A Little of The Bionic Dog While I Consider Blogging again

MIA and Lindsay's Star!

Sorry that I have been Missing In Action the past many months. I guess you could say I've been very serious in my quest to live like Jaime Sommers by pretending it's the '70s and that there is no internet.  Or you could just say that due to finances I'd been doing a limited provider. Either way, I've not been online all that much although that might be changing. 

I thought I'd wake this blog up by sharing this wonderful YouTube of Lindsay accepting her Star in Palm Springs back in May.  I wish I could have been there. What a lovely testament to the work she has done both as an actress and as an advocate for improving the human condition, which often has been combined.

Happy Birthday, Lindsay!

Oh, I have no delusions that she'll see this. Okay, maybe a little delusion that maybe she might but I do at least realize it's a delusion.

Happy Birthday, Lindsay!!!!!  

Yes, someday I will get blogging here again. 

Busy, busy, and another blog for you to check out

Sorry I haven't been blogging much here, but life has been busy, all for good reasons. Much of it are things happening to dear, dear friends of mine, big life changes sort of thing. Some of which, happy though they are, mean a lot of work. I'd say that this is another thing that Jaime taught me, help your friends. Also help those who aren't friends yet, but right now I'm busy helping friends.

So, for your Bionic blog cravings, I'll point you to a new blog I discovered today Bionic Blonde. Go, check it out and have fun. But if you take your bionics too seriously I'd suggest avoiding it, but you're probably already avoiding this blog so I can't tell you that. Really, if you take this too serious you did NOT live through the '70s era of television.

I hope life is treating you all so bionically wonderfully as it is me right now. Much love!

Happy Hallowe'en!

Sharing some video love

We've got some gorgeous unseasonably warm weather and so I'm heading out on the trail for the rest of the day. I thought I'd leave you all with this video I found this morning.

Living on a horse ranch

I'm still waiting for my season 3 Bionic Woman, because where I live running to a store to pick it up when it came out is out of the question. After all, in keeping with my quest to be like Jaime Sommers, I live on a horse ranch.

Well, a horse farm. Well, a little place in the country with a couple of horses.  And not in a carriage house apartment at my foster parents, but my own place. But still. The horses are the important part.  Of course, when I was a kid I really wanted my parents, as I really wanted to keep them and not have foster ones, to build me an apartment in the barn or something, but never managed to convince them. But we did have horses!

To be honest, the horses came before the Bionic Woman, so (and it's much the same with loving dogs, really) I can't totally blame Jaime. In fact, it might partially be the horses that got me to love and want to be Jaime. I

In "Jaime's Mother" we see Jaime  rode as a child too.

remember being so happy when she was introduced in The Six Million Dollar Man to see her riding with Steve Austin. It was a connection for me, my love of horses and this dynamic woman riding with her blond hair blowing in the wind (I do know enough now to wear a helmet, however, lack of hair blowing in the wind beats head injury). I think it was when I first saw her on the horse that I realized I had a real role model...except about helmets (I have been unable to find photos of her riding from those episodes, but would love to have some if anyone has them! Please!

Sadly, Jaime didn't ride a whole lot on the show. I suppose that they had trouble coming up with that many story lines where she'd be on a horse. There is, of course, the fact that she could run faster than a horse so using one for transportation, except when a "cover" wasn't necessary. There are some episodes where she sends others off on horseback and gets there before them.

In the episode "Rodeo," which I'll get to watch soon, shortly after "The Bionic Dog" and then the Fembot one that I'm not as crazy about as many other fans are, she does ride. According to The Bionic Book: The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman Reconstructed by Herbie Pilato, the beautiful mare she rides in this episode, Scooter Dolly, was so amazing Lindsay bought her. Next to "The Bionic Dog," this is one of my favorite episodes even though I'm not really a big rodeo fan, but...horses!

Now I've tried to watch all the Lindsay Wagner movies I could and she's ridden in several of them, such as The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel shortly after BW and Nightmare at Bitter Creek but my favorite Lindsay Wagner movie is, admittedly, the Hallmark Channel's Thicker Than Water. In this movie, she plays a rancher who is trying to protect a herd of wild horses from another rancher trying to kill them. She ends up being helped by a city woman who turns out to be her half sister.

I love this movie because of my love of horses and my wish to save them, both wild and domestic, from slaughter and abuse. To see Lindsay play a character fighting to save horses, even without bionics, and looking beautiful and Earthy doing so, was wonderful. Jaime would have done the same thing. I hope I would in what ever way I could.

So, I live on a horse ranch, sort of. Both of our horses were "unwanted" until we found them. I am teaching others to love and respect horses and I want to have a strong focus on training rescued horses. While Jaime might not have turned me into a horse lover, I think that she and Jess Jarrett of Thicker than Water and, of course, Lindsay's outstanding compassion, have helped to inspire me to be an advocate for them.