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Daily Dispatches

1. 11/30/11: Playing My Cards Right
2. 12/02/11: Impasse
3. 12/03/11: Snow and Rain, Mixed
4. 12/04/11: Dogged
5. 12/05/11: Doors Open, Doors Close
6. 12/06/11: Raudi Redux
7. 12/07/11: Scooping Poop
8. 12/08/11: Older Horse, Older Rider
9. 12/09/11: Snow Day
10. 12/10/11: One Step at a Time
11. 12/11/11: A New View
12. 12/12/11: Plow Time is Now Time
13. 12/13/11: A Change in Routine
14. 12/14/11: December 20th
15. 12/21/11: Solstice
16. 12/22/11: Horses or Ponies?
17. 12/23/11: Big Plows and Little Plows
18. 12/24/11: Christmas Eve
19. 12/25/11: Christmas Day
20. 12/26/11: The Ipad
21. 12/27/11: Christmas/New Year’s
22. 12/28/11: Wood Heat
23. 12/2911: What’s in a name?
24. 12/30/11: Cup
25. 12/31/11: A Momentous/so-so Year
26. 1/01/12: Ringing in the New Year
27. 1/02/12: The Light Within
28. 1/03/12: Reading
29. 1/04/12: Temperature
30. 1/05/12: Peaches/4th Dimension
31. 1/06/12: Raudi’s Story
32. 1/07/12: Stairway to Heaven
33. 1/08/12: Teachers Keep Teaching
34. 1/09/12: The Importance of Libraries
35. 1/10/12: Varying the Routine
36. 1/11/12: Greener Pastures
37. 1/12/12: Just Breathe Normally
38. 1/13/12: Shoveling Out
39. 1/14/12: What If?
40. 1/15/12: Just Do It
41. 1/16/12: Tool Using Man
42. 1/17/12: Breast Cancer
43. 1/18/12: Adventures with Ari
44. 1/19/12: Seeing the Light
45. 1/20/12: Albino Dust Storm
46. 1/21/12: Teaching again
47. 1/22/12: Wind/Cancer/Photography
48. 1/23/12: New Camera
49. 1/24/12: Summer Plans gone Awry
50. 1/25/12: Once in a Blue Moon
51. 1/26/12: Thoughts on Breast Cancer
52. 1/27/12: Random Thoughts
53. 1/28/12: Yellow/Blue/Red Threads
54. 1/29/12: Cross Even a Shallow River Deeply
55. 1/30/12: Around the Loop with Tinni
56. 1/31/12: Out Goes January
57. 2/01/12: Pete
58. 2/02/12: Depth of Field
59. 2/03/12: Introspection
60. 2/04/12: Nimby
61. 2/05/12: Hope Springs Eternal
62. 2/06/12: Going to Hell in a Handbasket
63. 2/06/12: Parallel Universes
64. 2/08/12: Juggling Act
65. 2/09/12: Photoshop
66. 2/10/12: No Dispatch like the Dispatch I got
67. 2/11/12: The February Thaw
68. 2/12/12: What’s in a Name?
69. 2/14/12: Heart Person
70. 2/15/12: My Friend Hattie Schmidtkunz
71. 2/16/12: Photoshop Returns—The Sequel
72. 2/17/12: Moose
73. 2/18/12: Reading/Photography/Nature of Ideas
74. 2/19/12: Space Relations
75. 2/20/12: My World and Welcome to It
76. 2/21/12: P-e-t-e!!!!!
77. 2/22/12: Hope-Springs-Eternal
78. 2/23/12: Close Encounters of the Snowplow Kind
79. 2/26/12: Patron Saint of Artistic Endeavors
80. 2/26/12: My Little Sister
81. 2/27/12: Rocky
82. 2/28/12: Peacemeal
83. 2/29/12: Animal Communication, 101
84. 3/01/12: Mr. Siggi
85. 3/02/12: Raudi’s Book
86. 3/03/12: Animal Teachings
87. 3/04/12: Sunday Brunch
88. 3/05/12: Calling a Spade a Spade
89. 3/06/12: Aging
90. 3/07/12: Just this Once Take a Look at the Moon
91. 3/09/12: Fixed
92. 3/10/12: Hit or Miss
93. 3/11/12: The Egg Infinitum
94. 3/12/12: Friends Visit
95. 3/13/12: Cleaning Up
96. 3/14/12: Raudi’s Story
97. 3/15/12: Words IN Images
98. 3/16/12: Words AND Images
99. 3/17/12: Words and Images Continued
100. 3/18/12: The Image AND the Word
101. 3/19/12: The Image, Explained
102. 3/20/12: Sporty
