Friday, May 24
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Nice weather, cool but a little sunny later in the day.
I called Sister E to chat, since I kind of had to cut her off yesterday to go to my lesson. We didn't talk about anything serious today, just chit chat, but that's okay. Nice to not ALWAYS be so serious.
A week or so ago I mowed part of a corral that had lots of old grass in it, and the stuff I raked over to the driveway is sitting there in a huge drift. My Sweetie wants to take it to the dump, but it kind of looks like that might make a few trips, since I filled the back of the truck very quickly, and there's LOTS left. Hmmm. We might need to just burn it or pile it in the bush.
I went to see River, and his hives were pretty much gone today. R and I concluded that he was likely irritated by having a somewhat damp rainsheet on for a few days, and maybe it's not very clean any more.
He did well today, and my focus was better. We broke down parts of our Freestyle and worked on those.
Then I stayed to work with Quidley, and the girl with some health challenges. R mentioned that their lesson last week was "kind of boring" without me, so I guess that's her way of saying it's nice to have me in the lesson.
I am aware that my true function is to "be social" in this lesson. The girl with health challenges communicates by sign language, and does not talk, and R doesn't really know sign language. So, in a lesson with just the two of them, week after week, and this girl kind of doing the same things most of the time (these lessons are important activity and stimulation for her, but the growth and skill building is slow, and not really the focus).
For R, working alone with this girl week after week can be kind of difficult, so, even though I am allegedly there to work with Quidley, my role is mainly to socialize with R, and also with this girl, who seems to enjoy having another horse and person around. I think it gives her a sense of working WITH others, not just being alone.
So, it's an interesting thing to participate in. R's daughter L used to work with her horse, but has kind of drifted away a bit from riding, and I think is just kind of trying out being a bit more "separate" from all of the barn activities as a way of being more independent.
I think that R is actually a bit lonely, even though she works with clients all day. That's a role, not genuine social interaction.
I did give L the money back for our vehicle.
I came home and my Sweetie was home too, so we ate and watched some "Boardwalk Empire".
"Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium AD, a series of states and empires had risen and fallen in Chad's Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region. France conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of French Equatorial Africa. In 1960, Chad obtained independence under the leadership of François Tombalbaye."
Since then, Chad has had a lot of civil war and unrest, as well as the challenge more recently of taking in many refugees from Sudan. This endless conflict means there is not much stability, so the economy suffers, as well as the human development/human rights aspects.
Chad is quite poor, though there is beginning to be some money coming in from crude oil (cotton is their major agricultural export). The human development index is very low (education, health, infrastructure, etc), and the human rights situation is awful "had ranks the 2nd lowest in the Human Development Index, with 0.394 in 2021 placed 190th, and a least developed country facing the effects of being one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world. Most of its inhabitants live in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers. Since 2003 crude oil has become the country's primary source of export earnings, superseding the traditional cotton industry. Chad has a poor human rights record, with frequent abuses such as arbitrary imprisonment, extrajudicial killings, and limits on civil liberties by both security forces and armed militias."
Chad is named for a large lake within it's borders, that is shared with other countries. It is a freshwater lake that is very important in such a dry region.
The northern part of Chad is very dry, in the Sahalian (sub-Sahara) region, and is grassy savannah to the South.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad#External_links
https://youtu.be/jJZ66hPQLe4?si=xwxOo8fQKdRxQM0E
Nice weather, cool but a little sunny later in the day.
I called Sister E to chat, since I kind of had to cut her off yesterday to go to my lesson. We didn't talk about anything serious today, just chit chat, but that's okay. Nice to not ALWAYS be so serious.
A week or so ago I mowed part of a corral that had lots of old grass in it, and the stuff I raked over to the driveway is sitting there in a huge drift. My Sweetie wants to take it to the dump, but it kind of looks like that might make a few trips, since I filled the back of the truck very quickly, and there's LOTS left. Hmmm. We might need to just burn it or pile it in the bush.
I went to see River, and his hives were pretty much gone today. R and I concluded that he was likely irritated by having a somewhat damp rainsheet on for a few days, and maybe it's not very clean any more.
He did well today, and my focus was better. We broke down parts of our Freestyle and worked on those.
Then I stayed to work with Quidley, and the girl with some health challenges. R mentioned that their lesson last week was "kind of boring" without me, so I guess that's her way of saying it's nice to have me in the lesson.
I am aware that my true function is to "be social" in this lesson. The girl with health challenges communicates by sign language, and does not talk, and R doesn't really know sign language. So, in a lesson with just the two of them, week after week, and this girl kind of doing the same things most of the time (these lessons are important activity and stimulation for her, but the growth and skill building is slow, and not really the focus).
For R, working alone with this girl week after week can be kind of difficult, so, even though I am allegedly there to work with Quidley, my role is mainly to socialize with R, and also with this girl, who seems to enjoy having another horse and person around. I think it gives her a sense of working WITH others, not just being alone.
So, it's an interesting thing to participate in. R's daughter L used to work with her horse, but has kind of drifted away a bit from riding, and I think is just kind of trying out being a bit more "separate" from all of the barn activities as a way of being more independent.
I think that R is actually a bit lonely, even though she works with clients all day. That's a role, not genuine social interaction.
I did give L the money back for our vehicle.
I came home and my Sweetie was home too, so we ate and watched some "Boardwalk Empire".
"Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium AD, a series of states and empires had risen and fallen in Chad's Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region. France conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of French Equatorial Africa. In 1960, Chad obtained independence under the leadership of François Tombalbaye."
Since then, Chad has had a lot of civil war and unrest, as well as the challenge more recently of taking in many refugees from Sudan. This endless conflict means there is not much stability, so the economy suffers, as well as the human development/human rights aspects.
Chad is quite poor, though there is beginning to be some money coming in from crude oil (cotton is their major agricultural export). The human development index is very low (education, health, infrastructure, etc), and the human rights situation is awful "had ranks the 2nd lowest in the Human Development Index, with 0.394 in 2021 placed 190th, and a least developed country facing the effects of being one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in the world. Most of its inhabitants live in poverty as subsistence herders and farmers. Since 2003 crude oil has become the country's primary source of export earnings, superseding the traditional cotton industry. Chad has a poor human rights record, with frequent abuses such as arbitrary imprisonment, extrajudicial killings, and limits on civil liberties by both security forces and armed militias."
Chad is named for a large lake within it's borders, that is shared with other countries. It is a freshwater lake that is very important in such a dry region.
The northern part of Chad is very dry, in the Sahalian (sub-Sahara) region, and is grassy savannah to the South.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad#External_links
https://youtu.be/jJZ66hPQLe4?si=xwxOo8fQKdRxQM0E
