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9/2002 - 8/2003 Summary |
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Another Year Gone
A year has gone by since I wrote
here, during which we visited Alaska, pictures
here &
here and toured
Ireland with a great band, The Fenians.
We had a real life style change
in September 2002, when we bought our first horse.
Raven April, my first horse,
before she decided to buck everyone and anything that got on her
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We spend so much time feeding horses and mucking stalls these days
it's hard to get to the computer. I have a few new sites, in various stages of
development, that have started in the last year:
- byKAT.com: free stationery for the Incredimail
email program made from my photos
- WallFans.org: fan club for our favorite
performer, Kirk Wall, done from my heart
- Emandolin.com: official page of Evan Marshall,
the most extraordinary, world renowned, duo style mandolinist
- ScottGates.com: tracking the budding career of
11 year old mandolinist, Scott Gates --new, in development
- MagicMacaw.com: my pet project; free magic
tricks performed online by a B&G Macaw -- old site, new tricks. Please
visit.
I also have a new client, The Barncats, a terrific
bluegrass band that plays at Disney's California Adventure. Their page,
Barncats.com, is awaiting client info, and
there's always my original site, KAT'sMeow.com.
In June, 2003 I earmarked a couple of
pictures for the Journal. We ate at Pappy and Harriet's, a famous Pioneertown
restaurant at which many famous musicians have played (we saw Eric Burden and
the New Animals there). We actually got to meet Harriet, who sold the place
last year, but was there helping to train a new cook.
Harriet at Pappy &
Harriet's 6/9/03 |
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John got bored hanging around the stable where
she was boarded while I spent time with her, so bought his own horse. We bought
a few more horses some of which were used to give trail rides at the
Joshua Tree
Ranch, where we were boarding at the time. We also had some great trail
rides with Charla, who runs the place. I highly recommend a two-hour trail ride
there.
Hubby's horse, Memphis, who needed
harder ground than our local soft sand to keep his hip from
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Today (8/26/03) we have five
horses and a weanling colt (he's for sale). They and our son's two horses live
on land we bought in Joshua Tree. We've spent the past few months building a
stable for them, and there's lots more work ahead.
2:00 A.M. 4/23/03: Colts first steps, 15 minutes
after he was born
Same colt, at two months
old
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e saw a wild desert tortoise
for the first time in the 13 years we've been enjoying the desert (we've lived
in it over 2 1/2 years now.)
Seen crossing Quail Springs Road,
Joshua Tree. Photo taken when he reached the side. |
It's been too eventful a year
to catch up with all of it. We're no longer "new" desert dwellers, so it's no
longer strange. It's still beautiful, and the changing light, blue & cloudy
skies and rampantly raging weather make the scenery different by the season,
day and hour.
The other day I was raking manure in a horse stall in
sweltering heat and unusual humidity. I thought of my life a few short years
ago, sitting at a desk in an air conditioned office working on a computer and
making fairly good money. I remember being in that office thinking how I'd love
to chuck it all and work outdoors.
Here I was now, not making any money,
with perspiration dripping from the bandana wrapped around my forehead and the
end of my nose, wading through horse crap. I asked myself if I'd rather be
dressed in nice business clothes in that cool office. And I honestly
answered...
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
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