Horse Sense

First of all, my sincerest apologies for the nearly week long hiatus. I’ve had my web designer hat on and have been working on a horse website for a client. So, it’s been a cowgirl hat, and I love the fit, partner! I’m a cat person first and foremost, and a dog person second, so while I can tell you everything about cats and most things about dogs, I knew nothing about horses. Well, unless you count the facts that they’re beautiful, large, and swat flies with their tails. I owned that little dab of information.

To feel at home with the website I’m building and to keep from making novice flavored mistakes, I’ve been reading all about horses. I know a Buckskin from a Dun and a Grulla from a Grullo now, whereas a month ago, I’d have thought the last two were items on a Mexican menu and the only Dun I knew played baseball with the Reds….and spelled his name with two ns. Buckskin? A shaggy rug.

At the risk of going into water too deep for a weekend, I have to say that learning things from a whole new arena has been very exciting and rewarding. It feels as though my world has been broadened, like the boundaries have been pushed back. That’s always a very good thing.

In fact, I’ve fallen so in love with horses that I’ve been looking at, and for, everything horse-related. These Green Horse Bookend Statues (Asia Traditional) are incredibly handsome. They combine an old love of mine (the Orient) with a new love (horses) and work together to hold up one of my greatest loves (books). And they look so noble doing it!

I’m trying to decide when to break it to my husband that I want to move to a ranch and raise horses. We live in Kentucky, for heaven’s sake, so it shouldn’t be tough to find a ranch or a couple of horses to start with.

Oh, Michael…..