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One morning a couple of weeks ago, I was at the barn, and turned Moose out in the arena to roll in the sand (one of his favorite pastimes.) After he rolled he got up, shook off, and then stood stock still in this patch of morning sunlight, perfectly posed. Thank God for cameraphones -- that's all I can say about →
Moose on the loose
I actually meant to post this post yesterday... time somehow got away from me, and also a massive toothache somewhat derailed things. Bleh. Oh, and if you haven't "liked" Moose on Facebook, why not? Just click here to do so. :-) Anyway, Moose and I have both had a pretty busy past couple of weeks, despite it being summer break. You may →
Cameraphone = inherently more barn-friendly than a DSLR
I've been somewhat remiss in posting in the past week. I'm not even going to make any excuses this time... it kind of just is. You think this is bad, you should see my apartment... or maybe not. :-p Anyway, with the longer days have come more hours to spend outside doing things I love to do, like horseback riding and →
Leave our kids alone!
This is not a happy post. Remember how this past March, I wrote about how one of the Horses, Hope & Healing kids was hit by a car, and the driver took off? Well, crap has happened yet again with another HH&H kid, and I'm so sick and angry over the whole thing. Remember Rudy? He's the kid I wrote briefly about →
Posting this from heaven
I forgot to tell you all this yesterday, but I was raptured on Saturday. Grad school's done until the end of August, and now there's less than two weeks of school, and I will be free for the summer! I can't wait. I plan to spend lots of time at the barn, lots of time in the pool, and lots of →
Welcome to Kari’s blog of horses and cute children
First off, happy birthday to me! Since that's how I roll, I'm asking people for a bale of hay. Not for me, silly (John wouldn't be very happy if I stored it in our apartment) but for the horses at Horses, Hope & Healing. If you're fresh out of a bale of hay, or just don't have enough wrapping paper, you →
It’s doubleplusMoose!
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It’s funny how one thing leads to another
Disclaimer: Today's pictures aren't mine. Read on for why. :-) When I sold Moose almost six years ago, I would have never in a million years dreamed that I'd own him once again. (If you missed that part of the story, go here for the details.) But somehow, through the grace of God and random twists of fate, I do, and →
We are still buried
The post title is a play on Garrison Keillor's book We Are Still Married. I haven't read the book, but it's Garrison Keillor, so it has to be funny. No, I'm not married (well, except maybe to my job) but I'm completely buried in work, grad school, and life in general right now. In an effort to not lose my sanity →
I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart
The quote in the title of this post is the last line of Anne Frank's diary. I think I first read that book when I was in the third or fourth grade, and even then, the irony of the line struck me, given why she had been in hiding in the first place and why that was her last entry. I →
The three seasons of a Moose
For Moose, the year is divided into three seasons. . . ...and then, my least favorite of them all... . . Yeah, around here "shed" is a season worthy of note. It's the season where people start asking me if I own huskies or malamutes or Akitas or other large, white, hairy dogs. It wasn't quite so bad last time I owned him and he was a →
Don’t it make my brown horse blue… er, white
Post title is stolen from an old Crystal Gayle song. Don't ask me where I dredged that up from, because my brain comes up with strange things at 4AM. Yaay insomnia! Lately we've been graced with some unseasonably warm weather, and so this past Sunday I decided it'd be a good chance to give Moose a much-needed bath. I somehow neglected →
January 10 on 10: He’s a fame-Moose horse!
10 on 10: Take a photo every hour for ten consecutive hours on the tenth of each month. A horse is a horse, of course of course, And no one can talk to a horse of course, That is of course, unless the horse, Is the famous Mister Moose! Ok, so maybe that's not how it went, but as Moose got to be on TV →
Guest accommodations provided by the Horseshoe Road Inn
If you're a regular Cartalk listener, the title of this blog post should be fairly familiar. If you're not, say the last four words of the title really slowly. :-) Because of the epic rain we've been having this winter (currently the Sierra snowpack is running at 198% of normal for this time of year!) I finally broke down and moved →
The same thing we do every night, Moosie
Editor's note: I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago for Tuesday Mooseday, well before I knew I'd be unexpectedly heading out of town. But it seemed such an apt day to post it, with the solstice and all, that I figured I'd let it post anyway, and y'all just get two posts today. :-) ~~~~~~ (Yes, the post title was →
Moose the Mudnificent
Last week I was gone all week visiting my family, so I arranged with a kid at the barn to turn him out and clean his stall in my absence. On Friday, John decided to go over and check on Moose to see how he was, and turn him out so that he could stretch his legs. He then emailed →
I’m apologizing in advance to John Lennon and Paul McCartney
I hosed off Moose on Saturday after our ride, then I turned him out to roll (since he likes doing that.) Then I took cameraphone pictures, then I wrote a really bad song parody about it. I blame my friend Tracie for getting Hey Jude stuck in my head. :-) Hey Moose (sung to the tune of "Hey Jude", by the →
Mischief
Editor's note: we have Thursday off for Veteran's Day, and I'm planning on spending a good portion of the day working on pics. Not only am I hugely backlogged on post-processing, but I feel like my blog posts have been kind of boring as of late. So hopefully I'll have more interesting pics to share. I'm also not doing anything →
If you keep making that face, it’s going to stick that way
I know this is two Moose posts in a week -- sorry about that! Sunday was special because it was Halloween, and today's Tuesday Mooseday. We'll return to our regular one-Moose-post-per-week schedule next week. Back when I had Moose for the first time, I used to call him my ADD horse, because it seemed like he had a short attention span →
Like water off a horse’s back
That's how the old saying goes, right? No? :-) I'm REALLY lucky in that Moose's barn is almost exactly halfway between home and work, and it's about a two-minute drive off my usual route to work. In fact, I can see his stall (the back side though, so I can't actually see him) from the road. So over the past two weeks, →
Tuesdays with Moosie
[This post title comes with apologies to Mitch Albom -- if you know me, you know I can't ever resist a good pun. Or a bad one, for that matter.] I've decided that Tuesdays on my blog will be Moose day. Hey, if Dooce can have a Daily Chuck, I can have a Weekly Moose, right? :-) The day that Moose came →