http://coldantlerfarm.blogspot.com/2015/07/going-places.html?m=1
Most people have horses because they want their equine to have its very own sitcom.
I am one of the few, a dying breed you could say, that owns a horse for pleasure riding.
Or...guess what I'm jousting this weekend.
Tuesday rolls around...games on horseback are for the poodles and weekend warriors.
Jenna...one of the few the proud the pleasure riders.
...like the other 99% of the equine owning population.
Yowser, seems like poodles central, seeing medieval crap to adorn your horse, desperation makes weird friends, lets go. Get a ham sandwich and blograise some more moolah from all the sucked, see you in the hot tub with a cool haymaker and my accountant
ReplyDeleteHow disconnected she is...riding hasn't gone out of favor, keeping and properly maintaining a horse has become more expensive than the families can manage. Probably because they haven't figured out the Kickstarter to pay my bills angle yet. Or, maybe its because they think funding their fun themselves is their responsibility.
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Just read the 'things you don't know about me' post and didn't care about any of them. The one that bothered me the most was 'if someone handed me 20,000 dollars'.
ReplyDeleteBasic human decency? No, I would rephrase that to say basic adult responsibility is to pay your own bills. I would have preferred to know what she would do with $20,000 if she actually earned it.
I'll never understand why she must often insult people of differing habits or opinions. Talk about what you like, what you do...but leave the insults out of it. To 1) own a horse and 2) own a horse in an area where you can safely ride it through town on an errand are two specific and maybe somewhat uncommon criteria to meet.
ReplyDeleteIf you spend enough time alone, if you spend enough time isolated from the regular world, you start to believe things about it which are not true. I remember a couple of years ago she asked about a virus that was overtaking us "out in the hinterlands" as she put it -- she sounded like she literally thought everyone but her was catching it. And now she says she believes that casual horseback riding has fallen out of favor and contests and races rule the day. Perhaps she grew up privileged and this was the only kind of riding she saw, but around where I live almost everyone is a casual, ride-to-the-hilltop kind of rider. She really needs to get out more and meet and talk to more people.
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But that would require allowing dialogue from people with whom she might not agree. Not gonna happen. It's way more fun to keep the comments and followers limited to people that envy her life and have no real life experience with the animals or techniques that she espouses.
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In order to keep her special snowflake status she has to shield herself from the masses lest she become aware that she's not terribly interesting or unique afterall.
DeleteWhy are people acting as if she's now a dietician? She just said the other day she'd lost 15 pounds.....since January......on a ketogenic diet.....that's not someone I would be pressing for diet tips.
ReplyDeleteI just looked it up. Holy cow! It's a diet used to treat epilepsy in children.
DeleteI'm just amazed she lost that little after being on a ketogenic diet that long.
DeleteLol!! That was my thought. Granted, I had a baby, but I gained a bit too much during pregnancy and had a lot to lose. I've lost 45 through lessening carbs and plain hard work since December. Some of that was baby, but most of it had to be worked off. 15 pounds only?!
DeleteI like how someone asked if the Battenkill Books she was talking about was the same one Jon Katz mentions. She said yes, "that's my bookstore." Geez!
ReplyDeleteIt's ok, Jenna. You are still special, even if they do sell books other than yours.
What are bug meats?
ReplyDeleteBug meats= lobsters and shrimp I think
ReplyDeleteBug meats = her pork (according to her butcher)
ReplyDeleteRemember when she "threw out" all her diseased meat?
Bug meats = her pork (according to her butcher)
ReplyDeleteRemember when she "threw out" all her diseased meat?
Bug meats = her pork (according to her butcher)
ReplyDeleteRemember when she "threw out" all her diseased meat?
Why does she have to be so derogatory against anything she does not like? It has really turned me off from reading her blog.
ReplyDeleteBug meats refers to crustaceans, which look like bugs.
ReplyDeleteDear Jenna, quit pimping the new book by your 'friend' who has a new book at Storey. He, and we, and many know that you , know your burned your bridges there, so quit with the fake friendship with others that have books there. Paleeze..... You will not have another book with Storey.
