Tuesday, June 18
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Sweet kitty snuggles.
I woke up after feeling like I had being "doing things" all night in my dreams. I had dreams about moving, and a very real, detailed dream about being in a "puzzle room" with a group of people, only it wasn't like we volunteered and were doing it for fun or anything. The room was dangerous, and felt like we were trapped. We were looking for clues but everything we did could potentially be dangerous, like opening drawers or trying to find an object that might help us, or might be a trap. The door to the room was open, but none of us trusted that it was safe to leave, like there could be a booby trap. It also seemed like nothing in the room was helpful or trustworthy, no clues to how to leave safely, no idea if we could, for example, drink the bottle of wine we found. A very strange dream.
After eating and such, I went outside and mowed the strip of grass along Wonder's corral, and raked up the clippings and hauled them away (horses can't eat clippings because the wet, mulched grass ferments right away). Yes, we weed whacked it the other day, but that was a rough job and the grass was still pretty tall. We did have to do that first though, because I don't think the lawn mower could have cut it at full height.
My Sweetie got home from work and helped me a bit with the clippings. We ended up hauling away two very full wheel barrows of clippings.
He was expecting one of the guys who worked on the house to drop by, and get paid.
I went to the riding barn. River was fine until we were working in the indoor arena, at which point two horses that WERE in his every day herd, but separated today (into another pasture because they need to lose weight) decided to go ABSOLUTELY NUTS and run around like idiots screaming the whole time like they were under attack.
They were likely just panicking because they were separated from their herd.
River didn't do anything bad, but he simply could not focus. Not at all. He was so upset by their antics, and he was so worried. He just kept stopping and listening to them, and sometimes calling out.
So, no real work done on practicing our patterns or freestyle.
When another rider came for her lesson, I asked if I could just spend a few minutes in the arena with River, since having another horse in there might help end things on a better note, and at least in that moment the other horses weren't screaming.
So, we had a few minutes in there where River was able to focus. I got to end on a good note.
When I took him back to his pasture, he yawned about ten times in a row, which is a sign that he had been under a lot of stress. Then he was trying to apologize to me by just wanting to stand with me and give me his attention, so we did that for a while.
Well, at least we were in a good spot, and I can try again next time. Hopefully those other horses will be settled down by then.
Then we watched some "Justified" together.
Burundi is a landlocked country along the African Rift Valley, and has coastline along Lake Tanganyika.
Lake Tanganyika is the second oldest, second largest, and second deepest freshwater lake in the world (after Lake Baikal in all counts). I always remember it as being one of the best places for Cichlids, a type of fish that are very beautiful and interesting aquarium creatures (I used to be into having aquariums).
Burundi's history is closely tied to Rwanda. They have similar tribal histories and culture.
"The Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent kingdom. In 1885, it became part of the German colony of German East Africa.[15] After the First World War and Germany's defeat, the League of Nations mandated the territories of Burundi and neighboring Rwanda to Belgium in a combined territory called Rwanda-Urundi. After the Second World War, this transformed into a United Nations Trust Territory. Burundi gained independence in 1962 and initially retained the monarchy; a 1966 coup replaced the monarchy with a one-party republic. Over the next 27 years, Burundi was ruled by a series of Tutsi dictators and notably experienced a genocide of Hutus in 1972. In July 1993, Melchior Ndadaye became Burundi's first Hutu president following the country's first multi-party presidential election. His assassination three months later during a coup attempt provoked the 12-year Burundian Civil War. In 2000, the Arusha Agreement was adopted, which was largely integrated in a new constitution in 2005. Since the 2005 post-war elections, the country's dominant party has been the National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD–FDD), widely accused of authoritarian governance and perpetuating the country's poor human rights record."
This is a very poor, not very developed country. Most of it's population is spread out in rural villages and relies on subsistence farming. The country does export coffee and tea.
There are mineral resources, but they are not very developed, and being land locked makes it tougher to trade.
There is very little infrastructure, and Burundi is ranked second lowest in the world for telecommunications.
Burundi struggles with basic issues like people just getting enough to eat. There are often famines, children are chronically malnourished, health care and clean drinking water are issues. Literacy is surprisingly quite high. People die from diseases that have cures or vaccines available in most parts of the world. Most people still rely on traditional medicine.
It is a full on equatorial jungle for the most part, with some grassy plateau regions, and there are mountains. Lots of amazing wildlife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi
https://youtu.be/ebiGew8mYr0?si=Xnvjy2s_4dFfSXVk
Sweet kitty snuggles.
