Thursday, July 18
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Going to town today. It was too hot for anything else again.
I had lots to pick up. Dog food. Cat litter (the other animal bedding pellets I prefer), groceries, spray for killing hornets (two big nests, one on the garden shed, one inside the pony/goat shed).
I went to the farm supply store for the dog food and litter, and was sad to learn that the store cat is no longer. That kitty was at that store as long as we've been here, which is about 17 years now, and I always made a point of visiting with her. The store policy now means they won't get another cat, which sucks.
The grocery run ended up being bigger than I thought it would be. I was a bit surprised at what we were short of/out of once I got there and started shopping. Yup, we need toilet paper. Yup, eggs, milk, bread, veggie burgers, etc. I went there thinking I was just getting a few things. Surprise!
Yet, it's good to just buy those things, and not pretend we don't need them. When my husband does that thing of "we only need the basics" we end up having to go to the store three times in a week for all the things "we didn't need".
I came home and used the bug spray to kill the two wasp's nests. I feel a little bad for killing them, but they are vicious creatures.
Then I let everyone out into their pastures, and after an hour or so, I brought them in and worked with Wonder and Dandy together again. It wasn't easy, but I got both of them to come with me at the same time.
The moment you focus too much on just one of them, the other one leaves and you have to struggle to get them back, and sometimes you lose the other one's attention, and back and forth. There's an A-HA moment when they realize they are both supposed to stay with you.
I talked with my husband a couple of times over the day. "Yesterday" (while I was asleep, he was touristing, and at 11pm after his day, he called me at 3 pm my time) he went to see the Royal Apartments and armory, and the Tre Museum.
Then, "today" (so it's the same day for me, two days for him, as he slept for 8 hours while I went to town and shopped and worked with the horses, and at the end of my day, he was beginning a new day) he went to the Vasa museum. He went first thing in the morning, so during his call he was already looking around (and it was the end of my day).
The Vasa museum is amazing, and I'm so jealous that he gets to see this. It's a huge wooden ship that sunk in the harbor on it's maiden voyage, and for about three hundred and fifty years sat on the bottom, but was nearly perfectly preserved by the cold water and other perfect local conditions. It was brought to the surface in the 1950's and reassembled and restored as much as possible, and it's the most perfect and complete such restoration in the world.
He talked to me for a while about what he was seeing, and it was so interesting. I'm really glad he got to see it.
Going to town today. It was too hot for anything else again.
I had lots to pick up. Dog food. Cat litter (the other animal bedding pellets I prefer), groceries, spray for killing hornets (two big nests, one on the garden shed, one inside the pony/goat shed).
I went to the farm supply store for the dog food and litter, and was sad to learn that the store cat is no longer. That kitty was at that store as long as we've been here, which is about 17 years now, and I always made a point of visiting with her. The store policy now means they won't get another cat, which sucks.
The grocery run ended up being bigger than I thought it would be. I was a bit surprised at what we were short of/out of once I got there and started shopping. Yup, we need toilet paper. Yup, eggs, milk, bread, veggie burgers, etc. I went there thinking I was just getting a few things. Surprise!
Yet, it's good to just buy those things, and not pretend we don't need them. When my husband does that thing of "we only need the basics" we end up having to go to the store three times in a week for all the things "we didn't need".
I came home and used the bug spray to kill the two wasp's nests. I feel a little bad for killing them, but they are vicious creatures.
Then I let everyone out into their pastures, and after an hour or so, I brought them in and worked with Wonder and Dandy together again. It wasn't easy, but I got both of them to come with me at the same time.
The moment you focus too much on just one of them, the other one leaves and you have to struggle to get them back, and sometimes you lose the other one's attention, and back and forth. There's an A-HA moment when they realize they are both supposed to stay with you.
I talked with my husband a couple of times over the day. "Yesterday" (while I was asleep, he was touristing, and at 11pm after his day, he called me at 3 pm my time) he went to see the Royal Apartments and armory, and the Tre Museum.
Then, "today" (so it's the same day for me, two days for him, as he slept for 8 hours while I went to town and shopped and worked with the horses, and at the end of my day, he was beginning a new day) he went to the Vasa museum. He went first thing in the morning, so during his call he was already looking around (and it was the end of my day).
The Vasa museum is amazing, and I'm so jealous that he gets to see this. It's a huge wooden ship that sunk in the harbor on it's maiden voyage, and for about three hundred and fifty years sat on the bottom, but was nearly perfectly preserved by the cold water and other perfect local conditions. It was brought to the surface in the 1950's and reassembled and restored as much as possible, and it's the most perfect and complete such restoration in the world.
He talked to me for a while about what he was seeing, and it was so interesting. I'm really glad he got to see it.
