It must be Spring. We're supposed to get snow this weekend.

Everything else having been Dealt With, I am back in the saddle again with Bonnie #1. Feels gooooood.

(at some point, I will have to go back and polish up "Dreamcatcher" and deal with more production work on various projects, but for now, one project and one project only! Ahhhh, bliss.)

And yes, back in the saddle on another matter as well, today. Eeeep.

a poll, because it was pointed out to me and now I'm curious...

[Poll #1157526]

I've discovered I use both, depending on the situation and who I'm talking to, which is...odd. I'm assuming "turn off" is the more common variation, but I can't figure out where I picked up the other... is this an East Coast thing? A Jersey thing? A "we've only spoken English for three generations" remnant of Yiddish being the common lingua of earlier generations?

(further conversation suggestions that it's an older usage, having to do with drawing curtains/turning down a lantern as much as turning 'off' electrical lights. Ah, language, how you do evolve....)

EtA: "Turn out" is getting some votes, too, and one for "shut the light." Hrmmmm...

The Return to Riding Report Card

( A brief history: )

Fast forward to 2008, when that little girl, now with her toe poking at middle age (in my family, 'middle age' runs from 40 to 70), found herself living ten minutes away from a stable. And she said, Self? Now or never.

Alas, there are no photos, because I forgot to bring the camera. But rest assured, it did indeed happen.

Me, I felt like a lump of straw, jouncing around. However my instructor assured me that my seat and hands were nicely quiet and my overall form not bad for a 20 year hiatus (although my leg will insist on moving forward and turning out, despite my knowing that's a badness. Grr. Must work on that). It is, I am told, apparent that once upon a time I was well-trained and reasonably competent, and the expectation is that it will all come back to me quite quickly.

We'll see. In the meanwhile, I stink of horse, I ache in muscles I'd almost forgotten I had, and I feel fabulous. :-)

And I get to do it again next week. Life is good.


(dancinghorse, the stable was founded by Rusty and Ashley Holzer, if the names are familiar to you...)