Sunday, July 28
Jul. 29th, 2024 01:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Reasonable temperatures. Warm without being crazy hot.
We really could use some rain. It's been very dry for about three weeks now.
A lazy start to the day with my Sweetie, which is nice, and I know he needs some slower days too.
Once we got going, we did get some things done. In the house I changed cat litter and swept up the room where the litter box is located. I also washed the sheets and the mattress cover, and put the pillows outside to bake in the sun (freshens them up a lot).
We ended up sorting through his very disorganized wood pile behind the garage. He does sort it out and tidy it up almost every summer, but as we know, things all tend towards disarray.
He weeded out some rotten pieces, cleaned out all the dead leaves etc, re-stacked everything neatly, and collected wood from various piles in the yard that had been just lying there for years.
He got some stored wood out of the quonset (we are trying to clean it all out) and put it behind the garage too.
Then I put the water on the garden, and we pulled some of the grass out of the raspberry patch. It won't kill the grass at all, nothing does, but we can get to the raspberries where we cleared. There are ripe berries now.
Then we hooked up the horse trailer to the truck so I could work with River again.
My Sweetie brought his bike so he could ride while I worked with River.
He did stay while I did the trailer work, as I needed his emotional support.
River did really well today, he loaded nicely, stayed up at the front without trying to back out the whole time, and stayed inside while I "ground tied" him (I didn't tie him, as he threw back a while ago, so I'm going to try to do this without tying him). He even stayed in place while I moved the divider over to where it would latch (I didn't latch it, but practiced moving it over a few times).
Well, that was about as good as it gets for being calm and relaxed for loading, and while I don't know if this is "new normal" or not, it was good to know he COULD be like this.
So I left it there, nice and positive, and we did other work. Very light work, as he was really tired today (the flies have really been bothering them mercilessly).
We worked on hindquarter yields while mounted, which he needs a lot of work on, but his attitude was good.
R and her daughter L were around, so we did chat with them.
We came home and my Sweetie had a bath and headed to bed.
Reasonable temperatures. Warm without being crazy hot.
We really could use some rain. It's been very dry for about three weeks now.
A lazy start to the day with my Sweetie, which is nice, and I know he needs some slower days too.
Once we got going, we did get some things done. In the house I changed cat litter and swept up the room where the litter box is located. I also washed the sheets and the mattress cover, and put the pillows outside to bake in the sun (freshens them up a lot).
We ended up sorting through his very disorganized wood pile behind the garage. He does sort it out and tidy it up almost every summer, but as we know, things all tend towards disarray.
He weeded out some rotten pieces, cleaned out all the dead leaves etc, re-stacked everything neatly, and collected wood from various piles in the yard that had been just lying there for years.
He got some stored wood out of the quonset (we are trying to clean it all out) and put it behind the garage too.
Then I put the water on the garden, and we pulled some of the grass out of the raspberry patch. It won't kill the grass at all, nothing does, but we can get to the raspberries where we cleared. There are ripe berries now.
Then we hooked up the horse trailer to the truck so I could work with River again.
My Sweetie brought his bike so he could ride while I worked with River.
He did stay while I did the trailer work, as I needed his emotional support.
River did really well today, he loaded nicely, stayed up at the front without trying to back out the whole time, and stayed inside while I "ground tied" him (I didn't tie him, as he threw back a while ago, so I'm going to try to do this without tying him). He even stayed in place while I moved the divider over to where it would latch (I didn't latch it, but practiced moving it over a few times).
Well, that was about as good as it gets for being calm and relaxed for loading, and while I don't know if this is "new normal" or not, it was good to know he COULD be like this.
So I left it there, nice and positive, and we did other work. Very light work, as he was really tired today (the flies have really been bothering them mercilessly).
We worked on hindquarter yields while mounted, which he needs a lot of work on, but his attitude was good.
R and her daughter L were around, so we did chat with them.
We came home and my Sweetie had a bath and headed to bed.
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Date: 2024-07-30 06:29 am (UTC)Sometimes, the sous chef will say he's going to "get off of the chair and lay down on the couch just to see if I'm paying attention and to make me shriek.
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Date: 2024-07-30 09:20 am (UTC)Such as: calling a "ride-on" lawn mower a "ride 'em" lawn mower. I kid you not.
My Mom referred to aquifers as "aquifiers", as if an aquifier were a thing that "aquas" something else, and I didn't feel good about correcting my intelligent Mom.
The over-use of the word "impact", and how it has become "impactful" and "impacted" (which is used in a weird way, not "an impacted tooth" but an "impacted community") etc., which drives me to an irrational rage.
I try to ignore the misuse of "further" and "farther" (and I'm sure my own usage is imperfect), I don't know that I would really be upset by misuse of "lying" vs. "laying" TOO much,
BUT
I can't deal with the mangling of the term "for all intents and purposes", which almost no one actually uses correctly. It has become "for all intensive purposes". They don't even know what it means; they just have a very general idea of when to use it in a conversation.
I KNOW that if I stopped them right there and asked them what they were saying, and what it meant, that they couldn't answer me. They wouldn't actually know what "for all intents and purposes" means either. Most people don't really grasp the subtlety of the word "intent".
There's other stuff too, but I generally just ignore it and try to understand what that person is saying. No one enjoys a grammar lesson.
Feel free to just "yell" at me if I misuse "lying" or "laying", as I understand the pain of such abuse of the language.
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Date: 2024-07-31 07:32 am (UTC)To some degree though, the language just changes. That's what English is, after all. A constantly evolving language of terms that get the job done, whether or not they are "correct" to our ears.
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