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July 19, 2012

the August issue of the magazine

… is done (finally), and all the files are in the printer’s hands. Yesterday, I was scrambling to get it finished, burned to DVD, and dropped off at FedEx, and completely forgot to post anything here. And it turns out that I may not have the finished cover to share with you quite as soon as I had promised. Our friendly printer, who is just up near Cincinnati, usually drives to the Horse Park with the proofs (at which time I can scan the proof of the cover), but we’ll be reviewing PDF proofs for this issue. Why, you ask? Because the Horse Park’s entrance and parking lot are going to be a mad-house tomorrow, as BOTH BreyerFest and the North American Junior / Young Riders Championships are here this weekend. We convinced Henry that it would be wiser not to try to get in to see us.

And he’s lucky that I made it to FedEx last night to ship off the DVD of magazine files …

While I was doing one last proof of everything, yesterday evening — correcting a last few mistakes and typos and the like — a severe thunderstorm blew through the area. First the National Weather Service announcements kept breaking in on the radio, and then the storm siren here at the Horse Park wailed at us, not once, but twice. And then the storm blew in. I could see low-hanging, black clouds; wind whipping the tree branches (coming from the opposite direction of our normal wind); and leafy whirlwinds outside my office window; and I could hear things blowing over and buckets of rain coming down. And top it off, my office lights kept flickering. All I could think was, “Stay on, electricity, stay on!” (as we don’t have a very good track record in that regard here).

But I managed to get everything finished and get the DVD burned and delivered safely to FedEx.

The magazine is scheduled to be mailed to all current CAA members on August 1. Not a member? You can read about the Carriage Association and our magazine here.

… Hey, is that more thunder I hear?

July 16, 2012

the August issue

Today, I’m knee-deep in (and, I hope, almost finished with) laying out the August issue of The Carriage Journal.

I’m happy to say that this lovely photo, from the presentation pleasure drive at our recent CAA Carriage Festival, will be gracing the cover. If I can get everything off to the printer as scheduled, I should be able to show you the actual cover by the end of the week!

June 20, 2012

horses, dogs, and cats

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Yesterday afternoon, I drove out to the Gayla Driving Center to work with Sterling Graburn on a photo shoot to illustrate an article on long-lining, scheduled for the August issue of The Carriage Journal.

Here are a few things I saw, and a couple of the other animals I met, while there:

Ulano (a Dutch Harness Horse) waited patiently in his cross-ties, before getting suited up to be the star of our photo shoot on long-lining

Katie is very friendly and, as you’ll see, kept us company for the duration

… Lucky, however, chose to simply watch us from the rafters

on the way out of the barn … I kinda love this shot

Katie, still keeping me company …

… and walking back to the barn with Ulano and Sterling …

… and, after we were finished, waiting to go on a carriage ride

Sterling and Ulano

June 18, 2012

carriage quiz – the answers

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Are you ready for the answers to our carriage-parts quiz?

I’m re-posting all the photos here, in the order that matches the order of their names, which I shared in Friday’s post. See the photo captions for the correct terms.

according to an article on traditions in turnout (the August 2011 issue of The Carriage Journal), “Cockades were originally used as brooches to pin up the brims of tricorne and bicorne hats…. When people started wearing top hats, they dispensed with cockades themselves but continued to decorate their servants’ hats with them. …”

finials, like this bird, are sometimes found on the corners of sleigh dashboards

this vehicle features a French platform spring

this spring is being held up by a gallows bracket

“imperials” were boxes for luggage and were carried on the roof of a coach

according to Berkebile’s Carriage Terminology, a scroll spring is a steel spring with one or both ends bent in the shape of a scroll (C-springs were originally called scroll springs)

this vehicle features a side-bar spring

according to Berkebile’s Carriage Terminology: a side bar (the wooden bar at the center of the photo) is “a variety of wooden side-spring, of American invention, applied principally to Road Wagons … It commonly consists of two elastic wooden bars, close to and parallel with the body, to which the latter is directly attached; the ends of the side-springs are connected with two half-springs which rest of the axles”