Tuesday, January 9
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Letting Hollywood go yesterday. Already the weather has turned, and it is -20 C tonight, and colder nights to come this week. Maybe she would have made it, maybe not. Either way, she was in so much pain, what would have been the point?
We did get some more snow, which is actually good because it will become needed moisture in the spring.
We are now past the shortest days of winter, and I have noticed the slightly longer days, about half an hour more light now. This is something that I really do notice, even when it is cold and snowy, is when the days are noticeably longer.
I slept, and was sad when I awoke to recall that Hollywood is now gone, but I did my best for her.
I did go to see River, and talked with R about Hollywood. As another lifelong horse person, she gets it.
River did well, we worked more on disambiguation of "away" and "draw", and found another body language tool.
R worked with some of her horses while River and I were in the arena, which is nice.
River really wanted to canter, and got really into it. I think it's the cold weather, we had already warmed up a lot with our ground work, and it probably feels good to canter on good footing when it's cold and snowy outside.
I felt warm enough during our work, which is good. It was around -17 C, and it's been so mild this winter I was worried I would be "soft" when it got cold again.
My Sweetie stopped in briefly on his way home from work at the riding barn while I was still working, which was nice of him.
When I got home he was working in the basement and had put up one more sheet of drywall. I think he is starting to see how even a few hours of work here and there each week does add up, and it doesn't have to be one big "all or nothing" push when he gets time off.
I'm glad that he's trying. I feel better about house progress knowing that something is moving ahead, even if gradually.
I popped outside to check on Wonder, and you can tell she is sad, but she's eating and not running around looking for Hollywood. Last night when I went out, she was calling out into the darkness for her, so I sat with her for a while, and tried to tell her that her friend was gone, but we would try to find her another one soon.
I'm not sure how much she understood (they do understand a lot from your body and voice), but she wasn't calling out today, just sad.
We made supper, watched more of "The Expanse", and that was about it.
I listened to an album by "The 1975" called "Notes on a Conditional Form", and there's just something about this band. They're kind of all over the place style-wise, and there's this odd idealism and for lack of a better word, "boyishness" that is appealing. Normally I would have said that this wasn't my style, but there is just something endearing about them.
I learned that there is now a native bird in Australia (Australian Ibis) that have started eating the terribly invasive Cane Toad that has reached plague proportions there. The toads are poisonous, but the Ibis has figured out that if they shake it hard enough, then wash it off, most of the toxin is gone and it's fine for them to eat. Other birds are figuring out how to eat the toads by simply avoiding the poison glands located in the shoulders; they just pick around them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/ibis-find-way-to-eat-toxic-cane-toads/101683596
Letting Hollywood go yesterday. Already the weather has turned, and it is -20 C tonight, and colder nights to come this week. Maybe she would have made it, maybe not. Either way, she was in so much pain, what would have been the point?
We did get some more snow, which is actually good because it will become needed moisture in the spring.
We are now past the shortest days of winter, and I have noticed the slightly longer days, about half an hour more light now. This is something that I really do notice, even when it is cold and snowy, is when the days are noticeably longer.
I slept, and was sad when I awoke to recall that Hollywood is now gone, but I did my best for her.
I did go to see River, and talked with R about Hollywood. As another lifelong horse person, she gets it.
River did well, we worked more on disambiguation of "away" and "draw", and found another body language tool.
R worked with some of her horses while River and I were in the arena, which is nice.
River really wanted to canter, and got really into it. I think it's the cold weather, we had already warmed up a lot with our ground work, and it probably feels good to canter on good footing when it's cold and snowy outside.
I felt warm enough during our work, which is good. It was around -17 C, and it's been so mild this winter I was worried I would be "soft" when it got cold again.
My Sweetie stopped in briefly on his way home from work at the riding barn while I was still working, which was nice of him.
When I got home he was working in the basement and had put up one more sheet of drywall. I think he is starting to see how even a few hours of work here and there each week does add up, and it doesn't have to be one big "all or nothing" push when he gets time off.
I'm glad that he's trying. I feel better about house progress knowing that something is moving ahead, even if gradually.
I popped outside to check on Wonder, and you can tell she is sad, but she's eating and not running around looking for Hollywood. Last night when I went out, she was calling out into the darkness for her, so I sat with her for a while, and tried to tell her that her friend was gone, but we would try to find her another one soon.
I'm not sure how much she understood (they do understand a lot from your body and voice), but she wasn't calling out today, just sad.
We made supper, watched more of "The Expanse", and that was about it.
I listened to an album by "The 1975" called "Notes on a Conditional Form", and there's just something about this band. They're kind of all over the place style-wise, and there's this odd idealism and for lack of a better word, "boyishness" that is appealing. Normally I would have said that this wasn't my style, but there is just something endearing about them.
I learned that there is now a native bird in Australia (Australian Ibis) that have started eating the terribly invasive Cane Toad that has reached plague proportions there. The toads are poisonous, but the Ibis has figured out that if they shake it hard enough, then wash it off, most of the toxin is gone and it's fine for them to eat. Other birds are figuring out how to eat the toads by simply avoiding the poison glands located in the shoulders; they just pick around them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/ibis-find-way-to-eat-toxic-cane-toads/101683596
