Sunday, June 23
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
My Sweetie is back from his weekend of bike riding.
We went to see River, and while the weather was back and forth between thunderstorm and full sunshine, I was able to work with him outside.
We're struggling with getting small, tight circles again, in order to do this one pattern. Those are something it's really hard to get River to do, because he has a tough time lifting his ribcage. He would rather do big, sloppy circles than pick himself up and do the work to bend correctly.
So, we did work on that, and I feel like he tried for me, which is good.
He's doing better on moving his hindquarters.
We ran through our freestyle pattern, and that went well.
R was doing some yard work when we were all done, and we stood around and talked for a while. There has been a lot going on this week.
One of the other people who takes lessons is leaving her common law husband, and this complicates things for R because the guy who is coming next week to do clinics and the show etc. with us was staying at this person's home (they have a suite that is otherwise a B&B that they were letting him have for the week). That's still going to happen, sort of, but there are things happening that affect R. Mainly because this woman is moving her horses to R's place, and that's kind of a favor because R doesn't REALLY have the room right now, but she's making room.
It also looks like one R's barn cats is PROBABLY dead now. I wondered, when I didn't see her in her usual spot in the barn, napping. R says that they haven't seen this cat since yesterday, and they've searched for her everywhere they can think of. This was an older cat, not in the best shape, and she normally doesn't ever leave the barn. The only reason for her to leave the barn now, is if she was doing that thing of taking herself away to die. Since they didn't find her, or her deceased body, it's very likely that she got picked off by a coyote or an owl or something.
It's very sad, but she did have a long life, and was much loved and well cared for. The other cat, Earl, will likely miss her very much as the two of them spent most of their time cuddled up together in the barn. Earl is also very old, and very frail, so R is going to start taking him into the house when they go inside each night now so he won't be out there alone.
Then we came home and watched "Barbie" (the friend that my husband biked with recorded lots of movies for us). I enjoyed it.
I was shocked that out of all of the amazing talent that went into that movie, of all things, Ryan Gosling won an Oscar for best actor. Not Greta Gerwig for directing. Not best screen play. Not best costume or set, not best actress. Nope. In a movie about subverting the patriarchy, Ryan Gosling won an Oscar.
THEN, I tried to have an undramatic conversation with my husband about moving the couch and other things out of the living room so that it can be a temporary bedroom to be the first step in actually COMPLETING the future bedroom, and he got all worked up about me actually pinning him down to DOING SOMETHING. I stayed calm and he eventually was all like "oh, I wasn't upset, just excited". Right.
Every time I try to box him into a corner so he will actually commit to a course of action, he blows up, even if he later recognizes that what I am trying to do makes perfect sense, and that I AM actually looking for his input. He just hates feeling like he's being pressured. But he is, because if I don't go through this process, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENS.
Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika) is an East African country with coastline to the Indian Ocean and three of Africa's great lakes are partly within it's borders (Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, and Lake Malawi).
The people of this region were among the first known people to forge iron and steel, and even Carbon steel about 1,500 years ago.
"Many important hominid fossils have been found in Tanzania, such as 6-million-year-old Pliocene hominid fossils. In the Stone and Bronze Age, prehistoric migrations into Tanzania included Southern Cushitic speakers who moved south from present-day Ethiopia;[14] Eastern Cushitic people who moved into Tanzania from north of Lake Turkana about 2,000 and 4,000 years ago;[14] and the Southern Nilotes, including the Datoog, who originated from the present-day South Sudan–Ethiopia border region between 2,900 and 2,400 years ago.[14]: page 18 These movements took place at about the same time as the settlement of the Mashariki Bantu from West Africa in the Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika areas.[14][15] In the late 19th century, the mainland came under German rule as German East Africa, and this was followed by British rule after World War I when it was governed as Tanganyika, with the Zanzibar Archipelago remaining a separate colonial jurisdiction. Following their respective independence in 1961 and 1963, the two entities merged in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.[16] Tanganyika joined the British Commonwealth and Tanzania remains a member of the Commonwealth as a unified republic.[17]"
During the colonial period, in the 1800's, Zanzibar (a group of islands that used to be it's own thing, united with Tanzania, but acts autonomously as far as government and economy) was very active in the slave trade, VERY ACTIVE.
About 100,000 Tanzanians fought with the Allies during WWII, and the country was an important source of food supplies for the Allied soldiers fighting in Africa.
Today, Tanzania is a presidential constitutional republic, and has not had the internal strife that has plagued so many other countries in this region. It is considered one of the safest and most stable countries in Africa.
Homosexual acts are still illegal and punished, and "People with albinism living in Tanzania are often attacked, killed or mutilated because of superstitions related to the black-magical practice known as muti that say body parts of albinos have magical properties.[148] Tanzania has the highest occurrence of this human rights violation among 27 African countries where muti is known to be practised.[149]"
Kilimanjaro is the highest peak in Africa, and quite famous. The mountain region is heavily forested, and then there are plains and arable farm land in the middle, and wet, humid regions along the coast to the East.
The economy of Tanzania relies heavily on agriculture, with cash crops like sugar, tea, cotton, and cashews. The people of Tanzania try to grow enough food, but poverty and hunger are still very present, as well as lack of access to drinking water, with many people living on less than $1.25 a day.
Somehow, most of the economic growth in industry and mining and technology has not contributed much to the improvement of the lives of the average citizen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania
https://youtu.be/cygqKMAzNig?si=0P-cleA7yYT22gOm
My Sweetie is back from his weekend of bike riding.
