- Death Valley Again
- January
- jaws, colonoscopy, Hopi, BugEye Sprite, babby chooks, Chili's
toenails, Roo's barefoot again, guitar learning, trim, trim, trim.
- February
- trailer heater; Uno goes alone; 8 of 8; Tevis Training Starts; Guitar;
Summer Nearly; x-rays; Uno at Cronin; Rain, Snow, Snow and More Rain;
Hunter's Star quilt incident; toenails
- March
- Granny's funeral in England, Iditarod, back to riding, washing
machine, Tiny Rooster's poorly leg, hay, trailer drip strip and gloves,
flying gloves...
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- April -
Tevis planning, trying out Renegades, rasping and dremelling, Auburn
Quilt Show, rooster revenge, horse shots, Ponyhill.org is born, Easter
weekend at Montana de Oro, guitar, boots, boots, boots,
hatchling, Tevis pre-riding, Zini goes to Katie's
- May
- Riding in the pouring rain, continuing boot saga, new chooklets,
washing machine filters, BEAR!, Cache
Creek 50, birthday, rasping- rasping- rasping; booting- booting-
booting; CA Loop
- June -
Glue-ons; Barn Chicks quilt; Cooley
Ranch (photos);
signed up for Tevis <wibble>
- July/August -
RF camping/ Tevis pre-riding; Driver's Flat > Poverty Bar; Overlook
> Waterfall; Tevis;
EHSC (Fergus and pft's endurance debut); Highs and Lows
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- September
- Camping at Silver Lake; Uno has an adventure; Nat. C'ships; Trail JOY;
Uno update; Mouse and Zini go to a new home; Tiny toms, tiny eggs; Bee
research; Bassi Creek
- October
- Barn
Floor Overhaul; Jackit update; Typhoon Melor; Ren Faire; rasping and
dremelling; Lake Sonoma 50; Roo comes out of mothballs; shortie
stirrups; on the roof; we have a sitter
- November
- training rides; fall chooklets; road kill; Larimer Trail; Desert
Gold x 105
- December
- snow storm of the decade; good and bad;
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- Death
Valley Encounter
- January
- big storms, power outages, Splishy, more snow
- February
- pft gets his dream car, Mouse comes home, early spring, new hair,
citizenship interview, hay
- March
- AERC convention, Hopi on the trail, Mouse injury, decision on Uno
Rides of March, visiting the buckskin, becoming a real american
- April
- Worming, Fergus comes to our house, multiple trail riding with Fergus
learning gaits, Buck Meadows, Roo angst, earthquake, this year's chooks,
selenium, Fergus becomes ours
- May
- planning Patriot 100, barefoot rasping, Patriot
100
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- June
- Fergus and Uno meet the Training Hill, Hopi's trimming mishap,
2008 chooks, pone shots, Uno gets tried out, Hat
Creek, Lightning
Fires, broken
leg, surgery
- July - in
bed, messed up sleep patterns, Hopi gets his teeth floated, staples out,
waterproof cast, CA fires and smoke, off pain meds, Hopi targeting, well
pressure problem resolved, Tevis cancelled, flying bantie chooks, purple
quilt, chooks in the house, road trip up north
- August
- Coast road trip, Renee and Russell's wedding, kick-fest, eggs, cast
off!, Sunday drive, PT, more x-rays, more PT
- September
- standing up shower, back to work, skunks, SPOT, quilting, Chili's
citronella collar, Winter's arrival, VC100, quilt frame
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- October
- Pone antics; skunks; x-rays and cleared to start riding; riding
Uno for the first time in 15 weeks; hay shed floor and walls; new Juki
TL98Q sewing machine; external hard drives
- November
- quickie rides, getting dumped in poison oak by Uno, getting kicked by
Hopi, experiencing the joys of PO for a week, building shelters, playing
My Little Pony, baby chooks, Uno breaks, Roop comes off vacation
- December
- Uno's fat leg, clipping, Uno's scalping, wound care, scene of the
crime, lack of Hopi progress, Roop does a longer loop, blankie
production, mammoth hay purchase, truck upkeep, horse feet, freezes, GPS,
Fergus' new blankie.
