Sunday, August 21
Aug. 22nd, 2022 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for;
I was able to change the tires on the garden cart. The original tires had air-filled tires that no longer held air. Quite a while ago, we bought solid tires, and somehow they never got put on, so I managed to do that today.
Then I used the cart to haul some big rocks that had been stacked around the tree, where I cleared out that space the other day. I took them to the rock pile I have for the goats in their pen.
I tried pulling more weeds but I didn't get very far with that.
I talked with Trainwreck sister, and she was in a rare decent mood.
An update about Sister S is that she is still in the hospital, groggy, but doing okay. She is likely on a lot of pain medication.
I went to see River, and another horse had torn off his fly mask and damaged it. The fly mask that I just bought. I guess I will try to fix it.
River was tired, of course. I think you can safely assume that if I am posting in the summer, he will be tired.
He did well on our Liberty/groundwork, and I rode with just the neck rope. He was making good circles, but again only at the walk. At the trot, he kept thinking that my leg signal to turn was a signal to canter, and I kept checking to make sure my leg wasn't too far back, but it was fine. Sigh.
In general, I am tired of there being so many weeds. It's partly my fault because I don't want to use chemicals.
There are huge Canada thistles all around the house, because of the bare dirt from construction. I am supposed to clear those weeds, and mulch everywhere. It is an enormous area, and it really weighs on me that I can't seem to do enough to actually accomplish anything. Every day, I need to be pulling weeds.
I am TIRED of pulling weeds.
Today I learned that researchers in Botswana ran an experiment to reduce lion attacks in cows. They painted large eyes on the cow backsides. After several years, they showed fewer (zero) attacks on the eye-butt cows vs unpainted cows (15).
npr.org/2020/0...
I was able to change the tires on the garden cart. The original tires had air-filled tires that no longer held air. Quite a while ago, we bought solid tires, and somehow they never got put on, so I managed to do that today.
Then I used the cart to haul some big rocks that had been stacked around the tree, where I cleared out that space the other day. I took them to the rock pile I have for the goats in their pen.
I tried pulling more weeds but I didn't get very far with that.
I talked with Trainwreck sister, and she was in a rare decent mood.
An update about Sister S is that she is still in the hospital, groggy, but doing okay. She is likely on a lot of pain medication.
I went to see River, and another horse had torn off his fly mask and damaged it. The fly mask that I just bought. I guess I will try to fix it.
River was tired, of course. I think you can safely assume that if I am posting in the summer, he will be tired.
He did well on our Liberty/groundwork, and I rode with just the neck rope. He was making good circles, but again only at the walk. At the trot, he kept thinking that my leg signal to turn was a signal to canter, and I kept checking to make sure my leg wasn't too far back, but it was fine. Sigh.
In general, I am tired of there being so many weeds. It's partly my fault because I don't want to use chemicals.
There are huge Canada thistles all around the house, because of the bare dirt from construction. I am supposed to clear those weeds, and mulch everywhere. It is an enormous area, and it really weighs on me that I can't seem to do enough to actually accomplish anything. Every day, I need to be pulling weeds.
I am TIRED of pulling weeds.
Today I learned that researchers in Botswana ran an experiment to reduce lion attacks in cows. They painted large eyes on the cow backsides. After several years, they showed fewer (zero) attacks on the eye-butt cows vs unpainted cows (15).
npr.org/2020/0...
