credit where credit is due...

This is the only photo I have of me riding when I was training in Florida and it was taken by a hell of a guy, who just said this: "Where is my photo credit!" about the photo of Thorndike! which he also took.
Ladies and gentlemen, hold on to your twizzlers, its the famous Robert G."Money" Whitlock

Thanks Rob! I'm here to tell you- I have your work framed all over my house. Four of them to be exact. and, I hope you noticed that I didn't Photoshop my nipple out of it. Only because I APPRECIATE IT AS ART.

One nipple comment and I'll cut you all.

some awesome pics of my black eye...

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6
got the stitches out today!

Great visit with Thorndike (aka Anne)!! SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU!
Here's us in the Pittsburgh Airport- the home airport of Super Bowl Champions, The Pittsburgh Steelers, and taken with my NEW SUPERCOOLDADDY cell phone.

the board attached to the horse makes contact with my head.

This is what happens when..a STUPID CAT spooks a horse that is tied to the bar on the wall via leadrope and instead of the safety knot freeing the horse, it gets stuck and the horse rears up and rips the board off the wall and it comes hurling at your head with deadly whipping intentions.
5 stitches.
You know, in the cartoons when someone gets knocked the #%ck out? the stars and swirlies and birds singing?
IT. REALLY. HAPPENS.

at least not yet.

SO the girl, the really sweet Ila, at the stables? she had to get her horse a penis amputation! she told me all about it. She's 16, sitting in the vet's office with her parents looking at photos of "horses with worse cancer on their penis's". HOW FUNNY IS THAT?! she said she feels like a mother telling everyone that her daughter just got her period.
cost: $1000
Her other horse, the thoroughbred I rode today named Jet, he colic-ed in the summer (like, stomach back up, constipation of sorts- VERY dangerous) and she took him into the vet. They vet's office WATCHED him for two days and charged her $2000. yup. two thousand dollars. T H A T 's why I don't own a horse.

Ila & Jet at the Fair last summer

happy valentine's day to everyone that has someone that they can share it with, AND also to the people on the receiving end of various drunken phone calls that resemble valentine's day everynow and then.
any way you look at it; it's special.

yesterday in pink