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2007
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- January
- Ride to Cool - bad Roo; Roomba update; lack of Wild Blue; DVD player!
must stretch; new bit for Roo; ride schedule? Fishie quilt; hay barn
floor finished; riding with the new bit; Jack update; Subaru windscreen
replacement; summer has arrived; or not - temps in the 20s; crupper
training; lost shoe; more thoughts on ride schedule (Swanton 100?); photos of the
gang (incl. Roo's rubs); shoe back on; Mouse update; Jack and Zini's honeymoon; riding
to Virner; bald EZ boots; Jack
photos; shoe off again; new shoes for Roo; take-away
notes from new100milers list; Third Gate to Auburn and back; Roo's loin
rub
(Roo-95/9)
- February-
Roo's new blankie; riding Zinnet; weekend riding (incl. White Oak Flat);
Zini and Roo visit the vet (Zini still lame); the importance of rest;
ride schedule again; Zini's new shoes; sick; RAIN; Zini loses a shoe;
SASO cancelled; riding out back; AERC convention (new pad ordered,
Sensation inspected); snow! new schedule (VC100?); Provo's lump (Roo-36/3+1
hr)
- March
- cold pones; new schedule (Washoe Valley?); new shoes for Roo; loin rub;
trailer heater; Andy Wolf / Cronin / Powerlines rides; Anacondas;
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- March cont. -
Getting Ready for RoM; Coggins / riding from the Overlook; new pad / new
cinch / new stretches; Jack's First Ponying
Lesson; bath day; Rides of March
(photos); leg filling; Wild Blue
dish; spring cleaning; pft rides; Wild Blue hooked up!!; Roomba
wear-n-tear; Runnin'; Spring is Here! Riding in the Canyon; Chiro work
on Zini and Roo (Roo-47/8+Rides of March)(Provo 8/2)
- April
- Ride to Deadwood; broken computers, broken Roomba, tired Lucy; Easter
ride; new computer; rain/getting ready; Buck
Meadows 50; afterthoughts; new chooks; American River Ride (Roo-48/3+Buck Meadows)
- May
- Letters to Horses; chook update; Girths, more chooks; riding at
Cronin; Less chooks, shots, excursion for Jack, and fat legs; excursion
#2 for Jack to meet Abi; Washoe Valley Ride - 2 x 50!; Lucy's Birthday;
exploring with Provo; "Fun Ride"; tile (Roo-31/3 + 100 at
WV; Provo-5/1)
- June
- Trying out the Sensation; NV Moonshine; Being a Horse Expo Demo; Zini
goes to the vet; diagnosis; Jack gets gelded; RF > FH; ESRI
Conference in San Diego; Little chooks go out; thinking about NASTR;
busy; Jack update; NASTR 75
(Roo - 39/3 + 50 + 75; Zini - 7 sessions)
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- July
- Ride afterthoughts; hot, hot, hot; new clothes for the trailer;
snipping; Chili's badness; training list for Jack (Roo -; Zini - 5
sessions; Provo- 4 sessions )
- August
- Henna; Klutz Roo; hard plastic pad inserts; more roosters; Eastern
High Sierra Classic ride; Patrick gets a new toy - a dirt bike; new
Sensation saddle; yet more roosters
- September
- Roo gets chiro-ed; fishie quilt; we visit Emma P; VC100; Tejon
Fandango ride; horse shopping; the Red horse from Oroville (Hopi)
appears
- October
- herd dynamics; Hopi's first ride; Uno appears from Oregon; trashing
the truck and trailer; Lake Sonoma ride (trashing the white truck); the
Bobsey Twins
- November
- riding Zinnet and Hopi; lessons with Jeannette Quinn; trailering
practice for Jack; TG quilting - fishie and sun quilts; lots and lots of
gravel for the driveway; Hopi goes solo; new arena; more lessons; INS
fingerprinting
- December
- unsuccessful lesson for Patrick; daffodils; truck back!; getting ready
for DVE
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2006
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- October
- Jack arrives! rope halters; Jethro is renamed Roo; herd dynamics;
riding in the dark; flying cell-phones; new
truck; Jack in a blankie; barn plumbing; Roo groundwork; barn siding;
new truck arrival; Mouse moves to Ann's; Lake Sonoma 50 (Roo-48/3+Sonoma)
- November
- Cultural trip to AZ to watch Rusty dance; more herd dynamics; ponying
Zini (lame again); gravelling; rain; more gravelling; internet/phone
troubles; Thanksgiving (house rearranging, sick); Wild Blue; Skræl's
pin taken out; Jack's 11:2 hh (Roo-28/3)
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- December
- Barn rearranging; more gravelling; pft gets a thingy cut out; Mouse
update; barn work; IKEA; house cleaning; Marie-Anne and JP visit; rain;
rain; rain; bald Roo; gravel-B-gone; Zini's on-going lameness; rain; hay
and stall mats; barn wall; falling off Roo; Christmas working on the
barn; Roomba! shoeing Mouse; lumberjacking; hair cut (Roo-35/6)
- Early Jack pics
- Jack
Pedigree
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2003
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2002
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2001
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Archives
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- Utah 95
- in which Patrick and I take a motorcyling trip to Utah in August.
No-one goes to Utah in August... and there's a reason for that.
- Death
Valley 96 - Lucy’s birthday trip, in which she relives some
childhood wonders
- Moab,
Utah 99 - where we visit Moab for it's
proper purpose - mountain bikes
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