Wednesday, March 16
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Above zero weather.
I decided to take Brownie's jacket off today, and she seemed warm enough. If she seems cold at night when I do chores I can put it back on. It does look like her summer coat is there, so she's not bald. She has shed over half of her winter hair though, all of the fluffy undercoat, and the other animals have only just started to shed.
I called the vasectomy clinic to see if they had any cancellations, and they did. If all goes well and they don't overbook etc., my husband will get a much earlier appointment than May.
I am trying to pin my husband into some kind of movement forward, and we agreed that we would go look at doors, because if he can find a door that he likes for the entryway at the back, then maybe he can finally be ready to finish that room nicely.
At the same time, that is a bit frustrating because it is STILL his favorite stalling tactic: go shopping for materials instead of actually doing physical work.
I went to see River for our lesson, and that went well. We went over a few things that I felt we needed to improve on our older work, and learned one new thing on the ground, and then did our ridden work. We also did our video entry for the fun competition of pole picking, and it was so smooth and elegant. I got every pole in the barrel without dropping any or knocking over any pylons, and River never broke his canter and did everything right. We might not win because he has a slower canter, but I am very proud of how beautifully we performed. The video won't be posted for a while, but I will see if I can at least make a link to it when it is.
I came home and watched the CBC documentary from 2018 called "Equus: Journey of the Horse". It is available for free on CBC Gem online, and there are three parts to the documentary. The owner of this barn, R, has a horse that was in this documentary, a Saddlebred. You don't see a lot of him, but it's still cool. It's also just a great documentary.
Today I learned that Hawaii only has one native species of mammal, and it is a bat. Even the humans are actually an invasive species.
"Hawai'i has only one native land mammal, the Hawaiian Hoary Bat. The fact that it is isolated by 2,500 miles of ocean from land meant that it was impossible for most land mammals to survive any random journey. The few mammals Hawai'i has today, such as the feral pig, mongoose and rat are the result of human contact. Also missing from Hawai'i are snakes. Hawai'i actually has one snake, which looks more like a worm than a snake - but no other snakes are found on any of the island (and the state goes to great pains to ensure it stays that way).
What Hawai'i lacks in land mammals, it more than makes up with birds, insect and ocean dwellers. With more than 200 native fish, 10,000 native insects and over 1,000 types of land snails the islands are teaming with rare and beautiful creatures."
From: http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hi?PlantsCreatures
I also learned that Japan and Iceland have still been killing thousands of whales every year, in spite of a global moratorium, because they say it is "for science". The meat is sold in markets. This was in a newsletter from the World Wildlife Federation.
Above zero weather.
I decided to take Brownie's jacket off today, and she seemed warm enough. If she seems cold at night when I do chores I can put it back on. It does look like her summer coat is there, so she's not bald. She has shed over half of her winter hair though, all of the fluffy undercoat, and the other animals have only just started to shed.
I called the vasectomy clinic to see if they had any cancellations, and they did. If all goes well and they don't overbook etc., my husband will get a much earlier appointment than May.
I am trying to pin my husband into some kind of movement forward, and we agreed that we would go look at doors, because if he can find a door that he likes for the entryway at the back, then maybe he can finally be ready to finish that room nicely.
At the same time, that is a bit frustrating because it is STILL his favorite stalling tactic: go shopping for materials instead of actually doing physical work.
I went to see River for our lesson, and that went well. We went over a few things that I felt we needed to improve on our older work, and learned one new thing on the ground, and then did our ridden work. We also did our video entry for the fun competition of pole picking, and it was so smooth and elegant. I got every pole in the barrel without dropping any or knocking over any pylons, and River never broke his canter and did everything right. We might not win because he has a slower canter, but I am very proud of how beautifully we performed. The video won't be posted for a while, but I will see if I can at least make a link to it when it is.
I came home and watched the CBC documentary from 2018 called "Equus: Journey of the Horse". It is available for free on CBC Gem online, and there are three parts to the documentary. The owner of this barn, R, has a horse that was in this documentary, a Saddlebred. You don't see a lot of him, but it's still cool. It's also just a great documentary.
Today I learned that Hawaii only has one native species of mammal, and it is a bat. Even the humans are actually an invasive species.
"Hawai'i has only one native land mammal, the Hawaiian Hoary Bat. The fact that it is isolated by 2,500 miles of ocean from land meant that it was impossible for most land mammals to survive any random journey. The few mammals Hawai'i has today, such as the feral pig, mongoose and rat are the result of human contact. Also missing from Hawai'i are snakes. Hawai'i actually has one snake, which looks more like a worm than a snake - but no other snakes are found on any of the island (and the state goes to great pains to ensure it stays that way).
What Hawai'i lacks in land mammals, it more than makes up with birds, insect and ocean dwellers. With more than 200 native fish, 10,000 native insects and over 1,000 types of land snails the islands are teaming with rare and beautiful creatures."
From: http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hi?PlantsCreatures
I also learned that Japan and Iceland have still been killing thousands of whales every year, in spite of a global moratorium, because they say it is "for science". The meat is sold in markets. This was in a newsletter from the World Wildlife Federation.
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Date: 2022-03-17 10:30 pm (UTC)