Wednesday, May 3

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Warm weather, though it has that heavy, brooding pressure that makes me think it might storm later.

I didn't do much for extra work. Yesterday on my way home from the riding barn I stopped and picked up a shattered cupboard on the side of the road, it fit in the back of my car if I broke it up. Today I got it all out and threw that into the back of the truck for the next trip to the dump.

Then I took out some other things in the car that needed to go somewhere else, and I cleaned off the mats in the front seats.

I did some little things, like cleaning the algae build up out of the horse waterer, and picked up some rocks from the pile beside the house that are still there from construction and took them to the pile in the goat pen that are there for them to climb upon.

I cleared a bit more dead grass away from flower beds.

I did dishes.

I talked with my Sister E, and our adult nephew is staying with them for a while during his work experience for graduation from a degree in broadcasting. They were taking stuff to the dump, and for donation, so I'm glad he's helping them while he's there.

Then I went to see River.

I hosed him down again to help him cool off, it was as hot today as what should be full summer, not spring.

R and I went through the supplements that I won as a raffle prize at the fund raiser, and some of it was okay for River (and not so much "medicinal" as a vitamin/mineral supplement), some would be good for Hollywood (just expensive vegetable oil, really), and most of the other stuff would be helpful either for the next rescue intake (digestive support for ulcers, which is common in rescues because of likely being half-starved), some "chill" gel for excitable animals, and something for hoof support that one of her horses could use.

I'm glad she helped me make sense of it, and that she took some of it.

During our lesson, we worked a bit on the last pattern, which I was unable to enter into the show because I can't get my video to download onto YouTube. I have to figure that out, and I will try to improve that pattern and do it for the next show instead.

Then we worked on trailer loading, which went not too badly. He backed out a few times, but each time he was reasonably willing to go inside again, and is willing to spend a little longer inside each time without getting worried. I'm not tying him yet, just waiting for him to demonstrate comfort with being in there.

It's a pretty scary thing to work on, but he's improving.

Then I came home and had a marathon phone call with Trainwreck. She has a prospective buyer for her place, and he's willing to empty it, but I have some concerns. Mainly, that if he pays her in cash like they are talking about, that it will bite her in the ass.

I learned that Aristotle's payment for teaching Alexander the Great was the reconstruction and re-population of Aristotle's home village, which had been destroyed and enslaved by Alexander's father.

"Philip agreed to rebuild Aristotle's hometown of Stageira, which Philip had razed, and to repopulate it by buying and freeing the ex-citizens who were slaves, or pardoning those who were in exile."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great

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[ratunderpaper]

You have hot summery weather, and we've had a week of rain and 5˚C!