Wednesday, October 29
Oct. 29th, 2025 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Getting some sleep, though maybe could have used a bit more.
I am looking forward to having our friends drop by tomorrow as they continue on their journey, so I wanted to make the house a bit more hospitable.
So I invested some time in putting things away, and some things merely out of the way until further notice, vacuumed, swept, tossed a few things, cleaned up an expired squash from the mud room where we have them stored, cleaned up the general mudroom/porch area and mopped the floor, and in general focused on having things picked up (ie. dealing with "piles").
I want to do a bit more tonight, but if they came RIGHT NOW, it isn't too bad.
I did chores and then headed to the barn for our lesson.
R talked for a while about River needing "more maintenance", which I am a bit annoyed about, because she generally only does this when one of her friends who is in this "maybe not exactly scientific" "alternate therapy" horse world is coming to do some kind of voodoo on her horses.
Yes, I certainly could pay her friend to do a "full body assessment" on River, and I bet she'll give me some good advice on what supplements (that she likely sells) would be helpful.
It's frustrating. River is a bit stiff in one direction, mostly you see it when I ask him to do something like a side pass to that side. He's been that way THE ENTIRE TIME I'VE OWNED HIM, in spite of having chiropractic treatment, some body work, and so on.
Sigh.
At least after the lecture we did some ridden work that felt useful.
After the lesson, R and I went upstairs and spent some quality time with the kittens.
My Sweetie did stop in at the barn on his way home as I was tacking up, and then he said he'd try to do a bit of clean up in the basement, since our friends would likely want to see our cool wood stove down there.
I came home and my Sweetie made supper, we folded some clothes, and he headed to bed.
Getting some sleep, though maybe could have used a bit more.
I am looking forward to having our friends drop by tomorrow as they continue on their journey, so I wanted to make the house a bit more hospitable.
So I invested some time in putting things away, and some things merely out of the way until further notice, vacuumed, swept, tossed a few things, cleaned up an expired squash from the mud room where we have them stored, cleaned up the general mudroom/porch area and mopped the floor, and in general focused on having things picked up (ie. dealing with "piles").
I want to do a bit more tonight, but if they came RIGHT NOW, it isn't too bad.
I did chores and then headed to the barn for our lesson.
R talked for a while about River needing "more maintenance", which I am a bit annoyed about, because she generally only does this when one of her friends who is in this "maybe not exactly scientific" "alternate therapy" horse world is coming to do some kind of voodoo on her horses.
Yes, I certainly could pay her friend to do a "full body assessment" on River, and I bet she'll give me some good advice on what supplements (that she likely sells) would be helpful.
It's frustrating. River is a bit stiff in one direction, mostly you see it when I ask him to do something like a side pass to that side. He's been that way THE ENTIRE TIME I'VE OWNED HIM, in spite of having chiropractic treatment, some body work, and so on.
Sigh.
At least after the lecture we did some ridden work that felt useful.
After the lesson, R and I went upstairs and spent some quality time with the kittens.
My Sweetie did stop in at the barn on his way home as I was tacking up, and then he said he'd try to do a bit of clean up in the basement, since our friends would likely want to see our cool wood stove down there.
I came home and my Sweetie made supper, we folded some clothes, and he headed to bed.
