Sunday, May 10
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Decent sleep.
My Sweetie got up before I did, and worked with Dan in the basement. They put up the frame for the suspended ceiling tiles to come.
When I got up, after eating etc. I made quinoa, made the dense salad for the week, washed dog diapers, filled the cat water tower.
We went outside to put up the electric fence in Wonder's corral. I hate needing to do this, but her corral is large enough that there's a fair amount of grass in it, and she can't have much grass.
She will still get time most days in the larger pasture with a grazing mask on, but I hate that so much of her life means being kept away from grazing.
We also managed to get dewormer into the ponies (they fight it) and Wonder (she is usually good about it).
Then we cleaned out the bird houses.
Then we headed to the barn to see River. He was pretty filthy again.
We struggled with one element in a pattern for some time. When we moved on to the freestyle work he did well.
His nose is still scabby where the skin split on his nostrils, though it does look to be healing. I am putting cream on it, which seems to help.
We came home and I put Dandy in with Wonder, and let the others out into their pasture for a while.
I cooked, we ate, and chatted for a while before my Sweetie headed to bed.
Saturday:
I sadly had a hissy fit about my Sweetie wanting to get up early so he could go alone to the city to catch a tool sale and then go ride his bike, and maybe be back when I got up.
Maybe I shouldn't have been so annoyed, but our plan being to work in the garden meant that I wouldn't have a day in the city, but HE would.
I thought it was kind of...rude?
Also, he's the one who always says how tired he is, and how much he would like to just stay in bed with me every single day of the week.
So why get up early and manufacture a reason to be busy, to drive an hour each way to the city, for a tool sale that MIGHT have the tool he wants on sale (but he says there was no guarantee if they would have it, so he would be driving all that way potentially for nothing).
AND to go for a likely reasonably strenuous bike ride when we were planning to work in the garden all afternoon, a task that is generally exhausting?
Why do all of that, when you are always saying you're tired and too busy?
So he did stay home and just relax, whether or not he liked me complaining about his other ideas.
I normally don't tell him what to do, but far too often he does all this stuff in the morning before I get up on the weekend, when he COULD just relax. Sometimes it makes sense, this time it didn't.
I will add that other than the one specific tool he was hoping to get on sale (and I said, is the sale even enough to matter if you're driving two hours just to buy that one thing?), he otherwise DOES NOT NEED MORE TOOLS. He has tools that most contractors don't even have.
Anyhow.
After we got up, we did exactly what we had planned, which was to work in the garden.
I knew it would be grueling, because this year I wanted to pull up the trellises for beans and work up all the grass roots that have taken hold in the space between them that is a walk way.
We worked for several hours, and yes, it was exhausting.
Why would you want to get up early and drive and go for a bike ride on top of that?
We ate, and watched a movie called "Monkey Man", about a man in India who starts taking revenge against the wealthy people who basically control everything and killed his mother when he was a child, when the wealthy were forcing poor people out of a village so they could develop it.
While it was a fictional and sensationalized film, there was also a lot of uncomfortable truth about the poor of India.
Decent sleep.
My Sweetie got up before I did, and worked with Dan in the basement. They put up the frame for the suspended ceiling tiles to come.
When I got up, after eating etc. I made quinoa, made the dense salad for the week, washed dog diapers, filled the cat water tower.
We went outside to put up the electric fence in Wonder's corral. I hate needing to do this, but her corral is large enough that there's a fair amount of grass in it, and she can't have much grass.
She will still get time most days in the larger pasture with a grazing mask on, but I hate that so much of her life means being kept away from grazing.
We also managed to get dewormer into the ponies (they fight it) and Wonder (she is usually good about it).
Then we cleaned out the bird houses.
Then we headed to the barn to see River. He was pretty filthy again.
We struggled with one element in a pattern for some time. When we moved on to the freestyle work he did well.
His nose is still scabby where the skin split on his nostrils, though it does look to be healing. I am putting cream on it, which seems to help.
We came home and I put Dandy in with Wonder, and let the others out into their pasture for a while.
I cooked, we ate, and chatted for a while before my Sweetie headed to bed.
Saturday:
I sadly had a hissy fit about my Sweetie wanting to get up early so he could go alone to the city to catch a tool sale and then go ride his bike, and maybe be back when I got up.
Maybe I shouldn't have been so annoyed, but our plan being to work in the garden meant that I wouldn't have a day in the city, but HE would.
I thought it was kind of...rude?
Also, he's the one who always says how tired he is, and how much he would like to just stay in bed with me every single day of the week.
So why get up early and manufacture a reason to be busy, to drive an hour each way to the city, for a tool sale that MIGHT have the tool he wants on sale (but he says there was no guarantee if they would have it, so he would be driving all that way potentially for nothing).
AND to go for a likely reasonably strenuous bike ride when we were planning to work in the garden all afternoon, a task that is generally exhausting?
Why do all of that, when you are always saying you're tired and too busy?
So he did stay home and just relax, whether or not he liked me complaining about his other ideas.
I normally don't tell him what to do, but far too often he does all this stuff in the morning before I get up on the weekend, when he COULD just relax. Sometimes it makes sense, this time it didn't.
I will add that other than the one specific tool he was hoping to get on sale (and I said, is the sale even enough to matter if you're driving two hours just to buy that one thing?), he otherwise DOES NOT NEED MORE TOOLS. He has tools that most contractors don't even have.
Anyhow.
After we got up, we did exactly what we had planned, which was to work in the garden.
I knew it would be grueling, because this year I wanted to pull up the trellises for beans and work up all the grass roots that have taken hold in the space between them that is a walk way.
We worked for several hours, and yes, it was exhausting.
Why would you want to get up early and drive and go for a bike ride on top of that?
We ate, and watched a movie called "Monkey Man", about a man in India who starts taking revenge against the wealthy people who basically control everything and killed his mother when he was a child, when the wealthy were forcing poor people out of a village so they could develop it.
While it was a fictional and sensationalized film, there was also a lot of uncomfortable truth about the poor of India.
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Date: 2026-05-11 06:14 am (UTC)I'd hoped the box room window frame would be finished this weekend, as promised. The window was measured today – it's something.
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Date: 2026-05-11 07:01 am (UTC)It's the easiest thing to put in the basement that will still allow access to pipes and electrical stuff.
You can't really put in drywall ceilings because of all the utility stuff that needs to be accessible.
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Date: 2026-05-11 06:52 pm (UTC)