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which_chickHorse world expo. Also, thoughts on committment. Evening out. Today's activities.
Our trip to HWE went pretty well. We watched Chris Cox, who is a clinician (guy who makes a living teaching other people how to train and work with their horses) of some note. He's easy to listen to and explained things pretty well. I particularly liked his discourse on leg positions and lateral movement, a topic I thought I understood pretty well but apparently can understand more betterly than I did before yesterday. I'm always pleased when I get home from one of these things with a thing or two to think over -- makes me think I got my money's worth out of the price of admission.
We also watched a cross country jumping seminar. That was pretty damn enlightening. Maryland is big on the cross-country jumping thing and the timber races. A body could make a pretty good case for the Maryland Hunt Cup being the crown jewel of timber races (four miles, 22 fairly imposing fences build of sturdy not-falling-down wood, some up to 5' high) in the United States, see, so they have an interest. I still think it looks like Danger Danger, personally, but Trys thinks it would be fun to try.
Cass, who we wound up taking along as a last-minute addition, is seriously gung-ho about going on the competitive ride this September. She's totally fixated on it. However, she's ten. She's not big enough to take her horse out by herself to condition it four days a week, every week, from the beginning of May until hell freezes over. We're short on people who can go with her to condition her horse -- I and my buckets of leisure time, however, are home at a good time for it, but I have a lunatic horse. Oh, well, it's only my life. I told Cass that if she could work her horse four days a week with me, on a schedule, for all of May, that we would sign up for the damn ride. I allowed as how she had to demonstrate some committment before we spent any money. (Our game plan is to haul to my house and ride on Ray's Hill, which is equipped with amazing, challenging terrain and also a distinct lack of motor vehicles.) Fortunately, Cass rides her horse well enough to not need saving particularly. I just have to keep *my* body and soul together on the IRH, at least for the first month. We shall see.
La and I have decided to go to Scottsdale to see the Arab show there. It'll be three days off (midweek) in late February. Make a note, details to follow as plans firm up. I have wanted to see Scottsdale for years-n-years and now looks like the time.
I had a nice evening out with folks, watching Clerks II, which I'd never seen. I don't think I've ever seen the first Clerks, though I'm a fan of Kevin Smith and know of Jay and Silent Bob. Funniest moment: Nobody had ever told me that The Flying Car, which I'd seen as a youtube anime parody featuring the guys from Yami no Matsuei, was aJay-n-Silent-Bob Dante-n-Randal thing. I'd no idea. So, when Jay Randal started talking in the movie, all I could think of was the Yami no Matsuei video. It layered right over the movie. (Edited as per comments. I'm easily confused, I suppose.)
Today I looked for things that were not there (for grandma) and made Tatie-Leek soup (for me) and did laundry (for great justice).
Our trip to HWE went pretty well. We watched Chris Cox, who is a clinician (guy who makes a living teaching other people how to train and work with their horses) of some note. He's easy to listen to and explained things pretty well. I particularly liked his discourse on leg positions and lateral movement, a topic I thought I understood pretty well but apparently can understand more betterly than I did before yesterday. I'm always pleased when I get home from one of these things with a thing or two to think over -- makes me think I got my money's worth out of the price of admission.
We also watched a cross country jumping seminar. That was pretty damn enlightening. Maryland is big on the cross-country jumping thing and the timber races. A body could make a pretty good case for the Maryland Hunt Cup being the crown jewel of timber races (four miles, 22 fairly imposing fences build of sturdy not-falling-down wood, some up to 5' high) in the United States, see, so they have an interest. I still think it looks like Danger Danger, personally, but Trys thinks it would be fun to try.
Cass, who we wound up taking along as a last-minute addition, is seriously gung-ho about going on the competitive ride this September. She's totally fixated on it. However, she's ten. She's not big enough to take her horse out by herself to condition it four days a week, every week, from the beginning of May until hell freezes over. We're short on people who can go with her to condition her horse -- I and my buckets of leisure time, however, are home at a good time for it, but I have a lunatic horse. Oh, well, it's only my life. I told Cass that if she could work her horse four days a week with me, on a schedule, for all of May, that we would sign up for the damn ride. I allowed as how she had to demonstrate some committment before we spent any money. (Our game plan is to haul to my house and ride on Ray's Hill, which is equipped with amazing, challenging terrain and also a distinct lack of motor vehicles.) Fortunately, Cass rides her horse well enough to not need saving particularly. I just have to keep *my* body and soul together on the IRH, at least for the first month. We shall see.
La and I have decided to go to Scottsdale to see the Arab show there. It'll be three days off (midweek) in late February. Make a note, details to follow as plans firm up. I have wanted to see Scottsdale for years-n-years and now looks like the time.
I had a nice evening out with folks, watching Clerks II, which I'd never seen. I don't think I've ever seen the first Clerks, though I'm a fan of Kevin Smith and know of Jay and Silent Bob. Funniest moment: Nobody had ever told me that The Flying Car, which I'd seen as a youtube anime parody featuring the guys from Yami no Matsuei, was a
Today I looked for things that were not there (for grandma) and made Tatie-Leek soup (for me) and did laundry (for great justice).
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Date: 2007-01-22 02:12 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap1lMv0YcO8
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Date: 2007-01-22 11:10 pm (UTC)I may not have been clear -- The Flying Car does not actually appear in the movie under discussion. At least, I don't *think* it does. I'm pretty sure not. The Flying Car thing is a short (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311146/) according to the IMDB.
I wasn't saying that I saw this in the movie, just that the voices were exactly totally the voices of the two guys in the movie even though I'd first heard them as the soundtrack to the guys from Yami no Matsuei. It was bizarre for me.