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Feb. 10th, 2024 02:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Nice daytime temperatures today (that oddly got quite cold in the evening, but are supposed to pop back up to near zero tomorrow).
I dragged all the miscellaneous shoes out from under the bed and put them away, and swept under the bed and used my handheld vacuum to chase down stuff under the dressers and in the corners of the bedroom.
I never get over how much of this weird grey "hair mass" that is not quite all hair, is also dust and the bits of wood based litter the cats drag around. It's a unique substance that pools in every part of the house.
I tossed one shoe that is ruined, and when I find the other one I'll toss it too.
I went to see River, and he was far too worried about whatever was going on outside to be focused on our work.
The arena is more like a big tent, so everything that is going on outside can be easily heard in there, and something was bothering the herd outside. They were running around a lot.
I did do ground work with him, and he tried, but it wasn't too good today. I put him in his pasture, and the rest of the herd were nowhere to be seen, so running around in the pasture away from the feed area.
Then I worked with Quidley during the girl with challenges's lesson. Quidley was a bit crusty, which is weird because he is generally a very sweet horse. I had to get in "leadership mode" with him a bit, and he responded, but he wasn't really happy to be there until we were pretty much wrapping things up, THEN he was in a better mood.
The girl with health challenges generally doesn't ride much on her own, but now walks her horse on her own, and has been making progress with posting at the trot on a leadline.
My husband came part way, and that was nice. I know R likes it when I work with Quidley during this lesson, because otherwise it is her and this girl who is unable to talk working alone.
Having my husband show up is social for her too. Plus, both of us stayed to help clean up the barn for the night and take horses she had inside back out to their pens.
During this time, it got quite cold very quickly, and I was happy to get home and jump in the tub to warm up.
We didn't watch anything tonight, but we chatted. He did make some calls to people about soffits/fascia, and only got answering machines. I had asked our heating/plumbing guy if he knew of anyone, and he said no, he didn't. So no progress today other than making calls. Hopefully someone will call my husband back.
The Marshall Islands are also part of Oceania. It has five actual islands, and 29 coral atolls. They were settled by Austronesians estimated 1200 B.C., who brought swamp yams, coconut, and live domestic chickens with them.
The islands were visited by the Spanish occasionally, but the area was not on many regular trade routes.
It became a German protectorate (I love how that sounds like a mob protection racket) in 1885.
Then it was invaded by Japan in WW I (like so many of the islands in Oceania), and then a U.S. controlled region during the Second World War.
The Marshall Islands is where all of the American nuclear testing took place. Yup, THAT bunch of islands. So much nuclear. This was the famous Bikini Atoll site.
All of this testing was done between 1946 to 1958.
67 "tests" were done here, and SOME of the inhabitants were forcibly evacuated (just the ones pretty much right under the bomb sites), but that didn't protect them much from the fall out, and of course the long term radiation of the islands themselves.
"Over the years just one of over 60 islands was cleaned by the U.S. government, and the inhabitants are still waiting for the 2 billion dollars in compensation assessed by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal. Many of the islanders and their descendants still live in exile, as the islands remain contaminated with high levels of radiation.[81]"
The Marshall Islands are now independent, and Democratic (constitution is a mix of British and U.S.) with a mixed parliamentary-presidential system. Citizens elect members of the legislature, and the president is elected by the legislature.
The Marshall Islands still have a Compact of Free Association with the United States, which means the U.S. defends them, and Marshall citizens can emigrate to the United States without a visa (and lots have, and I wouldn't blame them what with all the residual radiation).
They don't have much of an economy (not a lot of tourism!), some agricultural exports and fishing. They import a lot more than they export. The economy is propped up almost entirely by the U.S. obligations under the Free Association compact.
"In 2018, the Republic of Marshall Islands passed the Sovereign Currency Act, which made it the first country to issue their own cryptocurrency and certify it as legal tender; the currency is called the "Sovereign".[142][143]"
Interestingly, there isn't much energy generation there, but there is effort being made to make the Marshall Islands self-sufficient with solar and wind power generation.
They do have cellular and internet connection with the world, and there is decent media.
Also threatened by climate change. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Accord, an agreement among members to try to limit the emissions that will cause ocean levels to rise and thus destroy these islands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands
A short, very good video about the testing and the affects on the inhabitants:
https://youtu.be/MMDuASm6sDs?si=GYT56B4x1gUl77cm
Climate change: https://youtu.be/MMDuASm6sDs?si=GYT56B4x1gUl77cm
Nice daytime temperatures today (that oddly got quite cold in the evening, but are supposed to pop back up to near zero tomorrow).
I dragged all the miscellaneous shoes out from under the bed and put them away, and swept under the bed and used my handheld vacuum to chase down stuff under the dressers and in the corners of the bedroom.
