Scotland pictures... it was good. I learned how to knit and ride bareback (on the flat and at a walk, OK, but still), how to do up a Western saddle, a lot about equine herd dynamics and a little bit about therapeutic touch for horses.
It was, in fact, action-packed.
raithen's and her family's horses are lovely, both in personality and in looks. In order of how much I rode them, they are:
Beau, the oldest, lowest on the pecking order, and the only boy. An absolute sweetie. I rode him on the first long trail ride when my muscles really weren't accustomed to the new work yet and he took good care of me, even on the scary parts with a steep drop to our left and a steep rise to our right and about 8 inches of flat ground between them. I didn't look down much. We were fine.
Shaugnessy, the boss. Also the smallest and most competitive. She's lovely and very bright and listens to all ofraithen's aids even when someone else (me) is riding her.
Joey, who thinks she should be the boss, and who is getting over a sore back -- I groomed her once and rode her once and she's a lovely ride, but far too smart. She would chew the fence continually and say "Who, me? But I'm lovely!" when you told her to stop.
Juno, the mother-to-be. I didn't ride her but I did snuggle her a fair bit.raithen assures me she was unusually calm while I was there, and apparently her foal is currently about the size of a beagle.
Yikes, gotta run. Suffice it to say, THANK YOUraithen for having me to stay, it was FANTASTIC and I didn't want to leave (although better to do so before you all got sick of me, I suppose, and one must earn a living. Sigh).
*Martha later emailed this to all of us:
From memory - scary
[ballad intro]
Four men in a rock and roll band
Fly at night and tommorrow we land
See the morning from the other side
something something blah blah blah
[gratuitous guitar solo]
Oooooh.......... we like to see your faces
Yeah....... we like the wide open spaces
Time is like a rubber band
Fly at night in the morning we land
[bridge to screaming and jumping fast part]
When we fly by night its like a rocket flight and baby that's just what it's for
Fly by night and make me feel alright and keep coming back for more
[close with slow lullabye part]
and when you close your eyes
sleep come fast
when you fly the universe,
yeah you need some rest................
...before I go any further, congratulations to
monkeycommando and emjayne for their upcoming domicile changes (hope that's not premature, MJ, but you have Right on your side and that counts for a lot). Also to crankygrrl for getting the Internet at home (now I just need to rememeber that I have it as well). I'm still working through everyone's posts so if you have had any life-altering events recently, please be patient -- I probably just haven't got there yet! (Oh yeah, *fingers crossed* to elissa_carey -- I had chicken pox 2 years ago, in the dead of August, and it SUCKED. Hope you have had it already and that your son bounces back quickly. Benadryl and Aveeno are what you need if he's itching. And thassalia, stay safe, you!)As I said earlier, it was a WONDERFUL vacation. We avoided most of the rain the rest of the province got. We didn't wind up doing many wild and exotic things (the rodeo in Chilliwack got rained out -- when I mentioned this in a meeting this afternoon Richard and Martha started trading lyrics* and memories of Loverboy and Journey, it was quite scary for the younger members of the party) but we played with horses a TON, went on 2 long ( > 4 hr) rides and lots of short ones (and no, I didn't fall off anybody), helped shear sheep, hung out in Kelowna proper a couple of times, bought me a pair of jeans and a cowboy hat and a bunch of used books, explored tack stores, saw a movie, ate delicious food, read, drank gallons of coffee, listened to the radio, went driving, went to a wee horse show, looked at Scotland pictures... it was good. I learned how to knit and ride bareback (on the flat and at a walk, OK, but still), how to do up a Western saddle, a lot about equine herd dynamics and a little bit about therapeutic touch for horses.
It was, in fact, action-packed.
raithen's and her family's horses are lovely, both in personality and in looks. In order of how much I rode them, they are:Beau, the oldest, lowest on the pecking order, and the only boy. An absolute sweetie. I rode him on the first long trail ride when my muscles really weren't accustomed to the new work yet and he took good care of me, even on the scary parts with a steep drop to our left and a steep rise to our right and about 8 inches of flat ground between them. I didn't look down much. We were fine.
Shaugnessy, the boss. Also the smallest and most competitive. She's lovely and very bright and listens to all of
raithen's aids even when someone else (me) is riding her.Joey, who thinks she should be the boss, and who is getting over a sore back -- I groomed her once and rode her once and she's a lovely ride, but far too smart. She would chew the fence continually and say "Who, me? But I'm lovely!" when you told her to stop.
Juno, the mother-to-be. I didn't ride her but I did snuggle her a fair bit.
raithen assures me she was unusually calm while I was there, and apparently her foal is currently about the size of a beagle.Yikes, gotta run. Suffice it to say, THANK YOU
raithen for having me to stay, it was FANTASTIC and I didn't want to leave (although better to do so before you all got sick of me, I suppose, and one must earn a living. Sigh).*Martha later emailed this to all of us:
From memory - scary
[ballad intro]
Four men in a rock and roll band
Fly at night and tommorrow we land
See the morning from the other side
something something blah blah blah
[gratuitous guitar solo]
Oooooh.......... we like to see your faces
Yeah....... we like the wide open spaces
Time is like a rubber band
Fly at night in the morning we land
[bridge to screaming and jumping fast part]
When we fly by night its like a rocket flight and baby that's just what it's for
Fly by night and make me feel alright and keep coming back for more
[close with slow lullabye part]
and when you close your eyes
sleep come fast
when you fly the universe,
yeah you need some rest................
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Date: 2003-10-29 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-29 04:21 pm (UTC)And you didn't fall off anything! Bloody good on ya! ;)
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Date: 2003-10-29 04:48 pm (UTC)Thanks for the good wishes; I just heard back from my mother that I'd had a light case of chicken pox when I was three. So, I've got something of an immunity, at least. Joshua seems to be doing better; at least the sores don't look as raw as they had. (blih) I think he'll be going back to school on Monday, just to be sure.
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Date: 2003-10-29 05:14 pm (UTC)the grapevine
Date: 2003-10-29 06:38 pm (UTC)However, Mom heard through the grapevine that you have a little love affair going with Beau, and she wanted me to make it clear that he is off the market, spoken for, not going anywhere. . . . ;). She was happy to loan him to you, but wants to be sure you understand that his heart belongs to her. :D
Hope dinner was fun!
And yes,
Re: the grapevine
Date: 2003-10-30 07:04 am (UTC)*sigh*
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-30 07:05 am (UTC)My sole complaint about Shaugns is that I can't spell her name correctly from day to day. Oh well...
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:06 am (UTC)Much better to get the chicken pox over with early, really. TRUST ME.
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:06 am (UTC)Although the jet lag is still killing me...
Re: the grapevine
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Date: 2003-10-30 08:50 am (UTC)