Tuesday, December 3
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
The beautiful warm weather. Some negative people might only complain that "now we're just going to get ice if the snow melts" (and they're not wrong), but having warm spells like this makes winter a lot more bearable.
I called Sister S, she's the one who recently retired from owning her own tax/accounting business. The one with a lot of back pain, waiting for surgery.
I'm trying to talk to her more often, now that she's retired. I get the impression that she's spending a lot of time alone at home, with nothing to do.
I did talk to her about that, and it seems like she (like Trainwreck) is a bit "lost at sea" with what to do with herself. Her business was pretty much her whole life for over 20 years.
So I gave her similar advice as I gave Trainwreck, go DO something. Find a hobby. Find a book club to join, go to the public library, a yoga class, ANYTHING.
Her response was a lot like Trainwreck's: I don't like to go outside or join things or join groups.
Well, I guess then that Sister S will rot at home alone, just like Trainwreck.
I know her back hurts a lot. That might make doing most things pretty much impossible right now. There ARE some hobbies that she might be able to do.
Maybe some things will seem more appealing after her back surgery. I hope so.
By the time I was going outside to work with Wonder and Dandy, my husband came home from work.
He went inside and got changed, and we ended up putting up some Christmas lights on one of our spruce trees, and a simple string woven into our little fence by the house. It's not a lot of lights, but it's festive. You can see the tree when you're approaching the house from the road.
I did work with the horses at home, and it was a bit silly since I haven't worked with them at Liberty this past week because of how cold it was.
I did get some good connection, and I'll keep working at it.
Then I went to see River.
He did very well with our Liberty work, very connected and good energy. Getting better at being more fluid with some of the yields.
He was off with the ridden work, just not cantering in a smooth manner. I am not sure what's going on; he was being more than willing, and I wasn't going to push anything, but he seemed rough and not able to collect himself.
I will have to watch this to see if it improves.
I was pretty happy with his willingness today.
R had a lesson after my riding time, and I chatted with her briefly. She mentioned loving anything cotton candy flavored, so I'm wondering if there's a way to work that into a Christmas gift. We usually try to give her something.
I came home and we ate and watched some "Scooby Doo".
The beautiful warm weather. Some negative people might only complain that "now we're just going to get ice if the snow melts" (and they're not wrong), but having warm spells like this makes winter a lot more bearable.
I called Sister S, she's the one who recently retired from owning her own tax/accounting business. The one with a lot of back pain, waiting for surgery.
I'm trying to talk to her more often, now that she's retired. I get the impression that she's spending a lot of time alone at home, with nothing to do.
I did talk to her about that, and it seems like she (like Trainwreck) is a bit "lost at sea" with what to do with herself. Her business was pretty much her whole life for over 20 years.
So I gave her similar advice as I gave Trainwreck, go DO something. Find a hobby. Find a book club to join, go to the public library, a yoga class, ANYTHING.
Her response was a lot like Trainwreck's: I don't like to go outside or join things or join groups.
Well, I guess then that Sister S will rot at home alone, just like Trainwreck.
I know her back hurts a lot. That might make doing most things pretty much impossible right now. There ARE some hobbies that she might be able to do.
Maybe some things will seem more appealing after her back surgery. I hope so.
By the time I was going outside to work with Wonder and Dandy, my husband came home from work.
He went inside and got changed, and we ended up putting up some Christmas lights on one of our spruce trees, and a simple string woven into our little fence by the house. It's not a lot of lights, but it's festive. You can see the tree when you're approaching the house from the road.
I did work with the horses at home, and it was a bit silly since I haven't worked with them at Liberty this past week because of how cold it was.
I did get some good connection, and I'll keep working at it.
Then I went to see River.
He did very well with our Liberty work, very connected and good energy. Getting better at being more fluid with some of the yields.
He was off with the ridden work, just not cantering in a smooth manner. I am not sure what's going on; he was being more than willing, and I wasn't going to push anything, but he seemed rough and not able to collect himself.
I will have to watch this to see if it improves.
I was pretty happy with his willingness today.
R had a lesson after my riding time, and I chatted with her briefly. She mentioned loving anything cotton candy flavored, so I'm wondering if there's a way to work that into a Christmas gift. We usually try to give her something.
I came home and we ate and watched some "Scooby Doo".
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Date: 2024-12-05 08:12 am (UTC)There are lights here as well. They are not gold, as I'd hoped they would be, but they are a warm white. With pineycones wired and added tomorrow, it'll be a nice, charming porch.
Is there a Baskin-Robbins in your nearby city? You could give R a gift certificate for a container of cotton candy ice cream. (Theirs is good, even though I'm partial to German chocolate cake, myself. The sous chef has discovered it, too.)
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Date: 2024-12-05 09:31 am (UTC)I have been looking at specialty candy stores, and apparently they make cotton candy starbursts, Skittles, and some kind of Dr.Pepper chew that is cotton candy flavored.
There's also flavored liqueurs out there (she's okay with alcohol as a gift, we did that last year), but I'm concerned that cotton candy alcohol might be obnoxious.
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Date: 2024-12-05 07:44 pm (UTC)