Wednesday, January 10
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Having the means to care for our animals, and that I have the time to do so.
Early this morning, Roxy got into the compost bin and ate a slice of bread that my husband tossed in there. The bread was not a concern, but the fact that I know that the compost bin is layers and layers of coffee grounds was a concern. No way she could eat the bread without eating coffee grounds.
So, off we went. They induced vomiting, and we came home, and she seems fine.
It was just really tiring, with everything going on with Hollywood, and I hadn't slept yet, and the roads were pretty bad since we've had snow. It was a lot to have to make a trip to town for this, though I was willing.
I got back home at about 10 am, and got a bit of sleep, but I still had to do chores in the now very cold weather.
Wonder seems to be doing okay, so I'm grateful for that.
I had to get the pen in the garage ready for occupation, so put out shavings and brought pails of water, and hay over to the garage.
I needed to put the goats into the heated garage for the next few days, which are going to be VERY COLD.
Brownie lets me catch her, and I make a harness out of a long rope and lead her to the garage, and she generally goes without much complaint. USUALLY the other goat, Sacha, just follows along. Not today.
Sacha followed us all the way to the garage, but would not come inside. I did my best to give her some space and let her choose to come in (Brownie was already in the nice pen we have set up in there), but instead she panicked and ran all the way back to their outside enclosure with the ponies.
I let her back in rather than have her loose in the yard, and I would have to try to catch her and lead her back to the garage. Sacha is much harder to catch, though.
I didn't chase her, I just sat with her and gave her treats and she just stayed back far enough that I couldn't touch her, but after a while she kind of went into this kind of stationary panic state because her friend was gone, and then she allowed me to catch her and lead/drag her to the garage.
THEN when we were in the garage, finally, she was all like "Oh....THIS is where you were taking me. The nice, warm place. I thought for sure you were going to eat us today, but this is fine".
Sigh.
This was one of those days where you really have to question your life choices.
Oh well.
Then I finally got to go in the house, after being outside in -20 something C for a few hours. I wasn't too bad because I had my heavy coveralls on. That gets tiring though, because of the sheer weight of the coveralls, the jacket, the heavy boots.
I talked with Sister E for a while, mainly just to let her know about Hollywood. Sister E seems to be doing okay, and has been going to pickle ball.
Then I had a nice bath, and by then my Sweetie was home. He did go climbing today.
We talked for a while, and he pretty much had to go straight to bed. I napped for a little while, but I can't "go to bed" for the night at 9 pm.
I learned about the Eads bridge, that spans the Missouri River. It still stands, and is used for vehicular traffic as well as rail, and is now the oldest bridge on the Mississippi (completed in 1874), The Eads Bridge connects the cities of St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois.
It is primarily a railway bridge, and when it was proposed, the steam boat industry was still the main form of shipping.
From Wikipedia:
In an attempt to secure their future, steamboat interests successfully lobbied to place restrictions on bridge construction, requiring spans and heights previously unheard of. This was ostensibly to maintain sufficient operating room for steamboats beneath the bridge's base for the then foreseeable future. The unproclaimed purpose was to require a bridge so grand and lofty that it was impossible to erect according to conventional building techniques. The steamboat parties planned to prevent any structure from being built, in order to ensure continued dependence on river traffic to sustain commerce in the region.[citation needed]
Instead of thwarting this bridge, it resulted instead in engineers coming up with amazing engineering solutions that were used to create many other bridges for the railway, mainly being the switch from wrought iron to steel as one of the main components, and the use of enormous caissons as well as the first use in a bridge of the cantilever principle.
Having the means to care for our animals, and that I have the time to do so.
Early this morning, Roxy got into the compost bin and ate a slice of bread that my husband tossed in there. The bread was not a concern, but the fact that I know that the compost bin is layers and layers of coffee grounds was a concern. No way she could eat the bread without eating coffee grounds.
So, off we went. They induced vomiting, and we came home, and she seems fine.
It was just really tiring, with everything going on with Hollywood, and I hadn't slept yet, and the roads were pretty bad since we've had snow. It was a lot to have to make a trip to town for this, though I was willing.
I got back home at about 10 am, and got a bit of sleep, but I still had to do chores in the now very cold weather.
Wonder seems to be doing okay, so I'm grateful for that.
I had to get the pen in the garage ready for occupation, so put out shavings and brought pails of water, and hay over to the garage.
I needed to put the goats into the heated garage for the next few days, which are going to be VERY COLD.
Brownie lets me catch her, and I make a harness out of a long rope and lead her to the garage, and she generally goes without much complaint. USUALLY the other goat, Sacha, just follows along. Not today.
Sacha followed us all the way to the garage, but would not come inside. I did my best to give her some space and let her choose to come in (Brownie was already in the nice pen we have set up in there), but instead she panicked and ran all the way back to their outside enclosure with the ponies.
I let her back in rather than have her loose in the yard, and I would have to try to catch her and lead her back to the garage. Sacha is much harder to catch, though.
I didn't chase her, I just sat with her and gave her treats and she just stayed back far enough that I couldn't touch her, but after a while she kind of went into this kind of stationary panic state because her friend was gone, and then she allowed me to catch her and lead/drag her to the garage.
THEN when we were in the garage, finally, she was all like "Oh....THIS is where you were taking me. The nice, warm place. I thought for sure you were going to eat us today, but this is fine".
Sigh.
This was one of those days where you really have to question your life choices.
Oh well.
Then I finally got to go in the house, after being outside in -20 something C for a few hours. I wasn't too bad because I had my heavy coveralls on. That gets tiring though, because of the sheer weight of the coveralls, the jacket, the heavy boots.
I talked with Sister E for a while, mainly just to let her know about Hollywood. Sister E seems to be doing okay, and has been going to pickle ball.
Then I had a nice bath, and by then my Sweetie was home. He did go climbing today.
We talked for a while, and he pretty much had to go straight to bed. I napped for a little while, but I can't "go to bed" for the night at 9 pm.
I learned about the Eads bridge, that spans the Missouri River. It still stands, and is used for vehicular traffic as well as rail, and is now the oldest bridge on the Mississippi (completed in 1874), The Eads Bridge connects the cities of St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois.
It is primarily a railway bridge, and when it was proposed, the steam boat industry was still the main form of shipping.
From Wikipedia:
In an attempt to secure their future, steamboat interests successfully lobbied to place restrictions on bridge construction, requiring spans and heights previously unheard of. This was ostensibly to maintain sufficient operating room for steamboats beneath the bridge's base for the then foreseeable future. The unproclaimed purpose was to require a bridge so grand and lofty that it was impossible to erect according to conventional building techniques. The steamboat parties planned to prevent any structure from being built, in order to ensure continued dependence on river traffic to sustain commerce in the region.[citation needed]
Instead of thwarting this bridge, it resulted instead in engineers coming up with amazing engineering solutions that were used to create many other bridges for the railway, mainly being the switch from wrought iron to steel as one of the main components, and the use of enormous caissons as well as the first use in a bridge of the cantilever principle.
