Category Archives: Horses

Horse Eats Hound

Posted on August 13, 2012 by P. Kirby

Yes, the vacuum is running. And, no, the greyhound isn’t budging from his spot on the carpet. In fact, his head is up is because he saw me with the camera and wondered what was going on.  In the absence … Continue reading →

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War Horse

Posted on July 19, 2012 by P. Kirby

Alternate title for War Horse: Cursed Horse. Because nearly everyone who climbs on that animal’s back, gets dead. War Horse, the movie, is epic. As in epic disappointment. In a picturesque Devon, Albert Narracott (Jeremy Irvine) watches a horse grow … Continue reading →

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The Curious Case of the Dead Lagomorph

Posted on June 26, 2012 by P. Kirby

Rewind, several years ago, on another hot summer day…. I get home from work and trudge out to the barn to visit the Wonder Horse. Heat is pouring down like scalding rain and splashing off the pavement and sand. A … Continue reading →

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My Little Pony Goes Crazy

Posted on May 25, 2012 by P. Kirby

The sign says it all. Horses are big dangerous and destructive animals. Why girls go horse crazy is beyond me. (Ahem. There’s a joke in there about men…moving on….) This is the Wonder Horse’s second liability sign. The first, made … Continue reading →

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Dear Author, Don’t Make Me Smack You.

Posted on March 30, 2012 by P. Kirby

Several months ago I read a much-lauded book, the first in another long epic series where the author is taking a god’s age to finish the sequels. (Like I can talk. I’m still not done with the 80K sequel to … Continue reading →

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Clumsy and Insane; What’s Not to Love?

Posted on March 14, 2012 by P. Kirby

Ask any horse owner for the defining characteristics of equines and they’ll likely say “accident prone” and “frequently paranoid.” The second is a function of the horse’s position on the food chain, herbivore, aka, a carnivore’s happy meal. While the … Continue reading →

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With Apologies to Thelwell

Posted on February 3, 2012 by P. Kirby

Last week my husband and I watched The Lord of the Rings movies, all three (extended versions), again.  When we got to part where Frodo is stabbed by the Nazgul on Weathertop, my husband wondered, “So if Elrond hadn’t healed … Continue reading →

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Who Is That Masked Horse?

Posted on August 5, 2011 by P. Kirby

“STOP DIGGING!” What my neighbors hear every morning from May to October. Summer and Fall are the seasons of flies.  This year, thanks (sort of) to a short and very unusual span of below zero temperatures, the fly hordes didn’t … Continue reading →

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If It Ain’t Broke, Break it Anyway

Posted on June 11, 2011 by P. Kirby

Fiddling with the site template…again.  Yes, I totally stole the header from my other blog.  I like the cartoony version of the Wonder Horse.  Anyway, site weirdness may ensue.

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Like a Dog, But Bigger

Posted on September 17, 2010 by admin

It’s six-thirty am and my horse is bugling at the house. I, the antithesis of a morning person, am thinking dark thoughts about glue factories and horse steaks. Bleary-eyed, I tromp out to to the barn, where the Wonder Horse … Continue reading →

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