Drabble Dienstag - The Jump

I've been watching a TV show called Heartland. It's based off of a series of books I read as a teenager that are about a girl and her gift to heal battered horses. The show is pretty good, but it's really making me want to ride my horse and he's 5,000 miles away.

The clock was counting down, but I didn’t focus on it. There was too much else to hold my gaze. Pegasus was sailing over the jumps with ease. But then we came to the jump. There were flower pots, and Pegasus started to snort like he was going to bail on me. I softened my hold on the reins, tightened my grip with my knees, and pushed him through. We flew over the poles and landed with a certain grace that our other jumps didn’t have. The clock stopped, and I wrapped my arms around his neck with a smile.

Three Things Thursday

First off, thank you so much to everyone who came and commented on my rainy day post yesterday. And thanks to Christine at The Writer's Hole for hosting it! I would email you all back about your comments, but my system stopped working (conveniently during a blogfest). So I will be setting up a new comment system and also try and get in touch with you in other ways.

Now, Three Things Thursday. I want to know about the pets you've had. Whether that's as a child or now.

Three things about...

the pets you've had.

1.    I kill fish. They just can’t survive around me. Unless of course there is another person that counteracts my deathly presence. My friend/roommate in college kept our fish alive by being her bubbly, happy self.
2.    I’ve had horses my whole life. Muddy, Hereford, Gambler, Mouse, Wrangler (he was actually mine), Bob (mine too), and Mickey (definitely mine, although my whole family has shown him at one time or another). Mickey is the best horse ever.
3.    My first real pet of my own was my dog Buddy. I begged and begged for a dog, including sending a letter to my parents from an anonymous source stating why Amie needed and deserved a pet. He stayed in Colorado because that’s his home, but I miss him so much.

Either add your link here or tell me in the comments about your pets!

Free August Desktop Calendar

I'm a little late with this calendar, but here's August! It's a photo from behind the large fountain at Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna Austria. You can see the palace just under the horse. I love how the sea horses feet are flippers; gives you a new perspective of what that mystical creature would look like. (If it were mystical of course, and if it were more of a horse that they are.)

Just click on the picture. When it comes up in its own browser window, right click and save the picture somewhere on your computer. Then go to that location, right click on the picture, and set as desktop background. Voila, you have a photo calendar on your computer!

Please leave a comment if you use it, I like to keep track. Thanks!

The Answer

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things.

Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things.

I love the photo of the raindrops and teacup. It's the epitome of capturing a moment.

I'm in a photo contest this month. I would love if you would vote for me. Just head over to Kent Weakley's blog and click on my photo, #89, to vote. It's this photo by the way...

P.S. There's a new widget on my sidebar to the right of the post. It has my latest articles on Suite101! Check them out, tell me what you think.