winter storm stella is winding down as i write. we have about two feet of new snow: nice, light, fluffy powder, but blown into every crack and crevice it can blow into by a swirling northeast wind. the horses look like snow monsters, like candy-colored tanks with long, jagged, ivory icicles hanging from their manes, … Continue reading blizzard
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roses
i am not a good listener. it's not that i'm not interested or sympathetic; it's because i can't really do two things at once and my brain never stops working (just ask my insomnia). so, as someone is talking to me, i'm having rapid-fire reactions that makes me a. lose the train of the story … Continue reading roses
insulate
winter is the season when every part of your life comes into sharp focus. every flaw in your life, every small thing that you've brushed aside, saved for later, or fixed "good enough" comes back to bite with cold, sharp little teeth. you plan for the worst and still come up lacking. snowflakes become avalanches, … Continue reading insulate
out of hibernation
mea culpa; apparently, i go dormant every winter. after the coldest winter probably since the apex of the last ice age, spring is finally nosing its way in the door finally in the mountains of vermont. on monday, it was 70ºF, the first time it's been that warm since October. The average temperature this past … Continue reading out of hibernation
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there is a lot going on here in the wintry hills, but most of it i can't talk about for Legal Reasons, which sounds very ominous, but isn't at all. at least this time they are someone else's Legal Reasons. take it from the voice of experience, this is a blessing we do not give thanks … Continue reading placeholder haiku
error: spring not found
this intrepid blogger, hereinafter dubbed mud maiden, has just returned from a two week family vacation to california. while i was gone, the three or four feet of snow melted, leaving behind the muddy brown landscape of early vermont spring, an endless carpet of matted soggy brown grass, earthy squishiness, and manure that takes a … Continue reading error: spring not found
pony boarding school, mark 3
in between dashing around central vermont yesterday fetching teenagers and carting them hither and yon for the purposes of my daughter's filmmaking project, we moved soni to his new temporary home. i had best intentions to document it with pictures, but this didn't happen. it didn't happen because i got home late and my uncle … Continue reading pony boarding school, mark 3
animals amok!
it has been rifle season, so of course the horses have been getting out and wandering in the woods. this is courtesy of soni, who is undaunted by the electric fence and has been breaking it on a corner twice a day, every day for three days. they all go to the shed, help themselves … Continue reading animals amok!
lazy sun days
i have this problem: i can't be lazy. oh, i try. and i'm a world-class procrastinator and amateur layabout, don't get me wrong. it's just that when i'm faced with a weekend, two blissful days of not-having-to-be-anywhere-or-do-anything, i can't do nothing. i talk big on friday afternoon "o HO! i see thou, weekend! i shall squander … Continue reading lazy sun days
unwanted
about ten years ago, i started to collect horses. okay, that's not precisely true. we worked with a rescue organization out of long island, NY and adopted two PMU foals, rosie and qohqoh. after several months of working with these unhandled baby horses, we arranged to adopt q0hq0h's mother, dana, and a retired ranch horse. … Continue reading unwanted
the gumboot gumshoe 