Friday bullets - March 19,2021

Well, it feels as though it's been a week. I'm glad it's Friday.
  • The phone drama took up a good deal of energy. It started out with my old phone needing to be recharged three times a day and when I plugged it in, it took some fiddling to make sure it would slowly charge. Then there was the time to get it set up and functioning. Bless TM for doing that. He told several tech support people that he had more patience than his parents for dealing with it, and it was very true. Now, I have a working phone. It's fast, it holds it charge, and when the phone rings, I can actually answer it. With the old one, about 75% of the time, the answer button wouldn't work. I can go back to happily not spending any time thinking about whether or not my phone will work and I like that.
  • One last phone item. The camera is significantly better. I evidently has some sort of night-picture-thing on it that TM was dying to try out. So he took it out last night and took these two photos.


Pretty cool, huh? I will never use it. Instead, my first picture on my new phone was of these three.

  • I received my second does of the Moderna vaccine this morning. So far, so good in terms of reaction. I did clear my schedule tomorrow just in case.
  • I love hearing about A.'s new job. It sounds as though she is a terrific manager, even when dealing with problems such as a leaking ceiling that she inherited. I'm proud of her.
  • See this?

I couldn't figure out what this odd white patch was in the pasture earlier this week. As I got closer, I realized it was Emmy's hair from where she rolled. 


I have already brushed off at least three ponies' worth of hair from her, yet she is still shedding it by the handfuls.
  • In other horse news, the escape team continues to do find ways of getting in trouble. For a third time, someone drew my attention to horses not being where they should be. This time it was just Java, whom I have suspected all along, who was wandering around the barn. I had left the back barn door open into the pasture, but the door guard was up. I think Java just went under it. The other two seemed a little baffled as to how she managed it because they were just standing at the door staring at her. Needless to say, the barn door now gets shut when they are in the pasture.
  • My seeds are starting to sprout... even the lemongrass which had warnings on the seed packet that it had a low germination rate. 

The lemongrass is in the back. B. and I had really overplanted it because of the warning. I think I'm going to end up with a lot of lemongrass plants this summer.
  • With more adult children out of the house and in their own apartments, I find I am finding and sending them recipes for specific meals fairly frequently. 
  • P. rode in her first dressage show this week and received a very good score.
  • Last Friday, we held our breath and titrated up R.'s seizure meds one step. This did not go so well the first time, so we had no idea what to expect. Well, I'm happy to report the week went well. There was one afternoon that saw (heard?) screaming, but she managed to regulate herself and life went on. We've decided to give her one more week before titrating up to the next step.
  • Finally, to all of my Asian readers, my heart breaks over the violence the Asian-American community has suffered. My heart breaks even further that once again, the voices of people of color are being dismissed or ignored by a certain segment of the population. This is wrong. It is especially wrong for white parents of Asian children to do this, yet I see it frequently. To you I want to say a couple of things. You do not know what your children experience without your cloak of whiteness around them. The world is not always a nice place, and there are those who will not treat our children as they should be treated. This will happen to them, even if it has not happened yet. And if you openly dismiss these experiences, there is a very good chance that your children will not feel comfortable sharing them with you because no one wants to be dismissed. Know better. Listen to the voices of people with first hand experience, even if you have never personally experienced this and even if you find it uncomfortable. This is the only way you can do better for your children.


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