Thursday, September 22
Sep. 23rd, 2022 02:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A truly glorious, golden autumn day.
A reasonably good walk through with the contractor; our daily check point.
A good phone conversation with my sister E.
My Sweetie is home from work today, and after he had a short nap we went out and I mowed a strip of the horse pasture near the perimeter fence while he went ahead and made sure I wasn't going to hit anything buried in the weeds. I mow this strip every fall to keep the saplings from growing along the fence, and to make a clean walking path for winter (it fills in with prickly wild rose bushes and other small woody plants every summer. Mowing doesn't seem to hurt them at all, they come back every summer).
We watched a goofy old movie called "Big Trouble in Little China". It was very bad, to the point of being fun and campy.
I have felt burned out all day, from my feelings about R. I am anxious about wanting to resolve the issues with River (his huge reactions to certain requests like loading in the trailer, getting oral medication). I am a little concerned over how much spiritual work I will have to do (that I don't really believe in) to make R feel like I am making an effort.
I don't want future issues in those areas, and to rebuild River's trust.
Before this summer, I would say we had a pretty good relationship with R. I feel that a lot of things with River have improved. I feel like I have improved. I have seen other horses in training with her really blossom.
I felt that going to a bitless bridle was a good choice for River, and that the Liberty work has been good for both of us.
I have seen other people really improve their horsemanship.
She is a very good trainer, and a very good coach.
She has taken good care of River as far as his nutritional needs, and he has better pastures and gets to be on grass in the summer.
I don't have anything bad to say about her horsemanship and the type of work we do. I agree with her 99% of the time.
The weird, disconcerting talk we had yesterday, her feeling that River is a trouble maker (that is his way of trying to tell us that he still has problems), is the vocalization of small things that have taken place over this summer.
I like learning and improving, I like being around horse people, I like having someone around when I ride for safely reasons. I don't want to lose that.
Today I learned that there were Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto, who made extensive notes and observations about the effects of starvation on the people inside the Ghetto (themselves included). The situation was imposed upon them by the German government, but they saw some small value in examining what was happening around them on a medical level. Maybe just to feel like they were making some meaning out of their suffering, or to stay engaged.
It is still to this day, the most extensive study ever done on the effects of starvation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Hunger_Study
A truly glorious, golden autumn day.
A reasonably good walk through with the contractor; our daily check point.
A good phone conversation with my sister E.
My Sweetie is home from work today, and after he had a short nap we went out and I mowed a strip of the horse pasture near the perimeter fence while he went ahead and made sure I wasn't going to hit anything buried in the weeds. I mow this strip every fall to keep the saplings from growing along the fence, and to make a clean walking path for winter (it fills in with prickly wild rose bushes and other small woody plants every summer. Mowing doesn't seem to hurt them at all, they come back every summer).
We watched a goofy old movie called "Big Trouble in Little China". It was very bad, to the point of being fun and campy.
I have felt burned out all day, from my feelings about R. I am anxious about wanting to resolve the issues with River (his huge reactions to certain requests like loading in the trailer, getting oral medication). I am a little concerned over how much spiritual work I will have to do (that I don't really believe in) to make R feel like I am making an effort.
I don't want future issues in those areas, and to rebuild River's trust.
Before this summer, I would say we had a pretty good relationship with R. I feel that a lot of things with River have improved. I feel like I have improved. I have seen other horses in training with her really blossom.
I felt that going to a bitless bridle was a good choice for River, and that the Liberty work has been good for both of us.
I have seen other people really improve their horsemanship.
She is a very good trainer, and a very good coach.
She has taken good care of River as far as his nutritional needs, and he has better pastures and gets to be on grass in the summer.
I don't have anything bad to say about her horsemanship and the type of work we do. I agree with her 99% of the time.
The weird, disconcerting talk we had yesterday, her feeling that River is a trouble maker (that is his way of trying to tell us that he still has problems), is the vocalization of small things that have taken place over this summer.
I like learning and improving, I like being around horse people, I like having someone around when I ride for safely reasons. I don't want to lose that.
Today I learned that there were Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto, who made extensive notes and observations about the effects of starvation on the people inside the Ghetto (themselves included). The situation was imposed upon them by the German government, but they saw some small value in examining what was happening around them on a medical level. Maybe just to feel like they were making some meaning out of their suffering, or to stay engaged.
It is still to this day, the most extensive study ever done on the effects of starvation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Hunger_Study
