Like many people, I make resolutions with a real-life lifespan of weeks to months, rarely a year.\u00a0 I’ve made a few that lasted for multiple years, but those things…take time, and none of us have more than 24 hours\/day.\u00a0 However, this past year was particularly rough on resolutions (except to stick with the dental work and the eye surgery and its results) so I’m trying again.\u00a0\u00a0 And one of the new list is to be more regular in posting here and on the Universes blog.\u00a0 How “regular” that will be I don’t yet know.\u00a0 I now have some hard limitations on computer time, especially keyboarding, so posts are likely to be shorter, replies to comments shorter, as I save “keystrokes” for writing stuff that might end up published if I can finish it.\u00a0 But I have neglected the blogs and apologize to the regular denizens of Paksworld.<\/p>\n
My newest horse, Kallie, is now home, and we’re stymied by weather on the riding side, though I’ve had plenty of refresher work in mucking out, cleaning hooves, moving things around, grooming, and changing horseware from one sheet or blanket to another.\u00a0 I’d rather be doing that than have to drive 50 miles one way just to see her.\u00a0 Here’s a picture of my last ride at the trainer’s place, on December 17.<\/p>\n
A few days later, she came here, backed out of the trailer, and immediately put her head down to graze:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kallie-downtransition-12-17-2018.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
<\/a>We were just completing a down transition from trot to walk, and in the next step I gave her more rein and she stretched her neck.\u00a0\u00a0 She hadn’t wanted to slow.<\/p>\n