The winds were high before dawn this morning, which frequently leads to spectacular sunrises. It was already warm when I walked the dogs at 8:30, so it looks as though it will be another hot day.
First Post in Five Acres in MT
This is very exciting. I wonder if I will be able to import all my entries.
Color Change
Because I am not really a black background color kid of gal, and someone was having problems with the old color scheme.
Simply Divine: Testing the Photo Album
I am using QuickPost to send a trackback (I hope) to Simply Divine, about her post on Testing the Photo Album. Trackbacks are sort of a distributed comments system and were originally specific to Movable Type, the parent product of TypePad.
Simply Divine mentioned my weblog because she knows someone else who has a German Shepherd / Rottweiler cross.
Trail Ride
I had not taken Lily out on trail ride in several months. It has been one of those “ought to’s” in the back of my mind, but there has just been too much going on. I usually trail ride with my trainer and she has been too busy with her summer camp.
However, she takes Wednesday as her day off, and asked me if I wanted to go out. Lily had been a little too enthusiastic on Tuesday, since I hadn’t been riding her enough last week due to the heat, but had chilled out again today, so I agreed to a 20 minute trail ride and worked for a while in the arena while my trainer got Havoc ready. Havoc is her 22 year old Thoroughbred and former show hunter. He looks like an old dude horse on the trail most of the time these days, except when he doesn’t. My trainer would probably let me trail ride Havoc if I asked her, but I haven’t ever quite gotten up the nerve to do so. I’ve seen Havoc forget his age and do airs above the ground too many times over the past decade. If I want to trail ride a Thoroughbred, I’ve got Hap.
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Dogs
I can’t believe that between the time we moved to Texas in June 1990 to the time we moved to Colorado in November 1992, we acquired five dogs. We had been without a dog for many years, and we sort of went overboard when we finally had the space. We had gone back down to zero for a month before we acquired Dudley, our Rottweiler cross, and Lody, our smooth Collie a few months later. Somewhere in the course of five dogs, we had decided two dogs were quite enough.
I have been remembering what it was like to have a large pack because we do again, temporarily. My sister-in-law is traveling, and her regular dog sitter had other plans, so Lily and Lightning are staying with usfor ten days.
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Riding Hap
In a post last week, I wrote about riding Hap bareback. Here is a photo my trainer took of us today while we trotted around her in a circle:
I would like to be a little more erect and have my leg dropped down straighter out of the hip, but I love how relaxed and round Hap looks in this photo.
TypePad
For those who have been curious about the TypePad beta, the TypePad weblog will be describing some of the features this week:
Starting today, we’ll begin presenting some in-depth information about TypePad, including detailed descriptions of major features, additional screenshots and a number of ideas that inspired our development of the service. We’ll conclude this week with a full feature list, pricing chart and information about TypePad’s upcoming launch.
HTTrack Website Copier
HTTrack Website Copier is an open source website mirroring utility. I am using it to mirror my typepad site locally on my PC. With the weblog software I developed myself, I keep a local copy of my writings on my PC, and use my website host as the mirror. I dislike not having a local copy of anything that I write, and HTTrack allows me to create a local, browsable copy of my weblog.
One feature that I like about HTTrack is that it allows me to write a batch script to control the download, but also has a GUI front end available.
Coyote
I was woken by the coyotes’ singing last night. We don’t hear them very often here in our valley: those we see seem to be passing through.
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