aspirational horse girlie
and watercolor paints!
I forgot to put sunscreen on my face today, and I didn’t realize until I was about to take a shower and was thinking about washing my face. Luckily I only really spent 20 minutes in the full sunshine, unloading a trailer of hay.
Today I:
Went back to the DMV to get rivets for the boat trailer VIN plate. The instructions say to use “special rivets” to install the plate but they didn’t give me any on Monday. Today they gave me rivets, which don’t look all that special to me, but I’m no expert and also, these were free.
Artist date! I did the first painting in a watercolor practice book I got while we were in Ocracoke two weeks ago. The book has an introduction that tells you some basics, and then each page gives you what the finished piece could look like, a color palette to use, and instructions on what order to go in. I think mine look elementary compared to the example, a little less organic, but I like it, especially for a first attempt.
Finally repotted a basil plant I got at farmer’s market three or four weeks ago but was still in its tiny seed-starter bucket.
Got the tires changed on E’s car. Due to a miscommunication, instead of using the new rim in the trunk, they took a tire off that they weren’t supposed to and I had to leave it with them to do that afternoon. I spent the time waiting reading Abby Jimenez’s Part of Your World. Y’all, don’t start a page-turner in the morning. It will not do good things for your productivity. I also read through breakfast and for a half-hour when I got home from daycare drop off and I am half-tempted to read some more before daycare pickup, but I won’t.
Loaded hay. Y’all, I backed the gooseneck trailer into the hay barn without knocking down the barn. Granted, it was already halfway in the barn so this was no amazing feat, but I’m still quite pleased. Another 100 bale load today.
Rode along to deliver the hay and unstacked it off the trailer while L put it up in the hay shed. The shed just barely fits 100 bales stacked five high which is one higher than I can go right now. I’m hopeful next week after a restful weekend and lots of protein I’ll be able to remedy that. The hay shed was in the middle of the horse field, so the horses ate their lunch directly off the trailer while we were unloading.
I don’t know if I’ve told y’all yet that I am an aspirational horse girl. I always feel a bit of a fraud trying to claim horse girl status, seeing as how I have never owned a horse nor taken more than three consecutive lessons, and to be honest I’m afraid that I’ll finally have the time and money to do so and find that the work outweighs the magic, but every time a horse will let me feel its velvet nose and give it a scritch between the ears, I do.
Until tomorrow,
