Tuesday, February 27
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Getting some cleaning done in the house before going to see River.
I did the kind of cleaning in the bathroom where I wiped underneath the claw foot tub to get all the built up grunge.
Then I changed the cat litter and swept up the sun room where their box is.
I found River's warmer blanket that I had brought home to repair (and did) so that I could put it back on him now that it's colder.
I ducked into the little village near us for fuel.
My husband had left work a little early so he could come home and try to clear some snow from the yard.
I went to see River, and everything just seemed to take longer today. It was all fine, but every process took longer than usual.
When I went to catch him, for whatever reason he and another horse were WAY out in the pasture instead of being up near the gate where they are fed.
Then when I brought him into the barn, He had a blanket and a liner to take off, which takes time.
The work was good. He was in a reasonable frame of mind. We worked on the pattern that is just circles and he did well, and our general groundwork at Liberty was good.
I rode him for a while, mainly trotting to see if we could just keep trotting without me babysitting him to keep him going, changing direction and doing circles while maintaining a steady rhythm. He didn't do too badly.
Then it was putting the other liner and blanket on him, the warmer ones. He generally does have some kind of blanket on, but when it's colder there's a blanket on top and an extra liner underneath, and the whole process is more complicated.
When I got home, my Sweetie hadn't been able to get either the tractor (not that surprising, I bet it wasn't run since last year, though he kept the battery in the garage) or the snow blower (more surprising, as it usually starts just fine) to start. He spent probably two hours trying to get them to go, so he was pretty frustrated.
We came in and ate, and watched the first episode of "Succession".
Nepal: "Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the largest city. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language."
In the middle of the first millennium BC, Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in Lumbini in southern Nepal.
Nepal is right next to Tibet (currently it is an autonomous region of China), and the culture and religion of Tibet and Nepal are entwined.
The country of Nepal was unified under the Gorka Kingdom in the 1800's. Then the Shah dynasty formed the Kingdom of Nepal, who made an alliance with the British empire rather than be a colony. They became an important buffer between China (not a colony) and British India.
Democracy was introduced in 1951, but was interrupted by monarchs again. This brought on civil protests, until Nepal more recently became a Secular Federal Parliamentary Republic.
The geography is the high mountains with Everest etc. to the North, moving southward you get lower mountains with fertile valleys and a warmer climate, and only a little snow, then further South you have the moist plains which are also part of the Ganges delta system, which is subtropical to tropical.
So the silt from the mountains in the North is carried South, and feeds the fertile deltas.
There are lots of earthquakes as the tectonic plates that built the mountain range are still actively moving.
Because of the incredible change in elevation and climate within this relatively small country, the diversity of plant and animal life is quite amazing. They have elephants, tigers, red pandas, and river dolphins, a type of musk deer, the wild water buffalo, a type of crocodile called the Gharial, and on and on. Of course pretty much everything is critically endangered from poaching or loss of habitat.
Human rights: "Nepali laws are considered generally more progressive compared to other developing countries, and in some instances, many developed ones. The death penalty has been abolished.[132] Nepal also has made progress in LGBT rights and gender equality. It recognises marital rape and supports abortion rights. Owing to a rise in sex-selective abortion, however, constraints have been introduced. Nepal is a signatory to the Geneva Convention, Conventions/Treaties on the prohibition of Biological, Chemical and Nuclear weapons,[133] International Labour Organization Fundamental Conventions, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Paris climate accord."
It is a developing country with agriculture being very important, but a developing industrial sector producing textiles, cement, carpets, and paper among other things. Tourism is very important as well.
The population growth is unreal, with the population one hundred years ago generally being at five million (it had been historically pretty stable at roughly five million people since the 1400's), to about THIRTY MILLION in 2011. WOW!
Arranged marriage and child marriage (the kind where they are "married" but become man and wife when they are adults or close enough) are common, and divorce is less than one marriage in a thousand.
Cultural looting has been a great problem (and probably is just about everywhere), and Nepal is pursuing the return of artifacts taken by Britain and the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal#Etymology
https://youtu.be/BVWMO6XDjpo?si=-plZsedqeYjlsB2e
Getting some cleaning done in the house before going to see River.
