*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The Hunt Season has begun….. Pepper is still down at Mary Constance’s…but she’s fit enough to go out on several Hunts already….. She really seems to be enjoying herself…she already knows the in’s & out’s of being a Whipper-In’s mount….. It’s a little more complicated than what she would be doing with me….. My Hunt contributions really cap out at how many flasks I can hide all over myself and in my saddlebags……..
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** ~~~We’ve already established that Technology doesn’t like me…and I don’t like Technology~~~ We mutually don’t understand and/or have patience for one another….. As far as I am concerned…technology is a four-letter word….. And yes…maybe that’s a rock pounding…knuckle dragging attitude….. My most recent experience at coexisting with small things in plastic boxes…was my cell phone’s attempt to kill me….. I was told I had to entrust it with my contacts…my photos…my personal data……..
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** My daughters had a riding lesson with Mary Constance….. It’s a good start to the New Year….. But there’s a very dark side to riding lessons….. …..the screaming agony of the previously unused muscles….. I don’t envy my daughters the excruciating muscles which are guaranteed to follow…they are assuredly going to limp around with tears in their eyes….. Why is it…if you stop riding…even for the shortest period of time…you end up with…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I need to make a disclaimer….. …..!Kids…Don’t Try This At Home!….. Remember my post about bringing Pepper home from the recent Hunt(?)….. And Remember I mentioned that there were a few “hiccups” in getting her home….. …..well…there were….. We ran into a bit of a snag when we were loading Pepper into the trailer….. …..we had known there was (a little bit of) a problem with one (a couple) of the welds on…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Finally….. After such a long time….. I have a Hunt horse again….. I can’t tell you just how happy that makes me…I can’t stop grinning….. Mary Constance has been Hunting her for me…giving her experience…and mileage….. She told me that she even requested one of her lesson students to get on and off Pepper fifty times…in the clumsiest way possible….. …..the young lady dragged her foot over Pepper’s rump…poked her in the ribs…hung…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Alfalfa bales can go bad quickly in Florida’s Humid Hot Summers….. I had purchased what I thought Brave and Pepper would need here for the month of September…and it was delivered on Labor Day….. Which was all fine and good…if things had remained dry here…but…things didn’t….. It’s always a crapshoot in Summer in sunny subtropical Florida…well honestly…it’s not even that….. It’s more of a guarantee that it’s going to be soggy and humid……..
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I was planning on picking up Pepper at Mary Constance’s and bringing her home….. Everything was so friggin’ close….. So close….. But…I just discovered that the pasture where I intended to keep Pepper…is now totally wet and holding water….. I went out yesterday to pull some last minute weeds (the less than desirable fennel and burrs)…and I sank….. Pepper is the Clydesdale mare who is coming here and who I plan to ride……..
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** You’ve got your common house flies…and gnats…and no-see-ums…and fruit flies….. *****(Information on Horse & Deer Flies)***** …..but the Big Mama’s of the fly-community are the gargantuan horse flies….. They mean business…they are Humvees with wings…and an oil rig drilling proboscis….. It usually takes more than a few slaps and a well-placed stomp to take them out….. …..(along with some ever-ready chickens to peck them into oblivion)….. Normal flies are annoying…some bite…but mostly they…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Here we go….. …..the difference with this year is…I think I might just be ready…(if my breeches still fit)….. This coming 2024-2025 Fox Hunting Season is about to begin….. It starts with Mounted Hound Walks…then progresses to the Business Meeting…then Cubbing Season….. There’s a mare named Pepper that I can Hunt…(of course she’s a Clydesdale)….. Mary Constance has her now…she’ll be introducing her to the foxhounds at the first Mounted Hound Walk….. Hunt…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I was reminded that Woodstock was yesterday…fifty-five years ago….. …..and I remember it…I remember that summer….. *****(Memories of Woodstock)***** I was in New Jersey at the time…I could’ve gone…friends of mine did go….. I remember hearing about it…(especially afterwards)….. Well actually…I’m sure…had I planned on going…my Mom would’ve stopped me….. …..I was fifteen….. It was summer…it was August & hot…it was summer vacation…I had Shiloh…(she was a Morgan-cross and my first horse)….. …..and…