Sunday, December 26
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
That my sweetie is home, it makes the cold snap a little more bearable knowing there's someone here if I need help.
It does help to have him come out and do chores with me.
We put the extra liner on Wonder's blanket. Most of the time I don't need to blanket her, but she is a little on the thin side this year, and this weather (about -30C) is cold enough to warrant it. I have put blankets on the ponies too.
This weather is cold, but normal for where we live. At least once over the winter, you can expect about a week of -30C and sometimes colder. We do our best to plan for it, and we do expect it.
The goats are in the garage now. It is heated to about 5C.
We've been walking the goats and ponies around the yard for the last day or two, to make sure they are moving enough. They tend to stand inside their shed all day.
We didn't go anywhere today, but being at home was okay too.
We watched the last two episodes of "The Queen's Gambit", and it was an excellent show all the way through.
December 25
That I had my sweetie home for Christmas. It was just us, like it's been for the last three years, but at least we have that.
I got some nice presents, and my sweetie wants a particular coffee grinder that we have yet to find, and he bought his own Christmas bottle of fancy alcohol, so he didn't have much to open.
We had a pretty simple day at home, and my sweetie made a really tasty meal out of food I can eat. He put a lot of effort into making it look nice. As much as I sometimes miss the normalcy of just eating whatever I wanted to for holidays, there is also a recognition that I used to eat a LOT at Christmas. There was nothing wrong with our simple meal, and there's no regrets over too much food later.
My sweetie talked to a lot of his family again, even though he talked to them yesterday.
We re-watched "Dune", though I was kind of napping through it.
That my sweetie is home, it makes the cold snap a little more bearable knowing there's someone here if I need help.
It does help to have him come out and do chores with me.
We put the extra liner on Wonder's blanket. Most of the time I don't need to blanket her, but she is a little on the thin side this year, and this weather (about -30C) is cold enough to warrant it. I have put blankets on the ponies too.
This weather is cold, but normal for where we live. At least once over the winter, you can expect about a week of -30C and sometimes colder. We do our best to plan for it, and we do expect it.
The goats are in the garage now. It is heated to about 5C.
We've been walking the goats and ponies around the yard for the last day or two, to make sure they are moving enough. They tend to stand inside their shed all day.
We didn't go anywhere today, but being at home was okay too.
We watched the last two episodes of "The Queen's Gambit", and it was an excellent show all the way through.
December 25
That I had my sweetie home for Christmas. It was just us, like it's been for the last three years, but at least we have that.
I got some nice presents, and my sweetie wants a particular coffee grinder that we have yet to find, and he bought his own Christmas bottle of fancy alcohol, so he didn't have much to open.
We had a pretty simple day at home, and my sweetie made a really tasty meal out of food I can eat. He put a lot of effort into making it look nice. As much as I sometimes miss the normalcy of just eating whatever I wanted to for holidays, there is also a recognition that I used to eat a LOT at Christmas. There was nothing wrong with our simple meal, and there's no regrets over too much food later.
My sweetie talked to a lot of his family again, even though he talked to them yesterday.
We re-watched "Dune", though I was kind of napping through it.
