Friday, September 9
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Getting a good night's sleep.
The contractor helped me to convince my husband that some kind of action needs to take place on the open space on the addition, between the tops of the exterior walls and the roof line that would normally be enclosed with soffits.
This has not been done yet, and while my husband asserts that no living creatures can get into the layer of insulation under the roof, I see birds going in and out of that space, and I know there are nests in there, and potentially birds and maybe bats seeking shelter now that it is colder.
The contractor and I have been talking about it the last few days, and he feels that there are likely birds getting in there, and we are now engaging in some kind of action plan to prevent them from pooping in there, or getting caught in there and dying.
What I also don't want is to go through the ordeal we had two years ago, of having bees getting into the walls of the house.
Anyhow, we are now in a place of action on that issue.
Good progress continues to be made in the basement.
My Sweetie and I addressed a few things together, like sorting out fixing the cover of the gas tank so it would open again, unloading the garbage in the truck (from the contractors) onto the trailer so that the truck was free for my husband to take to the fund raising bike ride (needs it for the bikes that won't fit in the car), and cutting dowels so that they can be used to make mandalas.
He came with me to the riding barn.
Today's frustration is with the barn owner's husband.
His level of involvement has increased this year. He is by profession an electrician, and I am confused by what is happening. He is now teaching lessons, maybe he is trying to retire from being an electrician?
He teaches very basic horsemanship, and he went from not really being around the barn much, to being around a lot over the summer.
I generally get along with him fine. Recently though, he is getting so that he doesn't seem to even want me in the barn at the same time as his students.
It's not a very big barn, and I do my best to give all priority to his students. If they are there for a lesson, I let them use the entire middle of the barn, and do any saddling and grooming in one of the stalls, and do my best to stay out of the way.
Today, the husband had a student. I had River out of the way in a stall, had my grooming equipment and tack out of any space they might need to use, and he still made a slightly aggressive remark: "did you forget we had a lesson today?".
My understanding was that it was, up till now, just fine if I was in the barn at the same time as other people when they are having a lesson. Up until now, it was JUST FINE to be there.
Now I am pretty upset. The times that I come to ride were MY SCHEDULE, and then they booked students wanting lessons in that time slot. They never changed my riding schedule.
For now, there is plenty of room outside to ride, the indoor arena, and a round pen. I know that come winter, something will have to change.
A very short time ago, I was told that it was GOOD that I came during this lesson time, because the girl with health challenges liked it when I came to ride with her in the arena.
NOW, this girl's sister is coming in the same time period, and taking her lesson with K, though it is not in any was associated with the original special needs person's work (she works with R, her sister works with the husband, and they aren't doing a lesson together really).
So, now that K is going to be doing lessons almost every day, I am feeling like I shouldn't be there when HE is, even though it seems like all of his new lesson students are being booked at the same time as my scheduled riding times. It isn't really my fault that I am at the barn during MY SCHEDULED RIDING TIMES, that have been the same for nearly two years now.
It makes me very sad that it seems that I am just a nuisance at the barn. It makes me tired, because all I wanted was to have somewhere to take lessons and be around people, and I feel like it's just getting complicated.
As the one small positive note, I took some of the finished painted rocks to the barn to sell as a fund raiser for the horse rescue, and everyone seems to like them.
We came home, and helped my husband organize what he needed to take with him. He only came home for one night (last night) to pick up stuff, so that he could pick up his nephew at the airport and go back to his work place apartment so they could participate in the fund raiser bike ride.
They will come back here after the ride, the nephew will stay with us a couple of days, and then my husband took a couple of extra days off of work to be with me.
We watched one episode of "Picard"', then he left.
Today I learned that there has always been (since colonial times, anyways) the idea of creating a shipping canal across Florida, in the same manner as the Panama Canal. It would shave about three days off of a shipping trip.
In the 1930's, serious plans were made to start the project, hoping to create jobs and invigorate the shipping industry.
Some land was purchased (well, a whole lot of poor people were kicked out of their homes and given some spare change to move along, effectively destroying a few communities) and so on, but nothing concrete happened.
There were even some terrible disputes over labor unions who wanted to make sure that the workers would be treated fairly (the process of building the Panama Canal was one of the worst bloodbaths in engineering history).
In the end, environmentalists lobbied to end this idea once and for all, as the canal would destroy thousands of acres of the huge cypress trees that stabilize the land, and the unique biome of the Florida wetlands. The canal would also bring salt water inland, which would also destroy the delicate balance in the wetlands and would fill inland ground water (needed for human consumption and irrigation) with salt water.
President Nixon closed the project down. At that time, it was about 23% finished, and over 75 million dollars invested.
The land that had been annexed for the canal is now the the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway, and provides hiking and biking trails on the remnants of the Cross Florida Barge Canal.
Marjorie Harris Carr was the main opponent to the project.
https://myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/article/95
Getting a good night's sleep.
