Wednesday, July 10
Jul. 11th, 2024 12:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Being free to hide in the house most of the day during this awful heat.
I still had to go outside to engage with the people who came to pick up the old eaves troughs (yay, more stuff gone!), which was fine. I gave them some rhubarb, too.
I did the necessary outdoor chores, and until a little later in the day just did pretty much nothing. It was too warm even in the house to do much.
I did still have a lesson with R. Poor River was sweating just standing still, it was so hot. I bit my tongue, because I would have thought that R could have brought him into the barn for the day, where it is cooler, and maybe hosed him down. He really doesn't do well with heat.
Our lesson was extremely low key, and I did hose him down first to help him with the heat. We did a very low energy pattern that was mostly about good ground manners at Liberty, and got a video for the online show.
It was mainly ground tying him at liberty, demonstrating that I could groom him, pick up all of his feet at liberty, used an empty dewormer tube to demonstrate that he would stand still for dosing (in real life he likely wouldn't because he can always tell when I have an empty training tube, or one that actually has dewormer in it), stay ground tied while I walked a large circle around him, have him come with me at a trot for a circle, and then take him over to the mounting block at liberty and get him to sidepass over to the correct mounting position.
At liberty means doing all of that with no halter. He could leave whenever he wanted to. Ground tying means asking him to stand in place.
Though none of that was too hard for us, I know that before we came to this barn most of it would have been difficult.
Then we went over the scores and comments for the classes I was in with Patrick. It gave me some good insight into what he's looking for, and he's really MUCH more interested in seeing a relaxed horse and rider with the rider showing good horsemanship and attitude than a perfect technical ride.
The scoring was pretty much how I expected, in terms of where we did well and where we could improve, so it's nice to have that mesh.
When I let River back out into his pasture, I had forgotten to put the zinc cream on his pink nose to protect it from the sun, so I grabbed the jar and went out to put it on him. It did occur to me that probably very few people could go put cream on their horse's nose without a halter.
I came home and let everyone out into their pastures, and pulled weeds in the garden for about an hour.
Roxy was a bit naughty because she was pulling radishes and eating them. She loves them. They are fine for her to eat, but they're NOT HERS.
Then I put the water on the garden while we watched an episode of "Justified".
Angola is on the West coast of Africa, with coastline on the Atlantic ocean.
Angola has been inhabited since the Paleolithic age, and was part of the Kingdom of Kongo, a wealthy and powerful nation. The Kingdom of Kongo profited from the slave trade with the Portuguese, beginning with the earliest traders in 1483.
When slavery was outlawed (though it went on for a long time afterwards, as the laws against it were mostly unenforceable), the economy struggled as there was not much else in the way of trade goods. Angola's other main trade product was guns, but that was also tied to the slave trade (guns for controlling slaves) Over time, more Europeans settled there, and by the 1900's the modern borders of what is now Angola formed. This region became it's own nation in 1975, after a long struggle internally between different groups (largely the Portuguese settlers and the natural inhabitants).
For some time, there was devastating civil war. The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), has remained in power for a long time, and since about 2002, Angola has been more stable, but still has a lot of human rights issues, internal struggles, poverty, and famine.
"A 2012 report by the U.S. Department of State said, "The three most important human rights abuses [in 2012] were official corruption and impunity; limits on the freedoms of assembly, association, speech, and press; and cruel and excessive punishment, including reported cases of torture and beatings as well as unlawful killings by police and other security personnel."[92]"
Same sex acts were decriminalized in 2019, with laws against discrimination put in place as well.
Angola has a lot of natural resources in terms of fossil fuel reserves and valuable minerals, but the development was stalled from all the war (but is now catching up). Once again, the money from these endeavors seems to fall into the hands of a very small number of people, leaving most of the people of Angola very poor, with very little human development, short life span, and so on.
Angola has several very good ports, and a lot of maritime habitat, with a tropical climate experiencing distinct dry and rainy seasons. It is also sub-Saharan, with dry areas.
There could be a lot more agriculture here than what is currently taking place, as not much of the arable land is in production, nor does it currently meet the needs of it's people well. Again, likely due to the disruptions of civil war, and previously, the slave trade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola
https://youtu.be/4QSmRYQBfN4?si=MH3giZvmC2f7hEOW
Being free to hide in the house most of the day during this awful heat.
