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It’s much easier to window shop when you live in a relatively isolated area without much selection, don’t you think? That way, when you find a horse you like, you know he’s too far away to get. 

I finally broke down and ordered some books on dressage, and they arrived today. I’ll post reviews as I get through them, if anyone is interested.

I started with three:

I think I’ve said before on this blog that I don’t like racing. Love TBs, would like nothing more than to buy an OTTB and retrain her, but don’t like racing. I never have—in high school, it baffled my friends that I was so horsey and yet couldn’t say when the Kentucky Derby was being run, much less who was in it.

The first Carnival of the Horses is up at Hoofbeats—a great turnout, including a couple of blogs that are new to me.

The June 1 carnival will be hosted at Rising Rainbow. Deadline is… oh, I don’t know actually. Keep an eye on Mikael’s blog and see. The July 1 carnival will be hosted here. More details closer to the date.

Over the past few weeks I have received an unbelievable number of “Wow, you shipped an eleven-year-old cat all the way down here? You must really love her, huh?”

Aside from the obvious (I need to stop talking about my cat...), why is this so unbelievable? She’s my cat. She’s not a bookshelf or a mattress or any other inconveniently large and ultimately expendable piece of furniture. Just what do people think I was going to do with her? Drop her off at the shelter? “Bye, sweetie. You’re a nut when you’re in a kennel, so it’s an absolute certainty you won’t get adopted. Enjoy your injection!”

Oh, wow. It’s been a while.

News: I’ve started lessons again, and it’s all Lynda’s fault. For which I’m very grateful, of course.

I’m in Houston now and over my jet lag. I’m already learning all sorts of lessons about living in Houston:

I’m moving to Houston. We’ve heard that before, right? This time, I mean it. I have a plane ticket and everything.

I’ll be saying my goodbyes to the frozen northlands soon. Very soon.

We’ve been having spring-like weather, so I haven’t been nearly as inclined to sit at the computer as I have been all winter.

By spring, by the way, I mean “it’s 40 degrees and enough ice has melted that I can see the sidewalk again.”

I’m trying to create a list of recently-updated blogs. Eventually, this would be for Horse Bloggers, but for now I’m just playing.

Is anyone running something similar on their site? What service do you use? So far blo.gs has me mystified and blogrolling.com doesn’t seem to list in recently-updated order, although they claim to do so.

Also, can you please met me know—