Sunday, November 3
Nov. 4th, 2024 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
I like waking up and realizing that my husband is still home on the weekend. Sometimes he gets up early and goes to help our friends or what have you, but today he was home.
When he is home he often makes me breakfast.
We had a relaxed approach to the day, but still got something useful done. When I worked with Dandy and Wonder in the pasture today, he spent some time cutting down MORE saplings. Ones that were growing right along the fence and would interfere with it.
For those who are curious, we have a lot of poplars on our place, and poplars are sort of like...every clump you see of them is actually a single organism with a shared root system. The trees you see above ground are all suckering like crazy from the roots, so you can mow them down like grass and next year you will have many new ones. We have to mow and saw down all the saplings pretty much every year or so.
He also cut back some branches that were interfering with our walking path.
We put all the cut stuff on a pile we will burn when there is enough snow.
Dandy and Wonder were a lot better with staying with me today. When they DO stay with me, it's a good feeling, like our little herd is going for a walk together. Wonder even came back to me after being very curious about what a neighbor was doing.
Then I went to see River.
His energy was good today, and he was staying focused with me as well. We worked a bit with the long garrocha, and one thing it showed was how crooked our side pass is, so I worked on that for awhile.
I also worked on getting forward and then collected trot and canter.
I was pretty happy with his work today, plus I got to listen to one of my favorite older albums of Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, and I had forgotten how much I love that album.
I came home and my Sweetie had made supper, so I pretty much got to eat right away, and we watched an older movie called "The Take" which was pretty good.
I like waking up and realizing that my husband is still home on the weekend. Sometimes he gets up early and goes to help our friends or what have you, but today he was home.
When he is home he often makes me breakfast.
We had a relaxed approach to the day, but still got something useful done. When I worked with Dandy and Wonder in the pasture today, he spent some time cutting down MORE saplings. Ones that were growing right along the fence and would interfere with it.
For those who are curious, we have a lot of poplars on our place, and poplars are sort of like...every clump you see of them is actually a single organism with a shared root system. The trees you see above ground are all suckering like crazy from the roots, so you can mow them down like grass and next year you will have many new ones. We have to mow and saw down all the saplings pretty much every year or so.
He also cut back some branches that were interfering with our walking path.
We put all the cut stuff on a pile we will burn when there is enough snow.
Dandy and Wonder were a lot better with staying with me today. When they DO stay with me, it's a good feeling, like our little herd is going for a walk together. Wonder even came back to me after being very curious about what a neighbor was doing.
Then I went to see River.
His energy was good today, and he was staying focused with me as well. We worked a bit with the long garrocha, and one thing it showed was how crooked our side pass is, so I worked on that for awhile.
I also worked on getting forward and then collected trot and canter.
I was pretty happy with his work today, plus I got to listen to one of my favorite older albums of Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, and I had forgotten how much I love that album.
I came home and my Sweetie had made supper, so I pretty much got to eat right away, and we watched an older movie called "The Take" which was pretty good.
