Misc.

By the time I read everyone else's blog I run out of time for my own. I had finished up the Planck article with a lengthy post, tried to insert a photo, and somehow lost the whole post, which was discouraging. And thus, similar to Michail Bulgakov who had somehow burned accidentally his entire manuscript of The Master and Margarita before publication and had to rewrite that novel from memory, on a much lesser scale of disaster, I'll plan to rewrite that technical post. And, btw, if you have yet to read Master and Margarita please do, lest you miss one of the great novels of the last century or any century imho.

This post should contain an igloo photo as the winter of 2010 has started quite cold for those of us spending a lot of time outside. As I'd tried to post, the one saving grace was that the low was at -1f instead of -10f as they predicted. If you can predict within 10 degrees you're a weatherperson.

12/23 had been our last pre-icehouse workout as we've been primarily riderless since mid-Sept. after which wet weather prevented any serious galloping. Will see what 2010 brings. Another year and opportunity! The present thinking is to travel once a week to the nearest available track, and try a second farm speed work once a week, and try to race that way. With the Fairmount meet in jeopardy (surely they can figure how to solve that labor dispute), I'm more thinking Lincoln in May as the first meet where in practical weather terms we might be ready. Around here we'll have two weeks of mud when the snow melts, and that's on top of a lot of predicted January rain. Next post, back to bones.

Training:
Mon 1/11/10 We do our first w/o since 12/23 riderless in deep snow. Trying to get the horses to clear a path. 10 min. play.
Tues. 1/12: 10 more min riderless a lot faster. Path starting to clear. Planned tack work cancelled, as its a lot colder than they said.