Wednesday, November 17
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
The wind and snow have quieted down, and today was clear and sunny and not an unreasonable temperature for this time of year.
I managed to dig out my little car fairly easily, as it was soft snow.
I had a good riding lesson with River. Lots of constructive homework for our groundwork, we did the basic liberty pattern together and did well, a few things to work on like backing straight. Lots of work on my own form in riding. River was relaxed and moved well today.
Nice to talk to a person (R). I am feeling really isolated again recently. The riding barn is about the only time I talk to people anymore.
Not so much about gratitude: Our neighbors directly South of us, touching our property line, were burning a giant pile of just shit from working on their house. Things like insulation, plastic, treated wood. It was also, from the looks of it, just everything they couldn't be bothered to take to the dump, but should have. You could smell plastic and so on, and I KNOW there was a ton of stuff in there that shouldn't be burned, because I saw this pile over the summer, and I suspected they were going to burn it by the way they were keeping it away from the buildings. It was a MASSIVE pile of shit.
I called the County, and told them that toxic shit was being burned, and the officer went there, and called me afterwards saying "he said it was only wood, so nothing I can do". So the bylaw officer was too lazy to look at the contents of the fire at all, and when I asked him if had SMELLED like a normal wood fire he was all like "noooo, but I can't prove anything, because it was burning".
So there you have it. I said to my husband later, that maybe I've been trying too hard to obey the law over the course of my life. My neighbors have abandoned cars on people's fields, had aggressive and dangerous dogs running loose everywhere, abused their families loud enough that I could hear it 1/4 of a mile away, fired off full clips of ammo into the air near a road, menaced my husband and I while drunk (and in a motor vehicle), burned toxic materials, driven drunk all over the country and tossed their empties into the ditch, driven quads not licensed for roads all over the roads, and on and on, and not had so much as a ticket or fine for any of it. I'm also pretty sure that all the extensive work being done on the house next door hasn't been inspected, any permits issued, or passed any code, and that no one will face any kind of consequences for that either, though my husband and I have to be gone over from basement to attic with a fine tooth comb about three times a year because we are trying to do it the right way. I imagine that means that house next door isn't insured either, because insurance means inspections and code and such.
We tore down our entire old residence three years ago, and didn't burn any of it. We took it to the land fill trailer load after trailer load, and paid for a ton of fuel and some dumping fees, LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
Anyhow, I came home after the riding lesson and had a nap and a quiet evening of wasting time on YouTube.
The wind and snow have quieted down, and today was clear and sunny and not an unreasonable temperature for this time of year.
I managed to dig out my little car fairly easily, as it was soft snow.
I had a good riding lesson with River. Lots of constructive homework for our groundwork, we did the basic liberty pattern together and did well, a few things to work on like backing straight. Lots of work on my own form in riding. River was relaxed and moved well today.
Nice to talk to a person (R). I am feeling really isolated again recently. The riding barn is about the only time I talk to people anymore.
Not so much about gratitude: Our neighbors directly South of us, touching our property line, were burning a giant pile of just shit from working on their house. Things like insulation, plastic, treated wood. It was also, from the looks of it, just everything they couldn't be bothered to take to the dump, but should have. You could smell plastic and so on, and I KNOW there was a ton of stuff in there that shouldn't be burned, because I saw this pile over the summer, and I suspected they were going to burn it by the way they were keeping it away from the buildings. It was a MASSIVE pile of shit.
I called the County, and told them that toxic shit was being burned, and the officer went there, and called me afterwards saying "he said it was only wood, so nothing I can do". So the bylaw officer was too lazy to look at the contents of the fire at all, and when I asked him if had SMELLED like a normal wood fire he was all like "noooo, but I can't prove anything, because it was burning".
So there you have it. I said to my husband later, that maybe I've been trying too hard to obey the law over the course of my life. My neighbors have abandoned cars on people's fields, had aggressive and dangerous dogs running loose everywhere, abused their families loud enough that I could hear it 1/4 of a mile away, fired off full clips of ammo into the air near a road, menaced my husband and I while drunk (and in a motor vehicle), burned toxic materials, driven drunk all over the country and tossed their empties into the ditch, driven quads not licensed for roads all over the roads, and on and on, and not had so much as a ticket or fine for any of it. I'm also pretty sure that all the extensive work being done on the house next door hasn't been inspected, any permits issued, or passed any code, and that no one will face any kind of consequences for that either, though my husband and I have to be gone over from basement to attic with a fine tooth comb about three times a year because we are trying to do it the right way. I imagine that means that house next door isn't insured either, because insurance means inspections and code and such.
We tore down our entire old residence three years ago, and didn't burn any of it. We took it to the land fill trailer load after trailer load, and paid for a ton of fuel and some dumping fees, LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
Anyhow, I came home after the riding lesson and had a nap and a quiet evening of wasting time on YouTube.