ReplyDeleteBurned bridges with Brett, or Storey?
DeleteLet's stick to facts. This hits a nerve as the people who still support Ayrshire Farm say things about me that aren't factual. Does anyone have a statement from Storey? Has anyone reached out to them as someone Jenna has conned or as an individual concerned about the animals at Cold Antler?
DeleteMy first thought when I saw the woodcutting workshop was that maybe it was for JW's sake. I'm glad she is finally going to harvest her own wood for heat. I remember a previous post where a reader asked her why she didn't use her own wood, but instead bought prepackaged wood from Stewarts. She replied that she was too busy or didn't have the right equipment.
ReplyDeleteI was always stumped that the 'made from scratch' woman didn't use the resources that were literally in her backyard. In addition to buying wood at a convenience store, she also wrote about having precut wood delivered. Or she would write in her annual mid-winter crisis about how she was out of wood. Never made sense to me. How can you be out of wood when you have acres of it on your own property?
" How can you be out of wood when you have acres of it on your own property?"
DeleteThat says it all, great observation. A chain saw, maul and splitting wedge could harvest wood from her property. YouTube videos show how it is done https://youtu.be/EgyQQGPZwrk
There is probably enough down wood already for kindling, like twigs and small branches laying on the ground.
JW got a fancy throwing axe for a b-day present. Not useful for anything really. JW suggests to male readers, "weapons over diamonds gentlemen". I think JW just needs to get laid, like the rest of us. Hope her diet and other such results in a suitor to deliver JW a much needed "O".
Must needed O is right...
Delete...or the above and a wood splitter.
I'll take a photo of what we have been doing at work. We have quite a bit with limited man hours. If she cut wood like they harvest hay she'd be good to go.
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DeleteYes, a power log splitter will make the job easier, but those cost money, although Northern Equipment has an electric model ($249) and some manual ones under a $100.
Deletehttp://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/category_logging+log-splitters
A used splitter is an option for folks who are handy with repairs. Funny how JW does not appear mechanically inclined. I think most farmers or homesteaders would, for example, be able to repair their own vehicle, but not JW. All it takes is a repair manual, a little study time, and tools, which grow in number over the years into a substantial set.
I’m off on the quote, my bad. Here’s the link and the whole enchilada:
"Thank you for all the birthday wishes and kind words, guys! Just wanted to share one of the gifts that found me this year - a professional Timber Sports Throwing Axe! Pretty effin badass. Weapons over diamonds any day, gents."
http://coldantlerfarm.blogspot.com/2015/07/level-33-has-been-achieved.html#links
I think a throwing axe as a weapon is a myth. Anything you "throw" is gone as a weapon the second it leaves your hands. JW would need a case of them, and the means to lug them around, like a cart pulled by Merlin. Accuracy? About zero, in my view. It’s hard enough to hit a moving target with a firearm, as anyone knows who has tried.
JW has a new post: "Lifestyle Porn". She keeps moving her root canal appointment back. If that is true, she is likely numbing the pain somehow and getting a false sense of relief. She’s gonna loose that tooth, it may be past the tipping point already. Some toothless mountain women have appeal, but not all of them.
BTW Meredith, I'm glad you allow anonymous comments and name/URL comments. I don’t use most of the other options available. I put a URL on this post for a trail. Even when I can't hike, I enjoy the calming images and music.
Woodlot,
DeleteTruer words never spoken. My boss borrowed a log splitter from her brother and midway through day 2 the hydraulic hose burst. Apparently it's happened before, bad design. What did my boss do? Returned it to WATCH him repair it so she could do it next time.
Just as I was under the sink watching her fix my bathroom sinks hot water which was leaking...10 minute fix with parts stashed on the property.
Also true about the throwing ax...it's not a weapon it's toy. One toss and your dead. Not any warriors weapon of choice, more like an event at the lumberjack games.
On Facebook, JW posted she had just finished the introduction of her new book. The first comment was something like "Did you finish your last book?"
ReplyDeleteSo, sounds like Birchthorn will never get done. She's moved on.
No surprise.