Sunday, September 25
Sep. 25th, 2022 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
More of this glorious autumn weather. I love it!
My Sweetie worked to cut some linoleum we saved from the trailer so it could fit in the cold room. We had to wash the underside because it was stored with the up side rolled in, and the outside got dirty.
We went to see River, and that was good. Finally, it felt like it should. Not feeling worried about staying away from the barn (no lessons on Sundays), and R was cheerful, and didn't have any issues to discuss.
R was cleaning out the storage area in her trailer.
There were other people around today. The one rider had a great day. She took her horses to a small, local show, and won an in-hand obstacle class. The best part was that one of the judges was her former coach/trainer that she left because his methods weren't working, and he a real "my way or the highway" kind of person. Apparently he didn't even speak to her all day.
We tried the blankets I bought from buy/sell on River, and they should work fine. I am tickled, as this means I hopefully have his blanketing needs covered for this winter.
I worked with him in the outdoor, and the footing is pretty good now. He seemed to be better in the halts again, after a few weeks of trying to get him to relax. His lateral work on the ground is good.
I rode for a while, and he did well. Lateral work is okay. He's at least trying.
We came home and we watched some more "Reacher".
I learned that there was a sperm bank that wanted to collect and use only sperm from Nobel Laureates. Only one known Laureate donated semen, William Shockley.
It kind of became a shit show. The racist, pro-eugenics jerk who started the whole thing, Robert Graham, ended up recruiting donors from university campuses, and after a while, kind of...anyone. Women who went to the clinic thinking they were going to get a genius baby, just got a baby.
The whole thing kind of ground to a halt not long after Graham's death (it stumbled along for two years under the management of some other guy, who also died), and all of the currently stored semen was incinerated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_for_Germinal_Choice
https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/what-ever-happened-to-the-mysterious-nobel-prize-sperm-bank.html
More of this glorious autumn weather. I love it!
My Sweetie worked to cut some linoleum we saved from the trailer so it could fit in the cold room. We had to wash the underside because it was stored with the up side rolled in, and the outside got dirty.
We went to see River, and that was good. Finally, it felt like it should. Not feeling worried about staying away from the barn (no lessons on Sundays), and R was cheerful, and didn't have any issues to discuss.
R was cleaning out the storage area in her trailer.
There were other people around today. The one rider had a great day. She took her horses to a small, local show, and won an in-hand obstacle class. The best part was that one of the judges was her former coach/trainer that she left because his methods weren't working, and he a real "my way or the highway" kind of person. Apparently he didn't even speak to her all day.
We tried the blankets I bought from buy/sell on River, and they should work fine. I am tickled, as this means I hopefully have his blanketing needs covered for this winter.
I worked with him in the outdoor, and the footing is pretty good now. He seemed to be better in the halts again, after a few weeks of trying to get him to relax. His lateral work on the ground is good.
I rode for a while, and he did well. Lateral work is okay. He's at least trying.
We came home and we watched some more "Reacher".
I learned that there was a sperm bank that wanted to collect and use only sperm from Nobel Laureates. Only one known Laureate donated semen, William Shockley.
It kind of became a shit show. The racist, pro-eugenics jerk who started the whole thing, Robert Graham, ended up recruiting donors from university campuses, and after a while, kind of...anyone. Women who went to the clinic thinking they were going to get a genius baby, just got a baby.
The whole thing kind of ground to a halt not long after Graham's death (it stumbled along for two years under the management of some other guy, who also died), and all of the currently stored semen was incinerated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_for_Germinal_Choice
https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/what-ever-happened-to-the-mysterious-nobel-prize-sperm-bank.html
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Date: 2022-09-26 08:48 am (UTC)Yay for the blankets for River! And the peace and happiness I can hear around all of that now.
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Date: 2022-09-26 09:09 pm (UTC)Horses are hard on their blankets. Their buddies often rip the butt to pieces, straps break, and sometimes you can fix them, sometimes you can't.
You often need more than one blanket of each weight, (sheet, light insulation, heavy) because if they get soaked or damaged, you need a different one until it can be fixed/dry.
I would personally not worry THAT much about blanketing because River isn't clipped, except for during that awful early winter where it is raining and it is nearly freezing, or when it gets SUPER cold, but R blankets every day past the end of October pretty much, so I have to be ready.
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Date: 2022-09-28 06:51 am (UTC)