Tuesday, October 25
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Decent weather. Trending cooler, but still often sunny.
The contractor had lots of work to do in the basement, so he said he could wait until I was up to come upstairs to put spray insulation around the windows in the sun room. I appreciated the thoughtfulness.
I used my super powers to remember to get him to put the styrofoam sheets over the windows he needs to work on tomorrow, so that he doesn't need to come inside the house until later in the day (they have lots of work taking the old windows out and altering the frames before they install the new windows).
I had to move everything away from the living room windows for tomorrow, and I cleaned out the cat litter before he came in today to spray insulate around the windows in the sun room.
R and I texted back and forth a bit about the days she wants to work with River, now that she will be less busy. I really hope we can all work through this and get good results and still all respect each other.
She also mentioned that three people have registered for the upcoming paint night fundraiser. I will do it if at least five people sign up, but I feel our max should be ten people.
I went to town to get fuel, and had a fun interaction with the owner of the little gas station. He is a very pleasant person, generally.
I went to see River, and I was a little late (I had to stay at home long enough to allow the spray foam in the windows to set, and make sure the cats didn't touch it) so I was there right when the other lesson people were in the barn.
So, I just took River straight from his pasture to the outdoor arena to work with him.
He was feeling good again today, the cool weather agrees with him. I truly would like to understand why he is so lethargic all summer long, and if there was more I could do to help him. All that I understand that it is a little bit from dust and maybe even an allergic reaction, but is a lot worse if there is smoke. He is generally good most of the winter.
It is so different to work with him when he's feeling good. He is much more responsive to cues, happier in general, and does not look like an unwilling zombie all the time.
He did very well on our liberty/groundwork, and I rode with just the neck rope for awhile.
For all that K does not want me "in the way" of this Mom and her daughter, the Mom is very nice and always strikes up a conversation with me, which I am happy to reciprocate. We chatted a bit while I put away my helmet and tack. I think K forgets how much people enjoy coming to a place like the barn to meet and talk with other people, not to be completely isolated from others.
I came home and had a nap, and washed the curtains from the sun room. I don't think I will put them back up for now. I only put them up because of the heat wave we had not this summer, but the one before. They are not great in the sun room because the cats track litter all over them. With the new windows, I might not need the curtains to reduce heat as much since they are better sealed. Or, I can open all of them to get air movement.
I watched an independent Youtube "travel/journalist" video of South Sudan, a very troubled nation. It was very disturbing to see him talk to street kids, to see the heaps of garbage everywhere, and the tin shacks that are still the "nicer houses" belonging to people with jobs.
What somehow made this more poignant, is that most people in Sudan speak very good English, so they can speak their experiences directly. They are not the mute, big-bellied kids standing on bare dirt that I saw in those Oxfam commercials. These are people who talk about how badly they feel that they run a small food market, and can't just give food to those who can't afford to buy anything because they themselves are just barely able to avoid living on the streets. Articulate.
My whole life, we have been shown these awful images of people in developing nations, who are refugees from war, drought, flood, starvation, disease, and they are STILL living like this in spite of fifty years of aid, and groups trying to help them.
If Elon Musk and Bill Gates and maybe some of those billionaires from Dubai wanted to, they could literally rebuild these countries, one by one, until they could help themselves.
I hate the feeling of not really being able to anything meaningful to change anything there.
Today I learned about the medicinal properties of the tobacco smoke enema.
"The tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by enema, was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments.
Tobacco was recognised as a medicine soon after it was first imported from the New World, and tobacco smoke was used by western medical practitioners as a tool against cold and drowsiness, but applying it by enema was a technique appropriated from the North American Indians. The procedure was used to treat gut pain, and attempts were often made to resuscitate victims of near drowning. Liquid tobacco enemas were often given to ease the symptoms of a hernia.
During the early 19th century the practice fell into decline, when it was discovered that the principal active agent in tobacco smoke, nicotine, is poisonous."
I have heard the phrase "he's just blowing smoke up your ass", and I bet this is where it came from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
Decent weather. Trending cooler, but still often sunny.
