Wednesday, November 30
Nov. 30th, 2022 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Our warm home.
It was around -20 C, and lots of wind and snow. Pretty awful out there.
Chores took a while today because I wanted to put liners under the mares' blankets, so you have to take the existing blanket off, put the liner on, put the top blanket back on. In the wind. Our barn COULD have an area to bring them in, but it is used entirely for hay storage.
So far the outside animals seem comfortable enough.
I normally would have a riding lesson tonight, but R and I both decided it was too stormy to do one.
It wasn't likely great driving conditions.
I mostly just stayed indoors, read a bit, kept trying to get fluid into Fatty.
I added more pictures to our family page. They are from albums my Mom had that go wayyy back. There are lots of comments and interactions, and that has been interesting.
I talked with Trainwreck, who was all over the place about the family pictures. First, she was all worked up that I was putting them on Facebook, but she isn't on Facebook, so she wants to know how she is going to be able to comment.
She was all like "I will need to sit down with the family and we can all comment as a group". Well, we've had fifty years or so to do that. I'm doing what I can now.
I told her my eventual plan; to get them all on drives so that people have digital copies, and people should be able to get prints made from those.
So, then she starts telling me what pictures she remembers that she would like copies made. Like she missed the whole point of what I said. I told her that I WAS NOT taking orders for prints. That would be up to them once I gave them a drive.
Then, after spending ten minutes telling me how important all of this was, and so on, she says "well, it's just fun to see them. Likely no one will care anyhow what happens to them".
She flips from how important it is to get the stories down, and the pictures to EVERYONE, and on an on, then flops to ambivalent "who cares, likely no one".
Whatever. I'm just going to do what I planned to do from the beginning. Not a lot of families have such a good record of family history, and it matters to me to at least try to keep that knowledge of who we are and where we came from going.
This is not something I learned today, but something I suppose I could tell you.
Meat Raffle is a thing. In some parts of the UK, Western Canada and the US, it is seen as a charity event or sometimes a social occasion to purchase raffle tickets for the prize of a piece(s) of meat.
I don't know how many of you are familiar with this idea, but they still do this in the town near our family farm. It takes place at the local branch of the Legion (an organization that supports veterans mostly https://www.legion.ca/). Small towns have a "Legion" which is meant to be the building housing the local chapter of the Canadian Legion, but is like a clubhouse. Usually it is like a bar, they serve alcohol, usually have a pool table and VLT machines. The Legion members meet there. It's a community hub.
One of their fund raisers is a weekly meat draw, where you buy tickets and the prizes are...meat. Frozen packages of steak or sausages or hamburger or pork chops. Yup. About as rural as you can get. Everyone comes in, grabs a coffee or a drink, sits around and talks with their friends, and everyone buys tickets, and then they have the draw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_raffle
Our warm home.
It was around -20 C, and lots of wind and snow. Pretty awful out there.
Chores took a while today because I wanted to put liners under the mares' blankets, so you have to take the existing blanket off, put the liner on, put the top blanket back on. In the wind. Our barn COULD have an area to bring them in, but it is used entirely for hay storage.
So far the outside animals seem comfortable enough.
I normally would have a riding lesson tonight, but R and I both decided it was too stormy to do one.
It wasn't likely great driving conditions.
I mostly just stayed indoors, read a bit, kept trying to get fluid into Fatty.
I added more pictures to our family page. They are from albums my Mom had that go wayyy back. There are lots of comments and interactions, and that has been interesting.
I talked with Trainwreck, who was all over the place about the family pictures. First, she was all worked up that I was putting them on Facebook, but she isn't on Facebook, so she wants to know how she is going to be able to comment.
She was all like "I will need to sit down with the family and we can all comment as a group". Well, we've had fifty years or so to do that. I'm doing what I can now.
I told her my eventual plan; to get them all on drives so that people have digital copies, and people should be able to get prints made from those.
So, then she starts telling me what pictures she remembers that she would like copies made. Like she missed the whole point of what I said. I told her that I WAS NOT taking orders for prints. That would be up to them once I gave them a drive.
Then, after spending ten minutes telling me how important all of this was, and so on, she says "well, it's just fun to see them. Likely no one will care anyhow what happens to them".
She flips from how important it is to get the stories down, and the pictures to EVERYONE, and on an on, then flops to ambivalent "who cares, likely no one".
Whatever. I'm just going to do what I planned to do from the beginning. Not a lot of families have such a good record of family history, and it matters to me to at least try to keep that knowledge of who we are and where we came from going.
This is not something I learned today, but something I suppose I could tell you.
Meat Raffle is a thing. In some parts of the UK, Western Canada and the US, it is seen as a charity event or sometimes a social occasion to purchase raffle tickets for the prize of a piece(s) of meat.
I don't know how many of you are familiar with this idea, but they still do this in the town near our family farm. It takes place at the local branch of the Legion (an organization that supports veterans mostly https://www.legion.ca/). Small towns have a "Legion" which is meant to be the building housing the local chapter of the Canadian Legion, but is like a clubhouse. Usually it is like a bar, they serve alcohol, usually have a pool table and VLT machines. The Legion members meet there. It's a community hub.
One of their fund raisers is a weekly meat draw, where you buy tickets and the prizes are...meat. Frozen packages of steak or sausages or hamburger or pork chops. Yup. About as rural as you can get. Everyone comes in, grabs a coffee or a drink, sits around and talks with their friends, and everyone buys tickets, and then they have the draw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_raffle
