Friday, August 4
Aug. 4th, 2023 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Ongoing summer weather.
I managed to get a lilac bush planted that's been sitting in the pot for weeks now. That meant digging a good sized hole in mostly clay, hauling that clay away (I made good use of it by filling in a low spot) and digging more topsoil from the pile to fill the hole.
It took about an hour.
I really love lilacs, and so does my husband. We do have some big ones, but they are a plainer variety that is more meant to become a windbreak. Not as showy.
I have tried over the years to plant fancier, showier lilacs, but they don't seem to thrive in our yard. I hope this one does.
Then I went to see River.
Pretty much right as we began our session in the arena, the horses in the pasture just outside it started acting like maniacs, running around and whinnying, and that got the new horse in the corral right beside them all worked up, and it was all whinnying and running and lunacy out there.
River got very distracted and it was pretty hard to get his attention back. THEN he was doing some little bullshit that was meant to test my leadership, if you know horses you know what I mean. Just little things that demonstrated that he was going to see if he was going to get away with something, or if I was going to get after him for it.
Sigh. So of course I had to get after him for it. Not "corporal punishment", but making him work harder every time he didn't respond to my direction (on things that he knows exactly what is expected of him).
Even after he calmed down, our ridden work was crap. His focus was just not there today.
Well, that's how it goes sometimes.
I did see the girl with many health challenges today.
I came home, and let everyone out in their pastures for a while.
I turned the water on the garden, and picked raspberries like crazy for about an hour or so. I likely got close to a gallon again!
I learned about Rai stones, an ancient currency (though still in use to some degree) in Micronesia. Though some stones are more manageable, many are too large to be moved, and the transfer of ownership occurs without the stone going anywhere. They are still used in marriages and other ceremonial functions such as alliances.
A great deal of the significance of a stone is in it's story. There is one stone that was being transferred by boat and sank, but it is still used as currency, and it's title transfers with it at the bottom of the sea. It's the IDEA of the stone itself that matters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
Ongoing summer weather.
I managed to get a lilac bush planted that's been sitting in the pot for weeks now. That meant digging a good sized hole in mostly clay, hauling that clay away (I made good use of it by filling in a low spot) and digging more topsoil from the pile to fill the hole.
It took about an hour.
I really love lilacs, and so does my husband. We do have some big ones, but they are a plainer variety that is more meant to become a windbreak. Not as showy.
I have tried over the years to plant fancier, showier lilacs, but they don't seem to thrive in our yard. I hope this one does.
Then I went to see River.
Pretty much right as we began our session in the arena, the horses in the pasture just outside it started acting like maniacs, running around and whinnying, and that got the new horse in the corral right beside them all worked up, and it was all whinnying and running and lunacy out there.
River got very distracted and it was pretty hard to get his attention back. THEN he was doing some little bullshit that was meant to test my leadership, if you know horses you know what I mean. Just little things that demonstrated that he was going to see if he was going to get away with something, or if I was going to get after him for it.
Sigh. So of course I had to get after him for it. Not "corporal punishment", but making him work harder every time he didn't respond to my direction (on things that he knows exactly what is expected of him).
Even after he calmed down, our ridden work was crap. His focus was just not there today.
Well, that's how it goes sometimes.
I did see the girl with many health challenges today.
I came home, and let everyone out in their pastures for a while.
I turned the water on the garden, and picked raspberries like crazy for about an hour or so. I likely got close to a gallon again!
I learned about Rai stones, an ancient currency (though still in use to some degree) in Micronesia. Though some stones are more manageable, many are too large to be moved, and the transfer of ownership occurs without the stone going anywhere. They are still used in marriages and other ceremonial functions such as alliances.
A great deal of the significance of a stone is in it's story. There is one stone that was being transferred by boat and sank, but it is still used as currency, and it's title transfers with it at the bottom of the sea. It's the IDEA of the stone itself that matters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
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Date: 2023-08-07 06:55 am (UTC)Around this time of year they look a little powdery and spent. But May is glorious!