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I spent last night in the commons at the last minute. My intention was to catch with my physiology reading. It didn't happen. Instead, Natasha and I headed back to La Plata to get the crushed peppermint and chocolate I had so we could make peppermint chocolate together. We then did some karaoke before heading back to the commons for our chocolate making business. It was good, but not as pepperminty as I like it to be.
We woke up this morning and walked to south campus diner...I was excited because south campus has jelly filled donuts and north campus doesn't. Only today south campus didn't have any jelly filled donuts! What the heck! So I opted for a cherry danish instead. And a chicken wrap.
About 1ish, I headed back over to La Plata to drop off my backpack and then go to the barn for my 1:30 lesson. It was a ground lesson so we discussed what each of us has already done (we're all pretty much comfortable with a walk, trot, and canter, starting to jump) and then woke Chico up from his nap to do some longing. He was as lazy as ever, especially by the time I longed him (I was the last of the four of us including our teacher, Amber). There were three specific points of the circle he would stop at every single time. But when I got him trotting, he actually went at a nice healthy speed, not his normal sluggishnish. And I could see, better than I've ever been able to fell, whenever he wanted to break his trot and go into a walk and I cracked the whip at him. By the time we finished, my right wrist hurt from trying to crack the whip, it's harder than it looks! We then stood around in the barn for a while and talked about random things before deciding to go to the sheep barn to check on the lambs. We now have 11 and all but three have names so far. As far as I can remember it the list is:
801-Zoe
802-Lola
803-Cookie Monster
804-Snooky
805-Doozer
806-
807-
808-
809-Winky Pinkerton (Winky)
810-Clementine
811-Felix
One of the unnamed ones has eye problems, his lower eyelids are turned in so he gets medicine in his eyes to stop the eyelashes from scratching the cornea. Cecelia also has a retained placenta still...almost a week after lambing. But all the lambs have their sweaters off and are jumping around. Maggie's boys have even been climbing on her and sliding off.
We woke up this morning and walked to south campus diner...I was excited because south campus has jelly filled donuts and north campus doesn't. Only today south campus didn't have any jelly filled donuts! What the heck! So I opted for a cherry danish instead. And a chicken wrap.
About 1ish, I headed back over to La Plata to drop off my backpack and then go to the barn for my 1:30 lesson. It was a ground lesson so we discussed what each of us has already done (we're all pretty much comfortable with a walk, trot, and canter, starting to jump) and then woke Chico up from his nap to do some longing. He was as lazy as ever, especially by the time I longed him (I was the last of the four of us including our teacher, Amber). There were three specific points of the circle he would stop at every single time. But when I got him trotting, he actually went at a nice healthy speed, not his normal sluggishnish. And I could see, better than I've ever been able to fell, whenever he wanted to break his trot and go into a walk and I cracked the whip at him. By the time we finished, my right wrist hurt from trying to crack the whip, it's harder than it looks! We then stood around in the barn for a while and talked about random things before deciding to go to the sheep barn to check on the lambs. We now have 11 and all but three have names so far. As far as I can remember it the list is:
801-Zoe
802-Lola
803-Cookie Monster
804-Snooky
805-Doozer
806-
807-
808-
809-Winky Pinkerton (Winky)
810-Clementine
811-Felix
One of the unnamed ones has eye problems, his lower eyelids are turned in so he gets medicine in his eyes to stop the eyelashes from scratching the cornea. Cecelia also has a retained placenta still...almost a week after lambing. But all the lambs have their sweaters off and are jumping around. Maggie's boys have even been climbing on her and sliding off.