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Friday, June 28
Jun. 28th, 2025 12:11 amToday I am grateful for:
Decent sleep.
A lazy day over all, really.
Spending time with my Sweetie, before I went to the barn and he went to climb.
We took some of the ashes from burning all that hay and added it to the compost pile.
We discussed some more, what we want to do with yard buildings. We have two big quonsets, but the original fabric covers are disintegrated, and we've been using tarps to keep the rain off of items stored in them.
These things are never really good as a long term building, and really, we need permanent solutions. It will help us to continue living here when we are older, if everything is low maintenance and it's easy to keep up with. Having good storage buildings that don't need work done on them is helpful; having shitty quonsets where the tarps need replacing every year (and it's a big job to man handle a huge tarp onto the frame and tie it down) or so, and everything inside getting wet and damaged if you don't replace it, isn't helpful.
Of course, all the work seems daunting again, because in order to put in a shed with storage for firewood it means taking down the crappy quonset and doing something with the contents. Same with the other one that is to become a car port.
Sigh.
Lots of talk. Let's hope there is some action.
I spent some time soaking poor Wonder's sore foot in warm water and epsom salts, hoping to draw out the abscess material.
Then I went to the barn. It was sort of storming, that broody, heavy weather where there is constant rumbling but not much else. Hard to know if it's going to get serious, or blow over in ten minutes.
River was in a decent mood, and his breathing was good. We worked more on the patterns for the upcoming show next weekend, and a bit on the freestyle elements.
I did stay to work with another horse during the woman with health issues lesson, though even that was all wonky because of the "maybe storm" going on. R at first wasn't sure if we should go work in the arena, or if she should find something for the woman to do just in the barn, which doesn't make for much of a lesson, but better than being struck by lightening or something outside.
We did go work in the arena, though no riding for the woman, just ground work.
I came home and we made supper and watched a pretty "meh" movie called "Brothers". Considering the amazing cast, I felt like it should have been a lot better.
I talked with my Sweetie about what we should do tomorrow, and he wanted to go to the city since it's supposed to be raining, but I said "surely there is SOMETHING that you could work on inside, even if it's for a few hours in the morning, and if you can get something done that is ACTUAL HOUSE PROGRESS, then maybe".
So there you go, we didn't do anything today that was really progress, and he wants to just blow off all of tomorrow as well.
He thinks that moving some wood off the trailer and taking ashes to the compost pile is "good enough" for a whole, entire day. That might have taken an hour.
I talked to him about how things like just picking stuff up or going to the dump is like me saying that doing the dishes is progress on the house. It's not. It's just routine stuff that has to be done over and over and over, and has nothing to do with progress on the ACTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
I'm really trying to get this through to him, that he can't see a job like taking the recycling to the depot as "getting things done". It's useful and necessary, but if we are to get anything structurally finished, he has to try to make real, solid, physically altered, structural change on the house on a steady basis.
Why am I the grown up?
Decent sleep.
A lazy day over all, really.
Spending time with my Sweetie, before I went to the barn and he went to climb.
We took some of the ashes from burning all that hay and added it to the compost pile.
We discussed some more, what we want to do with yard buildings. We have two big quonsets, but the original fabric covers are disintegrated, and we've been using tarps to keep the rain off of items stored in them.
These things are never really good as a long term building, and really, we need permanent solutions. It will help us to continue living here when we are older, if everything is low maintenance and it's easy to keep up with. Having good storage buildings that don't need work done on them is helpful; having shitty quonsets where the tarps need replacing every year (and it's a big job to man handle a huge tarp onto the frame and tie it down) or so, and everything inside getting wet and damaged if you don't replace it, isn't helpful.
Of course, all the work seems daunting again, because in order to put in a shed with storage for firewood it means taking down the crappy quonset and doing something with the contents. Same with the other one that is to become a car port.
Sigh.
Lots of talk. Let's hope there is some action.
I spent some time soaking poor Wonder's sore foot in warm water and epsom salts, hoping to draw out the abscess material.
Then I went to the barn. It was sort of storming, that broody, heavy weather where there is constant rumbling but not much else. Hard to know if it's going to get serious, or blow over in ten minutes.
River was in a decent mood, and his breathing was good. We worked more on the patterns for the upcoming show next weekend, and a bit on the freestyle elements.
I did stay to work with another horse during the woman with health issues lesson, though even that was all wonky because of the "maybe storm" going on. R at first wasn't sure if we should go work in the arena, or if she should find something for the woman to do just in the barn, which doesn't make for much of a lesson, but better than being struck by lightening or something outside.
We did go work in the arena, though no riding for the woman, just ground work.
I came home and we made supper and watched a pretty "meh" movie called "Brothers". Considering the amazing cast, I felt like it should have been a lot better.
I talked with my Sweetie about what we should do tomorrow, and he wanted to go to the city since it's supposed to be raining, but I said "surely there is SOMETHING that you could work on inside, even if it's for a few hours in the morning, and if you can get something done that is ACTUAL HOUSE PROGRESS, then maybe".
So there you go, we didn't do anything today that was really progress, and he wants to just blow off all of tomorrow as well.
He thinks that moving some wood off the trailer and taking ashes to the compost pile is "good enough" for a whole, entire day. That might have taken an hour.
I talked to him about how things like just picking stuff up or going to the dump is like me saying that doing the dishes is progress on the house. It's not. It's just routine stuff that has to be done over and over and over, and has nothing to do with progress on the ACTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
I'm really trying to get this through to him, that he can't see a job like taking the recycling to the depot as "getting things done". It's useful and necessary, but if we are to get anything structurally finished, he has to try to make real, solid, physically altered, structural change on the house on a steady basis.
Why am I the grown up?