The contractor helped me to convince my husband that some kind of action needs to take place on the open space on the addition, between the tops of the exterior walls and the roof line that would normally be enclosed with soffits.
This has not been done yet, and while my husband asserts that no living creatures can get into the layer of insulation under the roof, I see birds going in and out of that space, and I know there are nests in there, and potentially birds and maybe bats seeking shelter now that it is colder.
The contractor and I have been talking about it the last few days, and he feels that there are likely birds getting in there, and we are now engaging in some kind of action plan to prevent them from pooping in there, or getting caught in there and dying.
What I also don't want is to go through the ordeal we had two years ago, of having bees getting into the walls of the house.
Anyhow, we are now in a place of action on that issue.
Good progress continues to be made in the basement.
My Sweetie and I addressed a few things together, like sorting out fixing the cover of the gas tank so it would open again, unloading the garbage in the truck (from the contractors) onto the trailer so that the truck was free for my husband to take to the fund raising bike ride (needs it for the bikes that won't fit in the car), and cutting dowels so that they can be used to make mandalas.
He came with me to the riding barn.
Today's frustration is with the barn owner's husband.
His level of involvement has increased this year. He is by profession an electrician, and I am confused by what is happening. He is now teaching lessons, maybe he is trying to retire from being an electrician?
He teaches very basic horsemanship, and he went from not really being around the barn much, to being around a lot over the summer.
I generally get along with him fine. Recently though, he is getting so that he doesn't seem to even want me in the barn at the same time as his students.
It's not a very big barn, and I do my best to give all priority to his students. If they are there for a lesson, I let them use the entire middle of the barn, and do any saddling and grooming in one of the stalls, and do my best to stay out of the way.
Today, the husband had a student. I had River out of the way in a stall, had my grooming equipment and tack out of any space they might need to use, and he still made a slightly aggressive remark: "did you forget we had a lesson today?".
My understanding was that it was, up till now, just fine if I was in the barn at the same time as other people when they are having a lesson. Up until now, it was JUST FINE to be there.
Now I am pretty upset. The times that I come to ride were MY SCHEDULE, and then they booked students wanting lessons in that time slot. They never changed my riding schedule.
For now, there is plenty of room outside to ride, the indoor arena, and a round pen. I know that come winter, something will have to change.
A very short time ago, I was told that it was GOOD that I came during this lesson time, because the girl with health challenges liked it when I came to ride with her in the arena.
NOW, this girl's sister is coming in the same time period, and taking her lesson with K, though it is not in any was associated with the original special needs person's work (she works with R, her sister works with the husband, and they aren't doing a lesson together really).
So, now that K is going to be doing lessons almost every day, I am feeling like I shouldn't be there when HE is, even though it seems like all of his new lesson students are being booked at the same time as my scheduled riding times. It isn't really my fault that I am at the barn during MY SCHEDULED RIDING TIMES, that have been the same for nearly two years now.
It makes me very sad that it seems that I am just a nuisance at the barn. It makes me tired, because all I wanted was to have somewhere to take lessons and be around people, and I feel like it's just getting complicated.
As the one small positive note, I took some of the finished painted rocks to the barn to sell as a fund raiser for the horse rescue, and everyone seems to like them.
We came home, and helped my husband organize what he needed to take with him. He only came home for one night (last night) to pick up stuff, so that he could pick up his nephew at the airport and go back to his work place apartment so they could participate in the fund raiser bike ride.
They will come back here after the ride, the nephew will stay with us a couple of days, and then my husband took a couple of extra days off of work to be with me.
We watched one episode of "Picard"', then he left.
Today I learned that there has always been (since colonial times, anyways) the idea of creating a shipping canal across Florida, in the same manner as the Panama Canal. It would shave about three days off of a shipping trip.
In the 1930's, serious plans were made to start the project, hoping to create jobs and invigorate the shipping industry.
Some land was purchased (well, a whole lot of poor people were kicked out of their homes and given some spare change to move along, effectively destroying a few communities) and so on, but nothing concrete happened.
There were even some terrible disputes over labor unions who wanted to make sure that the workers would be treated fairly (the process of building the Panama Canal was one of the worst bloodbaths in engineering history).
In the end, environmentalists lobbied to end this idea once and for all, as the canal would destroy thousands of acres of the huge cypress trees that stabilize the land, and the unique biome of the Florida wetlands. The canal would also bring salt water inland, which would also destroy the delicate balance in the wetlands and would fill inland ground water (needed for human consumption and irrigation) with salt water.
President Nixon closed the project down. At that time, it was about 23% finished, and over 75 million dollars invested.
The land that had been annexed for the canal is now the the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway, and provides hiking and biking trails on the remnants of the Cross Florida Barge Canal.
Marjorie Harris Carr was the main opponent to the project.
https://myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/article/95
