Two days later.\u00a0 That’s because ON New Year’s rain fell, wind blew, the thermometer dropped and I was busy keeping horses hayed up and (relatively) happy.\u00a0\u00a0 It cleared off in the evening so people could shoot off their fireworks and the horses could disapprove.\u00a0 New Year’s Eve was also rainy, windy, cold.\u00a0 We got 2.6 inches, a nice start to the year; if continued throughout the year it would count as a “wet” year.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t expect that.\u00a0\u00a0 But dealing with that kind of rain\u00a0 is a messy business, and I kept coming in chilled and ready to nap or at least take off damp things, put on a dry outer layer, and crawl under the covers to warm up.\u00a0 Thank goodness for big rubber boots.\u00a0 And long johns.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t get any writing done on days like that, because I’m in and out every couple of hours–putting on the outerwear, leaving by the utility room door, into the wet wind from there to the barn, doing whatever needs doing (it always included picking up manure in the barn on these days, putting out hay, checking the water and cleaning & refilling tubs as needed), walking back to the front of the house, getting the boots off, anything damp off and laid out to dry, catching my breath and warming up before the next trip out.<\/p>\n
Well, so it’s 2021.\u00a0 I was beginning to think it was a prime number but lo!\u00a0 43 x 47 = 2021.\u00a0\u00a0 I did it the slow-but-sure way, starting with the single-digit primes that *might* have been possible (given that 1 on the end) and finally getting to 43.\u00a0 Its challenges are already staring us all in the face.<\/p>\n
My personal ones include getting New Book’s proper skeleton inserted.\u00a0 Right now still at the autopsy stage of “foot bone connected to the leg bone…where the heck IS the leg bone?”\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve asked the Plot Daemon, who opens a bleary eye and mumbles “Dunno,” at me.\u00a0\u00a0 Though a very productive discussion w\/R- this evening.\u00a0\u00a0 Another challenge will be getting myself back on the horse more, which may mean a minor surgical procedure and recovery therefrom.\u00a0\u00a0 Hope not.\u00a0 Immediate is to write up the yearly wildlife management report and turn that in to the county tax office.\u00a0 Maybe should work on the one with the closest due date first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two days later.\u00a0 That’s because ON New Year’s rain fell, wind blew, the thermometer dropped and I was busy keeping horses hayed up and (relatively) happy.\u00a0\u00a0 It cleared off in the evening so people could shoot off their fireworks and the horses could disapprove.\u00a0 New Year’s Eve was also rainy, windy, cold.\u00a0 We got 2.6 Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[17,7],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}