Tuesday, March 21
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Beautiful weather and sunshine.
The horses are shedding, which I enjoy, as much as it gets all over the place.
I had a decent phone conversation with my Mom. She wasn't very with it the last time or two I called, but today she seemed more lucid, and reasonably cheerful.
I kind of talked with Trainwreck, only of course she did her frequent thing of: I can't talk now, how about in 15 minutes, and in 15 minutes she's actually driving home and the reception is bad, so call her in half an hour at the house...well by the time you actually get just the right time for her, I need to leave.
She was all worried about our Aunt and Uncle again, even though they have very involved family. I told Trainwreck that it really wouldn't be awful if she wanted to talk with our cousins about her concerns, just to see what they are planning to do. They are likely already EXTREMELY aware that Aunt and Uncle are likely no longer able to live on their own, and are probably making arrangements.
If not, then likely one of them will have something terrible happen that will force everyone to make decisions very quickly. That's what happens when everyone just pussyfoots around the reality.
Anyhow, I made a boundary to myself that I won't delay my departure for the barn for Trainwreck's phone calls which always seem to end up taking place right as I am trying to leave the house for some reason. I told her I needed to go, then I left.
She keeps suggesting that I call her back late, late at night, like at 2 am, because she is awake again by then. There is NO WAY I want to start that bullshit, because you know what that will become? Her weeping on the phone with that awful middle of the night existentialism that we all get. I know she's hoping I''ll fall for it and call her, but I DO NOT NEED THAT.
I know we all hate to be alone with those thoughts, but she really needs to deal with that on her own.
River was good. Still feeling like we've stagnated on a few things, and not sure why. We are never really improving his turn on the haunches, and we've been working on it forever, likely I am forever doing the same wrong thing in my cues, and I am so tired of it.
We are doing much better on our Liberty circles.
I tried that Liberty pattern again, and it is SO MUCH FREAKING RUNNING.
I came home, had a nap, and then worked on painting for a while.
I learned that on dry, cloudless nights in the desert, water can freeze at temperatures as high as 41 degrees Fahrenheit, 5 Celsius. This is due to a process referred to as or "Night Sky Cooling" or "Radiative Cooling", and allowed desert dwellers to regularly make ice more than 2000 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_cooling
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/07/09/how_people_created_ice_in_the_desert_2000_years_ago.html
Beautiful weather and sunshine.
The horses are shedding, which I enjoy, as much as it gets all over the place.
I had a decent phone conversation with my Mom. She wasn't very with it the last time or two I called, but today she seemed more lucid, and reasonably cheerful.
I kind of talked with Trainwreck, only of course she did her frequent thing of: I can't talk now, how about in 15 minutes, and in 15 minutes she's actually driving home and the reception is bad, so call her in half an hour at the house...well by the time you actually get just the right time for her, I need to leave.
She was all worried about our Aunt and Uncle again, even though they have very involved family. I told Trainwreck that it really wouldn't be awful if she wanted to talk with our cousins about her concerns, just to see what they are planning to do. They are likely already EXTREMELY aware that Aunt and Uncle are likely no longer able to live on their own, and are probably making arrangements.
If not, then likely one of them will have something terrible happen that will force everyone to make decisions very quickly. That's what happens when everyone just pussyfoots around the reality.
Anyhow, I made a boundary to myself that I won't delay my departure for the barn for Trainwreck's phone calls which always seem to end up taking place right as I am trying to leave the house for some reason. I told her I needed to go, then I left.
She keeps suggesting that I call her back late, late at night, like at 2 am, because she is awake again by then. There is NO WAY I want to start that bullshit, because you know what that will become? Her weeping on the phone with that awful middle of the night existentialism that we all get. I know she's hoping I''ll fall for it and call her, but I DO NOT NEED THAT.
I know we all hate to be alone with those thoughts, but she really needs to deal with that on her own.
River was good. Still feeling like we've stagnated on a few things, and not sure why. We are never really improving his turn on the haunches, and we've been working on it forever, likely I am forever doing the same wrong thing in my cues, and I am so tired of it.
We are doing much better on our Liberty circles.
I tried that Liberty pattern again, and it is SO MUCH FREAKING RUNNING.
I came home, had a nap, and then worked on painting for a while.
I learned that on dry, cloudless nights in the desert, water can freeze at temperatures as high as 41 degrees Fahrenheit, 5 Celsius. This is due to a process referred to as or "Night Sky Cooling" or "Radiative Cooling", and allowed desert dwellers to regularly make ice more than 2000 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_cooling
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/07/09/how_people_created_ice_in_the_desert_2000_years_ago.html
