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javacatOMG there is SO much work to do (at work) and I'm so unfocused. Argh. Non-sequitor hooray: I finally cleaned the house over the long weekend, yay.
I like staying home over major holidays when most/many people travel, like the 4th, Christmas, and Mem. and Labor Day. It's very quiet and restful in my town, with hardly any traffic. It's lovely. I kept remembering a July 4th weekend long ago, the first time H was up at our OR house and I was in CA. I was scared of being home alone then. Boy has that changed! Also about, gosh, 6 years ago? I was in the local hospital for 5 days during the 4th, on IV-antibiotics after hand surgery from severe catbites from a feral cat I mishandled. It actually ended up being rather fun for me, since S emailed my local peeps, and many of them came to visit me in the hospital. Also, once my hospital roommate recovered from her colon cancer surgery, we were the lively twins on the ward: we'd walk laps dragging our IV apparati, and the nurses hauled in their training-video set up and let us use it all weekend. I'd rented a slew of tapes en route to the ER, figuring I'd be laid up most of the weekend, only, they didn't let me go home from the ER. Someone fetched them from my car in the parking lot, so yay.
I took a recently widowered neighbor (80 yrs. old) and my mother (91 yrs. old) to the county fair for a half day. We all had fun. Jules had never been on a Ferris Wheel before! Up we went for a wonderful view of my beautiful county and the blue-roofed FLW building next to the fairgrounds. Mom and I were into the horses, tho' we missed the actual junior competition, but stayed in the barnyard for sheep shearing and a "horse demo," consisting of an hour of dressage, kids in duets and sextents on their ponies, and buggy-pulling. I don't think I've ever seen a Hansom horse before: what a beauty. The two of us could've stayed for the next hour's draft horse demo (it's awesome what trucks were like before the internal combustion engine), but Jules was one big yawn by then, so we split. (It was a little shocking to realize some people are bored by horses.)
Then I pretty much stayed home. I watched National Velvet on DVD, first time, and wept my way through it. (She loves her horse so much! ::weep:: The mother is SO cool! ::weep::) The mother, Anne Revere, was fabulous. She was the epitome of a supportive, spunky-and-accomplished-herself mother. I'd say that in moviedom, she and Attitus Finch are the perfect movie parents. She won an Academy Award for it, rightly so. Huh, she was a descendant of Paul Revere, and her career was ruined by the McCarthy blacklist. What a shame about the latter. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720843/bio
It seemed to me that the riding was atrocius, though. I was cringing through the "Velvet trains" sequences. The rider pretty much just sat there (was it really Eliz. Taylor? don't care enough to look right now) and sack-of-potatoes'it over the fences. I was wincing on behalf of the horse & his kidneys. Then, in the final race sequence, it looked like many of the riders were holding back their horses, and also going over jumps without getting forward over their horse's withers. Maybe styles of hunting/jumping changed, I don't know. This is the kind of jumping I'm used to seeing:
http://images.google.com/images?q=horse+jumping&hl=en&lr=&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title
Feet down, heels down, butt up, hands up, leaning way up over the withers.
Here are some more: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=show+jumping&btnG=Search
I was a kid at all the charity steepchases in my hometown growing up and the horses all went so fast... but I remember them as basically following a hunter example. Anyone know more?
I had good intentions of hiking one day, but turned out to be the day I never left the house. Another day, I stayed in my nightgown all day and even wore it to walk to the park nearby to meet a friend. (It looks like a beach coverup.) She came over later to watch Tivo'd stuff & have dinner w/ me. I watched lots of Tivo's stuff: West Wing. Heavens, that's a good show. I'd forgotten! (CJ and Danny! the goldfish! ::weep:: Will and Kate? really? sweet! Uh-oh, John Spenser... ::weep::) I Tivo'd most of last season's eps and I may see if the DVDs are out yet to pick up the 6 or so that I missed. I'm roughly half way through the season.
I like staying home over major holidays when most/many people travel, like the 4th, Christmas, and Mem. and Labor Day. It's very quiet and restful in my town, with hardly any traffic. It's lovely. I kept remembering a July 4th weekend long ago, the first time H was up at our OR house and I was in CA. I was scared of being home alone then. Boy has that changed! Also about, gosh, 6 years ago? I was in the local hospital for 5 days during the 4th, on IV-antibiotics after hand surgery from severe catbites from a feral cat I mishandled. It actually ended up being rather fun for me, since S emailed my local peeps, and many of them came to visit me in the hospital. Also, once my hospital roommate recovered from her colon cancer surgery, we were the lively twins on the ward: we'd walk laps dragging our IV apparati, and the nurses hauled in their training-video set up and let us use it all weekend. I'd rented a slew of tapes en route to the ER, figuring I'd be laid up most of the weekend, only, they didn't let me go home from the ER. Someone fetched them from my car in the parking lot, so yay.
I took a recently widowered neighbor (80 yrs. old) and my mother (91 yrs. old) to the county fair for a half day. We all had fun. Jules had never been on a Ferris Wheel before! Up we went for a wonderful view of my beautiful county and the blue-roofed FLW building next to the fairgrounds. Mom and I were into the horses, tho' we missed the actual junior competition, but stayed in the barnyard for sheep shearing and a "horse demo," consisting of an hour of dressage, kids in duets and sextents on their ponies, and buggy-pulling. I don't think I've ever seen a Hansom horse before: what a beauty. The two of us could've stayed for the next hour's draft horse demo (it's awesome what trucks were like before the internal combustion engine), but Jules was one big yawn by then, so we split. (It was a little shocking to realize some people are bored by horses.)
Then I pretty much stayed home. I watched National Velvet on DVD, first time, and wept my way through it. (She loves her horse so much! ::weep:: The mother is SO cool! ::weep::) The mother, Anne Revere, was fabulous. She was the epitome of a supportive, spunky-and-accomplished-herself mother. I'd say that in moviedom, she and Attitus Finch are the perfect movie parents. She won an Academy Award for it, rightly so. Huh, she was a descendant of Paul Revere, and her career was ruined by the McCarthy blacklist. What a shame about the latter. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720843/bio
It seemed to me that the riding was atrocius, though. I was cringing through the "Velvet trains" sequences. The rider pretty much just sat there (was it really Eliz. Taylor? don't care enough to look right now) and sack-of-potatoes'it over the fences. I was wincing on behalf of the horse & his kidneys. Then, in the final race sequence, it looked like many of the riders were holding back their horses, and also going over jumps without getting forward over their horse's withers. Maybe styles of hunting/jumping changed, I don't know. This is the kind of jumping I'm used to seeing:
http://images.google.com/images?q=horse+jumping&hl=en&lr=&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title
Feet down, heels down, butt up, hands up, leaning way up over the withers.
Here are some more: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=show+jumping&btnG=Search
I was a kid at all the charity steepchases in my hometown growing up and the horses all went so fast... but I remember them as basically following a hunter example. Anyone know more?
I had good intentions of hiking one day, but turned out to be the day I never left the house. Another day, I stayed in my nightgown all day and even wore it to walk to the park nearby to meet a friend. (It looks like a beach coverup.) She came over later to watch Tivo'd stuff & have dinner w/ me. I watched lots of Tivo's stuff: West Wing. Heavens, that's a good show. I'd forgotten! (CJ and Danny! the goldfish! ::weep:: Will and Kate? really? sweet! Uh-oh, John Spenser... ::weep::) I Tivo'd most of last season's eps and I may see if the DVDs are out yet to pick up the 6 or so that I missed. I'm roughly half way through the season.