Friday, May 13
May. 14th, 2022 01:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Spring rain that made everything smell wonderful.
A phone call with Sister E, mainly about horses, isn't that nice.
I went to see River, and he was SO DIRTY! He likes to roll if he gets wet, and he was completely crusted with dirt from one end to the other. I spent an enormous amount of time grooming him so I could ride, and he seemed quite pleased with all of it.
He did well with our groundwork/Liberty, and more and more I am working with him without a halter, doing the same work that I began with. Yielding hindquarters, then shoulders towards and away, and drawing, backing, all of that.
We rode using the new bridle again, and he did well with it.
There were some people around. R is back to work, wearing a mask for now.
The horses were all worried about a moose again. For some reason they really worry horses. Anyhow, when I let River out into his pasture, his buddies were all racing around in the main part of the pasture, worried about the moose. When he left to join his friends, this little yearling moose steps out from behind the manure pile about 30 feet away from me, with this look on his face that said "are they gone?". Poor little dude (dudette?).
I came home and let everyone out for a while.
I watched more "Gotham". It's still pretty good, but I'm only on season three and about half of all of the main characters have died and come back to life at least once. I know it's kind of how the original comics were, but.....? I am enjoying some of the character development more than the action.
I learned that approximately 25,000 workers died in the construction of the Panama Canal.
"Construction crews literally had to move mountains in a snake-infested jungle with an average temperature of 80 degrees and 105 inches of rainfall a year. In the wet season, torrential downpours transformed the flood-prone Chagres River into raging rapids and soaked workers. “Sometimes you didn’t see sun for about two straight weeks,” recalled laborer Rufus Forde. “In the morning you had to put your clothes on damp. There was no sun to dry them.”
Death could strike in the form of an 18-ton boulder or miniscule, malaria-carrying mosquitoes that bred by the millions in festering swamps and puddles. Over the span of more than three decades, at least 25,000 workers died in the construction of the Panama Canal. “The working condition in those days were so horrible it would stagger your imagination,” recalled laborer Alfred Dottin. “Death was our constant companion. I shall never forget the train loads of dead men being carted away daily, as if they were just so much lumber.”"
https://www.history.com/news/panama-canal-construction-dangers#:~:text=Stories-,Why%20the%20Construction%20of%20the%20Panama%20Canal%20Was%20So%20Difficult,contracts%20with%20the%20canal%20builders.
Spring rain that made everything smell wonderful.
A phone call with Sister E, mainly about horses, isn't that nice.
I went to see River, and he was SO DIRTY! He likes to roll if he gets wet, and he was completely crusted with dirt from one end to the other. I spent an enormous amount of time grooming him so I could ride, and he seemed quite pleased with all of it.
He did well with our groundwork/Liberty, and more and more I am working with him without a halter, doing the same work that I began with. Yielding hindquarters, then shoulders towards and away, and drawing, backing, all of that.
We rode using the new bridle again, and he did well with it.
There were some people around. R is back to work, wearing a mask for now.
The horses were all worried about a moose again. For some reason they really worry horses. Anyhow, when I let River out into his pasture, his buddies were all racing around in the main part of the pasture, worried about the moose. When he left to join his friends, this little yearling moose steps out from behind the manure pile about 30 feet away from me, with this look on his face that said "are they gone?". Poor little dude (dudette?).
I came home and let everyone out for a while.
I watched more "Gotham". It's still pretty good, but I'm only on season three and about half of all of the main characters have died and come back to life at least once. I know it's kind of how the original comics were, but.....? I am enjoying some of the character development more than the action.
I learned that approximately 25,000 workers died in the construction of the Panama Canal.
"Construction crews literally had to move mountains in a snake-infested jungle with an average temperature of 80 degrees and 105 inches of rainfall a year. In the wet season, torrential downpours transformed the flood-prone Chagres River into raging rapids and soaked workers. “Sometimes you didn’t see sun for about two straight weeks,” recalled laborer Rufus Forde. “In the morning you had to put your clothes on damp. There was no sun to dry them.”
Death could strike in the form of an 18-ton boulder or miniscule, malaria-carrying mosquitoes that bred by the millions in festering swamps and puddles. Over the span of more than three decades, at least 25,000 workers died in the construction of the Panama Canal. “The working condition in those days were so horrible it would stagger your imagination,” recalled laborer Alfred Dottin. “Death was our constant companion. I shall never forget the train loads of dead men being carted away daily, as if they were just so much lumber.”"
https://www.history.com/news/panama-canal-construction-dangers#:~:text=Stories-,Why%20the%20Construction%20of%20the%20Panama%20Canal%20Was%20So%20Difficult,contracts%20with%20the%20canal%20builders.