The contractor had lots of work to do in the basement, so he said he could wait until I was up to come upstairs to put spray insulation around the windows in the sun room. I appreciated the thoughtfulness.
I used my super powers to remember to get him to put the styrofoam sheets over the windows he needs to work on tomorrow, so that he doesn't need to come inside the house until later in the day (they have lots of work taking the old windows out and altering the frames before they install the new windows).
I had to move everything away from the living room windows for tomorrow, and I cleaned out the cat litter before he came in today to spray insulate around the windows in the sun room.
R and I texted back and forth a bit about the days she wants to work with River, now that she will be less busy. I really hope we can all work through this and get good results and still all respect each other.
She also mentioned that three people have registered for the upcoming paint night fundraiser. I will do it if at least five people sign up, but I feel our max should be ten people.
I went to town to get fuel, and had a fun interaction with the owner of the little gas station. He is a very pleasant person, generally.
I went to see River, and I was a little late (I had to stay at home long enough to allow the spray foam in the windows to set, and make sure the cats didn't touch it) so I was there right when the other lesson people were in the barn.
So, I just took River straight from his pasture to the outdoor arena to work with him.
He was feeling good again today, the cool weather agrees with him. I truly would like to understand why he is so lethargic all summer long, and if there was more I could do to help him. All that I understand that it is a little bit from dust and maybe even an allergic reaction, but is a lot worse if there is smoke. He is generally good most of the winter.
It is so different to work with him when he's feeling good. He is much more responsive to cues, happier in general, and does not look like an unwilling zombie all the time.
He did very well on our liberty/groundwork, and I rode with just the neck rope for awhile.
For all that K does not want me "in the way" of this Mom and her daughter, the Mom is very nice and always strikes up a conversation with me, which I am happy to reciprocate. We chatted a bit while I put away my helmet and tack. I think K forgets how much people enjoy coming to a place like the barn to meet and talk with other people, not to be completely isolated from others.
I came home and had a nap, and washed the curtains from the sun room. I don't think I will put them back up for now. I only put them up because of the heat wave we had not this summer, but the one before. They are not great in the sun room because the cats track litter all over them. With the new windows, I might not need the curtains to reduce heat as much since they are better sealed. Or, I can open all of them to get air movement.
I watched an independent Youtube "travel/journalist" video of South Sudan, a very troubled nation. It was very disturbing to see him talk to street kids, to see the heaps of garbage everywhere, and the tin shacks that are still the "nicer houses" belonging to people with jobs.
What somehow made this more poignant, is that most people in Sudan speak very good English, so they can speak their experiences directly. They are not the mute, big-bellied kids standing on bare dirt that I saw in those Oxfam commercials. These are people who talk about how badly they feel that they run a small food market, and can't just give food to those who can't afford to buy anything because they themselves are just barely able to avoid living on the streets. Articulate.
My whole life, we have been shown these awful images of people in developing nations, who are refugees from war, drought, flood, starvation, disease, and they are STILL living like this in spite of fifty years of aid, and groups trying to help them.
If Elon Musk and Bill Gates and maybe some of those billionaires from Dubai wanted to, they could literally rebuild these countries, one by one, until they could help themselves.
I hate the feeling of not really being able to anything meaningful to change anything there.
Today I learned about the medicinal properties of the tobacco smoke enema.
"The tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by enema, was a medical treatment employed by European physicians for a range of ailments.
Tobacco was recognised as a medicine soon after it was first imported from the New World, and tobacco smoke was used by western medical practitioners as a tool against cold and drowsiness, but applying it by enema was a technique appropriated from the North American Indians. The procedure was used to treat gut pain, and attempts were often made to resuscitate victims of near drowning. Liquid tobacco enemas were often given to ease the symptoms of a hernia.
During the early 19th century the practice fell into decline, when it was discovered that the principal active agent in tobacco smoke, nicotine, is poisonous."
I have heard the phrase "he's just blowing smoke up your ass", and I bet this is where it came from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
