Sunday, July 3
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
I managed to get up early (for me) to go to the riding barn. R was doing a demo of bridless riding. It was good, a lot of hearing the things I've already been doing in lessons with her, but I feel like this was like her practicing giving a presentation of what she is doing. Like, prep for a future event or show or clinic, and she was running through it to see how it sounded. Several people were there, mostly from our barn already, and we are all already converts.
The woman who had her two ponies at the barn recently (and has since taken them home) was here today. We ended up talking about her health issues (literally survived Stage four uterine cancer, ten years ago), and all four of her kids have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The older two are eating some solid food, but all of them still require permanent feeding tubes, because their disease affects their ability to chew/swallow food. ED effects muscles and tissues, like they can be too elastic, or not work properly. It can mean the blood vessels don't appropriately constrict and dilate to maintain blood pressure or body temperature, or joints can be poorly supported or dislocate. All kinds of problems.
Her daughter isn't the girl I refer to with challenges, that's another girl. I didn't even know that P had serious health issues. Apparently this girl (who seems pretty healthy to me) already had a gift from "Make a wish" which was to visit the set of Heartland (a television show about horses).
This woman was talking about how they literally just live day to day with this girl's issues, because although she seems pretty healthy, anything could happen.
Funny thing is, it seems to be understood that Ehlers-Danlos is inherited, but no one sort of hinted to this woman after the first child that if she had more kids, they would likely have it too? She made it sound like the jury is still out as to whether or not it is genetic (yet the internet says it is, pretty conclusively).
I am pretty sure I heard some of this story here and there before, but I didn't know her well enough for it to stick. It takes me a long time to keep names and faces together sometimes, and the stories all kept getting mixed up because there is more than one child there with health challenges.
After the demo, I worked with River. We worked on the outdoor obstacles at Liberty (no halter), and he stayed with me better than last time (it is a large paddock, and a bit more distracting than the small indoor arena). Still a lot of issues with the 360 turns off the hindquarters and such, but a little better.
You know, if it weren't for the idea of showing, and of likely not winning or scoring that well, I would be less humble about even being able to do this with River. Getting a low score for things like not picking up the trot instantly or not being super precise sadly overshadows the fact that I AM GETTING MY HORSE TO WALK OVER A TARP WITHOUT LEADING HIM WITH A HALTER.
Last year I was learning how to do these things with a halter.
I really focused on keeping my energy positive and remaining patient in working with him. I know that even if I am kind with him, but there is that undercurrent of "needing it to be better than this", things stop being fun. So I am trying not to do that to him.
We rode for a little while with just the neck rope (no bridle) in the arena, and he's getting better with that. He turns well off of my legs, but it is hard to get a nice circle. Working on that.
There is so much work that has to come from my core and hips that I am going to have a pelvic girdle of steel soon.
I came home and my Sweetie FINALLY REPLACED THE BACK DOOR!!!! We had bought this door and a few others the last time he was home two weeks ago, and today he replaced the door (I helped him shim the door frame into place). He's been doing dry wall in that porch, and with the door replaced, he should be able to frame it soon, and before you know it this little porch (not to be confused with the soon to be mud room) will be done up nicely!
I had a nap, since I got up several hours before my usual waking hour, and then I looked for something I could get done.
I let everyone out into their pastures, and then my husband and I picked up some shit so he could mow in the area between a shed and the compost pile which was all filled in with grass and weeds.
Then he actually split some huge logs cut from a tree we cut down several years ago, that have been just sitting there in a pile for years. Apparently they are not yet rotten, so those are now split and stacked with our firewood. If I can clean that area up, I will be able to mow THAT spot again. The whole area around this shed (behind the garage) has been deteriorating as far as stacks of shit and areas I can't mow anymore, and I hate that. They become unusable no-man's lands full of ant hills or wasp's nests, and before you know it there are poplars growing through it all. I am doing my best to clear it out before that happens.
Once again, my husband really doesn't know why I cared so much about cleaning that area, but he's going along with it at least.
Then I tackled one small section against the house to put cedar mulch. I had to pull grass and weeds off of it first. One more spot civilized.
Then we came in and watched "The Heat", a pretty funny movie.
I learned that glass is considered one of the most important discoveries/inventions in history, and the advancement of science would not have been possible without the refinement of glass to a pure enough material to be made into lenses used for telescopes and microscopes, as well as eye wear, to make flasks and other vessels capable of being heated to high temperatures and also cooling, and many other applications. Think of even having glass jars for preserving food (could be heated and then cooled again) or light bulbs.
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2015/09/a-clear-history-of-glass/?fbclid=IwAR0iHbLktx7bLha2gvFSauaYStMwNDYILwB32G-Nan7g6uSG-63ACJHUXiU
I managed to get up early (for me) to go to the riding barn. R was doing a demo of bridless riding. It was good, a lot of hearing the things I've already been doing in lessons with her, but I feel like this was like her practicing giving a presentation of what she is doing. Like, prep for a future event or show or clinic, and she was running through it to see how it sounded. Several people were there, mostly from our barn already, and we are all already converts.
