2pointober final results...

OH HELL YES.

I commented on Emma's blog last week that my Week 3 time was 3:05, and that I was going to shoot for the moon and try for 5:00 as my final time.

Well.

5:12, baby!

Yeah, I know that's pathetic, and it probably won't win me anything, but I don't care. I'm actually pretty damn pleased with it.

Next up...no stirrup November!

House Post: Final Office

Moved the furniture in this morning and calling it done.

(well, done-ish. still needs curtains, and the woodwork could use more scrubbing, but CLOSE ENOUGH)

Blog Post Roundup

First, some gratuitous self-promotion: make sure you check in with the Rafflecopter thingy if you participate in the Bel Joeor blog hop about how you're clipping your horse this year.

Harvard Fox Hounds Opening Hunt from Hand Gallop
In my next life, I'm going to be a foxhunter. Sigh.

PONY'TUDE Goes First Flight from PONY'TUDE
no really. next life. foxhunting.

Quicksilver Fall Classic from DIY Horse Ownership
Mustangs doing endurance! <3


And your non-horsey read for the week: Inside the Frozen Zoo That Could Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life

WW: 11 Seconds of Meditation

Is there a better calming sound in the whole world?

Let's call this a different variation on Emma's barn door photo series.

Blog Hop: How are you clipping this year?

Okay: giving this at try, because I really want advice.

So let's try a blog hop.

How are you clipping your horse this year? More or less than last year? Are you doing any fun designs?

Let's make this a bit more appealing, too. If you participate in this blog hop, please come back here and tell me you did so to enter to win a $10 gift card to the horse retailer of your choice!


a Rafflecopter giveaway


Last year, Tristan got basically a light strip clip: down his throat and to his chest. It helped.

(Oh, and lest we forget, I finally got into the world of detail clipping and he rocked a Rebel Alliance insignia on his butt. I'm still insanely pleased with how that turned out.)

He needs more this year.

Because this happened after 35 minutes of dressage work.

I'm pondering an Irish clip. Not his face, because I do not have a death wish, but something that would expose more throat and more chest & stomach, possibly shoulder. No way am I doing a full body clip (he doesn't need it, I don't own the clippers for it, see above re death wish).

I am experiencing my usual seasonal anxiety about taking off too much hair, though. I have no idea what this winter will be like. He has all the blankets he needs, but what if? Ugh.

I also need to decide what to put on his butt. 

Right now, I'm leaning toward making him the Flash or Captain America.

 

We'll see!

So: please tell me what you're doing so I can pick your brains and relieve some of my anxiety.