Tuesday, May 12

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Sunshine.

Seeing people at the barn today, though we were distancing.

Having a good lesson on River today. He stayed focused, and we worked more on him staying fully collected in the trot and in transitions (horses often either bring their head up or drop their head when going from trot to walk, or trot to canter, but it shows that they aren't staying in collection the whole time). We had some very good trotting, and excellent cantering. I was really happy with how focused he stayed today. The big door to the arena was open, and there were dogs barking outside and people coming and going, but he didn't spook, and he didn't try to keep looking outside to see what was happening.

My sweetie got a pile of lumber moved off of the lawn and onto a concrete pad beside the house. I've been trying to get everything off of the grass that we can, so that I can safely mow the lawn, and the grass can grow back (it dies underneath everything that was lying on top of it all winter). The clay around the house is getting more level and easier to walk on too, because he's been filling in trenches and evening things out.

Every thing I can see improving makes me feel like we are getting somewhere.

The sister that is in charge of keeping track of what's going on with Mom posted on Facebook that Mom is going to be getting physiotherapy, and that this sister and the brother in charge of Mom's health and progress did talk to her doctor and were satisfied with what was being done. I don't know if Mom is doing better or not, but at least I can feel like they're doing what they can for her.

That I could just nap for a while when I got home from the barn. After I read my sister's update about Mom, I just felt like collapsing for a while, because I felt better, but I had to just stop everything for a bit.

My sweetie started the night shift at his job. In order to be able to keep people apart from each other, they split the shifts into day and night so that there's half the people in a room at a time etc. He chose to try it out, and it might help me get some sleep (I'm a night owl, and go to bed around 4 am. He was getting up at 5:30, and I was having a hard time falling asleep because I anticipated his getting up, and I wasn't falling asleep until 6 or 7 am because I couldn't sleep sometimes after he left for work).

I also didn't like that because I'm a night owl, I would normally watch a movie at night, or do dishes, or laundry, but since my husband was trying to sleep I didn't feel like I could do these things, so every night from about 9pm on, I felt like I had to be really quiet and not wake him up, but that's like, half of my day.

Anyhow, we'll see how it feels for him. I don't want him to do this if it doesn't work for him.