I did the kind of cleaning in the bathroom where I wiped underneath the claw foot tub to get all the built up grunge.
Then I changed the cat litter and swept up the sun room where their box is.
I found River's warmer blanket that I had brought home to repair (and did) so that I could put it back on him now that it's colder.
I ducked into the little village near us for fuel.
My husband had left work a little early so he could come home and try to clear some snow from the yard.
I went to see River, and everything just seemed to take longer today. It was all fine, but every process took longer than usual.
When I went to catch him, for whatever reason he and another horse were WAY out in the pasture instead of being up near the gate where they are fed.
Then when I brought him into the barn, He had a blanket and a liner to take off, which takes time.
The work was good. He was in a reasonable frame of mind. We worked on the pattern that is just circles and he did well, and our general groundwork at Liberty was good.
I rode him for a while, mainly trotting to see if we could just keep trotting without me babysitting him to keep him going, changing direction and doing circles while maintaining a steady rhythm. He didn't do too badly.
Then it was putting the other liner and blanket on him, the warmer ones. He generally does have some kind of blanket on, but when it's colder there's a blanket on top and an extra liner underneath, and the whole process is more complicated.
When I got home, my Sweetie hadn't been able to get either the tractor (not that surprising, I bet it wasn't run since last year, though he kept the battery in the garage) or the snow blower (more surprising, as it usually starts just fine) to start. He spent probably two hours trying to get them to go, so he was pretty frustrated.
We came in and ate, and watched the first episode of "Succession".
Nepal: "Nepal has a diverse geography, including fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the largest city. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language."
In the middle of the first millennium BC, Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in Lumbini in southern Nepal.
Nepal is right next to Tibet (currently it is an autonomous region of China), and the culture and religion of Tibet and Nepal are entwined.
The country of Nepal was unified under the Gorka Kingdom in the 1800's. Then the Shah dynasty formed the Kingdom of Nepal, who made an alliance with the British empire rather than be a colony. They became an important buffer between China (not a colony) and British India.
Democracy was introduced in 1951, but was interrupted by monarchs again. This brought on civil protests, until Nepal more recently became a Secular Federal Parliamentary Republic.
The geography is the high mountains with Everest etc. to the North, moving southward you get lower mountains with fertile valleys and a warmer climate, and only a little snow, then further South you have the moist plains which are also part of the Ganges delta system, which is subtropical to tropical.
So the silt from the mountains in the North is carried South, and feeds the fertile deltas.
There are lots of earthquakes as the tectonic plates that built the mountain range are still actively moving.
Because of the incredible change in elevation and climate within this relatively small country, the diversity of plant and animal life is quite amazing. They have elephants, tigers, red pandas, and river dolphins, a type of musk deer, the wild water buffalo, a type of crocodile called the Gharial, and on and on. Of course pretty much everything is critically endangered from poaching or loss of habitat.
Human rights: "Nepali laws are considered generally more progressive compared to other developing countries, and in some instances, many developed ones. The death penalty has been abolished.[132] Nepal also has made progress in LGBT rights and gender equality. It recognises marital rape and supports abortion rights. Owing to a rise in sex-selective abortion, however, constraints have been introduced. Nepal is a signatory to the Geneva Convention, Conventions/Treaties on the prohibition of Biological, Chemical and Nuclear weapons,[133] International Labour Organization Fundamental Conventions, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Paris climate accord."
It is a developing country with agriculture being very important, but a developing industrial sector producing textiles, cement, carpets, and paper among other things. Tourism is very important as well.
The population growth is unreal, with the population one hundred years ago generally being at five million (it had been historically pretty stable at roughly five million people since the 1400's), to about THIRTY MILLION in 2011. WOW!
Arranged marriage and child marriage (the kind where they are "married" but become man and wife when they are adults or close enough) are common, and divorce is less than one marriage in a thousand.
Cultural looting has been a great problem (and probably is just about everywhere), and Nepal is pursuing the return of artifacts taken by Britain and the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal#Etymology
https://youtu.be/BVWMO6XDjpo?si=-plZsedqeYjlsB2e
