Yay Happy Thankgsiving everybody!! I probably should have added that I’m also thankful for pie today, but I thought I’d just stick to the important parts in the card. But in all seriousness, please celebrate today with friends, family, good food, fun times, and remembering all the wonderful things in our lives that we should be thankful for. Remember the wise words of Thomas Jefferson, “We seldom repent of having eaten too little.” (That’s a real quote, I swear.)
Event This Weekend:
Pine Top Thanksgiving HT: [Website] [Entry Status]
- Speaking of down under…..
Adelaide CCI4* is the last big event this weekend, did you check out the preview? Get your party pants on, Australia!
[Adelaide CCI4* Preview] [Adelaide Website] [Entry List]
The above photo is courtesy of Eventing NZ’s FB page, and they say “We had the smiley Mark Todd being Mark Todd. Now This. Not sure how to describe this expression on Toddy’s face.” The photo is Mark Todd posing behind a cardboard cutout of himself looking……well……disturbed? [Toddy’s Face]
Stuart Tinney is eyeing the top prize at Adelaide this weekend. He’s riding Pluto Mio, who he thinks has a good chance of clinching the win for him for the third time. “Pluto Mio is a very nice horse. He has just won the NSW state championships a few weeks ago, so he’s going well,” Tinney said. [Tinney For The Win]
Have you ever dreamed of having your bicycle make clippity-cloppety horse noises as you wheel around town? Well, you’re in luck. In what has to be the strangest product I have seen in a long, long time, a small group of innovative young’uns has come up with the precise machine to attach to your bike to make it sound like a horse. Check it out. [Trotify]
Thanksgiving Evention Episode: Picking up the correct canter lead. G’day Dom and Jimmie, and thanks for educating us a bit more on this Thanksgiving Day! Also, have a good look at Dom’s mustache in honor of Movember. Pretty stellar. [Evention!]
What’s this? RNS Video Black Friday? If you’ve been meaning to get that video of your awesome cross country ride at Jersey, Southern Pines, Bromont (or many more!), but you haven’t quite gotten around to it, now’s your chance! RNS Video is having a Black Friday Sale, so get your tail over there! [RNS Video SALE]
We all have that one face we make on cross country, we’ve got our tongue out (ahem, Michael Pollard), we’ve got the pirate eye, or we’re yelling an obscenity. This is by far the best compilation of cross country faces I’ve seen thus far, and it’s good for a nice laugh, or possibly a sympathetic grin. [The Many Faces of Cross Country]
Area I Eventers, listen up! The lovely Joan Davis of Flatlands Foto has compiled a slideshow of pictures from events around Area I from this year, and is putting them together for an Area I Calendar. Check them out! [Flatlands Foto Slideshow]
Best of Blogs: Bionic Bounder is home again with Jessica Pye!
Best of Blogs Part II: Course Brook Farm has had quite a whirlwind of a season!
Best of Blogs (there are just so many!): Pausing To Be Thankful
You can now be thankful that I have brought this little gem into your life:
