Thursday, May 2
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Most of the snow is gone now, after our late slush storm.
We really needed it, we were on the verge of fire alerts again.
I spoke with Sister E for a while, a bit to let her know my thoughts about the nephew who was posting about "being abused".
She brought up how entitled and immature her now adult (40 years old) son is too. He doesn't seem to understand his parents are aging, and needed to move to town. He was so upset about them moving that he wouldn't speak to them for a while. Never mind that he COULD have tried to see it from their point of view; as people needing to accept their own health issues and aging, and having to move from a place they loved.
Can you imagine a forty year old man not speaking to his parents because they needed to move to town for their own safety?
I went to town today to look at panels for making a round pen on our property. This is for working with Dandy mostly. I want to train him to pull a cart, which keeps not happening, and to do liberty. You kind of need a round pen for that kind of work.
The farm place that had them on sale made me quite anxious, as no one seemed to know where anything was in the storage yard. I wanted to see the panels in person to decide if the spacing of the bars was okay, and I did notice that the panels had been handled poorly and the paint chipped a lot, but I suppose in some part that is due to them being a cheaper item. The better ones are significantly more expensive. We can maybe touch the paint up at home.
Then no one seemed to know how to figure out how much it would cost to deliver the panels, and that shouldn't have been that hard. The woman ended up LOOKING AT A MAP ON THE WALL to figure it out, and I'm not real happy about that either.
THEN, they ask me if WE HAD OUR OWN FORKLIFT to unload them when they deliver them (the whole point of paying someone to deliver things like that is that you aren't out there manhandling them). Apparently their skidsteer that usually goes on deliveries is broken, so I'm like "how about you just call me when it's fixed, as I don't think I want to unload panels by hand, thanks".
This doesn't leave me filled with confidence. This is not some rinky dink fly by night place, it's part of a chain of well established farm supply stores. This did not feel like a professional interaction with a "real" store.
I should be excited about getting these materials, instead I'm wondering how it's going to play out. Sigh.
Then I went to the thrift store, which at least did not fill me with anxiety.
We watched some "Boardwalk Empire".
Wednesday:
I did a load of bath towels, changed the cat litter, and some tidying.
Then I let everyone out into their pastures.
I did speak with Trainwreck, whose health is quite poor right now. Worse that usual. She's been vomiting a lot and not eating. This is likely not a thing that's going around, more likely related to the issues with her organs.
She says she "fell out of bed and bruised herself badly", though her bed is not on a frame but right on the floor. She "fell" (rolled?) into her dresser. Not sure how this happens, but there you go.
I went to see River, we had a lesson today.
Some of it felt repetitive, but I guess if we haven't nailed it, we're going to keep doing it.
Overall I felt like he did well today. The cool weather is better for him, and the snow cleared the dust and pollen out of the air.
We watched some "Boardwalk Empire".
I did some recreational painting.
Cape Verde is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean on the West coast of Africa, and it is also a country.
"The Cape Verde archipelago was uninhabited until the 15th century, when Portuguese explorers discovered and colonized the islands, thus establishing the first European settlement in the tropics.[citation needed] Because the Cape Verde islands were conveniently located to play a role in the Atlantic slave trade, Cape Verde became economically prosperous during the 16th and 17th centuries, attracting merchants, privateers, and pirates. It declined economically in the 19th century after the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade by the British Empire, and many of its inhabitants emigrated during that period. However, Cape Verde gradually recovered economically by becoming an important commercial center and useful stopover point along major shipping routes. Cape Verde became independent in 1975."
It is now a Representative Democracy, "Cape Verde is a stable semi-presidential representative democratic republic.[4][28] In 2020 it was the most democratic nation in Africa, ranking 2023 as 45th in the world, according to the electoral democracy score of the V-Dem Democracy indices.[29]" and doing a lot of business in mostly tourism since it has little in the way of natural resources. Heavily influenced by the Portuguese, the official language is Portuguese, and people are mainly Roman Catholic.
It was very important to the Allies in both world wars as a station for navies, for resupply and ports.
The nine islands are formed from volcanic activity, are mostly hilly, sandy and arid. They are cooled somewhat by being in the Atlantic, so not as hot as some equivalent areas in Africa.
The islands are mainly populated by birds, some species that are endemic to those islands. The islands themselves are very vulnerable to climate change.
Tourism is bringing in a lot of money, but they are also starting to improve their agriculture and fishing sectors by increasing refrigeration and processing facilities, as well as producing more energy with wind farms.
One thing that makes this country different, is the lack of traditional African tribal structure. Many people came originally from Portugal, so there was a class system from the beginning rather than tribal, and most of the other people (if not more recent immigrants) were descendants of slaves.
The population is now mainly a creole people, intermixing Portuguese and African.
Overall there is a fairly high standard of living here, and democratic, and not a bad place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde
https://youtu.be/q99tzGgkd4k?si=TG13iQF1qQm3QYze
Most of the snow is gone now, after our late slush storm.
