Sunday, September 24
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Sunny and nice weather.
How beautiful the changing leaves are.
Trainwreck: She's been difficult to reach, because her cell phone battery is dead. Family is digging up a phone that will still work for her.
I spoke with her on her landline, which is at her crappy trailer. She does not have a land line at her new place.
The land line apparently isn't something she can call OUT on, only receive calls. I have never heard of such a thing, but I guess it's been that way forever. Just a cheaper contract?
So I caught her at the trailer, she'd just driven back there after being in town for three days. Apparently her cats are surviving on what they catch.
She has been feeling horrible, as is normal these days. The doctor is trying to get her on oxygen, but it has to be free, so to qualify she has to test "low enough" on her blood oxygen, and she is borderline. I GUESS the doctor says she can get it next week, unless I've got that wrong.
In the meantime, my sister's digestive system is not working, because of the low oxygen in her system. This is a known side effect of COPD. Since her lungs are so damaged from smoking, there is not enough oxygen to keep everything going, so the digestive system starts to fail. She is throwing up, and hasn't eaten in days. She says she can't even keep beer down (of course she still has to just keep trying, right?).
So, instead of staying in town where there are people who can help her, she drives back out to the middle of nowhere to stay there tonight. With no phone, sick as a dog, and pretty much just blacking out from lack of oxygen. Sure, that's reasonable.
My Sweetie worked on the siding again, got all of the gable part finished today. It looks great!
I went to see River. R had moved him and his buddies to a pasture that had more grass, and he was just kind of dopey today.
He did fine on our practice of the freestyle, and did well on the ridden turn to the right.
I then rode him outside, and tried to work on the spirals, but he just didn't try at all. I wasn't too happy about that, and I suppose I shouldn't have settled for it, either.
I did take him back into the arena after that, because I wanted to get him to actually try to work for just a few minutes. I just did liberty, and worked on getting him to TROT like he meant it, instead of his distracted moseying, and he did.
He does not seem that interested in doing a bow any more. The expectation now is for him to do a deep bow where he comes all the way down onto one knee instead of the "baby bow" where he just brings his head down. I think he finds the new bow difficult, and would rather not do it.
I'm glad he's on better pasture.
I did chat with the Sunday rider, and several of us intend to go to a fundraising "comedy night" for two local animal rescues.
I came home and my Sweetie was just finishing up for the day.
We came in and watched "Beast" with Idris Elba, which was one of those movies where a "killer" animal is after everyone (in this case, a lion). The scenery was amazing, the acting good, but this theme has just been done to death.
I learned that aristocrats began eating tomatoes in the 1700's, but became afraid that tomatoes were poisonous because of people dying mysteriously after introducing them to their diet. What was happening, is that the acid in tomatoes was leaching lead from the pewter dishes, so causing lead poisoning.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years-863735/#:~:text=In%20the%20late%201700s%2C%20a,were%20high%20in%20lead%20content
Sunny and nice weather.
How beautiful the changing leaves are.
Trainwreck: She's been difficult to reach, because her cell phone battery is dead. Family is digging up a phone that will still work for her.
I spoke with her on her landline, which is at her crappy trailer. She does not have a land line at her new place.
The land line apparently isn't something she can call OUT on, only receive calls. I have never heard of such a thing, but I guess it's been that way forever. Just a cheaper contract?
So I caught her at the trailer, she'd just driven back there after being in town for three days. Apparently her cats are surviving on what they catch.
She has been feeling horrible, as is normal these days. The doctor is trying to get her on oxygen, but it has to be free, so to qualify she has to test "low enough" on her blood oxygen, and she is borderline. I GUESS the doctor says she can get it next week, unless I've got that wrong.
In the meantime, my sister's digestive system is not working, because of the low oxygen in her system. This is a known side effect of COPD. Since her lungs are so damaged from smoking, there is not enough oxygen to keep everything going, so the digestive system starts to fail. She is throwing up, and hasn't eaten in days. She says she can't even keep beer down (of course she still has to just keep trying, right?).
So, instead of staying in town where there are people who can help her, she drives back out to the middle of nowhere to stay there tonight. With no phone, sick as a dog, and pretty much just blacking out from lack of oxygen. Sure, that's reasonable.
My Sweetie worked on the siding again, got all of the gable part finished today. It looks great!
I went to see River. R had moved him and his buddies to a pasture that had more grass, and he was just kind of dopey today.
He did fine on our practice of the freestyle, and did well on the ridden turn to the right.
I then rode him outside, and tried to work on the spirals, but he just didn't try at all. I wasn't too happy about that, and I suppose I shouldn't have settled for it, either.
I did take him back into the arena after that, because I wanted to get him to actually try to work for just a few minutes. I just did liberty, and worked on getting him to TROT like he meant it, instead of his distracted moseying, and he did.
He does not seem that interested in doing a bow any more. The expectation now is for him to do a deep bow where he comes all the way down onto one knee instead of the "baby bow" where he just brings his head down. I think he finds the new bow difficult, and would rather not do it.
I'm glad he's on better pasture.
I did chat with the Sunday rider, and several of us intend to go to a fundraising "comedy night" for two local animal rescues.
I came home and my Sweetie was just finishing up for the day.
We came in and watched "Beast" with Idris Elba, which was one of those movies where a "killer" animal is after everyone (in this case, a lion). The scenery was amazing, the acting good, but this theme has just been done to death.
I learned that aristocrats began eating tomatoes in the 1700's, but became afraid that tomatoes were poisonous because of people dying mysteriously after introducing them to their diet. What was happening, is that the acid in tomatoes was leaching lead from the pewter dishes, so causing lead poisoning.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years-863735/#:~:text=In%20the%20late%201700s%2C%20a,were%20high%20in%20lead%20content
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Date: 2023-09-26 03:21 am (UTC)Double plus excited that "a section" of gravel has been cleared from the secret garden.
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Date: 2023-09-26 08:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-26 08:00 pm (UTC)Today: gluing insulation in the milk box interior. After that, if I can't get a piece of wood to use as a backer (covering the insulation) then I will use a piece of illustration board covered in vinyl wallpaper or anaglypta.
I have old anaglypta and could quite easily cut a piece.