Friday, May 5
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Warm weather, though as it has been mentioned, we need rain now.
There has been endless seeming hot, dry wind for the last while, and everything is getting dry. There are indeed grass fires in our area, not that far from us. The riding barn was/is on a warning to be ready to evacuate, though hopefully they don't need to. R has an evacuation plan to another property, and we would go help them load horses etc. if they call us.
So far the wind is holding a direction that is not coming in our direction, but we are paying attention.
My Sweetie got up before I did and went to town on his own to try and get a "ditch witch" to bury some electrical cable so that I can have power out at the pony/goat pen so that I don't have to run a crazy long extension cord across the yard to heat their water.
They told him to come back at 5 pm, when one was being returned, so it kind of wasted his trip.
He paid our taxes while in town.
So he came home, and when I was done doing usual chores and such, we went to town. Again.
We got the ditch witch, I spent a few minutes looking around in very crowded, eclectic antique-ish store that had very high prices, and we came home.
I went to see River. It was not smoky at the riding barn, so that's good. With River's summer breathing issues, smoke is very hard on him.
I ended up working in the indoor arena because the wind was just awful. I think it gave River some peace to be out of it for a while, even though the material of the arena cover was moving a lot.
He did okay, still the same issues with turn on haunches, but better after a while. I rode a bit, and his circles were good, and oddly his turn on the haunches was a lot better ridden than when I cued from the ground.
The girl with some challenges came in as I was leaving, and she was signing to me, as best as we could figure out that she loved me. I found this a bit awkward, and I hope it is meant as deep affection for a friend, and not some misunderstanding about things. I will take it as affection.
It's touching that she cares, as I find our interactions to be a bit limited by my lack of ability to communicate with her via sign language.
Anyhow, I came home to find that my Sweetie had been able to dig pretty much all of the trench we need. He dug one to run the power cable out to the ponies/goats, and a second, fairly short trench to take water away from the house where the weeping tile drains.
Then we came inside and watched "The Losers", which is a pretty good movie.
I learned about the gnomes of Wroclaw, Poland.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20171017-the-truth-behind-wrocaws-cheeky-gnomes
Warm weather, though as it has been mentioned, we need rain now.
There has been endless seeming hot, dry wind for the last while, and everything is getting dry. There are indeed grass fires in our area, not that far from us. The riding barn was/is on a warning to be ready to evacuate, though hopefully they don't need to. R has an evacuation plan to another property, and we would go help them load horses etc. if they call us.
So far the wind is holding a direction that is not coming in our direction, but we are paying attention.
My Sweetie got up before I did and went to town on his own to try and get a "ditch witch" to bury some electrical cable so that I can have power out at the pony/goat pen so that I don't have to run a crazy long extension cord across the yard to heat their water.
They told him to come back at 5 pm, when one was being returned, so it kind of wasted his trip.
He paid our taxes while in town.
So he came home, and when I was done doing usual chores and such, we went to town. Again.
We got the ditch witch, I spent a few minutes looking around in very crowded, eclectic antique-ish store that had very high prices, and we came home.
I went to see River. It was not smoky at the riding barn, so that's good. With River's summer breathing issues, smoke is very hard on him.
I ended up working in the indoor arena because the wind was just awful. I think it gave River some peace to be out of it for a while, even though the material of the arena cover was moving a lot.
He did okay, still the same issues with turn on haunches, but better after a while. I rode a bit, and his circles were good, and oddly his turn on the haunches was a lot better ridden than when I cued from the ground.
The girl with some challenges came in as I was leaving, and she was signing to me, as best as we could figure out that she loved me. I found this a bit awkward, and I hope it is meant as deep affection for a friend, and not some misunderstanding about things. I will take it as affection.
It's touching that she cares, as I find our interactions to be a bit limited by my lack of ability to communicate with her via sign language.
Anyhow, I came home to find that my Sweetie had been able to dig pretty much all of the trench we need. He dug one to run the power cable out to the ponies/goats, and a second, fairly short trench to take water away from the house where the weeping tile drains.
Then we came inside and watched "The Losers", which is a pretty good movie.
I learned about the gnomes of Wroclaw, Poland.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20171017-the-truth-behind-wrocaws-cheeky-gnomes
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Date: 2023-05-07 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-07 09:49 am (UTC)Her face isn't easy to read as it isn't very mobile, she doesn't speak, she can't hear, yet she seems reasonably intelligent. It must be difficult to be so cut off from so much communication.
Personally, I'm pretty amazed that she's working with horses, and I'm amazed that R has been able to work with her to teach her. She doesn't ride much on her own, mostly being led, but she does do ground work and rides a little bit at the walk. She does groom and do some work in tacking up.
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Date: 2023-05-08 04:15 am (UTC)