Wednesday, April 4
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
That the very strong wind we had in the morning doesn't seem to have blown anything away, and it died down for the afternoon.
I'm going to put Tuesday's events here in brief:
I got a fair bit done in terms of laundry, changed the sheets, put a few things away, changed the cat litter.
I went to see River and he was okay, but very sleepy during our work.
When I got home my husband had put the ponies/goats out for a while and was using the sump pump to try and drain an area of the yard that collects a LOT of water. He also had taken apart the big purple martin house to clean the old nests out.
We watched an episode of "Boardwalk Empire", and I did a bit of painting after he went to bed.
Wednesday:
Several things interrupted my sleep, but I was okay anyhow.
River and I had a lesson today. We were supposed to be recording classes for the online show, but we didn't accomplish that today. Too many issues with the small circles and so on.
The classes were to be ridden with just the neck rope, no bridle, but River was not respecting the neck rope. I already know this can be an issue with him, and I have tried to talk to R about it. She's SEEN it, where he ignored the neck rope before, and she kind of shrugged it off.
I think her own ferocious belief in riding at Liberty made it hard for her to see it for what it is.
Recently though, I know she's likely having similar issues with the project horse, Quidley, and I think it's finally hitting home for her what it is like to experience that first hand, and it's not a good feeling.
So, though it sucks that we didn't achieve our pattern goals today, I'm glad that something seems to have shifted in her willingness to see River's issues, and maybe we can address them, OR maybe we can accept that some horses maybe should still be ridden with the bridle (even if you use the neck rope) for the respect it brings to the table.
I came home and made supper right away to try to make the best use of time so that I could visit with my husband when he got home, and we could watch an episode together. If you don't pretty much have food ready, he often has to just go straight to bed.
I do enjoy "Boardwalk Empire", though it IS still over-sexualized/violent HBO fare. It's intelligent, and teaches a lot about the Prohibition era. There is a lot of good character development, too.
Liechtenstein is a good country to follow Luxembourg, as they are so similar. It is another micro state, tucked into the Alps between Switzerland and Austria, and is a "double land locked" country.
It is a semo-constitutional Monarchy, meaning there is a monarch as well as Prime Minister. This also means that their monarch holds the title of Prince, not King.
A VERY wealthy country, mostly because they were once a tax haven for the wealthy, though that is being reformed. They still rely heavily on their financial services sector for their economy.
In a nutshell, Liechtenstein is kind of...the last tiny little bit of the Holy Roman Empire that didn't become assimilated into any of the bigger nations, mainly because it really was too small to worry about.
The Liechtenstein family basically bought the regions of Valduz and Shellenburg at the beginning of the 1700's directly from the Holy Roman Empire, making sure that these were lands that had no feudal commitments to any other nation, only whatever ties were necessary to the Holy Roman Empire (later destroyed by Napoleon), and when that empire was gone...well, they were on their own.
While Liechtenstein was neutral during WWI, it suffered greatly economically because a great deal of it's own money at that time was tied to Austria-Hungary, which fell. At this time, Money used to come in from estates outside of Liechtenstein, but not enough to keep the whole country afloat.
This is when it formed a union of sorts with Switzerland because of their dire financial situation, and the introduction of the constitutional monarchy in 1921.
Germany annexed Liechtenstein in 1938, and I'm a bit confused that somehow it was also neutral during WWII. It was not occupied by Germany, and managed to make it through the war without being destroyed like so many other countries.
"At the close of the conflict, Czechoslovakia and Poland, acting to seize what they considered German possessions, expropriated all of the Liechtenstein dynasty's properties in those three regions.[36] The expropriations (subject to modern legal dispute at the International Court of Justice) included over 1,600 km2 (618 sq mi) of agricultural and forest land (most notably the UNESCO listed Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape), and several family castles and palaces."
So, no more income coming in from outside holdings, but today they don't seem to really need them either. It's a pretty wealthy place.
Right after WWII though, they were broke, and the royals often resorted to selling family treasures to keep afloat. This led to them getting into the finance service business, and luring in businesses with their low corporate tax rates. A tactic that has served them well.
It's a very conservative country, and while human rights is good in the sense of no torturing or abduction of citizens, they were the last European country to have votes for women, and they are still just kinda thinking about same sex marriage (slated to be okay in 2025) and abortion is not legal.
It is made up of lovely alps, rivers, and is very lovely. It's climate is milder than it should be because of favorable wind currents, so it is mildly cold in the winter instead of the REALLY cold it should be.
Not much land for agriculture, and not much in the way of extractable resources, but it does have some industry (they make Hilti tools), including, oddly enough, the largest producer of false teeth in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivoclar#:~:text=Ivoclar%20was%20founded%20in%20Zurich,a%20dental%20consultation%20mobile%20application.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein
https://youtu.be/rTiLTnWM7vQ?si=cL8ETNENGBWLeRqZ
That the very strong wind we had in the morning doesn't seem to have blown anything away, and it died down for the afternoon.
I'm going to put Tuesday's events here in brief:
I got a fair bit done in terms of laundry, changed the sheets, put a few things away, changed the cat litter.
I went to see River and he was okay, but very sleepy during our work.
When I got home my husband had put the ponies/goats out for a while and was using the sump pump to try and drain an area of the yard that collects a LOT of water. He also had taken apart the big purple martin house to clean the old nests out.
We watched an episode of "Boardwalk Empire", and I did a bit of painting after he went to bed.
Wednesday:
Several things interrupted my sleep, but I was okay anyhow.
River and I had a lesson today. We were supposed to be recording classes for the online show, but we didn't accomplish that today. Too many issues with the small circles and so on.
The classes were to be ridden with just the neck rope, no bridle, but River was not respecting the neck rope. I already know this can be an issue with him, and I have tried to talk to R about it. She's SEEN it, where he ignored the neck rope before, and she kind of shrugged it off.
I think her own ferocious belief in riding at Liberty made it hard for her to see it for what it is.
Recently though, I know she's likely having similar issues with the project horse, Quidley, and I think it's finally hitting home for her what it is like to experience that first hand, and it's not a good feeling.
So, though it sucks that we didn't achieve our pattern goals today, I'm glad that something seems to have shifted in her willingness to see River's issues, and maybe we can address them, OR maybe we can accept that some horses maybe should still be ridden with the bridle (even if you use the neck rope) for the respect it brings to the table.
I came home and made supper right away to try to make the best use of time so that I could visit with my husband when he got home, and we could watch an episode together. If you don't pretty much have food ready, he often has to just go straight to bed.
I do enjoy "Boardwalk Empire", though it IS still over-sexualized/violent HBO fare. It's intelligent, and teaches a lot about the Prohibition era. There is a lot of good character development, too.
Liechtenstein is a good country to follow Luxembourg, as they are so similar. It is another micro state, tucked into the Alps between Switzerland and Austria, and is a "double land locked" country.
It is a semo-constitutional Monarchy, meaning there is a monarch as well as Prime Minister. This also means that their monarch holds the title of Prince, not King.
A VERY wealthy country, mostly because they were once a tax haven for the wealthy, though that is being reformed. They still rely heavily on their financial services sector for their economy.
In a nutshell, Liechtenstein is kind of...the last tiny little bit of the Holy Roman Empire that didn't become assimilated into any of the bigger nations, mainly because it really was too small to worry about.
The Liechtenstein family basically bought the regions of Valduz and Shellenburg at the beginning of the 1700's directly from the Holy Roman Empire, making sure that these were lands that had no feudal commitments to any other nation, only whatever ties were necessary to the Holy Roman Empire (later destroyed by Napoleon), and when that empire was gone...well, they were on their own.
While Liechtenstein was neutral during WWI, it suffered greatly economically because a great deal of it's own money at that time was tied to Austria-Hungary, which fell. At this time, Money used to come in from estates outside of Liechtenstein, but not enough to keep the whole country afloat.
This is when it formed a union of sorts with Switzerland because of their dire financial situation, and the introduction of the constitutional monarchy in 1921.
Germany annexed Liechtenstein in 1938, and I'm a bit confused that somehow it was also neutral during WWII. It was not occupied by Germany, and managed to make it through the war without being destroyed like so many other countries.
"At the close of the conflict, Czechoslovakia and Poland, acting to seize what they considered German possessions, expropriated all of the Liechtenstein dynasty's properties in those three regions.[36] The expropriations (subject to modern legal dispute at the International Court of Justice) included over 1,600 km2 (618 sq mi) of agricultural and forest land (most notably the UNESCO listed Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape), and several family castles and palaces."
So, no more income coming in from outside holdings, but today they don't seem to really need them either. It's a pretty wealthy place.
Right after WWII though, they were broke, and the royals often resorted to selling family treasures to keep afloat. This led to them getting into the finance service business, and luring in businesses with their low corporate tax rates. A tactic that has served them well.
It's a very conservative country, and while human rights is good in the sense of no torturing or abduction of citizens, they were the last European country to have votes for women, and they are still just kinda thinking about same sex marriage (slated to be okay in 2025) and abortion is not legal.
It is made up of lovely alps, rivers, and is very lovely. It's climate is milder than it should be because of favorable wind currents, so it is mildly cold in the winter instead of the REALLY cold it should be.
Not much land for agriculture, and not much in the way of extractable resources, but it does have some industry (they make Hilti tools), including, oddly enough, the largest producer of false teeth in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivoclar#:~:text=Ivoclar%20was%20founded%20in%20Zurich,a%20dental%20consultation%20mobile%20application.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein
https://youtu.be/rTiLTnWM7vQ?si=cL8ETNENGBWLeRqZ
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Date: 2024-04-06 06:15 pm (UTC)