I never get over how much of this weird grey "hair mass" that is not quite all hair, is also dust and the bits of wood based litter the cats drag around. It's a unique substance that pools in every part of the house.
I tossed one shoe that is ruined, and when I find the other one I'll toss it too.
I went to see River, and he was far too worried about whatever was going on outside to be focused on our work.
The arena is more like a big tent, so everything that is going on outside can be easily heard in there, and something was bothering the herd outside. They were running around a lot.
I did do ground work with him, and he tried, but it wasn't too good today. I put him in his pasture, and the rest of the herd were nowhere to be seen, so running around in the pasture away from the feed area.
Then I worked with Quidley during the girl with challenges's lesson. Quidley was a bit crusty, which is weird because he is generally a very sweet horse. I had to get in "leadership mode" with him a bit, and he responded, but he wasn't really happy to be there until we were pretty much wrapping things up, THEN he was in a better mood.
The girl with health challenges generally doesn't ride much on her own, but now walks her horse on her own, and has been making progress with posting at the trot on a leadline.
My husband came part way, and that was nice. I know R likes it when I work with Quidley during this lesson, because otherwise it is her and this girl who is unable to talk working alone.
Having my husband show up is social for her too. Plus, both of us stayed to help clean up the barn for the night and take horses she had inside back out to their pens.
During this time, it got quite cold very quickly, and I was happy to get home and jump in the tub to warm up.
We didn't watch anything tonight, but we chatted. He did make some calls to people about soffits/fascia, and only got answering machines. I had asked our heating/plumbing guy if he knew of anyone, and he said no, he didn't. So no progress today other than making calls. Hopefully someone will call my husband back.
The Marshall Islands are also part of Oceania. It has five actual islands, and 29 coral atolls. They were settled by Austronesians estimated 1200 B.C., who brought swamp yams, coconut, and live domestic chickens with them.
The islands were visited by the Spanish occasionally, but the area was not on many regular trade routes.
It became a German protectorate (I love how that sounds like a mob protection racket) in 1885.
Then it was invaded by Japan in WW I (like so many of the islands in Oceania), and then a U.S. controlled region during the Second World War.
The Marshall Islands is where all of the American nuclear testing took place. Yup, THAT bunch of islands. So much nuclear. This was the famous Bikini Atoll site.
All of this testing was done between 1946 to 1958.
67 "tests" were done here, and SOME of the inhabitants were forcibly evacuated (just the ones pretty much right under the bomb sites), but that didn't protect them much from the fall out, and of course the long term radiation of the islands themselves.
"Over the years just one of over 60 islands was cleaned by the U.S. government, and the inhabitants are still waiting for the 2 billion dollars in compensation assessed by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal. Many of the islanders and their descendants still live in exile, as the islands remain contaminated with high levels of radiation.[81]"
The Marshall Islands are now independent, and Democratic (constitution is a mix of British and U.S.) with a mixed parliamentary-presidential system. Citizens elect members of the legislature, and the president is elected by the legislature.
The Marshall Islands still have a Compact of Free Association with the United States, which means the U.S. defends them, and Marshall citizens can emigrate to the United States without a visa (and lots have, and I wouldn't blame them what with all the residual radiation).
They don't have much of an economy (not a lot of tourism!), some agricultural exports and fishing. They import a lot more than they export. The economy is propped up almost entirely by the U.S. obligations under the Free Association compact.
"In 2018, the Republic of Marshall Islands passed the Sovereign Currency Act, which made it the first country to issue their own cryptocurrency and certify it as legal tender; the currency is called the "Sovereign".[142][143]"
Interestingly, there isn't much energy generation there, but there is effort being made to make the Marshall Islands self-sufficient with solar and wind power generation.
They do have cellular and internet connection with the world, and there is decent media.
Also threatened by climate change. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Accord, an agreement among members to try to limit the emissions that will cause ocean levels to rise and thus destroy these islands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands
A short, very good video about the testing and the affects on the inhabitants:
https://youtu.be/MMDuASm6sDs?si=GYT56B4x1gUl77cm
Climate change: https://youtu.be/MMDuASm6sDs?si=GYT56B4x1gUl77cm
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Date: 2024-02-11 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-02-11 08:34 am (UTC)Having animals will always mean hair, and the material I use for the cat litter (compressed sawdust pellets) does track everywhere.
It's not surprising that there are balls of hair under everything, but it seems MORE than that, like you say, that weird dusty gray stuff. Maybe it's skin cells or something.
I sweep often, I vacuum about once a week, but it's never enough. Every little gap that is under a cupboard or between a piece of furniture and the wall has a drift of this crud in there.
It was worse when we had Babe, our "super shedder" cat. He was a Siamese/Snowshoe cross, medium hair but thick and velvety. A beautiful cat, but you could brush him every day and get a half a bread bag full of hair just about every time.
None of our other cats, even the long-haired ones, have EVER shed like that cat.