Saturday, December 23
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
The weather is not as cold. -20 C instead of -35 C. There is wind, but to me it felt like the wind was bringing the warmer front with it.
I did talk with Trainwreck today, and kept it non-traumatic.
The last few weeks, I have noticed that one of goats (Sacha) has had some itchy, scaly patches on her skin. I was too overwhelmed with Fatty's issues to deal with it at the time, but I called the vet today. I got lucky and one was going past our place anyhow, so we managed to have him stop by at the end of the work day.
He figured it was mange, which is skin parasites, so he treated both of the goats (since it can spread pretty easily) with Ivermectin.
We will see if that clears it up.
I went to see River, and it was still too cold to do any riding, but I did work on our groundwork/Liberty with him and it went well.
I briefly saw R and K, and that was nice.
I came home and we watched "Night at the Roxbury" which is very, very silly, and mindless. Fun stuff.
I learned that Vidal Sassoon (creator of the hair care empire) spent time in the military.
"In 1948, at the age of 20, he joined the Palmach (which shortly afterwards was integrated into the Israel Defense Forces) and fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which began after Israel declared statehood.[15][16] Sassoon arrived in Mandatory Palestine in April 1948, a month before Israeli independence. He fought in the Negev against the Egyptian Army.[17] During an interview, he described the year he spent training with the Israelis as "the best year of my life," and recalled how he felt: When you think of 2,000 years of being put down and suddenly you are a nation rising, it was a wonderful feeling. There were only 600,000 people defending the country against five armies, so everyone had something to do.[11"
He was a philanthropist:
"Having had a lifelong commitment to eradicating anti-Semitism, Sassoon started the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, or SICSA, in 1982.[4] Located at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, it is devoted to gathering information about antisemitism worldwide.
After selling his company, he then worked towards philanthropic causes such as the Boys Clubs of America and the Performing Arts Council of the Music Center of Los Angeles via his Vidal Sassoon Foundation.[44] He was also active in supporting relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. It also funded educational pursuits on a need-basis in Israel and elsewhere. At the time of his death he had academies in England, Canada and the United States, while planning to open ones in Germany and China."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidal_Sassoon
He was also the inspiration for the character of Zohan in "Don't Mess With the Zohan".
The weather is not as cold. -20 C instead of -35 C. There is wind, but to me it felt like the wind was bringing the warmer front with it.
I did talk with Trainwreck today, and kept it non-traumatic.
The last few weeks, I have noticed that one of goats (Sacha) has had some itchy, scaly patches on her skin. I was too overwhelmed with Fatty's issues to deal with it at the time, but I called the vet today. I got lucky and one was going past our place anyhow, so we managed to have him stop by at the end of the work day.
He figured it was mange, which is skin parasites, so he treated both of the goats (since it can spread pretty easily) with Ivermectin.
We will see if that clears it up.
I went to see River, and it was still too cold to do any riding, but I did work on our groundwork/Liberty with him and it went well.
I briefly saw R and K, and that was nice.
I came home and we watched "Night at the Roxbury" which is very, very silly, and mindless. Fun stuff.
I learned that Vidal Sassoon (creator of the hair care empire) spent time in the military.
"In 1948, at the age of 20, he joined the Palmach (which shortly afterwards was integrated into the Israel Defense Forces) and fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which began after Israel declared statehood.[15][16] Sassoon arrived in Mandatory Palestine in April 1948, a month before Israeli independence. He fought in the Negev against the Egyptian Army.[17] During an interview, he described the year he spent training with the Israelis as "the best year of my life," and recalled how he felt: When you think of 2,000 years of being put down and suddenly you are a nation rising, it was a wonderful feeling. There were only 600,000 people defending the country against five armies, so everyone had something to do.[11"
He was a philanthropist:
"Having had a lifelong commitment to eradicating anti-Semitism, Sassoon started the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, or SICSA, in 1982.[4] Located at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, it is devoted to gathering information about antisemitism worldwide.
After selling his company, he then worked towards philanthropic causes such as the Boys Clubs of America and the Performing Arts Council of the Music Center of Los Angeles via his Vidal Sassoon Foundation.[44] He was also active in supporting relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. It also funded educational pursuits on a need-basis in Israel and elsewhere. At the time of his death he had academies in England, Canada and the United States, while planning to open ones in Germany and China."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidal_Sassoon
He was also the inspiration for the character of Zohan in "Don't Mess With the Zohan".
