Anna Blake's Blog – November 2014 Archive (4)

Being Grateful for Things You Don’t Like.

My favorite training mentor had a habit that drove me nuts. She would be working with a horse who spooked or flipped his head or had some other issue that made him a disaster and when she climbed on, if you were close, you could hear her say in a low…

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Added by Anna Blake on November 28, 2014 at 9:26am — 2 Comments

Abuse -When do you speak up?

Do you ever get haunted by a situation where you wish you had said something? Mine was 18 months ago. As I drove away from a lesson, I pulled over to check my messages, facing a riding arena where a roping event was going on. It was a perfect summer night and riders were warming up. There was some light bantering passed around, followed by good-natured…

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Added by Anna Blake on November 21, 2014 at 9:13am — 2 Comments

Waiting out the storm with the Dogs of War.





Last Monday I worked a couple of horses in the morning. The temperature dropped in the afternoon–by 54 degrees. I raced to the feed store to get an emergency stash…

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Added by Anna Blake on November 14, 2014 at 9:52pm — No Comments

Weather Amnesia -A Time Change Rage.

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ~Dylan Thomas



Scholars will tell you that this Dylan Thomas poem is about old age and death. It’s a little known fact, probably made up, that this poem was actually not written by Dylan Thomas at…

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Added by Anna Blake on November 7, 2014 at 8:30am — 5 Comments

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