From Hunter/Jumper to Dressage

It is an amazing and challenging adventure moving from the Hunter/Jumper world (which I spend many! years riding) to serious, no-kidding dressage training.  My big 16/2hh warmblood is an amazing and patient Schoolmaster-teacher and my young Sport pony (I'm almost too big for her!) is turning into an athletic powerhouse! (In her first show she beat the big dressage horses coming in first in 2 of her three tests -- second only to her sister in the third test.)  She is flamboyant!

Five plus years of this training has redesigned sitting a saddle and has changed the conversation with horses on so many levels.  What fun!  Oh, and my pony bows when requested and thinks it's really cool to bow! 

Off to the barn to practice.  Then go see my other 2 retired boys.

Have a great day!

2019 and forward

It's been a long time since I've posted. 

My horses are the best!  And kitties too!  New adventures in dressage and art.  Library reference work is fun.   Let's see what happens from here.

I'm back again!

It's been way too long since I wrote.  Lots has happened in libraryland since I last posted.  E-readers and electronic devices lead the way though there are many who still prefer the paper version of a title.  Financial challenges are also high on the list of library issues.  It's hard to watch some libraries struggling to retain staff, hours of operation and available titles while others are eagerly building new libraries.  Still, the point is libraries remain a significant community partner and always will be a valued location and participant.  And the most interesting part is the changing nature of libraries.  From repository to the go-to place for learning skills or finding help to search for a job or a collaboration site or a place to just enjoy good books and spend time with those who share the passion, libraries are stretching to new frontiers to continue to help people find the information they want in whatever format.  Kind of exciting.  Certainly fun.  Always learning new things...don't want to rust!  New horizons beckon.  Let's keep on movin' forward!

It's 2010 When did this all happen?

It's 2010. I haven't scribed a mot in way too long. My Master's in Library Science is complete...for a while now. I have 8 kitties. My busy times are spent as a Reference Librarian and having a blast at it. Guess it's time to observe, comment and share things from my end of the pond again.

Interesting Haworth article

Here is an interesting study

Evaluation of a Public Library Workshop:
Teaching Older Adults How to Search
the Internet for Reliable Cancer Information
by
Laurie Hoffman-Goetz
Daniela B. Friedman
Ann Celestine
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/SampleText/J381.pdf

Thought you might like to take a look

Seniors are often seen as sedentry or disinterested in exercise. But exercise benefits everyone. Here is a website that concurs and advocates exercise.

Aerobics : To improve life in the second 50 years!
http://seniors-site.com/sports/aerobics.html

It provides suggestions of what to do, when to do it and how it might help.

Don't rust! A rolling stone catches no moss.

This web page came up and seems to offer another broad brushstroke of useful information.

http://www.aha.org/aha_app/resource-center/links/consumer-links.jsp


The web site says

Vision: The AHA vision is of a society of healthy communities, where all individuals reach their highest potential for health.

Mission: To advance the health of individuals and communities. The AHA leads, represents and serves hospitals, health systems and other related organizations that are accountable to the community and committed to health improvement.

Combine this with some of the other resources listed in another blog...among many others...and there is an information package to help Senior Citizens and their caretakers (when appropriate) in navigating the aging path.