Tuesday, March 28
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Beautiful sunny weather.
Roxy seems perkier. I think her incision is bothering her less. She seems more willing to put weight on it. She's less worried about the cone.
She did not poop at her normal time, but had a good healthy movement later in the day when I got back from riding River.
I felt like I could leave her at home today, as the new cone keeps her from licking her leg.
I had a better talk with Sister E today, and I kind of FORCED her to listen to what I had to say about Roxy, and how the last few days have been. She is reasonably compassionate, but a lot of times she just talks about what she wants to talk about, and forgets that I too, have a life.
They are trying to downsize for the move from the acreage to a much smaller home, and they are trying to get rid of boxes and boxes of old cameras and photography equipment that are completely obsolete now (her husband was a professional photographer most of his adult life, still does on occasion). Some is being donated to a school.
They are also trying to figure out what to keep out of a lifetime of obsolete technology. They had phones, answering machines, various gadgets that all required cords and chargers, and probably almost all of it is garbage, but you know how it is. I can't imagine how much of that they have, if they haven't been getting rid of it all along.
Otherwise they sound fairly positive about things.
I went to see River, and that was good. I needed something to shift my mind.
R was there working with Phoenix. He won't be there much longer as he has been adopted now, and soon will be transported to his new home. He is a pony that R has been fostering and training all winter to prepare him for a new home for a rescue that a friend of hers runs. I think that is a pretty wonderful thing to do, as this little pony has a much better chance at a good life if he has training and handling, especially from someone like R. He's come a long way in less than a year.
River did well today. I tried to do lots of running again, and that will likely from now on be a part of our sessions.
I felt like he did well in our groundwork/Liberty, and are Liberty circles are doing really well. We need to work on backing some more again (I am trying to get him to back up if I am standing behind him).
Our ridden work was good, if brief. Continuing to look for improvement on the turns on the haunches.
A bit of conversation with K as I was cleaning up and putting away.
I came home, and that's when I took Roxy out for a good poop.
Then I pretty much just had a nap after the nightly call with my Sweetie.
I learned that Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) was an asymptomatic carrier who infected many people (that's the part I already knew). She was identified as a carrier, but because she harbored the disease in her gallbladder, it would never be gone from her system and she would continue to infect others. She was quarantined for pretty much the rest of her life. She likely would not have been forced into quarantine, but that she was opposed to washing her hands, did not believe in germ theory, and did not believe that she could get others sick because she herself was healthy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
Beautiful sunny weather.
Roxy seems perkier. I think her incision is bothering her less. She seems more willing to put weight on it. She's less worried about the cone.
She did not poop at her normal time, but had a good healthy movement later in the day when I got back from riding River.
I felt like I could leave her at home today, as the new cone keeps her from licking her leg.
I had a better talk with Sister E today, and I kind of FORCED her to listen to what I had to say about Roxy, and how the last few days have been. She is reasonably compassionate, but a lot of times she just talks about what she wants to talk about, and forgets that I too, have a life.
They are trying to downsize for the move from the acreage to a much smaller home, and they are trying to get rid of boxes and boxes of old cameras and photography equipment that are completely obsolete now (her husband was a professional photographer most of his adult life, still does on occasion). Some is being donated to a school.
They are also trying to figure out what to keep out of a lifetime of obsolete technology. They had phones, answering machines, various gadgets that all required cords and chargers, and probably almost all of it is garbage, but you know how it is. I can't imagine how much of that they have, if they haven't been getting rid of it all along.
Otherwise they sound fairly positive about things.
I went to see River, and that was good. I needed something to shift my mind.
R was there working with Phoenix. He won't be there much longer as he has been adopted now, and soon will be transported to his new home. He is a pony that R has been fostering and training all winter to prepare him for a new home for a rescue that a friend of hers runs. I think that is a pretty wonderful thing to do, as this little pony has a much better chance at a good life if he has training and handling, especially from someone like R. He's come a long way in less than a year.
River did well today. I tried to do lots of running again, and that will likely from now on be a part of our sessions.
I felt like he did well in our groundwork/Liberty, and are Liberty circles are doing really well. We need to work on backing some more again (I am trying to get him to back up if I am standing behind him).
Our ridden work was good, if brief. Continuing to look for improvement on the turns on the haunches.
A bit of conversation with K as I was cleaning up and putting away.
I came home, and that's when I took Roxy out for a good poop.
Then I pretty much just had a nap after the nightly call with my Sweetie.
I learned that Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) was an asymptomatic carrier who infected many people (that's the part I already knew). She was identified as a carrier, but because she harbored the disease in her gallbladder, it would never be gone from her system and she would continue to infect others. She was quarantined for pretty much the rest of her life. She likely would not have been forced into quarantine, but that she was opposed to washing her hands, did not believe in germ theory, and did not believe that she could get others sick because she herself was healthy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