I woke up after feeling like I had being "doing things" all night in my dreams. I had dreams about moving, and a very real, detailed dream about being in a "puzzle room" with a group of people, only it wasn't like we volunteered and were doing it for fun or anything. The room was dangerous, and felt like we were trapped. We were looking for clues but everything we did could potentially be dangerous, like opening drawers or trying to find an object that might help us, or might be a trap. The door to the room was open, but none of us trusted that it was safe to leave, like there could be a booby trap. It also seemed like nothing in the room was helpful or trustworthy, no clues to how to leave safely, no idea if we could, for example, drink the bottle of wine we found. A very strange dream.
After eating and such, I went outside and mowed the strip of grass along Wonder's corral, and raked up the clippings and hauled them away (horses can't eat clippings because the wet, mulched grass ferments right away). Yes, we weed whacked it the other day, but that was a rough job and the grass was still pretty tall. We did have to do that first though, because I don't think the lawn mower could have cut it at full height.
My Sweetie got home from work and helped me a bit with the clippings. We ended up hauling away two very full wheel barrows of clippings.
He was expecting one of the guys who worked on the house to drop by, and get paid.
I went to the riding barn. River was fine until we were working in the indoor arena, at which point two horses that WERE in his every day herd, but separated today (into another pasture because they need to lose weight) decided to go ABSOLUTELY NUTS and run around like idiots screaming the whole time like they were under attack.
They were likely just panicking because they were separated from their herd.
River didn't do anything bad, but he simply could not focus. Not at all. He was so upset by their antics, and he was so worried. He just kept stopping and listening to them, and sometimes calling out.
So, no real work done on practicing our patterns or freestyle.
When another rider came for her lesson, I asked if I could just spend a few minutes in the arena with River, since having another horse in there might help end things on a better note, and at least in that moment the other horses weren't screaming.
So, we had a few minutes in there where River was able to focus. I got to end on a good note.
When I took him back to his pasture, he yawned about ten times in a row, which is a sign that he had been under a lot of stress. Then he was trying to apologize to me by just wanting to stand with me and give me his attention, so we did that for a while.
Well, at least we were in a good spot, and I can try again next time. Hopefully those other horses will be settled down by then.
Then we watched some "Justified" together.
Burundi is a landlocked country along the African Rift Valley, and has coastline along Lake Tanganyika.
Lake Tanganyika is the second oldest, second largest, and second deepest freshwater lake in the world (after Lake Baikal in all counts). I always remember it as being one of the best places for Cichlids, a type of fish that are very beautiful and interesting aquarium creatures (I used to be into having aquariums).
Burundi's history is closely tied to Rwanda. They have similar tribal histories and culture.
"The Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent kingdom. In 1885, it became part of the German colony of German East Africa.[15] After the First World War and Germany's defeat, the League of Nations mandated the territories of Burundi and neighboring Rwanda to Belgium in a combined territory called Rwanda-Urundi. After the Second World War, this transformed into a United Nations Trust Territory. Burundi gained independence in 1962 and initially retained the monarchy; a 1966 coup replaced the monarchy with a one-party republic. Over the next 27 years, Burundi was ruled by a series of Tutsi dictators and notably experienced a genocide of Hutus in 1972. In July 1993, Melchior Ndadaye became Burundi's first Hutu president following the country's first multi-party presidential election. His assassination three months later during a coup attempt provoked the 12-year Burundian Civil War. In 2000, the Arusha Agreement was adopted, which was largely integrated in a new constitution in 2005. Since the 2005 post-war elections, the country's dominant party has been the National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD–FDD), widely accused of authoritarian governance and perpetuating the country's poor human rights record."
This is a very poor, not very developed country. Most of it's population is spread out in rural villages and relies on subsistence farming. The country does export coffee and tea.
There are mineral resources, but they are not very developed, and being land locked makes it tougher to trade.
There is very little infrastructure, and Burundi is ranked second lowest in the world for telecommunications.
Burundi struggles with basic issues like people just getting enough to eat. There are often famines, children are chronically malnourished, health care and clean drinking water are issues. Literacy is surprisingly quite high. People die from diseases that have cures or vaccines available in most parts of the world. Most people still rely on traditional medicine.
It is a full on equatorial jungle for the most part, with some grassy plateau regions, and there are mountains. Lots of amazing wildlife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi
https://youtu.be/ebiGew8mYr0?si=Xnvjy2s_4dFfSXVk