103. 3/21/12: Image Only
104. 3/22/12: Great Expectations
105. 3/23/12: Dogs Being Dogs
106. 3/24/12: Tinni et al.
107. 3/25/12: A Visit with Katie Long
108. 3/26/12: Katie Long, Continued
109. 3/27/12: Less than Ideal
110. 3/28/12: The Refrigerware Suit
111. 3/29/12: Breakup
112. 3/30/12: Mitten Madness
113. 3/31/12: Cartoonist Chad Carpenter
114. 4/01/12: Beating the Odds
115. 4/02/12: Depth of Field
116. 4/03/12: Mare Watch Begins
117. 4/04/12: Foal Watch II
118. 4/05/12: Foal Watch III
119. 4/06/12: Foal Watch IV
120. 4/07/12: Student Watch, the Story Continues
121. 4/08/12: Slop and Glop
122. 4/09/12: Farrier Visit
123. 4/10/12: Circles of Confusion
124. 4/11/12: Raudi's Ninth Birthday
125. 4/12/12: Restless
126. 4/13/12: Mush and Slush
127. 4/14/12: Over the Hump
128. 4/15/12: Birds of a Feather
129. 4/16/12: Mare Watch
130. 4/17/12: My Readership
131. 4/18/12:Solfari
132. 4/19/12: Generator X
133. 4/20/12: Tuning in to a Universal Language
134. 4/21/12: Spring is in the Air
135. 4/22/12: You are my Sunshine
136. 4/23/12: Playing Jacks
137. 4/24/12: Nope
138. 4/25/12: Geese
139. 4/26/12: The Wheels on the Bus
140. 4/27/12: Idiocracy
141. 4/28/12: Drama in Real Life: The Foxtail Episode
142. 4/29/12: Alaska Equine Rescue Auction
143. 4/30/12: Eulogy for a Chicken
144. 05/1/12: If It’s Ants We are, We Only got one Jar
145. 05/2/13: A Year Later
146. 05/3/12: Overdue
147. 05/4/12: Earth to Raudi, Earth to Alys
148. 05/5/12: School’s Out for Summer
149. 05/6/12: Terminal Landscapes
150. 05/7/12: And Hrimfara Makes Five
151. 05/8/12: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
152. 05/9/12: Bringing Up Baby
153. 05/10/12: Five
154. 05/11/12: Whaddya Know . . .
155. 05/12/12: Pre-Potluck
156. 05/13/12: Pete’s Birthday
157. 05/14/12: Wonderfoal
158. 05/15/12: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
159. 05/15/12: An Adventurous Life
160. 05/18/12: Hoss Manners
161. 05/18/12: Brave New World
162. 05/19/12: Going into Depth on Depth of Field
163. 05/20/12: Gardening
164. 05/21/12: Jokla
165. 05/22/12: Little Horse, Big Plans
166. 05/24/12: Little Horse, Big Plans, Part II
167. 05/24/12: Rainy Day
168. 05/25/12: Come here Hossy
169. 05/26/12: A trip to Hatcher Pass
170. 05/27/12: Let us Praise Famous Octogenarians
171. 05/28/12: No Ideas But in Things
172. 05/29/12: Patience
173. 05/30/12: Cow Parsnip
174. 05/31/12: More on the Wonderfoal
175. 06/1/12: Then and Now
176. 06/2/12: Drawing on the “right” side of the Brain
177. 06/3/12: Prior to Rain—Diary Entry by Alys age 12
178. 06/4/12: Icelandic Horses Up and Down
179. 06/5/12: Postscript and a Poem
180. 06/6/12: Follow Through
181. 06/7/12: Compost Happens
182. 06/8/12: Hrimmi – A Progress Report
183. 06/9/12: Ever Ready Raudi
184. 06/10/12: Hrimmi is introduced to the herd
185. 06/11/12: Son of Compost
186. 06/12/12: Missing Pete
187. 06/13/12: Fish
188. 06/14/12: Departure
189. 06/15/12: Horse Training, 101
190. 06/16/12: My Readership
191. 06/17/12: More on the Subject of Life
192. 06/18/12: Absence, Part II
193. 06/19/12: A Day in the Life
194. 06/20/12: Garden and Horse Talk
195. 06/21/12: Summer Solstice, 2012
196. 06/22/12: Departure
197. 06/23/12: Big Horses and Little Horses
198. 06/24/12: Tinni’s Summer Vacation
