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by Charles Caramello Lida Fleitmann Bloodgood (1894-1982) and Major Piero Santini (1881-1960) are among the few 20th-century individuals who were both accomplished equestrians and distinguished authors of equestrian books. Even more unusually, their lives were personally and professionally intertwined. The intimacy of their shared lives and careers—built on a mutual passion for horses,…

If you want to change your life, do you know what to do? How do you think about your life? Are you happy and proud with how it is turning out, so far? Are there parts you wish were different? Do you feel like a victim? Or do you feel confident that you are in control of your own life? If you are enjoying being a victim, you probably should move on. When you stop blaming your bad luck, come back…

Using the Byonics PicCon as an Auto-ID’er for Simplex Repeater / Cross-Band Operations Repurposing a fox-hunt controller for EMCOMM, Scouting events, and portable field comms   Why this build? I needed a clean, automatic station ID during portable simplex repeater or cross-band operations without hauling a full repeater controller. Using my existing Byonics products, I found that the Byonics…

John Ferneley, Sr. (British, 1782–1860), The Hunt in Belvoir Vale, c. 1835, oil on canvas, 48 x 133 inches, National Sporting Library & Museum, Gift of Kathryn James Clark, in memory of Stephen C. Clark, Jr., 2013 On my first tour of the National Sporting Library & Museum, I immediately favored one of the largest and most striking pieces in the collection. John Ferneley, Sr. (1782–1860) painted…

Stucky Regency A/B/O AU

Series of scenes of omega Peggy, oblivious to the fact that she is a third-wheel, believing she's showing her magnificence to Steve, demonstrating reasons why he should obviously want to marry her...

But what she's actually doing is repelling Steve by unwittingly demonstrating, over and over, why she is wrong for him, while (omega? beta?) Bucky quietly goes about proving the exact opposite about himself, sometimes without even realising it. 

(And she doesn't notice because she doesn't think he's worthy of her notice.)

Examples: 

One - Peggy on a Hunt Day, showing off in a flashy habit, picking a huge heavy horse, cramming it at every single difficult jump and steep hill, full speed. Refusing to accept hints that she is exhausting the poor animal (and needs to switch) until it's weak with fatigue and almost collapses at the end of the day...

Whereas Bucky moves his horse as fluid as silk, like they’re one being, wears a muted brown coat (looks great despite mud!), goes for a tousled/windswept look to begin with so his hair still looks ‘right’ at the end of the day, switches horses multiple times to give them rests between runs, and goes a sensible pace. He also contrives to arrive well ahead of everybody else, despite his slow inexorable speed, because he took clever routes rather than attention-seeking ones.

(Peggy is also keen to be in at the kill of the fox, to show how she can be just as competent as the alphas! Bucky missed it because he was busy herding the dogs away from a busy road, to avoid them getting overrun by carriages.)

Result: Peggy's impractically-immaculate clothes and hair are ruined at the end of the day (boasts she has plenty more!), she is blood-speckled, grumpy from overdoing herself, snapping at everyone, and Steve pities her poor horse.

Bucky and his horse are fresh and elegant, and the relieved grooms are all praising his quiet common sense and kindness to the animals. 

Peggy thinks she did something. Steve is not impressed. 

Two - 

Peggy telling how she kindly condescended to visit her ex-suitor Mr Sousa's new lady, to show how Completely Magnanimous she is in defeat, despite the fact that the woman once worked for a living. As a nurse!

Unaware that Captain Rogers’ mother nursed injured sailors on his father's ship.

(Meanwhile, a servant brings in a note -- it's from one of the tenants Peggy visited earlier in the week... only it's thanking Bucky for re-visiting, to bring them the things they actually needed (which she has no idea or interest in), rather than just bringing what he thinks they should want.)

Three - 

Peggy puts out the archery things prior to an afternoon party, and one of her stooges loyally suggests an archery competition. 

Peggy humbly, reluctantly, acquiesces to showing off how good she is.

She misses five shots in a row but sinks the bullseye on the 6th and takes this as proof of her skill.

(She blames her misses on, eg. Steve distracting her).

Bucky, mysteriously, misses the bullseye altogether on all 6 shots...

(But when Steve retrieves the arrows later on, he finds 6 horseflies he complained of earlier, skewered on every arrow tip.)

Peggy spends the rest of the afternoon ‘kindly’ consoling Bucky on his failure, while rolling her eyes and scoffing at Mr Barton, for being so pleased with himself for bullseyeing every shot. Just to show off for Miss Romanoff! Peggy would never do that just to impress a man!

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