Sunday, October 30, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
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.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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
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.
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
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| In "Jaime's Mother" we see Jaime rode as a child too. |
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.
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