Saturday, January 20
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Finally having some fun. Wow, have we otherwise not had a lot of fun in the last few weeks.
It was finally not as cold as Hoth outside, and I felt okay to put the goats back out in their normal pen with the ponies. The goats were MORE than ready after being cooped up for over a week, and I think the ponies were happy to see them too.
I took the blankets off of Wonder so her skin could breathe, and to check her body condition. She's actually a touch chubby, so I can feed her a bit less. I had increased her hay because of the intense cold, but maybe she didn't need quite that much extra.
We did pick up some of the pony manure, now that it isn't so cold. I really couldn't do it when it was -40 C without being just too cold.
We went to the city today, just for fun. Not for groceries or building supplies, just fun.
We made it to the art gallery, and saw a new gallery. The paintings themselves didn't do a lot for me, but the explanation made me think (it's funny how you can read the description, and it's all meaningful and so on, but you would never have gotten that from looking at the art itself).
The description talked about how there are things about life where intimacy can be entwined with horror, and I totally get that. Things like seeing things about your parents that cannot be unseen, or just knowing things about people that can be horrific, but that is often what it means to be intimate with someone, is knowing the truth about each other, good or not so good.
There was also a connection made about the intimacy/horror invested in objects such as the iconic 80's floral sofa that everyone had, and probably still has in their basement. The collective ties we can have, sometimes almost subconsciously about a sofa that was there for many important life events, or how you might feel when you see one in someone else's house.
Kind of an interesting idea, even if the paintings themselves didn't quite evoke that on their own.
Then we ate at a healthy chain restaurant. Pretty good. A brief look in the used book store, but nothing sparked joy today.
Then we went to a musical event held inside a really old church (keep in mind that in our neck of the woods, 100 years old is about as old as a building gets).
The whole event was meant to showcase talent from this city, and I didn't realize that; I thought it was supposed to be this one main guitarist, but he actually worked to do this event to promote other musicians as well as himself.
It was really good, and such a diverse range of music. There was excellent Spanish style guitar playing, songs with a big choir, a few that were more like jazz, so hard to explain. It was really unconventional in spots, like for one song there was a single dancer who performed to the music being played in a really modern style, David Jay and a cello player named Nicholas Yee did a version of the theme song from "Attack on Titan"
It was REALLY GOOD music, very professional and excellent vocalists and musicians, and great acoustics in the church.
The one singer was David Jay, who mainly does Spanish guitar, and is SO GOOD.
A band called Melafrique that was kind of jazzy/African.
This is the cellist, though he did not perform this piece at the event.
https://youtu.be/sbgpF7gb9ds?si=eXfSbWNjBMm_8D9E
This is David Jay and his father, and it looks like it was recorded in the same church we were in tonight. Right behind them it looks like wood paneling, but above that is a giant pipe organ, that did get used in one of the songs this evening.
This particular song gives you an idea of how good they are.
https://youtu.be/agfpr5taaQQ
The event was called Esparanza, and they are hoping to make it a regular event to continue to showcase local talent.
I learned that NASA hopes to one day build a gigantic telescope on the dark side of the Moon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Crater_Radio_Telescope
Finally having some fun. Wow, have we otherwise not had a lot of fun in the last few weeks.
It was finally not as cold as Hoth outside, and I felt okay to put the goats back out in their normal pen with the ponies. The goats were MORE than ready after being cooped up for over a week, and I think the ponies were happy to see them too.
I took the blankets off of Wonder so her skin could breathe, and to check her body condition. She's actually a touch chubby, so I can feed her a bit less. I had increased her hay because of the intense cold, but maybe she didn't need quite that much extra.
We did pick up some of the pony manure, now that it isn't so cold. I really couldn't do it when it was -40 C without being just too cold.
We went to the city today, just for fun. Not for groceries or building supplies, just fun.
We made it to the art gallery, and saw a new gallery. The paintings themselves didn't do a lot for me, but the explanation made me think (it's funny how you can read the description, and it's all meaningful and so on, but you would never have gotten that from looking at the art itself).
The description talked about how there are things about life where intimacy can be entwined with horror, and I totally get that. Things like seeing things about your parents that cannot be unseen, or just knowing things about people that can be horrific, but that is often what it means to be intimate with someone, is knowing the truth about each other, good or not so good.
There was also a connection made about the intimacy/horror invested in objects such as the iconic 80's floral sofa that everyone had, and probably still has in their basement. The collective ties we can have, sometimes almost subconsciously about a sofa that was there for many important life events, or how you might feel when you see one in someone else's house.
Kind of an interesting idea, even if the paintings themselves didn't quite evoke that on their own.
Then we ate at a healthy chain restaurant. Pretty good. A brief look in the used book store, but nothing sparked joy today.
Then we went to a musical event held inside a really old church (keep in mind that in our neck of the woods, 100 years old is about as old as a building gets).
The whole event was meant to showcase talent from this city, and I didn't realize that; I thought it was supposed to be this one main guitarist, but he actually worked to do this event to promote other musicians as well as himself.
It was really good, and such a diverse range of music. There was excellent Spanish style guitar playing, songs with a big choir, a few that were more like jazz, so hard to explain. It was really unconventional in spots, like for one song there was a single dancer who performed to the music being played in a really modern style, David Jay and a cello player named Nicholas Yee did a version of the theme song from "Attack on Titan"
It was REALLY GOOD music, very professional and excellent vocalists and musicians, and great acoustics in the church.
The one singer was David Jay, who mainly does Spanish guitar, and is SO GOOD.
A band called Melafrique that was kind of jazzy/African.
This is the cellist, though he did not perform this piece at the event.
https://youtu.be/sbgpF7gb9ds?si=eXfSbWNjBMm_8D9E
This is David Jay and his father, and it looks like it was recorded in the same church we were in tonight. Right behind them it looks like wood paneling, but above that is a giant pipe organ, that did get used in one of the songs this evening.
This particular song gives you an idea of how good they are.
https://youtu.be/agfpr5taaQQ
The event was called Esparanza, and they are hoping to make it a regular event to continue to showcase local talent.
I learned that NASA hopes to one day build a gigantic telescope on the dark side of the Moon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Crater_Radio_Telescope
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