Wednesday, July 19
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Decent day. A bit muggy, but sunny, and everything is green after all the rain.
A short talk with Trainwreck. She tells me that Sister N's partner fell, and is now willing to wear one of those bracelets that will alert the ambulance if you don't get up. Sister N is not capable of helping her partner up any more, and vice versa.
This is not surprising, the man in question is over 80 now, and quite frail. It sounds like at least people are starting to see that he needs more help, so if Sister N has to be away now, they are getting his daughter to stay there with him.
A lot of my family is now getting to this point in life, and it's very sad. It's not "tragic" or unexpected, but still very sad.
I went to the barn, and River and I had a lesson.
We are STILL going through a lot of the same things, and it feels more like a demo because R just goes "good job", but where is the next step?
We were given one new thing to work on, which is good. We are now going to work on doing a canter in our Liberty circles.
R spent a lot of time talking about how she and another client want to bring in a fairly well-known Liberty trainer from the States to do a clinic, but she thinks there are too many complications with him coming from the U.S.
I was like, I don't know, I'm sure there is a process, it's been done before.
I had to drag her back to my lesson, because my lesson is not where you mull over how you're going to bring in a clinician.
Then we worked on trying to get that lead again, and I think I do see the problem. I am supposed to bring back my outside leg for the canter cue, but I am twisting my body too much, and likely blocking him with the inside leg. I will work on this.
River did good today, in terms of effort. It was hot and muggy, but he tried for me. Good boy.
I came home and let everyone out for a while.
I talked with my Sweetie who joined the local bike club for a ride just in town; their very nice bike park is not accessible right now as the fires left standing dead trees. Until they are cleared, it is too dangerous to use the park.
I picked quite a few raspberries in a hurry as the days are noticeably shorter now.
I learned that alcohol withdrawal can cause vivid dreaming. Heavy alcohol use reduces the amount of REM sleep we experience each night, but that when we quit alcohol, REM sleep rebounds.
https://www.home-detox.co.uk/vivid-dreams-a-sign-of-alcohol-withdrawal/
Decent day. A bit muggy, but sunny, and everything is green after all the rain.
A short talk with Trainwreck. She tells me that Sister N's partner fell, and is now willing to wear one of those bracelets that will alert the ambulance if you don't get up. Sister N is not capable of helping her partner up any more, and vice versa.
This is not surprising, the man in question is over 80 now, and quite frail. It sounds like at least people are starting to see that he needs more help, so if Sister N has to be away now, they are getting his daughter to stay there with him.
A lot of my family is now getting to this point in life, and it's very sad. It's not "tragic" or unexpected, but still very sad.
I went to the barn, and River and I had a lesson.
We are STILL going through a lot of the same things, and it feels more like a demo because R just goes "good job", but where is the next step?
We were given one new thing to work on, which is good. We are now going to work on doing a canter in our Liberty circles.
R spent a lot of time talking about how she and another client want to bring in a fairly well-known Liberty trainer from the States to do a clinic, but she thinks there are too many complications with him coming from the U.S.
I was like, I don't know, I'm sure there is a process, it's been done before.
I had to drag her back to my lesson, because my lesson is not where you mull over how you're going to bring in a clinician.
Then we worked on trying to get that lead again, and I think I do see the problem. I am supposed to bring back my outside leg for the canter cue, but I am twisting my body too much, and likely blocking him with the inside leg. I will work on this.
River did good today, in terms of effort. It was hot and muggy, but he tried for me. Good boy.
I came home and let everyone out for a while.
I talked with my Sweetie who joined the local bike club for a ride just in town; their very nice bike park is not accessible right now as the fires left standing dead trees. Until they are cleared, it is too dangerous to use the park.
I picked quite a few raspberries in a hurry as the days are noticeably shorter now.
I learned that alcohol withdrawal can cause vivid dreaming. Heavy alcohol use reduces the amount of REM sleep we experience each night, but that when we quit alcohol, REM sleep rebounds.
https://www.home-detox.co.uk/vivid-dreams-a-sign-of-alcohol-withdrawal/
