Running: The Long Road Back

March 4, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

I completed my first run/walk since I was pregnant, and I’m only mildly exhausted. I can’t recall when my last run was because last time I was using the Garman watch and app and I lost my login, ooops. Now I’m using my Apple Watch, which is much easier and I can text from it […]

Seize the afternoon

March 3, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

After spending Monday in a slump due to a long day fixing a big mistake at work, I craved the sunshine that was taunting me outside my window. I took a chance on work not exploding for three hours and dashed out to the barn to hook up the trailer. I tried not to have […]

A winner

February 25, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Today was a good day. I won a gift certificate for Trafelgar Square Books from the Backyard Horse Blog (thank you so much!) I promptly ordered three ebooks, “Know Better Do Better”, by Denny Emerson; “What Horses Really Want”, by Lynn Acton; and “Distant Skies”, by Melissa Chapman. I also ordered a hard copy of […]

Tarma’s First Adventure

January 31, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

I took a chance on the weather today and I am so glad that I did. We loaded Tarma up and went to our favorite nearby state park, Milo McIver. There are a series of obstacles built by the North Valley chapter of Oregon Equestrian Trails, of which yours truly is somehow currently the VP […]

Close to home adventures

February 28, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

A sunny day too nice to waste!

Bluebird Day

February 11, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Vitamin D and a pretty awesome pony!

A new exercise

February 3, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Trying out a new grid exercise

Mr. 2Spooky

March 20, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

In which old mistakes are corrected!

Endorphins Are Good

November 22, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

Pssst Vicki! I know the terrible, awful, no good weather is here to stay, but I need a hit of this view! It’s been too long since I’ve had my Jokker fix! Running with a dog is incomparably better than shuffling alone. It’s the difference between dancing the Electric Slide in front of your history […]

How many words for cold?

November 14, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Actual mother fucking icicles hanging off my college library roof. I hate the cold. I spent part of my childhood in the blissful, baking, dry heat of Arizona, just north of Phoenix. I survived five whole stinking cold, snow bound winters in Vermont, and ran back home to more temperate Oregon at the first chance (that […]

On the loose

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