199. 06/25/12: Transition Animals
200. 06/26/12: More on Manure Management
201. 06/27/12: A non-gardener’s Diary
202. 06/28/12: Just Another Day
203. 06/29/12: Affordable Health Care?
204. 06/30/12: Poker Ride
205. 07/1/12: Return of # One Riding Horse
206. 07/2/12: An Improbable Friendship
207. 07/3/12: Raudi, Front and Center
208. 07/4/12: Curb sitting, 101
209. 07/5/12: Long Mucky Trail System
210. 07/6/12: Dear Readers . . .
211. 07/7/12: Happy Anniversary
212. 07/8/12: Happy Trials and Travails
213. 07/9/12: Going to see Gary Snyder
214. 07/10/12: Rainbow
215. 07/11/12: Update: All things
216. 07/12/12: Good Morning
217. 07/13/12: Digging Down Deep
218. 07/14/12: The Competitive Trail Ride
219. 07/12/12: Indoor Day
220. 07/16/12: More on Big Horses and Little Horses
221. 07/17/12: Catch up
222. 07/18/12: The Good Weather Blues
223. 07/19/12: Dreams
224. 07/20/12: CTR, Friday evening
225. 07/21/12: CTR: Saturday, all day
226. 07/22/12: Sunday, all Day
227. 07/23/12: Unpacking
228. 07/24/12: Betrayal
229. 07/25/12: Tipping Points
230. 07/26/12: Update
231. 07/27/12: More on Manure Management
232. 07/28/12: Frog Song
233. 07/29/12: Going Places far and Near
234. 07/30/12: Hay Fever
235. 07/31/12: Pete and Mr. Siggi
236. 08/1/12: Land Ahoy
237. 08/2/12: Rain
238. 08/3/12: Odds n Ends
239. 08/4/12: Baggage
240. 08/5/12: The Emerald City
241. 08/6/12: Gutter Talk
242. 08/7/12: What Gives?
243. 08/8/12: Really Sick
244. 08/9/12: Vancouver Bound
245. 08/10/12: Vancouver Proper
246. 08/11/12: Victoria Bound
247. 08/12/12: Lucky Me
248. 08/13/12: Back to Portland
249. 08/14/12: My Phobia
250. 08/15/12: Home Again, Home Again
251. 08/16/12: Plans
252. 08/17/12: Raudi’s Story, Continued
253. 08/18/12: All Things in their Time
254. 08/19/12: Trail Ride and Barbecue
255. 08/20/12: Compost Continues to Happen
256. 08/21/12: Building Preliminaries
257. 08/22/12: Blueberries
258. 08/23/12: Hrimmi’s Injury
259. 08/24/12: New Compost Facility Project – on Hold
260. 08/25/12: Tractor Talk
261. 08/26/12: A Visitor
262. 08/27/12: The Can/Am Exchange Program
263. 08/28/12: Sold
264. 08/29/12: New Home for Young Horse
265. 08/30/12: Road Trips
266. 08/31/12: In the Mind’s Eye
267. 09/1/12: Returning Home
268. 09/3/12: Labor, Part I, Big Projects
269. 09/4/12: Labor Day Part II
270. 09/5/12: Doom and Gloom
271. 09/6/12: Fairbanks, Two Street
272. 09/7/12: Tinni’s Home
273. 09/8/12: Why Five Horses?
274. 09/9/12: Hrimfara, Update
275. 09/10/12: Manure Out, Hay In
276. 09/12/12: More on Raudiville
277. 09/13/12: Four Number One Riding Horses
278. 09/14/12: Complex Relationships
279. 09/15/12: Riding with the Posse
280. 09/16/12: The Saturday Evening (COM) Post
281. 09/17/12: Happy Birthday to Me
282. 09/18/12: Alys’s Ark
283. 09/19/12: Pilates, Etc.
284. 09/20/12: Compost and Rain
285. 09/21/12: Update
286. 09/22/12: The Mighty Moose Creek
287. 09/23/12: Politics as Usual
288. 09/24/12: Update
289. 09/25/12: Fall Colors
290. 09/26/12: A Day in the Life
291. 09/27/12: Out on the Trail
292. 09/28/12: An Email from Rae McFarland
293. 09/29/12: Zumba
294. 09/30/12: Déjà vu All Over Again
295. 10/1/12: Under the Weather
296. 10/2/12: Politics as Usual
297. 10/3/12: Other Horses
298. 10/4/12: Still More on Follow Through
