Tuesday, June 10
Jun. 10th, 2025 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Sleep in our own bed, where I have our sweet kitties, and privacy.
To get up and make food the way I like it, without wondering what's available or what compromises I may have to make.
Being able to rot my brain on the computer as one does.
Today then went on to be quite busy again, trying to catch up on everything. As I've said, it is very strange to just carry on with laundry and such mundane tasks.
I put away dishes, fed critters, changed the cat litter, did water exchange for the turtle, vacuumed the area rugs, did two loads of laundry and some hand washing, took everything out of luggage and put it back where it belonged.
Somewhere in there I talked with Trainwreck, and it was just chit chat. Like I said, better if she's sober. She had an appointment to get new glasses, which I know she has not done for a very long time. Good that she's doing some self care.
Then I went outside, and did chores, then tried to water the garden again (ran out of water in the big rainwater tank after about half an hour. We need rain.), and pulled some weeds out of a mulched area that frustrates me because the whole point of the bark mulch was to have very few weeds, but there are LOTS of Canada Thistle in the mulch.
Then I went to the barn to see River, I've missed him so much.
It's been smokey and hot, so again not fantastic for his energy and breathing.
My Sweetie met up with me at the barn, and stayed while we worked, which is great.
I worked on my freestyle, which I have barely done for weeks, and I guess tomorrow is when we need to record it. Today's work was good to reacquaint me with it, and at some point we just have to go for it, I guess.
The we came home, let everyone out into their pastures for a while, and mowed the tall grass inside the round pen, raked up the ginormous amount of clippings, and took them away to the creek edge.
While we were doing that, our next door neighbor came over to let us know that there was a big pig running loose.
There is a farm (kind of, not a GOOD farm, kind of a BS rinky dink set-up) that I guess was sold, but according to our neighbor, there are animals left behind. No idea if anyone is taking care of them, but it's looking like they've been just set loose to fend for themselves.
He saw the pig in his yard twice today, and scared it off with his .22, but who knows what this pig is like. Is he pretty friendly and used to people, or is he going to get more aggressive if he gets hungry?
So, that's not good. For one, it would terrify my animals if it were in our yard.
I am going to try to make some phone calls tomorrow, to see if it's ANYONE'S job to look into the situation, but I imagine I will get some kind of BS like "call us if it's in your yard" or "let us know if you can catch it".
I know our neighbor is going to just shoot it if he can, but I wonder if there's a way for the authorities to capture it? Probably all they would have to do is shake a pail full of mash at it, and it would follow them into a pen.
That said, a pig CANNOT be allowed to roam. We already have a feral pig problem, and they certainly can be dangerous and destructive.
Sleep in our own bed, where I have our sweet kitties, and privacy.
To get up and make food the way I like it, without wondering what's available or what compromises I may have to make.
Being able to rot my brain on the computer as one does.
Today then went on to be quite busy again, trying to catch up on everything. As I've said, it is very strange to just carry on with laundry and such mundane tasks.
I put away dishes, fed critters, changed the cat litter, did water exchange for the turtle, vacuumed the area rugs, did two loads of laundry and some hand washing, took everything out of luggage and put it back where it belonged.
Somewhere in there I talked with Trainwreck, and it was just chit chat. Like I said, better if she's sober. She had an appointment to get new glasses, which I know she has not done for a very long time. Good that she's doing some self care.
Then I went outside, and did chores, then tried to water the garden again (ran out of water in the big rainwater tank after about half an hour. We need rain.), and pulled some weeds out of a mulched area that frustrates me because the whole point of the bark mulch was to have very few weeds, but there are LOTS of Canada Thistle in the mulch.
Then I went to the barn to see River, I've missed him so much.
It's been smokey and hot, so again not fantastic for his energy and breathing.
My Sweetie met up with me at the barn, and stayed while we worked, which is great.
I worked on my freestyle, which I have barely done for weeks, and I guess tomorrow is when we need to record it. Today's work was good to reacquaint me with it, and at some point we just have to go for it, I guess.
The we came home, let everyone out into their pastures for a while, and mowed the tall grass inside the round pen, raked up the ginormous amount of clippings, and took them away to the creek edge.
While we were doing that, our next door neighbor came over to let us know that there was a big pig running loose.
There is a farm (kind of, not a GOOD farm, kind of a BS rinky dink set-up) that I guess was sold, but according to our neighbor, there are animals left behind. No idea if anyone is taking care of them, but it's looking like they've been just set loose to fend for themselves.
He saw the pig in his yard twice today, and scared it off with his .22, but who knows what this pig is like. Is he pretty friendly and used to people, or is he going to get more aggressive if he gets hungry?
So, that's not good. For one, it would terrify my animals if it were in our yard.
I am going to try to make some phone calls tomorrow, to see if it's ANYONE'S job to look into the situation, but I imagine I will get some kind of BS like "call us if it's in your yard" or "let us know if you can catch it".
I know our neighbor is going to just shoot it if he can, but I wonder if there's a way for the authorities to capture it? Probably all they would have to do is shake a pail full of mash at it, and it would follow them into a pen.
That said, a pig CANNOT be allowed to roam. We already have a feral pig problem, and they certainly can be dangerous and destructive.
