Sunday, May 28
May. 28th, 2023 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
That it was at least cloudy for a while and rained a teeny, tiny bit. In the early evening we had a little shower, with lots of bluster.
I put away some dishes, some laundry, did a bit more laundry, put away the clothes from visiting family, and changed the cat litter.
I planted some of the bedding plants into big half barrels and some good-sized pots. They look cheerful.
I went to see River. R was finishing up a long day of a clinic she hosted.
R had altered River's halter. With all the concerns about evacuations, there is a thing people do in case their horses end up in a community pasture or other evacuation holding area; they make sure the halter will break away if the horse gets hung up on it by making a fairly soft leather "weak point". That way they can put information on a tag onto the halter and leave the halter on them in case they need to be identified. Most of the time the horse will not break it, but you pretty much have to make sure they can't harm themselves if they do.
In normal practice, you do NOT leave the halter on the horses in a corral or pasture because if they get caught on anything or even get a leg through it, it can be disastrous.
I saw a few other folks around in passing.
River did well today. There really was no opportunity for him to "leave" today because we worked in the arena. He did stay focused and relaxed even though there was a lot of wind and noise and people coming and going outside.
His breathing was good, in spite of it being quite hot today.
I came home and let everyone out into the bigger pasture while I continued to pull more dandelions out of the garden. This part is now pretty much cleaned up, and hopefully I can till and plant it very soon.
I watched a video about this woman: Diana Budisavljević was a well-to-do Austrian married to a renowned doctor in Zagreb when the Axis forces invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941. Soon, a puppet state installed by the Nazis began a genocidal campaign against Serbs, Jews and Roma, setting up concentration camps in Croatia. When she learned that children in camps not far from the city were dying of hunger and disease, she resolutely started one of the greatest humanitarian actions of WW2.
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0b4l426/the-austrian-woman-who-saved-7-700-children-during-ww2
That it was at least cloudy for a while and rained a teeny, tiny bit. In the early evening we had a little shower, with lots of bluster.
I put away some dishes, some laundry, did a bit more laundry, put away the clothes from visiting family, and changed the cat litter.
I planted some of the bedding plants into big half barrels and some good-sized pots. They look cheerful.
I went to see River. R was finishing up a long day of a clinic she hosted.
R had altered River's halter. With all the concerns about evacuations, there is a thing people do in case their horses end up in a community pasture or other evacuation holding area; they make sure the halter will break away if the horse gets hung up on it by making a fairly soft leather "weak point". That way they can put information on a tag onto the halter and leave the halter on them in case they need to be identified. Most of the time the horse will not break it, but you pretty much have to make sure they can't harm themselves if they do.
In normal practice, you do NOT leave the halter on the horses in a corral or pasture because if they get caught on anything or even get a leg through it, it can be disastrous.
I saw a few other folks around in passing.
River did well today. There really was no opportunity for him to "leave" today because we worked in the arena. He did stay focused and relaxed even though there was a lot of wind and noise and people coming and going outside.
His breathing was good, in spite of it being quite hot today.
I came home and let everyone out into the bigger pasture while I continued to pull more dandelions out of the garden. This part is now pretty much cleaned up, and hopefully I can till and plant it very soon.
I watched a video about this woman: Diana Budisavljević was a well-to-do Austrian married to a renowned doctor in Zagreb when the Axis forces invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941. Soon, a puppet state installed by the Nazis began a genocidal campaign against Serbs, Jews and Roma, setting up concentration camps in Croatia. When she learned that children in camps not far from the city were dying of hunger and disease, she resolutely started one of the greatest humanitarian actions of WW2.
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0b4l426/the-austrian-woman-who-saved-7-700-children-during-ww2