299. 10/5/12: Snow Day
300. 10/6/12: Traipsing down Memory Lane
301. 10/7/12: Precipitous
302. 10/8/12: Everything that Rises Must Converge
303. 10/9/12: Exercise Sandwich
304. 10/10/12: Random acts of Kindness
305. 10/11/12: I Don’t Get It
306. 10/12/12: Columbus Day for Real
307. 10/13/12: A Bad Hay Day
308. 10/ 14/12: Leah’s Visit
309. 10/15/12: Horses, Horses, Everywhere
310. 10/16/12: Going, Going, Almost Gone
311. 10/17/12: Horse Crazy
312. 10/18/12: Road Tripping
313. 10/19/12: Incognito
314. 10/20/12: Meeting New Friends
315. 10/21/12: The Week In Review
316. 10/22/12: Sometimes
317. 10/23/12: Very Happy Trails
318. 10/24/12: Organizing my Unorganized Life
319. 10/25/12: A Tough Call
320. 10/26/12: Weather or Not
321. 10/27/12: Church of Bread
322. 10/28/12: Friends Visit
323. 10/29/12: Bushwacking
324. 10/30/12: A Change in Routine
325. 10/31/12: Halloween and Causal Effect
326. 11/1/12: First of the Second to Last Month of the Year
327. 11/2/12: Compost Continues to Happen
328. 11/3/12: Herd Dynamics
329. 11/4/12: Herd Dynamics, Part II
330. 11/5/12 Hrimfara, Update
331. 11/6/12: Election Evening
332. 11/7/12: Rainbow
333. 11/8/12: Red Horse Press
334. 11/9/12: Home schooling
335. 11/10/12: Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
336. 11/11/12: Rainbow Weighs In
337. 11/12/12: Jenna’s Turn
338. 11/13/12: Animal Communication
339. 11/14/12: In the Absence of Light
340, 11/15/12: Spirit Animals
341. 11/16/12: Heads up, the Humans are Coming
342. 11/17/12: Ranger’s Contribution
343. 11/18/12: Oh Horses, How art Thou?
344. 11/19/12: Siberia, USA
345. 11/20/12: Yoga and Breathing
346. 11/22/12: Thankful. . .
347. 11/23/12: The Equine Mind
348. 11/24/12: Conversation with a Chicken
349. 11/25/12: Dear Sister
350. 11/26/12: In Memorium, Henny Penny Palin
351. 11/27/12: Moving Forward
352. 11/28/12: More on Moving Forward
353. 11/29/12: Another Revelation
354. 11/30/30: Wind
355. 12/1/12: Mr. Siggi’s Big Day
356. 12/2/12 Forward Ho
357. 12/3/12: Red Horse Press
358. 12/4/12: What’s in a Name?
359. 12/5/12Down Dog (A Classic Yoga Pose)
360. 12/6/12: A Tale of Whoa
361. 12/12/12: Hrimmi weighs in
362. 12/8/12: Loss
362. 12/9/12: Morning Chores: You’ve Seen the Movie, Now Read the Book
363. 12/10/12: I get by with a Little Help from my Friends
364. 1211/12: If the Saddle Fits, Let the World Know about It
365. 12/12/12: Sleeping In
366. 12/13/12: Mother Nature’s Song and Dance
367. 12/14/12: Rest and Recovery for Tinni
368. 12/15/12: Being Horse, Being Human
369. 12/16/12: Raudi’s Facebook Page
370. 12/17/12: The Critics Speak
371.12/18/12: Input from a Guest Commentator
372. 12/19/12: Intellect and Imagination
373. 12/20/12: Horse Rich
374. 12/21/12: The Beginning of the End
375. 12/22/12: Conversation with Peache
376. 12/23/12: Trip Sponsorship
377. 12/24/12: Christmas Eve
378. 12/25/12: Wooomphf
379. 12/26/12: All Things in Their Time
380. 12/27/12: Raudi’s Facebook Page – Sigh
381. 12/28/12: A Visit with Katie Long
382. 12/29/12: Moving Forward at the Speed of Light
383. 12/30/12 Rainy, Warm, and Overcast
384. 12/31/12: Going Full Circle

 

Raudi
Raudi

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Tinni

Siggi
Siggi

Signy
Signy

Hrimfara
Hrimfara