We really needed it, we were on the verge of fire alerts again.
I spoke with Sister E for a while, a bit to let her know my thoughts about the nephew who was posting about "being abused".
She brought up how entitled and immature her now adult (40 years old) son is too. He doesn't seem to understand his parents are aging, and needed to move to town. He was so upset about them moving that he wouldn't speak to them for a while. Never mind that he COULD have tried to see it from their point of view; as people needing to accept their own health issues and aging, and having to move from a place they loved.
Can you imagine a forty year old man not speaking to his parents because they needed to move to town for their own safety?
I went to town today to look at panels for making a round pen on our property. This is for working with Dandy mostly. I want to train him to pull a cart, which keeps not happening, and to do liberty. You kind of need a round pen for that kind of work.
The farm place that had them on sale made me quite anxious, as no one seemed to know where anything was in the storage yard. I wanted to see the panels in person to decide if the spacing of the bars was okay, and I did notice that the panels had been handled poorly and the paint chipped a lot, but I suppose in some part that is due to them being a cheaper item. The better ones are significantly more expensive. We can maybe touch the paint up at home.
Then no one seemed to know how to figure out how much it would cost to deliver the panels, and that shouldn't have been that hard. The woman ended up LOOKING AT A MAP ON THE WALL to figure it out, and I'm not real happy about that either.
THEN, they ask me if WE HAD OUR OWN FORKLIFT to unload them when they deliver them (the whole point of paying someone to deliver things like that is that you aren't out there manhandling them). Apparently their skidsteer that usually goes on deliveries is broken, so I'm like "how about you just call me when it's fixed, as I don't think I want to unload panels by hand, thanks".
This doesn't leave me filled with confidence. This is not some rinky dink fly by night place, it's part of a chain of well established farm supply stores. This did not feel like a professional interaction with a "real" store.
I should be excited about getting these materials, instead I'm wondering how it's going to play out. Sigh.
Then I went to the thrift store, which at least did not fill me with anxiety.
We watched some "Boardwalk Empire".
Wednesday:
I did a load of bath towels, changed the cat litter, and some tidying.
Then I let everyone out into their pastures.
I did speak with Trainwreck, whose health is quite poor right now. Worse that usual. She's been vomiting a lot and not eating. This is likely not a thing that's going around, more likely related to the issues with her organs.
She says she "fell out of bed and bruised herself badly", though her bed is not on a frame but right on the floor. She "fell" (rolled?) into her dresser. Not sure how this happens, but there you go.
I went to see River, we had a lesson today.
Some of it felt repetitive, but I guess if we haven't nailed it, we're going to keep doing it.
Overall I felt like he did well today. The cool weather is better for him, and the snow cleared the dust and pollen out of the air.
We watched some "Boardwalk Empire".
I did some recreational painting.
Cape Verde is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean on the West coast of Africa, and it is also a country.
"The Cape Verde archipelago was uninhabited until the 15th century, when Portuguese explorers discovered and colonized the islands, thus establishing the first European settlement in the tropics.[citation needed] Because the Cape Verde islands were conveniently located to play a role in the Atlantic slave trade, Cape Verde became economically prosperous during the 16th and 17th centuries, attracting merchants, privateers, and pirates. It declined economically in the 19th century after the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade by the British Empire, and many of its inhabitants emigrated during that period. However, Cape Verde gradually recovered economically by becoming an important commercial center and useful stopover point along major shipping routes. Cape Verde became independent in 1975."
It is now a Representative Democracy, "Cape Verde is a stable semi-presidential representative democratic republic.[4][28] In 2020 it was the most democratic nation in Africa, ranking 2023 as 45th in the world, according to the electoral democracy score of the V-Dem Democracy indices.[29]" and doing a lot of business in mostly tourism since it has little in the way of natural resources. Heavily influenced by the Portuguese, the official language is Portuguese, and people are mainly Roman Catholic.
It was very important to the Allies in both world wars as a station for navies, for resupply and ports.
The nine islands are formed from volcanic activity, are mostly hilly, sandy and arid. They are cooled somewhat by being in the Atlantic, so not as hot as some equivalent areas in Africa.
The islands are mainly populated by birds, some species that are endemic to those islands. The islands themselves are very vulnerable to climate change.
Tourism is bringing in a lot of money, but they are also starting to improve their agriculture and fishing sectors by increasing refrigeration and processing facilities, as well as producing more energy with wind farms.
One thing that makes this country different, is the lack of traditional African tribal structure. Many people came originally from Portugal, so there was a class system from the beginning rather than tribal, and most of the other people (if not more recent immigrants) were descendants of slaves.
The population is now mainly a creole people, intermixing Portuguese and African.
Overall there is a fairly high standard of living here, and democratic, and not a bad place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde
https://youtu.be/q99tzGgkd4k?si=TG13iQF1qQm3QYze
