Sunday, August 11
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A nice, lazy start to the day.
I did my best to have a sane conversation with my Sweetie today about our week, and what we could accomplish with it if we were organized and on the same page.
The eavestrough guys are slated to be here tomorrow, so hopefully that works out.
We have a few things that can be done this week that are more like planning things, but need to happen.
It is noted by myself that no real "concrete physical work" is slated. Just "planning and materials", which is my husband's favorite pastime, as it can be done with a few phone calls and a trip to a store.
The one thing I am holding on to, is the "concrete physical work" that I asked of him for next weekend, where he vows to finish the tiling he began several months ago, on the area that will be the surround for a wood stove. We have all the materials. He put up some of the board needed. He just needs to knuckle down and put up the tile itself.
It's beautiful tile, and it's a sunk expense, so it's a huge waste if we don't get after things and make this happen for a wood stove. It literally would have no other application in our home.
We did a bunch of useful things like did the dishes, did some laundry, put away other laundry, I packed up more frozen raspberries and laid the next ones on a tray to freeze (I do this so that they do not become a single frozen raspberry bowling ball in the bag).
Then we did normal chores, my Sweetie hooked up the horse trailer, we put away a big, heavy saddle that I had hoped to sell but people did not seem interested (sigh).
I inquired about a pile of good looking lumber just sitting in a scattered pile in front of the house, and my Sweetie said that he could put it away...and HE DID IT. A proud moment in marital history.
We picked about half a gallon of raspberries, some of which I took with me to the barn to give to R, as she said her canes didn't produce any fruit this year.
We went to the barn, and practiced trailer loading with River again. He was calm throughout, which is great. I worked on getting him to load himself, since his triggers seem to be any kind of sense of being forced.
I did two separate sessions, one with my Sweetie present, where River did well and we practiced moving the divider. Later, I did a second session with R present, where I let River load himself, and we were able to close and secure the divider, which is a BIG FRIKKEN DEAL for this horse. He remained calm, and even stayed still while I opened the divider, and waited for his cue to back out calmly.
While my Sweetie went for a bike ride (he just brings his bike to the barn and rides while I work) I worked with River on just making nice circles mostly at a walk since it was pretty hot today, and he was very soft and responsive today (everything is just about this horse's mood each day, it seems. Or maybe it's about my mood).
When my Sweetie got back, I decided to try to record that one pattern that we just couldn't get during our lesson time, and we got it. Yay!
While I was working with River, R was outside working with the very obese horse. He's actually doing very well for not having anything done with him for several years. She rode him lightly today in the round pen, and he seemed to be doing okay with it.
I asked her if she was happy with the saddle she tried on him, and she was thinking it MIGHT work, but not sure. I lent her a saddle I had in the tack room of my trailer that I knew to be a wide gullet. It seems a little funny that I just happened to have a wide gullet saddle kicking around that she could borrow, but hey.
She said she would try it tomorrow and see if it works better than the one she tried on him.
So after we got home I had to get the recording of that pattern onto YouTube so I could submit it for the online competition. Whew!
We watched one episode of "Justified", and that was about it for the day.
I felt very "busy" today, trying to plan things with my Sweetie and trying to get so many things sorted mentally.
A nice, lazy start to the day.
I did my best to have a sane conversation with my Sweetie today about our week, and what we could accomplish with it if we were organized and on the same page.
The eavestrough guys are slated to be here tomorrow, so hopefully that works out.
We have a few things that can be done this week that are more like planning things, but need to happen.
It is noted by myself that no real "concrete physical work" is slated. Just "planning and materials", which is my husband's favorite pastime, as it can be done with a few phone calls and a trip to a store.
The one thing I am holding on to, is the "concrete physical work" that I asked of him for next weekend, where he vows to finish the tiling he began several months ago, on the area that will be the surround for a wood stove. We have all the materials. He put up some of the board needed. He just needs to knuckle down and put up the tile itself.
It's beautiful tile, and it's a sunk expense, so it's a huge waste if we don't get after things and make this happen for a wood stove. It literally would have no other application in our home.
We did a bunch of useful things like did the dishes, did some laundry, put away other laundry, I packed up more frozen raspberries and laid the next ones on a tray to freeze (I do this so that they do not become a single frozen raspberry bowling ball in the bag).
Then we did normal chores, my Sweetie hooked up the horse trailer, we put away a big, heavy saddle that I had hoped to sell but people did not seem interested (sigh).
I inquired about a pile of good looking lumber just sitting in a scattered pile in front of the house, and my Sweetie said that he could put it away...and HE DID IT. A proud moment in marital history.
We picked about half a gallon of raspberries, some of which I took with me to the barn to give to R, as she said her canes didn't produce any fruit this year.
We went to the barn, and practiced trailer loading with River again. He was calm throughout, which is great. I worked on getting him to load himself, since his triggers seem to be any kind of sense of being forced.
I did two separate sessions, one with my Sweetie present, where River did well and we practiced moving the divider. Later, I did a second session with R present, where I let River load himself, and we were able to close and secure the divider, which is a BIG FRIKKEN DEAL for this horse. He remained calm, and even stayed still while I opened the divider, and waited for his cue to back out calmly.
While my Sweetie went for a bike ride (he just brings his bike to the barn and rides while I work) I worked with River on just making nice circles mostly at a walk since it was pretty hot today, and he was very soft and responsive today (everything is just about this horse's mood each day, it seems. Or maybe it's about my mood).
When my Sweetie got back, I decided to try to record that one pattern that we just couldn't get during our lesson time, and we got it. Yay!
While I was working with River, R was outside working with the very obese horse. He's actually doing very well for not having anything done with him for several years. She rode him lightly today in the round pen, and he seemed to be doing okay with it.
I asked her if she was happy with the saddle she tried on him, and she was thinking it MIGHT work, but not sure. I lent her a saddle I had in the tack room of my trailer that I knew to be a wide gullet. It seems a little funny that I just happened to have a wide gullet saddle kicking around that she could borrow, but hey.
She said she would try it tomorrow and see if it works better than the one she tried on him.
So after we got home I had to get the recording of that pattern onto YouTube so I could submit it for the online competition. Whew!
We watched one episode of "Justified", and that was about it for the day.
I felt very "busy" today, trying to plan things with my Sweetie and trying to get so many things sorted mentally.
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Date: 2024-08-12 06:31 pm (UTC)It is not lost on me that time is short and it must be "all systems are go" until the weather changes everything.
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Date: 2024-08-13 05:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-13 07:01 am (UTC)The plan is to finish the sanding, then prime and paint it - and then do the same on the (very small) south fascia, which is really just one board over the front door.
The ceiling is a wreck, but too much work for what's left of this summer. I'd rather touch up the railings and repaint the front door in the time remaining. If the ceiling light fixture can be taken down, I will strip and repaint that, too. It is a mess. Egad, I'm rambling now.
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Date: 2024-08-13 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-14 02:55 am (UTC)Work on the west part is coming along, but sanding by hand is tedious work. It looks much better now, though, and once the painting is done (end or middle of next week, I think), I'll be able to finish that north bit. And that's enough!
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Date: 2024-08-13 12:27 am (UTC)And so many cheers for the proud marital moment!!!!!!
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Date: 2024-08-13 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
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