Friday, September 8
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Pleasant, sunny weather.
Our hay arrived today, the round bales. They are now in the barn, and I feel that at least as far as hay supply goes, we are ready for winter now.
I did cringe at the price. It seems like just about every year I hear the same story "It's been such a bad year for hay...no one has any extra...hard to get GOOD hay...the rain/drought/hail/snow/whatever really hit everyone hard".
It's a lot of speculation on everyone's part, about whether the price being asked is fair, and HOW SCARCE IS IT? It preys on everyone's fears.
And so you pay whatever price they ask, because you CANNOT be without hay if you have animals. Sigh.
Well, at any rate it looks like GOOD hay, and it's in the barn.
Almost every year feels like a mad scramble.
I decided to call the DMV about the issue with not getting my current weight on my new licence, and the woman I talked to said that if I came in, in person, tomorrow, she would change it free of charge.
So. It CAN be done after all. It just means a more or less frivolous drive back to town again, wasting my day.
My husband had no such luck when he talked to the Optometrist. They said his one year warranty on his lenses had just expired, so we have to pay for a new lens.
I went to see River (and my Sweetie stayed home to keep working on the door frame and getting ready to put up siding).
River was in a good mood. We worked on a Liberty pattern outside in the outdoor arena and he did well with that.
Then I rode him a bit in the indoor arena, just to focus on that right circle again. I'm not doing it as part of the whole freestyle pattern, just working on that circle. He did a little better with it today, so I didn't over-do things and left it right there.
I was done a little earlier than usual, so I offered to hand graze a horse for R that has been in the barn a lot to keep the flies away from him. His eyes got really irritated from them and he rubbed them to the point where he got some ulcers. He's healing, and has to have drops and such, but has to be indoors a lot. He's getting hand grazed several times a day, and I know it's a lot of extra work for R.
I got to interact with the girl with lots of health challenges when she came in for her lesson.
I came home and my Sweetie had already let everyone out into their pastures, so we brought them back in.
I looked at what he had accomplished today, and chatted about that for a while.
The we watched some more "Schitt's Creek". We only have one season left!
I learned that Marie Antoinette adopted many children, often poor children. She treated them very well, paid for their education, and continued to adopt children even when she had four of her own. She continued to care for them as best she could even when she was imprisoned.
https://thegoodlifefrance.com/queen-marie-antoinette-and-her-adopted-children/
One such child was Jean Amilcar, a child from Senegal who was..ahem...GIVEN to her to be a servant/slave. She freed him and adopted him instead.
There is cloudiness over whether Jean died when Marie Antoinette was executed, and he was presumably turned out to fend for himself at the age of 11, but there is evidence that shows he may have been cared for by one of his teachers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Amilcar#See_also
Pleasant, sunny weather.
Our hay arrived today, the round bales. They are now in the barn, and I feel that at least as far as hay supply goes, we are ready for winter now.
I did cringe at the price. It seems like just about every year I hear the same story "It's been such a bad year for hay...no one has any extra...hard to get GOOD hay...the rain/drought/hail/snow/whatever really hit everyone hard".
It's a lot of speculation on everyone's part, about whether the price being asked is fair, and HOW SCARCE IS IT? It preys on everyone's fears.
And so you pay whatever price they ask, because you CANNOT be without hay if you have animals. Sigh.
Well, at any rate it looks like GOOD hay, and it's in the barn.
Almost every year feels like a mad scramble.
I decided to call the DMV about the issue with not getting my current weight on my new licence, and the woman I talked to said that if I came in, in person, tomorrow, she would change it free of charge.
So. It CAN be done after all. It just means a more or less frivolous drive back to town again, wasting my day.
My husband had no such luck when he talked to the Optometrist. They said his one year warranty on his lenses had just expired, so we have to pay for a new lens.
I went to see River (and my Sweetie stayed home to keep working on the door frame and getting ready to put up siding).
River was in a good mood. We worked on a Liberty pattern outside in the outdoor arena and he did well with that.
Then I rode him a bit in the indoor arena, just to focus on that right circle again. I'm not doing it as part of the whole freestyle pattern, just working on that circle. He did a little better with it today, so I didn't over-do things and left it right there.
I was done a little earlier than usual, so I offered to hand graze a horse for R that has been in the barn a lot to keep the flies away from him. His eyes got really irritated from them and he rubbed them to the point where he got some ulcers. He's healing, and has to have drops and such, but has to be indoors a lot. He's getting hand grazed several times a day, and I know it's a lot of extra work for R.
I got to interact with the girl with lots of health challenges when she came in for her lesson.
I came home and my Sweetie had already let everyone out into their pastures, so we brought them back in.
I looked at what he had accomplished today, and chatted about that for a while.
The we watched some more "Schitt's Creek". We only have one season left!
I learned that Marie Antoinette adopted many children, often poor children. She treated them very well, paid for their education, and continued to adopt children even when she had four of her own. She continued to care for them as best she could even when she was imprisoned.
https://thegoodlifefrance.com/queen-marie-antoinette-and-her-adopted-children/
One such child was Jean Amilcar, a child from Senegal who was..ahem...GIVEN to her to be a servant/slave. She freed him and adopted him instead.
There is cloudiness over whether Jean died when Marie Antoinette was executed, and he was presumably turned out to fend for himself at the age of 11, but there is evidence that shows he may have been cared for by one of his teachers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Amilcar#See_also
