Saturday, May 7
May. 8th, 2022 01:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Beautiful warm weather. Windy, but sunny.
I at least got my husband to agree to me buying a truck load of cedar mulch for around the house. It is just bare dirt around it, and the weeds are taking hold. I don't want to mow grass that close to the house, nor do I want flower beds, so mulch it is.
The mulch won't be here for a while, which gives me time to do some work leveling the dirt. Even then, the mulch doesn't have to go on immediately.
I did an hour's worth of pulling out grass roots while the various animals were in their bigger pastures.
I went to see River, and that was nice. He was relaxed and focused. He did good on our groundwork/Liberty, and I did do some "energetic" work with him to wake him up a bit (trotting and changing directions quickly, halts and quick departures) on the ground.
He did well with being ridden just with the neck rope. Stopping nicely needs work, but he's trying.
A little more work on turning on his haunches.
I didn't see anyone else. There was a show that several people went to (I did NOT feel ready for a show right now), but I was trying to come late enough that they would have brought the horses back and left by then, so that we wouldn't be competing for space in the barn.
I learned about how birds have an incredibly efficient way of breathing. They have lungs, but also air sacs.
"When fresh air is first inhaled through a bird’s nares (nostrils), it travels through the trachea (a large tube extending from the throat), which splits into left and right primary bronchi (called “mesobronchi,” with each bronchus leading to a lung). The inhaled air travels down each primary bronchus and then divides: some air enters the lungs where gas exchange occurs, while the remaining air fills the posterior (rear) air sacs. Then, during the first exhalation, the fresh air in the posterior sacs enters the lungs and undergoes gas exchange. The spent air in the lungs is displaced by this incoming air and flows out the body through the trachea. During the second inhalation, fresh air again enters both the posterior sacs and the lungs. Spent air in the lungs is again displaced by incoming air, but it cannot exit through the trachea because fresh air is flowing inward. Instead, the spent air from the lungs enters anterior (forward) air sacs. Then, during the second exhalation, the spent air in the anterior sacs and in the lungs flows out through the trachea, and fresh air in the posterior sacs enters the lungs for gas exchange."
https://asknature.org/strategy/respiratory-system-facilitates-efficient-gas-exchange/
Beautiful warm weather. Windy, but sunny.
I at least got my husband to agree to me buying a truck load of cedar mulch for around the house. It is just bare dirt around it, and the weeds are taking hold. I don't want to mow grass that close to the house, nor do I want flower beds, so mulch it is.
The mulch won't be here for a while, which gives me time to do some work leveling the dirt. Even then, the mulch doesn't have to go on immediately.
I did an hour's worth of pulling out grass roots while the various animals were in their bigger pastures.
I went to see River, and that was nice. He was relaxed and focused. He did good on our groundwork/Liberty, and I did do some "energetic" work with him to wake him up a bit (trotting and changing directions quickly, halts and quick departures) on the ground.
He did well with being ridden just with the neck rope. Stopping nicely needs work, but he's trying.
A little more work on turning on his haunches.
I didn't see anyone else. There was a show that several people went to (I did NOT feel ready for a show right now), but I was trying to come late enough that they would have brought the horses back and left by then, so that we wouldn't be competing for space in the barn.
I learned about how birds have an incredibly efficient way of breathing. They have lungs, but also air sacs.
"When fresh air is first inhaled through a bird’s nares (nostrils), it travels through the trachea (a large tube extending from the throat), which splits into left and right primary bronchi (called “mesobronchi,” with each bronchus leading to a lung). The inhaled air travels down each primary bronchus and then divides: some air enters the lungs where gas exchange occurs, while the remaining air fills the posterior (rear) air sacs. Then, during the first exhalation, the fresh air in the posterior sacs enters the lungs and undergoes gas exchange. The spent air in the lungs is displaced by this incoming air and flows out the body through the trachea. During the second inhalation, fresh air again enters both the posterior sacs and the lungs. Spent air in the lungs is again displaced by incoming air, but it cannot exit through the trachea because fresh air is flowing inward. Instead, the spent air from the lungs enters anterior (forward) air sacs. Then, during the second exhalation, the spent air in the anterior sacs and in the lungs flows out through the trachea, and fresh air in the posterior sacs enters the lungs for gas exchange."
https://asknature.org/strategy/respiratory-system-facilitates-efficient-gas-exchange/
