Wednesday, March 18
Mar. 18th, 2026 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Decent sleep.
The man we helped get off the highway last night came back today with a different truck and a flat deck trailer to come get his dead truck out of our yard.
It took him a LOOONG time to get the truck onto the trailer. It might have gone faster with another person.
I went outside after eating and feeding indoor animals, to see how he was doing, as well as to wish him well since he had another four hour drive back home ahead of him.
He insisted on giving me some cash, since my husband went above and beyond helping him last night. I did try to turn it down, since that's not why we help people, but I also see how he might have felt like he needed to give us some money for helping him out.
Anyhow, he got on his way, and later that night my husband texted him and made sure he got home safely.
I did normal chores and such, and checked on my drying tea pot in the studio.
I went to the barn, today we recorded two classes for an upcoming virtual show.
The first pattern went well, the second one shouldn't have given us any grief, but River "forgot" how to do a turn on his hindquarters properly. I got pretty frustrated, which is tough when you are trying to record for a show, because you can only run through a pattern so many times before both of you get burned right out, and there's only so much time in the lesson (I need R to record for us).
I COULD get my husband to record it, but the video is due soon.
My husband did show up partway through.
Anyhow, we ended up doing the second pattern just about perfectly on every other element besides the mediocre turn on hindquarters, which R adamantly asserts won't affect our score that badly, so I guess that's the recording we'll go with.
It still left me feeling overwhelmed and frustrated, as the combination of trying to be perfect, being recorded, and having time constraints often burns me out completely.
I did chat with L for a while. She was working with dogs and owners in an obedience class in the upstairs room above the barn, and came down to the barn afterwards. I showed her the cape I'm working on, and we just shot the shit for a while.
We went home, and my Sweetie made supper. We didn't watch anything tonight, as he just needed to get some sleep as early as possible since he didn't get much sleep last night.
Decent sleep.
The man we helped get off the highway last night came back today with a different truck and a flat deck trailer to come get his dead truck out of our yard.
It took him a LOOONG time to get the truck onto the trailer. It might have gone faster with another person.
I went outside after eating and feeding indoor animals, to see how he was doing, as well as to wish him well since he had another four hour drive back home ahead of him.
He insisted on giving me some cash, since my husband went above and beyond helping him last night. I did try to turn it down, since that's not why we help people, but I also see how he might have felt like he needed to give us some money for helping him out.
Anyhow, he got on his way, and later that night my husband texted him and made sure he got home safely.
I did normal chores and such, and checked on my drying tea pot in the studio.
I went to the barn, today we recorded two classes for an upcoming virtual show.
The first pattern went well, the second one shouldn't have given us any grief, but River "forgot" how to do a turn on his hindquarters properly. I got pretty frustrated, which is tough when you are trying to record for a show, because you can only run through a pattern so many times before both of you get burned right out, and there's only so much time in the lesson (I need R to record for us).
I COULD get my husband to record it, but the video is due soon.
My husband did show up partway through.
Anyhow, we ended up doing the second pattern just about perfectly on every other element besides the mediocre turn on hindquarters, which R adamantly asserts won't affect our score that badly, so I guess that's the recording we'll go with.
It still left me feeling overwhelmed and frustrated, as the combination of trying to be perfect, being recorded, and having time constraints often burns me out completely.
I did chat with L for a while. She was working with dogs and owners in an obedience class in the upstairs room above the barn, and came down to the barn afterwards. I showed her the cape I'm working on, and we just shot the shit for a while.
We went home, and my Sweetie made supper. We didn't watch anything tonight, as he just needed to get some sleep as early as possible since he didn't get much sleep last night.
