Friday, May 26
May. 26th, 2023 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
More sunny weather.
Seeing a lot of birds these days. There were ducks sitting on the lawn yesterday.
I had a good conversation with Sister E. Mostly just to talk.
I think she's really having a tough time truly recognizing the seriousness of her husband's illness. They are moving to town soon, and that is at least recognition that they can't keep up the work on the acreage anymore.
My sister still talks a bit like her husband is being "lazy" and "doesn't want to do anything". He's likely just exhausted. He has diabetes to the point where he has a permanent glucose monitor, and physically he has lost a lot of muscle mass in the last few years, and really looks frail.
I truly feel like my sister hasn't absorbed how very real this is, and that she might not have him much longer.
She has been talking about her own need to keep physically active, but how she doesn't walk enough because her husband doesn't want to walk much. I told her that maybe he's just past that, but she needs to walk for her own health. She's actually quite healthy, and if she keeps physically active she could do just fine for quite some time.
She's hoping that when the move to town, she can find someone to walk with, start yoga again, and that kind of thing. I hope she does, because she can't depend on her husband for company in staying active.
I worked for an hour or so in the garden pulling more dandelions. These things have roots like carrots already.
Then I went to see River. His breathing was a little off with the warmer weather, but not bad. He seemed pretty good after I brought him into the cool barn and wiped him down with a sponge.
He did take off on me again to be with another horse. I was riding him with just the neck ring in a fairly small area where the obstacles are set up. R was leaving that pen with a horse, and River wanted to leave with them. He completely ignored my cues.
So. Now we have this to deal with.
I did the textbook response, which was to put him to work at the gate where the other horse left, and gave him a break AWAY from that area, and did that a few times.
He was just fine after they left, and wasn't calling for his friends or anything, did not seem upset, and did everything I asked just fine, so why he was so eager to go over there when another horse is a mystery. He normally doesn't care AT ALL when horses come and go into our space. This is new for him.
R also has been working with him this week to improve the trailer loading while I was away since I wasn't going to be there for our lesson. She said I should do it myself today, so we did.
I loaded him three times, each time getting him right to the spot in the trailer where he would be tied (did not tie today) and gave him treats inside, and gave him a clear cue when I was ready for him to back out, which he did calmly.
So, at least that went well today.
I came home and let everyone out into their pastures for a while.
I finished watching "House" last night, and of course I will miss it. You really get invested in a show after a while, and I've watched all eight seasons over the last several months. It was a decent way to end it too, which is good because sometimes shows end poorly, which kind of ruins it (Game of Thrones, for example, sucked big time at the end).
I learned that apes don't ask questions. While apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking humans or other apes. They don't seem to realize that other entities can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates mankind from apes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_cognition#Asking_questions_and_giving_negative_answers
More sunny weather.
Seeing a lot of birds these days. There were ducks sitting on the lawn yesterday.
I had a good conversation with Sister E. Mostly just to talk.
I think she's really having a tough time truly recognizing the seriousness of her husband's illness. They are moving to town soon, and that is at least recognition that they can't keep up the work on the acreage anymore.
My sister still talks a bit like her husband is being "lazy" and "doesn't want to do anything". He's likely just exhausted. He has diabetes to the point where he has a permanent glucose monitor, and physically he has lost a lot of muscle mass in the last few years, and really looks frail.
I truly feel like my sister hasn't absorbed how very real this is, and that she might not have him much longer.
She has been talking about her own need to keep physically active, but how she doesn't walk enough because her husband doesn't want to walk much. I told her that maybe he's just past that, but she needs to walk for her own health. She's actually quite healthy, and if she keeps physically active she could do just fine for quite some time.
She's hoping that when the move to town, she can find someone to walk with, start yoga again, and that kind of thing. I hope she does, because she can't depend on her husband for company in staying active.
I worked for an hour or so in the garden pulling more dandelions. These things have roots like carrots already.
Then I went to see River. His breathing was a little off with the warmer weather, but not bad. He seemed pretty good after I brought him into the cool barn and wiped him down with a sponge.
He did take off on me again to be with another horse. I was riding him with just the neck ring in a fairly small area where the obstacles are set up. R was leaving that pen with a horse, and River wanted to leave with them. He completely ignored my cues.
So. Now we have this to deal with.
I did the textbook response, which was to put him to work at the gate where the other horse left, and gave him a break AWAY from that area, and did that a few times.
He was just fine after they left, and wasn't calling for his friends or anything, did not seem upset, and did everything I asked just fine, so why he was so eager to go over there when another horse is a mystery. He normally doesn't care AT ALL when horses come and go into our space. This is new for him.
R also has been working with him this week to improve the trailer loading while I was away since I wasn't going to be there for our lesson. She said I should do it myself today, so we did.
I loaded him three times, each time getting him right to the spot in the trailer where he would be tied (did not tie today) and gave him treats inside, and gave him a clear cue when I was ready for him to back out, which he did calmly.
So, at least that went well today.
I came home and let everyone out into their pastures for a while.
I finished watching "House" last night, and of course I will miss it. You really get invested in a show after a while, and I've watched all eight seasons over the last several months. It was a decent way to end it too, which is good because sometimes shows end poorly, which kind of ruins it (Game of Thrones, for example, sucked big time at the end).
I learned that apes don't ask questions. While apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking humans or other apes. They don't seem to realize that other entities can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates mankind from apes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_cognition#Asking_questions_and_giving_negative_answers
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Date: 2023-05-28 05:19 pm (UTC)Google "Kandiss Taylor" and "globe" and see what you get.
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Date: 2023-05-28 06:58 pm (UTC)As to people like Kandiss Taylor, I just don't get it. The fact that you could now LITERALLY fly all the way around the Earth, and that we have footage from space, defies all logic. I think that's the point with these people, is that they are just irrational in many ways, but it is very hard to fight blind belief.
I'm not even convinced that they believe it's true, they are just proving that no one can win against their will. Thus, when it comes to politics, they just do the same thing; push ahead with their bullshit in such a way that it is difficult to stop them, and it doesn't have to be "right" or "correct".