Sunday, March 24
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
That more work got done today by the handy man and my husband. Not everything I thought that they were going to do, but more.
I can already feel my husband slipping back into "isn't that enough for now" mode, and "I could do that myself".
I don't want to stop. I want to push, push, push.
Not bad for weather today.
My husband wrapped up his work in time to go see River. No Sunday rider today.
River felt like he was trying to be lazy, and found some energy after considerable effort on my part. I would rather start our sessions with him being ready to do something, than me needing to do so much coaching.
He did okay, overall. Ridden work was good, getting better at small trot circles and so on.
Visualizing positive orange light didn't seem to make him more responsive.
We came home and watched more "Boardwalk Empire".
Latvia is another of the Baltic countries, touches Russia, and is across the Baltic Sea from Sweden.
People there speak Latvian, the other ancient Baltic language that is still spoken today.
This one paragraph really sums it up politically: "After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian, and Russian rule, which was mainly implemented through the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independent Republic of Latvia was established on 18 November 1918 after breaking away from the German Empire in the aftermath of World War I.[3] The country became increasingly autocratic after the coup in 1934 established the dictatorship of Kārlis Ulmanis.[18] Latvia's de facto independence was interrupted at the outset of World War II, beginning with Latvia's forcible incorporation into the Soviet Union, followed by the invasion and occupation by Nazi Germany in 1941 and the re-occupation by the Soviets in 1944, which formed the Latvian SSR for the next 45 years. As a result of extensive immigration during the Soviet occupation, ethnic Russians became the most prominent minority in the country. The peaceful Singing Revolution started in 1987 among the Baltic Soviet republics and ended with the restoration of both de facto and officially independence on 21 August 1991.[19] Latvia has since been a democratic unitary parliamentary republic."
It's a decent country as far as economy and freedom and so on, though same sex unions are still prohibited.
It does have access to the Baltic with the Gulf of Riga, has a lot of swamp land (specifically "mires" because they produce peat), forest, and farmland. No mountains. They have a LOT of forest, and are
It has a lot of really beautiful architecture, and a large number of very old wooden buildings.
It is the birthplace of Mark Rothko.
Latvia is almost finished privatization of everything that was "collective" from when it was part of Russia, and people have been very creative in doing so, like making a fascinating hotel experience from a prison (not that I would want to do this, nope).https://youtu.be/UmpNa-oGHVc?si=wdnuwcUXRuJhqw2M
It struggles overall economically, having recently gone through a horrific economic crisis in 2007-20014, because it's increase before that was mainly from a false sense of prosperity created by credit allowing the population to consume, but nothing to back it all up.
They do produce wood products, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and processed food (meat and dairy is big there).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia
A good overview: https://youtu.be/3_kocBCsIbk?si=kEjUaS05ltAMUnBW
That more work got done today by the handy man and my husband. Not everything I thought that they were going to do, but more.
I can already feel my husband slipping back into "isn't that enough for now" mode, and "I could do that myself".
I don't want to stop. I want to push, push, push.
Not bad for weather today.
My husband wrapped up his work in time to go see River. No Sunday rider today.
River felt like he was trying to be lazy, and found some energy after considerable effort on my part. I would rather start our sessions with him being ready to do something, than me needing to do so much coaching.
He did okay, overall. Ridden work was good, getting better at small trot circles and so on.
Visualizing positive orange light didn't seem to make him more responsive.
We came home and watched more "Boardwalk Empire".
Latvia is another of the Baltic countries, touches Russia, and is across the Baltic Sea from Sweden.
People there speak Latvian, the other ancient Baltic language that is still spoken today.
This one paragraph really sums it up politically: "After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian, and Russian rule, which was mainly implemented through the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independent Republic of Latvia was established on 18 November 1918 after breaking away from the German Empire in the aftermath of World War I.[3] The country became increasingly autocratic after the coup in 1934 established the dictatorship of Kārlis Ulmanis.[18] Latvia's de facto independence was interrupted at the outset of World War II, beginning with Latvia's forcible incorporation into the Soviet Union, followed by the invasion and occupation by Nazi Germany in 1941 and the re-occupation by the Soviets in 1944, which formed the Latvian SSR for the next 45 years. As a result of extensive immigration during the Soviet occupation, ethnic Russians became the most prominent minority in the country. The peaceful Singing Revolution started in 1987 among the Baltic Soviet republics and ended with the restoration of both de facto and officially independence on 21 August 1991.[19] Latvia has since been a democratic unitary parliamentary republic."
It's a decent country as far as economy and freedom and so on, though same sex unions are still prohibited.
It does have access to the Baltic with the Gulf of Riga, has a lot of swamp land (specifically "mires" because they produce peat), forest, and farmland. No mountains. They have a LOT of forest, and are
It has a lot of really beautiful architecture, and a large number of very old wooden buildings.
It is the birthplace of Mark Rothko.
Latvia is almost finished privatization of everything that was "collective" from when it was part of Russia, and people have been very creative in doing so, like making a fascinating hotel experience from a prison (not that I would want to do this, nope).https://youtu.be/UmpNa-oGHVc?si=wdnuwcUXRuJhqw2M
It struggles overall economically, having recently gone through a horrific economic crisis in 2007-20014, because it's increase before that was mainly from a false sense of prosperity created by credit allowing the population to consume, but nothing to back it all up.
They do produce wood products, textiles, pharmaceuticals, and processed food (meat and dairy is big there).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia
A good overview: https://youtu.be/3_kocBCsIbk?si=kEjUaS05ltAMUnBW
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