We went to see River, and while the weather was back and forth between thunderstorm and full sunshine, I was able to work with him outside.
We're struggling with getting small, tight circles again, in order to do this one pattern. Those are something it's really hard to get River to do, because he has a tough time lifting his ribcage. He would rather do big, sloppy circles than pick himself up and do the work to bend correctly.
So, we did work on that, and I feel like he tried for me, which is good.
He's doing better on moving his hindquarters.
We ran through our freestyle pattern, and that went well.
R was doing some yard work when we were all done, and we stood around and talked for a while. There has been a lot going on this week.
One of the other people who takes lessons is leaving her common law husband, and this complicates things for R because the guy who is coming next week to do clinics and the show etc. with us was staying at this person's home (they have a suite that is otherwise a B&B that they were letting him have for the week). That's still going to happen, sort of, but there are things happening that affect R. Mainly because this woman is moving her horses to R's place, and that's kind of a favor because R doesn't REALLY have the room right now, but she's making room.
It also looks like one R's barn cats is PROBABLY dead now. I wondered, when I didn't see her in her usual spot in the barn, napping. R says that they haven't seen this cat since yesterday, and they've searched for her everywhere they can think of. This was an older cat, not in the best shape, and she normally doesn't ever leave the barn. The only reason for her to leave the barn now, is if she was doing that thing of taking herself away to die. Since they didn't find her, or her deceased body, it's very likely that she got picked off by a coyote or an owl or something.
It's very sad, but she did have a long life, and was much loved and well cared for. The other cat, Earl, will likely miss her very much as the two of them spent most of their time cuddled up together in the barn. Earl is also very old, and very frail, so R is going to start taking him into the house when they go inside each night now so he won't be out there alone.
Then we came home and watched "Barbie" (the friend that my husband biked with recorded lots of movies for us). I enjoyed it.
I was shocked that out of all of the amazing talent that went into that movie, of all things, Ryan Gosling won an Oscar for best actor. Not Greta Gerwig for directing. Not best screen play. Not best costume or set, not best actress. Nope. In a movie about subverting the patriarchy, Ryan Gosling won an Oscar.
THEN, I tried to have an undramatic conversation with my husband about moving the couch and other things out of the living room so that it can be a temporary bedroom to be the first step in actually COMPLETING the future bedroom, and he got all worked up about me actually pinning him down to DOING SOMETHING. I stayed calm and he eventually was all like "oh, I wasn't upset, just excited". Right.
Every time I try to box him into a corner so he will actually commit to a course of action, he blows up, even if he later recognizes that what I am trying to do makes perfect sense, and that I AM actually looking for his input. He just hates feeling like he's being pressured. But he is, because if I don't go through this process, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENS.
Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika) is an East African country with coastline to the Indian Ocean and three of Africa's great lakes are partly within it's borders (Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, and Lake Malawi).
The people of this region were among the first known people to forge iron and steel, and even Carbon steel about 1,500 years ago.
"Many important hominid fossils have been found in Tanzania, such as 6-million-year-old Pliocene hominid fossils. In the Stone and Bronze Age, prehistoric migrations into Tanzania included Southern Cushitic speakers who moved south from present-day Ethiopia;[14] Eastern Cushitic people who moved into Tanzania from north of Lake Turkana about 2,000 and 4,000 years ago;[14] and the Southern Nilotes, including the Datoog, who originated from the present-day South Sudan–Ethiopia border region between 2,900 and 2,400 years ago.[14]: page 18 These movements took place at about the same time as the settlement of the Mashariki Bantu from West Africa in the Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika areas.[14][15] In the late 19th century, the mainland came under German rule as German East Africa, and this was followed by British rule after World War I when it was governed as Tanganyika, with the Zanzibar Archipelago remaining a separate colonial jurisdiction. Following their respective independence in 1961 and 1963, the two entities merged in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.[16] Tanganyika joined the British Commonwealth and Tanzania remains a member of the Commonwealth as a unified republic.[17]"
During the colonial period, in the 1800's, Zanzibar (a group of islands that used to be it's own thing, united with Tanzania, but acts autonomously as far as government and economy) was very active in the slave trade, VERY ACTIVE.
About 100,000 Tanzanians fought with the Allies during WWII, and the country was an important source of food supplies for the Allied soldiers fighting in Africa.
Today, Tanzania is a presidential constitutional republic, and has not had the internal strife that has plagued so many other countries in this region. It is considered one of the safest and most stable countries in Africa.
Homosexual acts are still illegal and punished, and "People with albinism living in Tanzania are often attacked, killed or mutilated because of superstitions related to the black-magical practice known as muti that say body parts of albinos have magical properties.[148] Tanzania has the highest occurrence of this human rights violation among 27 African countries where muti is known to be practised.[149]"
Kilimanjaro is the highest peak in Africa, and quite famous. The mountain region is heavily forested, and then there are plains and arable farm land in the middle, and wet, humid regions along the coast to the East.
The economy of Tanzania relies heavily on agriculture, with cash crops like sugar, tea, cotton, and cashews. The people of Tanzania try to grow enough food, but poverty and hunger are still very present, as well as lack of access to drinking water, with many people living on less than $1.25 a day.
Somehow, most of the economic growth in industry and mining and technology has not contributed much to the improvement of the lives of the average citizen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania
https://youtu.be/cygqKMAzNig?si=0P-cleA7yYT22gOm
