Friday, July 12
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A hot, but more moderate day.
I spoke with my Mom for a while, she had been napping but woke up enough for a chat.
I was able to let everyone out into their pastures for a while, and work with Wonder and Dandy in the round pen before going to work with River.
BUT, for whatever reason, I forgot that today was "Friday", and that I usually work with R's horse (originally named Quidley, but now his name is Maverick). Just this week, R announced that she is officially adopting him, so she changed his name. This is the rescue horse that she's been working with all winter, who is a very handsome guy and has a good mind. She feels that he could be a good lesson horse.
I got River in and ready to do a session, and was just warming up in the arena when I saw the girl with health challenges get dropped off.
Well, by then I figured I should just work with River and be done with it. My work with "Maverick" is largely symbolic as R has him working well beyond a level of the work she has me doing with him. My work is more or less to give me a context to be present during the other person's lesson so she and R have some company.
Still, it was awkward for me, as I felt like maybe it would be misunderstood. I did talk to R about it later, and she didn't seem bothered, but I wonder.
My session with River was okay, but he was pretty hot. I still tried to keep things more energetic and moving to try to get him to engage more, and I suppose it was better than it would normally been in this weather.
We also worked in the outside arena to do ridden work, and that was okay. He was listening well.
My Sweetie met me at the barn.
He is going to Sweden for not quite a week after all (he's been trying to get his passport ready, and his supervisor wasn't giving him much of a timeline to work with, as to when he was supposed to go, or IF he was going to be sent).
The company he works for won the bid to work on a big project in Quebec, building a facility that will manufacture electric car batteries. They are sending my husband to Sweden to look at an existing facility in there, that will be very similar (and I think it's the same company?).
He got his itinerary today, and the days paid for by the company will be very full of work meetings, presentations, and a tour of the facilities. It leaves no time for seeing the sights.
I convinced my husband to ask for a couple of days of holidays, to go to Stockholm so he could actually see something (the location of the facility is elsewhere, not close to anything cool). Yes, he will have to pay for his own room for those two days, etc. but the company will still pay for his flight back.
He's planning to leave tomorrow, and I hope all goes well, and that he learns a lot, and hopefully gets to enjoy some time as a tourist.
It would be a real shame to go somewhere like that and not have ANY time to look around.
When we got home from the barn, I wanted to work with Wonder for a little while in the round pen again.
I was going to show my husband how well she was doing, but it turned into a longer session than I intended because she was still having issues letting me work with her left side, so we had to work on that for a while. We did make progress.
Then he pretty much just had to pack for his trip.
A hot, but more moderate day.
I spoke with my Mom for a while, she had been napping but woke up enough for a chat.
I was able to let everyone out into their pastures for a while, and work with Wonder and Dandy in the round pen before going to work with River.
BUT, for whatever reason, I forgot that today was "Friday", and that I usually work with R's horse (originally named Quidley, but now his name is Maverick). Just this week, R announced that she is officially adopting him, so she changed his name. This is the rescue horse that she's been working with all winter, who is a very handsome guy and has a good mind. She feels that he could be a good lesson horse.
I got River in and ready to do a session, and was just warming up in the arena when I saw the girl with health challenges get dropped off.
Well, by then I figured I should just work with River and be done with it. My work with "Maverick" is largely symbolic as R has him working well beyond a level of the work she has me doing with him. My work is more or less to give me a context to be present during the other person's lesson so she and R have some company.
Still, it was awkward for me, as I felt like maybe it would be misunderstood. I did talk to R about it later, and she didn't seem bothered, but I wonder.
My session with River was okay, but he was pretty hot. I still tried to keep things more energetic and moving to try to get him to engage more, and I suppose it was better than it would normally been in this weather.
We also worked in the outside arena to do ridden work, and that was okay. He was listening well.
My Sweetie met me at the barn.
He is going to Sweden for not quite a week after all (he's been trying to get his passport ready, and his supervisor wasn't giving him much of a timeline to work with, as to when he was supposed to go, or IF he was going to be sent).
The company he works for won the bid to work on a big project in Quebec, building a facility that will manufacture electric car batteries. They are sending my husband to Sweden to look at an existing facility in there, that will be very similar (and I think it's the same company?).
He got his itinerary today, and the days paid for by the company will be very full of work meetings, presentations, and a tour of the facilities. It leaves no time for seeing the sights.
I convinced my husband to ask for a couple of days of holidays, to go to Stockholm so he could actually see something (the location of the facility is elsewhere, not close to anything cool). Yes, he will have to pay for his own room for those two days, etc. but the company will still pay for his flight back.
He's planning to leave tomorrow, and I hope all goes well, and that he learns a lot, and hopefully gets to enjoy some time as a tourist.
It would be a real shame to go somewhere like that and not have ANY time to look around.
When we got home from the barn, I wanted to work with Wonder for a little while in the round pen again.
I was going to show my husband how well she was doing, but it turned into a longer session than I intended because she was still having issues letting me work with her left side, so we had to work on that for a while. We did make progress.
Then he pretty much just had to pack for his trip.
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Date: 2024-07-13 06:46 pm (UTC)The sous chef face-timed me from the rooftop of a castle in Portugal last year; I had coffee and he had an alfresco supper while we chatted; he gave me a tour amid shrieking peacocks that were roosting in the castle-top trees. (Living vicariously again.)
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Date: 2024-07-13 08:43 pm (UTC)We looked online for museums, and he chose his hotel for those two days to be close to several of them. The one thing I really hope he is able to see, is that preserved ship that is now on display.
It really is a great opportunity. It's not a place we would likely have gone on our own. I will have to live vicariously through my Sweetie on this one.