If you don’t know where you’re going you’ll end up somewhere else. Yogi Berra
Category: The Monday Minstrel
Monday Minstrel: Bollards! The Spoils of Victory!
I belong to a Facebook Group “Memories of London” and recently saw a post about the final resting place of the canons from the defeated army of Napoleon ! Here is a quote from the post. “After the defeat of the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the British started to strip the…
Monday Minstrel: How do birds survive the Polar Vortex?
The Polar Vortex has descended. As the name sounds it is a broad swath of arctic air that descends onto Canada and spills on down into the northern US. I look at the little birds that come to our bird feeder and I wonder how they survive in the severe cold. This winter I am…
Monday Minstrel: The Ballet Dancing Horse.
Alignment, placement and transitions are of prime importance.
Monday Minstrel: The Trace Clip
Several people have asked me about the winter clip that Biasini has this year. Previously we have been going to Florida and warm temperatures in the winter so he would have a full clip; all the thick winter fur off! But this year we are staying home in Ontario. So I do not need to…
Monday Minstrel: The Life Story of a Corn Field.
They were still harvesting in the pitch dark!
Monday Minstrel: Horse’s Ancestor Memories
The ancestor memories of how to survive.
Monday Minstrel: The London Cart Horse Parade 1903
586 single horse vehicles, 62 pairs and 30 unicorn teams.!
Monday Minstrel: A quote for these times.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow,it empties today of its strength. Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero. 1892-1983
Monday Minstrel:Quote
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future,act now, without delay” Simone de Beauvoir
Monday Minstrel: Peyo the Hospital Horse.
I recently posted a book review of Riding Home, the Power of Horses to Heal by Tim Hayes. I know that many people are familiar with the idea of dogs who visit people in hospital but horses? There are videos of mini horses who visit hospitals and care homes but a full sized horse? Here…
Monday Minstrel: Coltsfoot
When is a weed not a weed? Many years ago I went to China with a group of horticulturalists led by well known plantsman Roy Lancaster. He always used to say that a weed was only a weed when the plant was growing somewhere we did not want it to grow. When out walking we…