The woman who had her two ponies at the barn recently (and has since taken them home) was here today. We ended up talking about her health issues (literally survived Stage four uterine cancer, ten years ago), and all four of her kids have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The older two are eating some solid food, but all of them still require permanent feeding tubes, because their disease affects their ability to chew/swallow food. ED effects muscles and tissues, like they can be too elastic, or not work properly. It can mean the blood vessels don't appropriately constrict and dilate to maintain blood pressure or body temperature, or joints can be poorly supported or dislocate. All kinds of problems.
Her daughter isn't the girl I refer to with challenges, that's another girl. I didn't even know that P had serious health issues. Apparently this girl (who seems pretty healthy to me) already had a gift from "Make a wish" which was to visit the set of Heartland (a television show about horses).
This woman was talking about how they literally just live day to day with this girl's issues, because although she seems pretty healthy, anything could happen.
Funny thing is, it seems to be understood that Ehlers-Danlos is inherited, but no one sort of hinted to this woman after the first child that if she had more kids, they would likely have it too? She made it sound like the jury is still out as to whether or not it is genetic (yet the internet says it is, pretty conclusively).
I am pretty sure I heard some of this story here and there before, but I didn't know her well enough for it to stick. It takes me a long time to keep names and faces together sometimes, and the stories all kept getting mixed up because there is more than one child there with health challenges.
After the demo, I worked with River. We worked on the outdoor obstacles at Liberty (no halter), and he stayed with me better than last time (it is a large paddock, and a bit more distracting than the small indoor arena). Still a lot of issues with the 360 turns off the hindquarters and such, but a little better.
You know, if it weren't for the idea of showing, and of likely not winning or scoring that well, I would be less humble about even being able to do this with River. Getting a low score for things like not picking up the trot instantly or not being super precise sadly overshadows the fact that I AM GETTING MY HORSE TO WALK OVER A TARP WITHOUT LEADING HIM WITH A HALTER.
Last year I was learning how to do these things with a halter.
I really focused on keeping my energy positive and remaining patient in working with him. I know that even if I am kind with him, but there is that undercurrent of "needing it to be better than this", things stop being fun. So I am trying not to do that to him.
We rode for a little while with just the neck rope (no bridle) in the arena, and he's getting better with that. He turns well off of my legs, but it is hard to get a nice circle. Working on that.
There is so much work that has to come from my core and hips that I am going to have a pelvic girdle of steel soon.
I came home and my Sweetie FINALLY REPLACED THE BACK DOOR!!!! We had bought this door and a few others the last time he was home two weeks ago, and today he replaced the door (I helped him shim the door frame into place). He's been doing dry wall in that porch, and with the door replaced, he should be able to frame it soon, and before you know it this little porch (not to be confused with the soon to be mud room) will be done up nicely!
I had a nap, since I got up several hours before my usual waking hour, and then I looked for something I could get done.
I let everyone out into their pastures, and then my husband and I picked up some shit so he could mow in the area between a shed and the compost pile which was all filled in with grass and weeds.
Then he actually split some huge logs cut from a tree we cut down several years ago, that have been just sitting there in a pile for years. Apparently they are not yet rotten, so those are now split and stacked with our firewood. If I can clean that area up, I will be able to mow THAT spot again. The whole area around this shed (behind the garage) has been deteriorating as far as stacks of shit and areas I can't mow anymore, and I hate that. They become unusable no-man's lands full of ant hills or wasp's nests, and before you know it there are poplars growing through it all. I am doing my best to clear it out before that happens.
Once again, my husband really doesn't know why I cared so much about cleaning that area, but he's going along with it at least.
Then I tackled one small section against the house to put cedar mulch. I had to pull grass and weeds off of it first. One more spot civilized.
Then we came in and watched "The Heat", a pretty funny movie.
I learned that glass is considered one of the most important discoveries/inventions in history, and the advancement of science would not have been possible without the refinement of glass to a pure enough material to be made into lenses used for telescopes and microscopes, as well as eye wear, to make flasks and other vessels capable of being heated to high temperatures and also cooling, and many other applications. Think of even having glass jars for preserving food (could be heated and then cooled again) or light bulbs.
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2015/09/a-clear-history-of-glass/?fbclid=IwAR0iHbLktx7bLha2gvFSauaYStMwNDYILwB32G-Nan7g6uSG-63ACJHUXiU
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Date: 2022-07-10 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-10 05:29 am (UTC)With our house, we can live in the old part (which is still more or less separate from the addition) just fine the way it is, so you can see how there is low urgency. If I don't keep pressing, I feel like it could easily take a few more years to have the addition livable, and that wouldn't bother him at all.
I really hope that my husband keeps working steadily on the house, and not stop this winter. Last winter the only work that got done was the work I pressed him to let me hire someone else to do for us.
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Date: 2022-07-12 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-12 06:06 am (UTC)