Wednesday, January 15
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Some sleep. Not deep like the other night, but okay.
Continued mild weather.
A quiet day before I went to the barn. I did normal chores and I worked with Dandy and Wonder.
I got to the barn fairly early, but that gave River a chance to eat for quite a while in the barn (there's always hay in the stalls) so he would be less worried about the hay outside.
I was ready for my lesson at 6 pm, so I stood outside the arena door, and R was in there with another client and her lesson went over ten minutes into my time. I wasn't too happy about that, and while I didn't say anything, I'm sure my face kind of made a statement.
We went straight into working on environmental distraction, since he had been a tiny bit concerned about R moving a tarp. I'm going to be a bit honest here, River's reaction that prompted this as "something we need to work on" was not a big reaction, considering that R was putting away a small tarp used in obstacles, and she picked the whole thing up and shook the crap out of it to get out the sand. All River did was stop and look at her with a bit of nervousness, which isn't a big reaction, but she wanted to work on it.
So we did, and I think if River had even gotten a chance to see what R was doing, he wouldn't have reacted much, because it only took him a few minutes of shaking the hell out of the tarp and me walking with him and reassuring him to get him to ignore it.
Then we did our stationary circles, and yields, and a bit of ridden work with work on the yields.
K's lesson was at 7, and to her credit, R asked him to give us a few more minutes since her other lesson had run over into mine, so I'm happy with that.
In the barn when we were cleaning up, she talked about what a strange day she was having, feeling very distracted, and she'd gotten some bad news from more than one person too. I guess it was her way of apologizing for going over into my lesson, and even the lesson felt a little off. Well, we all have those days.
I came home, took Dandy back to his normal pen, and my husband got home from the climbing gym at the same time.
He made supper and we watched an episode of "The Orville" together.
Some sleep. Not deep like the other night, but okay.
Continued mild weather.
A quiet day before I went to the barn. I did normal chores and I worked with Dandy and Wonder.
I got to the barn fairly early, but that gave River a chance to eat for quite a while in the barn (there's always hay in the stalls) so he would be less worried about the hay outside.
I was ready for my lesson at 6 pm, so I stood outside the arena door, and R was in there with another client and her lesson went over ten minutes into my time. I wasn't too happy about that, and while I didn't say anything, I'm sure my face kind of made a statement.
We went straight into working on environmental distraction, since he had been a tiny bit concerned about R moving a tarp. I'm going to be a bit honest here, River's reaction that prompted this as "something we need to work on" was not a big reaction, considering that R was putting away a small tarp used in obstacles, and she picked the whole thing up and shook the crap out of it to get out the sand. All River did was stop and look at her with a bit of nervousness, which isn't a big reaction, but she wanted to work on it.
So we did, and I think if River had even gotten a chance to see what R was doing, he wouldn't have reacted much, because it only took him a few minutes of shaking the hell out of the tarp and me walking with him and reassuring him to get him to ignore it.
Then we did our stationary circles, and yields, and a bit of ridden work with work on the yields.
K's lesson was at 7, and to her credit, R asked him to give us a few more minutes since her other lesson had run over into mine, so I'm happy with that.
In the barn when we were cleaning up, she talked about what a strange day she was having, feeling very distracted, and she'd gotten some bad news from more than one person too. I guess it was her way of apologizing for going over into my lesson, and even the lesson felt a little off. Well, we all have those days.
I came home, took Dandy back to his normal pen, and my husband got home from the climbing gym at the same time.
He made supper and we watched an episode of "The Orville" together.
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Date: 2025-01-17 10:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-18 01:15 am (UTC)Glad that River was able to do so well and you did so well with him too.
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Date: 2025-01-18 07:47 am (UTC)I actually do forget that about her sometimes, because she is a very consistent, committed person and she is just usually extremely consistent on an energetic level. It takes a lot for her to be a bit off.
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Date: 2025-01-20 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-21 07:23 am (UTC)She works entirely from her property now, and so does her husband. She makes most of her money from grooming dogs, from early morning until about 5 pm. While her grooming clients might have their quirks, she always has the option of refusing service if anyone is rude, or cancels too often, or whatever.
Then she teaches one or two lessons in the evening, and that's the same thing. Her clients are carefully chosen, and she doesn't take crap from anyone. They are generally civil and respectful, and everyone understands that R is in charge, without her ever needing to be overbearing about it.
Her world is made up of people who need her services, who respect her authority (that is wielded lightly but firmly) and she is mostly very much in charge of her world.
That said, she also rarely leaves her property, and doesn't interact with that many people who aren't clients. You can tell, because she sometimes gets worked up about something that SOMEONE SOMEWHERE is doing that she doesn't like, and she's not used to being powerless about it.
So, in her case, not only does she not like inconsistency, there's a part of her that isn't used to not being the absolute leader in control of everything around her.
It is actually NORMAL to have to deal with situations most days where you are not the absolute leader in control of things, but not for her.
Anyhow, it was just not normal for her to be so off, but having a string of "bad news" phone calls will do that to a person.