If anyone is curious, I've written up the narrative of Tristan's surgery on his blog here. There are plenty of pictures though I linked to the most gruesome ones instead of inserting them ( Read more... )

Updates.

90. go off-property with Tristan 10 times (now 4/10)

Groton House Farm Summer Classic, our first Beginner Novice event, working toward that ultimate goal of a recognized event at the end of the summer. In summary: GOOD PONY, finished on our dressage score and in third place. For the much longer version, read here. (This also fulfills a ( Read more... )

Update.90. go off-property with Tristan 10 times (4/10 ( Read more... )

Updates.

90. go off-property with Tristan 10 times (now 3/10)

buymeaclue and I took the boys to the Freetown-Fall River State Forest, and lo, it was fantastic. We spent two solid hours there and barely scratched the surface. Some of the hard-packed roads were more than I'd want to ask Tris to trot or canter on, but some of the bridle paths had the most ( Read more... )

Updates.

57. research and buy hiking boots DONE!

Yessssss! M. and I went to LL Bean to spend some soon-expiring gift cards. I was intending to get another pair of Smartwool socks but saw a clearance rack, started poking around, and then saw these on the rack - marked down to $105. Gift certificates took them down to $85 which was within the ( Read more... )

I've taken the plunge and begun collecting all my Tristan and horse-related blogging onto one platform. I'll be filling in the back end for quite some time, but for now I'll blog there going forward.

An Eventful Life

I will most likely only mention new posts here sporadically, so check out the RSS feed if you want to keep up with my horse-related ( Read more... )

19. watch 20 new-to-me films made before 1960 (now 4/20)

Captain Horatio Hornblower, 1951

I liked it enormously. Gregory Peck was great casting, and there were some really wonderful bits in the movie that felt exactly like they should have. I never warmed up to the A&E miniseries version of the books, for whatever reason.

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101 in 1001 part 2.

72. switch all household products to organic/environmentally friendly if possible

Not done, but yesterday I switched our sponges and our kitchen cleaner to more environmentally friendly versions. I bought Scotchbrite Greener Clean sponges - I already had the scouring pads - and they'll go into service when my current sponge is ( Read more... )

90. go off-property with Tristan 10 times (now 1/10 ( Read more... )

86. Write my elected officials 5 times (now 3/5 ( Read more... )