#horses

vmangion

Jul 23, 201911 min

Horse Crazy (Volume 69, September 14, 1999 — November 13, 1999

My mother died on August 30, 1999. With some money she left me, I fulfilled my life-long dream of getting my own horse. Against all...

vmangion

Jan 7, 20183 min

Animal Snippets (Volume 114 - again - October 30, 2012 - January 28, 2013)

(November of 2012 was a really sad month. Two of our beloved cats disappeared within two days of each other, most likely the victims of...

vmangion

Mar 24, 20174 min

Horse-Happy Kid (Volume 7, April-August 1980)

July 17, 1980 When I love him the most is when I’m the coldest and aloof-est (sometimes). Or else it’s times like last night, after the...

vmangion

Mar 12, 20171 min

A Conversation with Dewey (Volume 132, February 2017 - ?)

(One more passage from my current journal) March 9, 2017 Dewey has been caked with mud for the past few days. The mud layer finally dried...

vmangion

Feb 15, 20174 min

Of Monkeys and Horses (Volume 73 (again!), May-August 2000)

(I spent a lot of time in the spring and summer of 2000 looking for a companion horse for my horse, Rabbit.) Sunday, July 9, 2000 Jeanne...

vmangion

Feb 1, 20174 min

The New Horse (Volume 73, May-August, 2000)

(This entry was written three days after my second horse, Dewey, was delivered. I got him because my first horse, Rabbit, a yearling,...

vmangion

Jan 17, 20172 min

New Saddle (First Pick, Volume 83, May-August, 2002)

(This is weird - I just went to my shelves full of journals, kind of guessed which area this volume might reside in - and pulled it on...