Rainy Monday afternoon.  Arena is a water feature, pasture contains small islands.  Horse show hangover is still very much real, manifesting itself as a lovely migraine.  Spending the bulk of the day in bed with the kitty.  Not sorry ( Read more... )

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Today = a series of unfortunate events. My computer has been eaten by a virus with sharp pointy teeth. The vacuum cleaner won. There were staples where there should not be staples. A bad-ass storm threw trees all over the farm and launched the spiky end of a giant umbrella into my car. Transformers belched fireballs over the pasture. Even the ( Read more... )

You ever had a nightmare that thoroughly ruined the rest of your day ( Read more... )

Just in case you didn't get enough of me rhapsodizing about Cavalia, here's a little more!

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Because what else does one do when bedridden with an injury but watch YouTube videos? In all seriousness, though, this one made me get a little teary, as beautiful things typically do ( Read more... )

I have heard stories before about authors writing an emotional scene and emerging an emotional wreck.  Although I've been very swept away in my stories before, I'd never had an experience that I felt was comparable; the worst I'd come off so far was a teary eye when writing what will someday be the epilogue to the Immortal Trilogy.  (Ironically, I  ( Read more... )

High adrenaline mayhem on horseback in subfreezing temperatures!

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(this one is my favorite)

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(if you're gonna mess up, mess up spectacularly!)

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I'm already ready to go again. But I want it to be warmer next time.

I don't know whether to be impressed that I finally put together the video I've been planning to upload since... uh... January, or impressed that my mad procrastination skillz have reached a whole new level ( Read more... )

Nearly four months after the debut performance, I have neatly sidestepped YouTube's ridiculous copyright claims and secured a new home for the video to "Supermassive Lullaby". Unfortunately, I have also learned that free uploads on Viddler produce a very crappy video quality. But it has been four months. Do I care ( Read more... )

Well, it only took it until 1:30a.m. to finish uploading...
behold! Christmas came early this year!

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This is the second performance, in front of a much smaller selective audience; the big crowd got to watch us display a definite lack of synchronicity. :-)