Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Riding Shiloh
The TH Daughter rode Shiloh today, through a beautiful early spring afternoon.
A Garden State farm "from a distance," as Bette Midler would say...
9 Comments:
By 
Escort81, at
Tue Mar 31, 10:47:00 PM:
I am not completely sure, looking at the top photo, but I think that the appropriate double entendre would be: Nice Post.
By Coach Morgan, at
Wed Apr 01, 08:27:00 AM:
Well, let's not double entendre around our host's daughter. But they are lovely pictures.
By TigerHawk, at
Wed Apr 01, 09:21:00 AM:
Escort is correct, and while Morgan's protectiveness is much appreciated that was an entirely benign double entendre ("posting" being the essential feature of English riding).
By Simon Kenton, at
Wed Apr 01, 01:05:00 PM:
""posting" being the essential feature of English riding"
TH - your blog often makes patent my parochialism to me; and deservedly so. So ah reckon it's no surprise I took a look at daughter and horse, both seeming focused and nice, and thought, "Shee-it, she's gonna have the hell of a time snubbin' a calf 'thout even a saddle horn to dally 'round. Stirrups rigged way high with no brush deflection, and no heels to her boots. Not even a goddam scabbard or a slicker, either."
I am reminded of my favorite conclusion from a reader's digest joke some decades ago:
"Well, son, I guess it takes all kinds to make a world."
"Mister, it don't take all kinds, we just GOT all kinds."
By 
, at
Wed Apr 01, 01:31:00 PM:
Girl, horse, and scenery: all quite lovely, and you should be proud.
By Escort81, at
Wed Apr 01, 02:13:00 PM:
Morgan - I applaud your protectiveness, as no teenager should be the target of malicious comments on this blog. I did not think that the pun on "post" could be taken more than the two ways it was intended -- English riding and blogging.
By Coach Morgan, at
Wed Apr 01, 02:27:00 PM:
Well, I didn't mean to be too earnest. I'm raising two teenage boys, so I try to model best behavior for them.
I'm closer to Simon's understanding of English riding terms...I knew "post" had something to do with riding, but the phrase "double entendre" is more commonly used for a pun on sexual terms. Or at least, that's how I use it!
Anyway, good dialogue, good manners, good times.
By GreenmanTim, at
Wed Apr 01, 03:02:00 PM:
TH, can you please post pictures of the Princeton crew so we can make double entendres about rowers "holding water" and "catching crabs"?
By Jamie Irons, at
Wed Apr 01, 07:38:00 PM:
Fine horse and very lovely daughter...
One of the nice effects of riding is that it encourages good posture (it drives me crazy when I see young people slouch around!).
Jamie Irons
