Friday, October 21
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Lovely weather again! How absolutely amazing to have such a beautiful Autumn!
My Sweetie got up earlier than I, and went to town to talk to the banker guy in person. Apparently this guy has been SICK forever. Okay. So all he had to do was send ONE email to everyone on his to-do list, and let everyone know that this was happening. The last one I got from him was over a month ago, saying he was back at work and ready to help us. So, which was it? If you've been back at work for a month, you can't pick up the phone, or have you not been honest and were sick as a dog this last month?
Anyhow. A start. My Sweetie says according to this guy, the process of selling the stocks from here won't be easy. Well, all the more reason to buckle down and just do it. If we just left it to sit, it won't be any easier in 20 years, either.
I am pretty frustrated about the small chest freezer we thought we had ordered. I called the store yesterday, and was told that we hadn't successfully ordered it after all, and no, it wasn't coming. In fact, they can't even get any now until some time in November. I was pretty snarky at this guy, but once again, got a lot of vague answers and was kind of upset that when we called two weeks ago, they said it would be no problem to get, and would be at the store by now. We were expecting to go get it this weekend.
Turns out, something went wrong trying to use the card to pay them via "secure email" or whatever.
Well, now we might not even bother buying from them.
This annoys me to no end, because that has been on my to-do list all summer, and we thought we had ticked that box. Now it's back to square one.
Do you know how annoying that is, given that my husband and I are barely even in the same room together, much less in the right place and the right time to settle on things together?
It wastes our time. Now we will likely have to go shopping AGAIN for something we thought we had already settled.
So, of course, as always, our day was about getting things done.
We are looking at building a kind of big box (about 8x10 feet with one side open) to allow us to pile up the pony manure for compost, in some kind of effort to contain the pile.
Today we spread all the really rotted manure on the now empty again garden so we can pile up newer manure there.
Then we laid down more of the wood chip mulch near the house. Not much left to do on that side.
Then we went to see River. The other lessons were suspended this week because R is away.
He was feeling good today, and you know what? He was picking up the trot really well. So, it isn't a training issue, but a "how am I feeling today" issue? If we were able to film our patterns this week, he would not have lost any points for being slow to respond to the trot cue.
He did well with our ground work, and was a little distracted when I rode with just the neck rope. Nothing bad, but almost just feeling a little too good to focus. He wanted to trot around instead of working on lateral work.
We came home and watched a movie with Denziel Washington called "The Equalizer", that was almost like a barely different version of the first "John Wick" film, and was even released the same year. Weird.
It was a pretty good movie in it's own right, though.
I learned that since the television show "Unsolved Mysteries" has first aired in 1987, of the more than 1,300 mysteries profiled in over 230 episodes, half the cases featuring wanted fugitives have been solved, more than 100 families have been reunited with lost loved ones, and seven individuals who were wrongly convicted of crimes have been exonerated and released. Cases involving missing persons, missing heirs, murder, fraud, and amnesia have also been solved following UM broadcasts. That adds up to over 260 solved cases.
That's kind of neat, that it has proven to be such a useful show.
https://unsolved.com/about/
Lovely weather again! How absolutely amazing to have such a beautiful Autumn!
My Sweetie got up earlier than I, and went to town to talk to the banker guy in person. Apparently this guy has been SICK forever. Okay. So all he had to do was send ONE email to everyone on his to-do list, and let everyone know that this was happening. The last one I got from him was over a month ago, saying he was back at work and ready to help us. So, which was it? If you've been back at work for a month, you can't pick up the phone, or have you not been honest and were sick as a dog this last month?
Anyhow. A start. My Sweetie says according to this guy, the process of selling the stocks from here won't be easy. Well, all the more reason to buckle down and just do it. If we just left it to sit, it won't be any easier in 20 years, either.
I am pretty frustrated about the small chest freezer we thought we had ordered. I called the store yesterday, and was told that we hadn't successfully ordered it after all, and no, it wasn't coming. In fact, they can't even get any now until some time in November. I was pretty snarky at this guy, but once again, got a lot of vague answers and was kind of upset that when we called two weeks ago, they said it would be no problem to get, and would be at the store by now. We were expecting to go get it this weekend.
Turns out, something went wrong trying to use the card to pay them via "secure email" or whatever.
Well, now we might not even bother buying from them.
This annoys me to no end, because that has been on my to-do list all summer, and we thought we had ticked that box. Now it's back to square one.
Do you know how annoying that is, given that my husband and I are barely even in the same room together, much less in the right place and the right time to settle on things together?
It wastes our time. Now we will likely have to go shopping AGAIN for something we thought we had already settled.
So, of course, as always, our day was about getting things done.
We are looking at building a kind of big box (about 8x10 feet with one side open) to allow us to pile up the pony manure for compost, in some kind of effort to contain the pile.
Today we spread all the really rotted manure on the now empty again garden so we can pile up newer manure there.
Then we laid down more of the wood chip mulch near the house. Not much left to do on that side.
Then we went to see River. The other lessons were suspended this week because R is away.
He was feeling good today, and you know what? He was picking up the trot really well. So, it isn't a training issue, but a "how am I feeling today" issue? If we were able to film our patterns this week, he would not have lost any points for being slow to respond to the trot cue.
He did well with our ground work, and was a little distracted when I rode with just the neck rope. Nothing bad, but almost just feeling a little too good to focus. He wanted to trot around instead of working on lateral work.
We came home and watched a movie with Denziel Washington called "The Equalizer", that was almost like a barely different version of the first "John Wick" film, and was even released the same year. Weird.
It was a pretty good movie in it's own right, though.
I learned that since the television show "Unsolved Mysteries" has first aired in 1987, of the more than 1,300 mysteries profiled in over 230 episodes, half the cases featuring wanted fugitives have been solved, more than 100 families have been reunited with lost loved ones, and seven individuals who were wrongly convicted of crimes have been exonerated and released. Cases involving missing persons, missing heirs, murder, fraud, and amnesia have also been solved following UM broadcasts. That adds up to over 260 solved cases.
That's kind of neat, that it has proven to be such a useful show.
https://unsolved.com/about/
