weekend to do

friday night lights.
late summer colds. ugh.


around the house
laundry room facelift :)
philodendron resuscitation

weekend to do

drycleaning
trip to goodwill

celebrate 83! (we love you bubbie xo)






if you are in L.A. and you haven't been to London Calling at the Getty Museum yet, you will have lots of time. this gem by Lucian Freud is just one of many reasons to go!

7th & 10th

enter at A

E did two tests over the weekend (Training Level 2 & 3)at beautiful Thole Farms in Moorpark. her first tests with Phantom. she was very pleased with her results - and is looking forward to another show in September. Go #teeriders :)

weekend to do

set-up & shop for High School Welcome Back staff breakfast
prep for the California Dressage Society Ventura County Chapter Schooling Show!

vaulting

we have had the most wonderful trainer/instructor at our barn this summer. Sabrina came to us last summer from Austria (via a ranch she'd been working at in Costa Rica). she had taken two years off to travel and work with horses around the world. she enjoyed our program so much, she decided to end her tour back in Chatsworth.

in culmination of her time, she presented the girls with vaulting workshops (one for tweens and another for teens). they had a blast. their fearlessness and comfort around horses never ceases to amaze me.

i missed E's workshop with prior commitments. but after hearing about it, i made sure to be present for the second day of K's workshop.

weekend to do

banking
conference registration

around the house
goodwill sweep
prep for window washers




are you watching stranger things? oh my. nostalgia overload here. everything. we just binged on the last few of the first season tonight. almost makes me want to find used copies of my old stephen king and v.c. andrews collections, and my well-worn copy of amityville horror. (i devoured horror fiction for a few years in the early 80s.) almost.

three cheers for the horse camp...

the fifth summer at "The Horse Camp"
one a tween camper and CIT
the other a Jr. Counselor
strengthening strong friendships
and building new ones
mad horse skills

E said to me the other day, as camp was winding up, "Mom, they say boys are fierce, but horse girls are fiercer."

weekend to do

camp wind-up (how can it be over? the fifth summer...)
gramma send-off
nocal guests

#LondonCalling

I was thrilled to be a small part of this exhibition which opens to the public tomorrow. culled mainly from the Tate, and some significant local collections, the exhibition focuses on six of the "School of London" painters who were working against the fashionable minimalism of their time, by focusing on the figurative.

we all got dressed up and headed up to the opening tonight. (and who doesn't love a summer night at the getty?)



















it's a beautiful exhibition. such a treat to see these paintings I know and love in Los Angeles. if you love painting, it's not to be missed.




London Calling
at the Getty Museum
through November 13, 2016

reviews here and here

july X

brookings, OR

july IX

seaside, OR

july VIII

july VII

July VI

view of mt. galiano from pender island

July V

a hike up, and down, mt. galiano

July IV

July III

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