Blogging on iPhone, big Fat Nope

 Blogging on iPhone would be super convenient, but its not super easy. So, no. Not happening soon. It's really hard because I feel really stuck. There is the weather and natural disaster, the pandemic, the difficulty of getting the ponies off the mountain and back. Its two hours to the bottom by horse trailer, but only 35 minutes by car. Chronic pain. The Santa Clara County Park system's unwieldy paperwork and procedure needed to drive at the parks on trails that are so limited that some person not thinking, made it impossible to get a carriage from the staging area onto approved trails. The paperwork is pages long, the same form needed to plan the annual corporate BBQ or a Society for Creative Anachronism fair or a Boy Scout Camporee. People who want to ride their horse just have to show up. It all adds up and feels defeating.

Driving Digest print magazine is running a series of heart horses, asking readers to submit. There is a facebook page doing the same. I am lucky to have had three of those: Janow, Maggie, and Yndi. There is no joy in this. They are all gone. I  have three mares here now and none f them are a heart horse. This makes me sad. I have three ponies, its a dream. Why am I sad?

Saddle pad sales are in the toilet. they've been in the toilet for years. Since March 13, 2020, the pandemic has provided an excuse because I don't want to go to the post office. I took them down and put some medallions up so people could sew them on to their saddle pads themselves. Many have mentioned wanting to do that. these can go in a flat mailer and fit through the mail slot so I don't need to drive them 45 minutes to the post office. Nobody really wants to do that. sales=0.

The pandemic made time to make saddle pads so that I could have great new ones to list when things were back to normal. I have made progress on some but finished zero. Not having sold many saddle pads in YEARS and having spent more time in the last two years promoting instead of making is discouraging. I injured my thumb, now I can't do much.

Realizing that a new idea of using mixed media to photograph my saddle pads might just be "it," I decided to learn mixed media. So far, I just watch videos on youtube and buy art supplies. Ble.

I DID start practicing sketching at the beginning of the pandemic. That's something. They aren't great, but I did them. I should do that some more. I share some with you, the imaginary people who read my blog.