Sunday, October 22
Oct. 23rd, 2023 12:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
My supportive husband.
We didn't do much before going to the barn.
We got a good video, I think, of the pattern we needed. It's "part two" that goes along with the freestyle we recorded last week. The ILHA wanted a freestyle component that we came up with ourselves, and a compulsory part.
Then we worked on loading again, and it didn't go so well today. I'm pretty stressed out about it, so we'll leave it right there.
I donated one of River's old sheets to R for use with the semi-rescue horse, who did not come with much for blankets. It's not a fantastic blanket, but she wanted free, so there you go.
Since River's winter blankets are stored in the horse trailer, we went through them and brought a couple out for upcoming use, since cold weather is on it's way now.
When we came home, we dug up what was left in the garden and took it into the garage.
We look to be going into colder weather now; but what a wonderful stretch of warm weather we had this past month!
My Sweetie then mowed the walking path we have in the horse pasture. Every Fall I mow it to knock down all the weeds and saplings so that it doesn't grow in, and so that it's easy to walk through during winter. It keeps the trees from growing against the fence.
I had a bath to warm up.
Then we watched more "Breaking Bad". It basically all takes place in the span of about one year, from when Walt is diagnosed with lung cancer. The sheer amount of crazy things that happen to each of the characters is just incredible, and it's not very believable that every last one of them are not complete basket cases.
I learned that camels were tested as a potentially useful military animal in the United States.
Camel Expedition
1857-58
The Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, wanted to test the use of camels as desert transportation for military equipment and supplies vs. horses and mules. He assisted in acquiring $30,000 for an expedition to go to Egypt and bring back 70 camels for the test trek. The camels fared the sea crossing well and arrived at Indianola, Texas on 14 May 1856.
https://mojavedesert.net/military/fort-irwin-05.html#:~:text=The%20Camel%20Expedition,of%20the%20sky%22.
After the expedition, camels continued to be used and bred as beasts of burden for a while, were taken by the Confederate Army, some were used by gold prospectors and so on, and for quite some time afterwards there were feral camels in the United States, just like feral horses.
https://westernlivingjournal.com/wild-camels-did-exist-in-the-american-southwest/#:~:text=Wild%20camels%20survived%20in%20the,Arizona%2C%20New%20Mexico%20and%20California.
My supportive husband.
We didn't do much before going to the barn.
We got a good video, I think, of the pattern we needed. It's "part two" that goes along with the freestyle we recorded last week. The ILHA wanted a freestyle component that we came up with ourselves, and a compulsory part.
Then we worked on loading again, and it didn't go so well today. I'm pretty stressed out about it, so we'll leave it right there.
I donated one of River's old sheets to R for use with the semi-rescue horse, who did not come with much for blankets. It's not a fantastic blanket, but she wanted free, so there you go.
Since River's winter blankets are stored in the horse trailer, we went through them and brought a couple out for upcoming use, since cold weather is on it's way now.
When we came home, we dug up what was left in the garden and took it into the garage.
We look to be going into colder weather now; but what a wonderful stretch of warm weather we had this past month!
My Sweetie then mowed the walking path we have in the horse pasture. Every Fall I mow it to knock down all the weeds and saplings so that it doesn't grow in, and so that it's easy to walk through during winter. It keeps the trees from growing against the fence.
I had a bath to warm up.
Then we watched more "Breaking Bad". It basically all takes place in the span of about one year, from when Walt is diagnosed with lung cancer. The sheer amount of crazy things that happen to each of the characters is just incredible, and it's not very believable that every last one of them are not complete basket cases.
I learned that camels were tested as a potentially useful military animal in the United States.
Camel Expedition
1857-58
The Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, wanted to test the use of camels as desert transportation for military equipment and supplies vs. horses and mules. He assisted in acquiring $30,000 for an expedition to go to Egypt and bring back 70 camels for the test trek. The camels fared the sea crossing well and arrived at Indianola, Texas on 14 May 1856.
https://mojavedesert.net/military/fort-irwin-05.html#:~:text=The%20Camel%20Expedition,of%20the%20sky%22.
After the expedition, camels continued to be used and bred as beasts of burden for a while, were taken by the Confederate Army, some were used by gold prospectors and so on, and for quite some time afterwards there were feral camels in the United States, just like feral horses.
https://westernlivingjournal.com/wild-camels-did-exist-in-the-american-southwest/#:~:text=Wild%20camels%20survived%20in%20the,Arizona%2C%20New%20Mexico%20and%20California.
