Sunday, May 8
May. 9th, 2022 04:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
I was able to call Mom, no doinkery in getting through, and she was in a very good mood. I am very grateful to still have her here, to wish Happy Mother's Day.
A bit cool, but not bad. Sunny.
I managed to do the dishes and some laundry before going to the barn.
I went to see River, and that was nice. It was funny; when I went to catch him, it was close to their feeding time, but they hadn't been fed yet. I called River (sometimes it works), and the whole group in that pasture came storming up like I was a Disney character or something. I felt terrible that I wasn't feeding them, and picked a few handfuls of extra nice grass for them.
We worked in the outdoor arena, and the footing was really nice today. River did well with our groundwork, and quite good with our Liberty work, which I was impressed with since it was outside, and there were all kinds of distractions. I continued to focus on using my seat to communicate with him under saddle. His breathing was good, so it was nice to put him into a big trot.
R texted me to say that she has Covid symptoms, and that our lesson is cancelled this week. I shudder though, because her husband has been sick for about a week, and yesterday R went to a horse show. I know that most of the other people from the barn have had Covid already, but they could get it again (the ones that all went to the show together. At least the show was outdoors.
I came home and let everyone out into their pastures.
I worked on some bracelets that will be hopefully used to raise money for a horse rescue.
Today I learned a bit about peanuts. A peanut planted in the ground will put out a shoot, which develops into a plant with flowers. When the flower is fertilized and dies, the plant will put down a peg (my best guess at what this means, is that the peg is something that grows from the end that had the flower, and it goes into the soil). The fertilized peg forms a new peanut. The original plant is still growing and flowering, and each flower will put a peg down into the soil. Each plant can form up to 40 -50 new peanuts.
Peanuts are legumes, like peas, lentils, clover, soy and other beans, and alfalfa. Apparently some people who are severely allergic to peanuts may also have reactions to these other legumes.
https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/pegging-peanuts-zmaz02djzgoe/
I was able to call Mom, no doinkery in getting through, and she was in a very good mood. I am very grateful to still have her here, to wish Happy Mother's Day.
A bit cool, but not bad. Sunny.
I managed to do the dishes and some laundry before going to the barn.
I went to see River, and that was nice. It was funny; when I went to catch him, it was close to their feeding time, but they hadn't been fed yet. I called River (sometimes it works), and the whole group in that pasture came storming up like I was a Disney character or something. I felt terrible that I wasn't feeding them, and picked a few handfuls of extra nice grass for them.
We worked in the outdoor arena, and the footing was really nice today. River did well with our groundwork, and quite good with our Liberty work, which I was impressed with since it was outside, and there were all kinds of distractions. I continued to focus on using my seat to communicate with him under saddle. His breathing was good, so it was nice to put him into a big trot.
R texted me to say that she has Covid symptoms, and that our lesson is cancelled this week. I shudder though, because her husband has been sick for about a week, and yesterday R went to a horse show. I know that most of the other people from the barn have had Covid already, but they could get it again (the ones that all went to the show together. At least the show was outdoors.
I came home and let everyone out into their pastures.
I worked on some bracelets that will be hopefully used to raise money for a horse rescue.
Today I learned a bit about peanuts. A peanut planted in the ground will put out a shoot, which develops into a plant with flowers. When the flower is fertilized and dies, the plant will put down a peg (my best guess at what this means, is that the peg is something that grows from the end that had the flower, and it goes into the soil). The fertilized peg forms a new peanut. The original plant is still growing and flowering, and each flower will put a peg down into the soil. Each plant can form up to 40 -50 new peanuts.
Peanuts are legumes, like peas, lentils, clover, soy and other beans, and alfalfa. Apparently some people who are severely allergic to peanuts may also have reactions to these other legumes.
https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/pegging-peanuts-zmaz02djzgoe/
