Tuesday, February 21
Feb. 22nd, 2023 01:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
The weather is cold, but the sun was bright and shining today.
I spoke with Trainwreck, and it was not an awful phone call. I managed not to be upset by it.
That I did my diligence yesterday in getting extra blankets on and bringing the goats into the garage.
R wanted to do our lesson today, instead of tomorrow, because it is supposed to be even colder tomorrow. I imagine that most of her clients just outright cancelled, so she likely tomorrow free of lesson. It didn't seem like anyone was doing lessons today, either.
It was a good lesson. We are STILL working on the same thing though. Not R's fault; we are just still working on getting the hindquarter and ribs to yield at the walk when I am on the ground, so that he is slightly curved on the wall. It will help with collection in riding, and in keeping our Liberty circles nice and round when they get smaller.
We tried to get a good side pass over some light barrels, but River wasn't quite staying straight and kept bumping them. It was supposed to be something for our "interesting skill" class that R was doing for her fundraising show, but it just wasn't happening today. R was kind of pressing us to keep trying, but I shut that down. We had tried several times, and it's not fair to keep pushing River when he really was doing his best already for that day.
Otherwise I thought River did well.
I came home and had a nap. In that short time, I managed to have a very comforting dream.
When I was a teenager, Trainwreck's son lived with my Mom and me. At one point it was just the two of us living with Mom, and it was actually very peaceful and nice with just the three of us. He was like a little brother to me.
The dream was very realistic, at the house on the farm, with all the details of how the furniture used to be like and so on. I was standing in the living room, Mom was in the kitchen making supper and making all of the general clanging and muttering that was very accurate (she was always kind of loud), the smell, everything. My nephew in the dream came up to just past my waist, and he just walked up and gave me the biggest bear hug. That's it. The whole moment just stayed there for a minute or two. The sound of Mom cooking, the house looking like Home, and us hugging.
I learned that the avocado evolved alongside the giant sloth, who was the primary eater of the fruit. This is why the seeds are so large; they were made to pass through the sloth's digestive system and be distributed.
https://sciencenorway.no/botany-evolution-plants/why-does-the-avocado-have-such-huge-seedsmeet-the-plants-that-have-lost-their-enormous-partners/1772701
In conjunction, I learned about the concept of evolutionary anachronisms (in plants). The concept that many plants today are "out of place", as many of the animals that they targeted to distribute their seeds are now extinct. Creatures like mastodons, prehistoric horses and camels (that went extinct in parts of the world) and giant sloths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_anachronism
The weather is cold, but the sun was bright and shining today.
I spoke with Trainwreck, and it was not an awful phone call. I managed not to be upset by it.
That I did my diligence yesterday in getting extra blankets on and bringing the goats into the garage.
R wanted to do our lesson today, instead of tomorrow, because it is supposed to be even colder tomorrow. I imagine that most of her clients just outright cancelled, so she likely tomorrow free of lesson. It didn't seem like anyone was doing lessons today, either.
It was a good lesson. We are STILL working on the same thing though. Not R's fault; we are just still working on getting the hindquarter and ribs to yield at the walk when I am on the ground, so that he is slightly curved on the wall. It will help with collection in riding, and in keeping our Liberty circles nice and round when they get smaller.
We tried to get a good side pass over some light barrels, but River wasn't quite staying straight and kept bumping them. It was supposed to be something for our "interesting skill" class that R was doing for her fundraising show, but it just wasn't happening today. R was kind of pressing us to keep trying, but I shut that down. We had tried several times, and it's not fair to keep pushing River when he really was doing his best already for that day.
Otherwise I thought River did well.
I came home and had a nap. In that short time, I managed to have a very comforting dream.
When I was a teenager, Trainwreck's son lived with my Mom and me. At one point it was just the two of us living with Mom, and it was actually very peaceful and nice with just the three of us. He was like a little brother to me.
The dream was very realistic, at the house on the farm, with all the details of how the furniture used to be like and so on. I was standing in the living room, Mom was in the kitchen making supper and making all of the general clanging and muttering that was very accurate (she was always kind of loud), the smell, everything. My nephew in the dream came up to just past my waist, and he just walked up and gave me the biggest bear hug. That's it. The whole moment just stayed there for a minute or two. The sound of Mom cooking, the house looking like Home, and us hugging.
I learned that the avocado evolved alongside the giant sloth, who was the primary eater of the fruit. This is why the seeds are so large; they were made to pass through the sloth's digestive system and be distributed.
https://sciencenorway.no/botany-evolution-plants/why-does-the-avocado-have-such-huge-seedsmeet-the-plants-that-have-lost-their-enormous-partners/1772701
In conjunction, I learned about the concept of evolutionary anachronisms (in plants). The concept that many plants today are "out of place", as many of the animals that they targeted to distribute their seeds are now extinct. Creatures like mastodons, prehistoric horses and camels (that went extinct in parts of the world) and giant sloths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_anachronism
