Friday, January 21
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Continued reasonably nice weather for January.
Jones seems okay today. Last night he horked up all his food, and didn't want a snack afterward. I was pretty worried about him, because it wasn't like his normal horking up hairballs. After a few hours he was willing to eat, but I couldn't sleep because I was listening to see if he threw it up again.
He seemed to have a normal appetite and normal behavior today, so I have to pay attention if he's doing that more often.
I went to see River, and was just happy to be there today. I took a long time before we went into the arena just to hang out with him and hang out with one of the barn cats, because it was just so pleasant to be in a barn full of horses munching on hay and they're all sleepy and happy.
River did well with our groundwork, though he is still slow to sidepass away from me on the ground. We worked on having better trot departures at liberty instead of him walking for four or five steps first, and trying to back up straight.
By the time I got to riding, R and her daughter and another rider (who is a special needs person, and I always admire that she is working with horses), and we all did a fun game together where there are poles stuck into pylons in a ring around the inside of the arena, and you have to grab one and ride to a barrel and put the pole into it. Sounds easy, but it means riding with one hand for reins, not whacking the horse with the pole when you are carrying it, and you have to kind of tip the pole up first to get it into the barrel because it is long.
I came home and had a nap, because I didn't get much sleep last night.
What I learned: From a movie called "Four Days in September" I learned about how Brazil had been taken over by the military, and that democracy was not restored until 1985, and this movie was based on a memoir about abducting the American Ambassador. How true the story line of all the events in the film were, who can say, the part about the military government and the fact that the abduction occurred are true.
The film is "loosely based" on the 1979 memoir O Que É Isso Companheiro? (in English: What's It, Mate?), written by politician Fernando Gabeira.[3] In 1969, as a member of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8), a student guerrilla group, he participated in the abduction of the United States ambassador to Brazil, negotiating to gain release of leftist political prisoners. MR-8 was protesting the recent takeover of Brazil by a military government and seeking the release of political prisoners. But, the military increased its repression of dissent, MR-8 and ALN members were tortured by the police, and democracy was not re-established in Brazil until 1985.[3]
Continued reasonably nice weather for January.
Jones seems okay today. Last night he horked up all his food, and didn't want a snack afterward. I was pretty worried about him, because it wasn't like his normal horking up hairballs. After a few hours he was willing to eat, but I couldn't sleep because I was listening to see if he threw it up again.
He seemed to have a normal appetite and normal behavior today, so I have to pay attention if he's doing that more often.
I went to see River, and was just happy to be there today. I took a long time before we went into the arena just to hang out with him and hang out with one of the barn cats, because it was just so pleasant to be in a barn full of horses munching on hay and they're all sleepy and happy.
River did well with our groundwork, though he is still slow to sidepass away from me on the ground. We worked on having better trot departures at liberty instead of him walking for four or five steps first, and trying to back up straight.
By the time I got to riding, R and her daughter and another rider (who is a special needs person, and I always admire that she is working with horses), and we all did a fun game together where there are poles stuck into pylons in a ring around the inside of the arena, and you have to grab one and ride to a barrel and put the pole into it. Sounds easy, but it means riding with one hand for reins, not whacking the horse with the pole when you are carrying it, and you have to kind of tip the pole up first to get it into the barrel because it is long.
I came home and had a nap, because I didn't get much sleep last night.
What I learned: From a movie called "Four Days in September" I learned about how Brazil had been taken over by the military, and that democracy was not restored until 1985, and this movie was based on a memoir about abducting the American Ambassador. How true the story line of all the events in the film were, who can say, the part about the military government and the fact that the abduction occurred are true.
The film is "loosely based" on the 1979 memoir O Que É Isso Companheiro? (in English: What's It, Mate?), written by politician Fernando Gabeira.[3] In 1969, as a member of Revolutionary Movement 8th October (MR-8), a student guerrilla group, he participated in the abduction of the United States ambassador to Brazil, negotiating to gain release of leftist political prisoners. MR-8 was protesting the recent takeover of Brazil by a military government and seeking the release of political prisoners. But, the military increased its repression of dissent, MR-8 and ALN members were tortured by the police, and democracy was not re-established in Brazil until 1985.[3]
