Sunday, July 2
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Cool, slightly rainy weather today. A relief after being pretty hot for several days.
We got a good start on digging out an area where I want to mulch; I need to remove a LOT of the clay and gravel there to put in some shrubs. We have a pile of good topsoil from a different project that didn't get used up, and I want to put some of it in this hole so that the shrubs get a good start.
When the shrubs are planted, I want to mulch that whole area because I don't want to mow anywhere near the house. It's too hard to do a good job around the utility stuff and the fence and the walk way. Everywhere around the house I want mulch and some shrubs and a few perennials.
It was pretty hard going. We can't get in there with the truck, so we were hauling out the clay with the lawn tractor and little cart (we needed the clay out by the barn anyhow, so that's where it went).
We got about half done digging today.
Then we went to see River.
All of the horses were just being idiots today, racing around and getting all worked up. Maybe because it was a little cool and they were feeling good, or perhaps because it looked like R and her family were away and were late feeding them.
River was all worked up with them, and that's not much fun to work with.
I worked with him in the indoor arena, and I gave him lots of time to just cool down before I asked him to do anything.
I did some ground work/Liberty with him, and he was a little better, but for a long time you could tell he was still tense and trying to pay more attention to what his friends were doing outside.
I hung in there and kept at it, being patient but trying to engage him, and after a while he settled down.
I think he was actually grateful that I gave him some relief from whatever lunacy his friends were up to.
We rode for a while, and that went okay. I didn't ask for anything too demanding, just grateful that he was ready to listen at all today.
They were still a bit nutty when we went back out, squealing and kicking with the mares in the other pen beside them. It's possible that someone is in heat.
If nothing else, I think I handled it well, and hopefully gave River a calm leadership vibe.
We came home and made supper, and watched "The Runaways", a film about Joan Jett. I thought it was pretty good.
I learned about Jason Padgett, who became a savant after being attacked. As a result of the damage to his brain, he began to see the world in a different way; he saw relationships between the natural world and math in a way that led to him becoming an artist, as well as a mathematician.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Padgett
Cool, slightly rainy weather today. A relief after being pretty hot for several days.
We got a good start on digging out an area where I want to mulch; I need to remove a LOT of the clay and gravel there to put in some shrubs. We have a pile of good topsoil from a different project that didn't get used up, and I want to put some of it in this hole so that the shrubs get a good start.
When the shrubs are planted, I want to mulch that whole area because I don't want to mow anywhere near the house. It's too hard to do a good job around the utility stuff and the fence and the walk way. Everywhere around the house I want mulch and some shrubs and a few perennials.
It was pretty hard going. We can't get in there with the truck, so we were hauling out the clay with the lawn tractor and little cart (we needed the clay out by the barn anyhow, so that's where it went).
We got about half done digging today.
Then we went to see River.
All of the horses were just being idiots today, racing around and getting all worked up. Maybe because it was a little cool and they were feeling good, or perhaps because it looked like R and her family were away and were late feeding them.
River was all worked up with them, and that's not much fun to work with.
I worked with him in the indoor arena, and I gave him lots of time to just cool down before I asked him to do anything.
I did some ground work/Liberty with him, and he was a little better, but for a long time you could tell he was still tense and trying to pay more attention to what his friends were doing outside.
I hung in there and kept at it, being patient but trying to engage him, and after a while he settled down.
I think he was actually grateful that I gave him some relief from whatever lunacy his friends were up to.
We rode for a while, and that went okay. I didn't ask for anything too demanding, just grateful that he was ready to listen at all today.
They were still a bit nutty when we went back out, squealing and kicking with the mares in the other pen beside them. It's possible that someone is in heat.
If nothing else, I think I handled it well, and hopefully gave River a calm leadership vibe.
We came home and made supper, and watched "The Runaways", a film about Joan Jett. I thought it was pretty good.
I learned about Jason Padgett, who became a savant after being attacked. As a result of the damage to his brain, he began to see the world in a different way; he saw relationships between the natural world and math in a way that led to him becoming an artist, as well as a mathematician.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Padgett
