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Bernie
Soft
Determination ©
We make haste slowly,
try harder gently,
are softly determined.
Bernie a.k.a. our resident poet
laureate, lives in Noo Yawk Siddy, owned by cats he rescued.
On the weekends, he commutes to the boarding
stable not far from Gladstone, where he is owned by his mail order bride,
Memory, Dutch warmblood mare, and 18 year
old Skipper.
Fanfare
for Sunshine, First Horse and Equine Brother, 2/05
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Mail Order Bride
December 6, 2002
Middle age foolish male that I am, wound up going for a mail order bride.
Sweet young thing from Holland. In fact everyone who has met her has
commented how sweet she is. She thinks Skipper is very cute, and flirts with
him shamelessly.
It's okay, as she's a Dutch warmblood mare, 15.3, 8 y.o. Officially bay, but
what I'd probably call brown. supposedly shown in jumpers to 1.3 meters (about 4 foot), and schooled to about 2nd or 3rd level in dressage.
She's just out of quarantine, just before T'giving - 2 extra weeks for girls
over geldings. I have to teach her about treats; she doesn't speak carrots
yet.
I didn't see her last weekend since I went to the Zettl clinic Sat and
Sun, all the way in southern NJ - 5+ hour trip home Sunday evening.
I was told her name is "Memory" - which doesn't move me; on her halter it
said Indoctro. I have not seen her papers yet; if I was in my office, I could
have the vet clinic fax a copy. Yet another effect of jury duty. <g>
Of course, next is the saddle search insanity, not helped by the storm today
- 6-8 inches. when I have to go schlepping all over NJ to look, I'd rather
it be clear roads.
bernie
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- She
Wears Her Hair Up ©
She wear her hair up
For it is a serious day
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- Hedge
of Stones ©
- Silent
Freestyle ©
Ride the corner as
a curve of water,
It is your life you hold in those reins.
- Missing
Dances ©
In a quiet place she schools her horse
Utter joy is serious work
But see the sparkle in their eyes
- Watching
Stones
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I do not worship the stones
But understand how one might
Offer a simple prayer to that
which has been here half eternity.
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