Friday, September 8, 2017

Back in the Saddle Again

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And I don't mean the occasional lazy saunter around the pond (with or without glass of wine), but the kind of riding that involves...
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Friday, September 1, 2017

Oasis

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Acorn woodpeckers playing in the misters (six are in the picture) We're into the third (and, hopefully, last) heatwave of t...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

A Walk Around the Pond

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Bruce came home a little early the other evening, so we had time for a walk around the pond before the sun went down.  Cornelius came al...
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Sunday, August 27, 2017

Shattered

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Hecuba found a new place to sleep.  Unfortunately, the space was already occupied by a very large, very old, very valuable Chinese vase. ...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

The Amazing, Shrinking Horse!

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Bless my honest farrier and her bluntness.  When she last came to trim Cornelius' hooves and she looked him up and down and told me he...
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Monday, August 21, 2017

Eclipse Day

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 In our neck of the woods, all we got was a partial solar eclipse -- 76.5% to be exact.  That didn't seem like much to get exc...
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Thursday, August 17, 2017

Minutia

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These days, as I blog, I find myself wondering at why I'm making the effort to notice the minutia of life here at Frogpond when it appea...
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Sunday, August 13, 2017

Barn Cleaning

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The resident rodents, a lot of junk and layers of filth are being evicted from the barn.  I'd like to say that the process is complete, ...
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

The Sampler

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The sampler's been woven, taken off the loom, ends knotted and trimmed, then washed and ironed.  I've got to admit that this i...
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Sunday, August 6, 2017

Anniversaries

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This is the summer where all my roads seem to lead to the little town of Knight's Ferry.  Yesterday we celebrated/observed a double anni...
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