horses

A Home for a Horse

December 10, 2004

I mentioned long ago that my daughter and I both love horses, and that we’ve had one (for her) since 2001. Now, very sadly, we are having to say goodbye. Ross had already been riding for about four years when I finally decided (and had the opportunity) to buy her a pony of her own. [...]

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Rossella and Hamish: A Love Story

May 25, 2004

video shot August 14, 2004 music copright Patrick Doyle; buy it here May 25, 2004 “Jump? What jump? I don’t see any jump.” “Okay, I see it. But I ain’t jumping it!” “Whoa, did I jump that?” “Well, might as well do this one, too.” “And this one…” “…and this one and this one and [...]

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Dancing Horses: The Lipizzaner Stallions

April 16, 2004

For Easter vacation we went to Vienna. There’s so much to do there that we barely got started; we’ll definitely have to go again. The highlight of the trip, fulfilling a 30-year dream for me, was seeing the Lipizzaner stallions perform at the Spanische Hofreitschule. The event fully lived up to my hopes and expectations. [...]

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Photo Gallery: Austria, 2004

April 13, 2004
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Girls Who Love Horses

April 14, 2003

Actually, my first love was dinosaurs: at age eight, I knew everything about them. I had a set of dinosaur cards which I could put in chronological order, and I knew that a tyrannosaurus could never have eaten a dimetrodon – they lived millions of years apart, in completely different eras. I don’t remember exactly [...]

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