home
Home > Dispatches > Daily Dispatches 2024 > Daily Dispatch #178

July 1, 2025: Here it is

July 1. A beautiful sunny day with just a slight hint of a breeze. Spent too much of it inside. Now tomorrow, if the weather is good, I will not go into town. I need to take more time off. I am going to experiment and see if taking time off makes me more productive. It definitely will make me less crabby.

Tomorrow I will do things I can do at home, like answer emails and ride horses and clean goat pens. I obviously have really big plans.


Pam's new car


Today, the writing, divided into two sections time wise because I didn’t have enough time this morning to write for a full hour. So I wrote for approximately half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the evening, when I got home.

I did pick up where I left off yesterday, in talking about how I wrote this book. I am going to need to write more about being in the zone –that state of full intensity of focus. Generally, it takes me a few minutes to get into this zone. And once I’m there, I’m good for at least two hours of writing time. So having just an hour is circumventing the circuit. I stop writing before I’ve finished what on this particular day, I’ve started.

I also need to go back and write about the hip problem.

Today I had a physical therapy appointment in the pool. Susan (who is my P.T.) makes me work and finds innovative things for me to do. For example, today she had me walking against the current, and doing various exercises like walking forwards and backwards and backwards and forwards. I also sat on a big floaty multicolored toy chair, named Big Joe – I was the first to use it. I didn’t feel challenged when I attempted to do simple exercises.

Tonight we went for a ride. I could tell that Raudi felt energized. She cantered on the trail we call Lakeshore Drive, and we cantered on the trail that we call Raudi’s Runway – it leads back to the Murphy Road Trailhead. At the trailhead we made sure that Ryder was on leash and allowed Shadow to walk unleashed back up the intersection of Oceanview Drive and what’s called Grecorieff Road.

I have resumed giving the horses supplements. This is a part of the balance thing. I fell off the supplement wagon but have now hopped back on it. And I do think that today, this made Raudi that much more lively.

I want to get back into the agility arena. I am taking tomorrow off, so I might get to it then. All I have to do is put this at the top of my list. I write lists with pencils so that this exists as a distinct possibility. I can easily erase some of the other things that I must do.

Wow. I just looked at my feet, and I see that my socks match. This is coincidental – This morning I paid no attention to what I put on my feet.

Next: 179. 7/2/25: Slowing Down Time

Horse Care Home About Us Dispatches Trips Alys's Articles