I still had to go outside to engage with the people who came to pick up the old eaves troughs (yay, more stuff gone!), which was fine. I gave them some rhubarb, too.
I did the necessary outdoor chores, and until a little later in the day just did pretty much nothing. It was too warm even in the house to do much.
I did still have a lesson with R. Poor River was sweating just standing still, it was so hot. I bit my tongue, because I would have thought that R could have brought him into the barn for the day, where it is cooler, and maybe hosed him down. He really doesn't do well with heat.
Our lesson was extremely low key, and I did hose him down first to help him with the heat. We did a very low energy pattern that was mostly about good ground manners at Liberty, and got a video for the online show.
It was mainly ground tying him at liberty, demonstrating that I could groom him, pick up all of his feet at liberty, used an empty dewormer tube to demonstrate that he would stand still for dosing (in real life he likely wouldn't because he can always tell when I have an empty training tube, or one that actually has dewormer in it), stay ground tied while I walked a large circle around him, have him come with me at a trot for a circle, and then take him over to the mounting block at liberty and get him to sidepass over to the correct mounting position.
At liberty means doing all of that with no halter. He could leave whenever he wanted to. Ground tying means asking him to stand in place.
Though none of that was too hard for us, I know that before we came to this barn most of it would have been difficult.
Then we went over the scores and comments for the classes I was in with Patrick. It gave me some good insight into what he's looking for, and he's really MUCH more interested in seeing a relaxed horse and rider with the rider showing good horsemanship and attitude than a perfect technical ride.
The scoring was pretty much how I expected, in terms of where we did well and where we could improve, so it's nice to have that mesh.
When I let River back out into his pasture, I had forgotten to put the zinc cream on his pink nose to protect it from the sun, so I grabbed the jar and went out to put it on him. It did occur to me that probably very few people could go put cream on their horse's nose without a halter.
I came home and let everyone out into their pastures, and pulled weeds in the garden for about an hour.
Roxy was a bit naughty because she was pulling radishes and eating them. She loves them. They are fine for her to eat, but they're NOT HERS.
Then I put the water on the garden while we watched an episode of "Justified".
Angola is on the West coast of Africa, with coastline on the Atlantic ocean.
Angola has been inhabited since the Paleolithic age, and was part of the Kingdom of Kongo, a wealthy and powerful nation. The Kingdom of Kongo profited from the slave trade with the Portuguese, beginning with the earliest traders in 1483.
When slavery was outlawed (though it went on for a long time afterwards, as the laws against it were mostly unenforceable), the economy struggled as there was not much else in the way of trade goods. Angola's other main trade product was guns, but that was also tied to the slave trade (guns for controlling slaves) Over time, more Europeans settled there, and by the 1900's the modern borders of what is now Angola formed. This region became it's own nation in 1975, after a long struggle internally between different groups (largely the Portuguese settlers and the natural inhabitants).
For some time, there was devastating civil war. The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), has remained in power for a long time, and since about 2002, Angola has been more stable, but still has a lot of human rights issues, internal struggles, poverty, and famine.
"A 2012 report by the U.S. Department of State said, "The three most important human rights abuses [in 2012] were official corruption and impunity; limits on the freedoms of assembly, association, speech, and press; and cruel and excessive punishment, including reported cases of torture and beatings as well as unlawful killings by police and other security personnel."[92]"
Same sex acts were decriminalized in 2019, with laws against discrimination put in place as well.
Angola has a lot of natural resources in terms of fossil fuel reserves and valuable minerals, but the development was stalled from all the war (but is now catching up). Once again, the money from these endeavors seems to fall into the hands of a very small number of people, leaving most of the people of Angola very poor, with very little human development, short life span, and so on.
Angola has several very good ports, and a lot of maritime habitat, with a tropical climate experiencing distinct dry and rainy seasons. It is also sub-Saharan, with dry areas.
There could be a lot more agriculture here than what is currently taking place, as not much of the arable land is in production, nor does it currently meet the needs of it's people well. Again, likely due to the disruptions of civil war, and previously, the slave trade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola
https://youtu.be/4QSmRYQBfN4?si=MH3giZvmC2f7hEOW
