How did you spend your day?

@barncat . Oh Wow. Riding a horse sounds so liberating especially for all us who are living in towns or cities. I am also so pleased to hear how much care and kindness your horses are receiving from you. Have fun . Meanwhile, I shall enjoy talking to my plants in my little garden. I also usually say hi to the grasshopper that lives in my garden.

@faithlove111

First I have to say wow I love that horse 😍. I did sneak out for a short period just to arrange anegg hunt for grandchildren and watched from a long distance. Returned home and watched a film.

Cleaned the oven today.....boy was it dirty.

@lazyKatz-wow you did something most of us really put off- congats to you. I've been completely off center this past week- barely able to get out of bed to care for horses- major pity party for myself- I hope everyone is doing better than myself- each days drags so slowly. You are encouraging to hear about your days.

@barncat

Not doing that good ☹️ ... it's been down hill and duvet days since then.

@lazyKatz- if you mean duvet days means staying in bed- guess where I have spending my time!! Wish i could get my butt and body upright. This is awful- miss getting out so bad. Just cant motivate to take care of myself. I know it is bad bad to not do anything but....

at least i have taking care of the horses everyday- only thing that has some semblence of normalcy

@barncat

I'm my own worst enemy listening to the news constantly in the vain hope for some good news.

@lazyKatz- yep, i digressed into the online news search hoping for optimism

@barncat

When you reach the stage of not knowing who if anyone you can believe you truly do feel at a loss.

@lazyKatz- at least i know i can trust my family.

@barncat

Yes I feel exactly the same.

spent the day contemplating retirement strategies- oh me oh my - headache coming on -

@barncat- oh my what is wrong with my computer- help

@barncat

Nothing wrong on your side, the tech team from the site messed up again, they will fix it soon...they forgot there are test environments before putting a development into production on the site...

They will fix their blunder soon😉😊🤗

@GreyMirror- thank you- being part of these posts has been giving my life meaning during the covid

@barncat

Endearing...you care for people as you care for your animals...you are a sensitive soul...care is in your heart even when you feel vulnerable...

It's going to be fine...

@GreyMirror- thank you for that response. Your words warmed my heart- I really miss being able to help others during this time of lockdown. Should explore options in my community. Hope you are doing well. Hugs.

@barncat

I spent my day day making some simple meals.....the only kind I'm capable of. I don't usually get any satisfaction from cooking but Curry's are so easy..... happy with my days achievements.

@lazyKatz

I like Drew Pritchard and His childhood driver friend Tee, because they love tgeir curry

When traveling to France they were exercising their French:

What do you call Curry in French? Curry...

What do you call beer in French, biere...

That is good enough for me said Drew Pritchard...

in the vein of talking about food. i prepared a simple lunch yesterday and was able to feed myself- with leftovers for the next several days. but dinner last night was popcorn with a side of beer. Maybe today i'll have a more proper dinner. oh it is time for breakfast- and then go feed the horses. or is it feed the horses then eat. that is my usual routine. they always come first.

@barncat

Back in the day we had to be inventive with what we had so leftover reinveted meals were quite common so not to waste food.

When we had stale bread we invented "bread pizza", with all the pieces of stale bread laied on an oven tray, drenched in home made tomato juice and sprinkled with all the leftovers in the fridge😊.

@GreyMirror- my husband uses a lot of bread for sandwiches- i will have to make your pizza someday with the leftovers- love the creative idea. Growing up in a large family- didnt waste food.

@barncat

😉 it doesn't take much to have fun and live life...😶

I normally fight the urge to have a day feeling sorry for myself..... Today the urge got the better of me. It was a case of bring out the tissues and comfort food.

@lazyKatz

Somehow, these days are quite regular for me and I guess I make tissue companies quite a lot of money😶...

@lazyKatz- oh i spurlged on junk food last evening- went to store for first time in a while- how about potato chips and HagenDazz ice cream for dinner. Except didnt feel so energetic in the morning. what was i thinking.

We do what we have to.

Moved the horses to the field yesterday- they have to line up next to the mounting block- I ride the middle horse and pony the other two horses. It can get to be a clusterf---k if one gets out of line and tries to eat grass on the way to the field. But they were good - so cute all standing there in a solemn lineup.

@barncat

They were waiting for that too...I feel happy for you...😊, you are blessed for having them.

must be having a lot of inner turmoil- no surprise. Rode Gus out by himself a little bit- had a scary return to the barn- he almost got away from me- found myself shaking from the post adrenaline rush.

A great deal of uncertainty and shedding many tears. Then I realised it's time to try to take control...... I feel like shhit but hey I'm still alive

@lazyKatz I'm proud of you for taking control, you can do this!

@lazyKatz- heartened to hear you are realizing there are things we can control. Time to take charge of those aspects in our lives. WE need to tell ourselves this every day. ANd yes we are alive. Not everyone has survived this pandemic.

@barncat Mostly in a pile of existential depression.

@TiltedWindmill- your comment inspired me to look up existential- "looking for the meaning of life" among other things- you hit the hammer on the head. Searching for the purpose and meaning of life- especially now in the covid crisis. Now we get to restructure our lives and look for new meaning.

spent (or wasted) the morning reading posts on the forums- searching for conversations. so miss the casual interactions in my community. it is just not the same- and it is though i am a junkie looking for a fix. need my hugs fix- miss my smiles from other people fix. miss being able to drop in on neighbors homes for a tea fix. how is everyone else functioning in this wierd abnormal world of social distancing? or is it just me in withdrawal.

Everyone copes the best way as they can..... In these times it's not so easy

The weekenders are up!!! Yeah- new faces to meet on the beach. And some wonderful engaging conversations - getting to know each other. It is uplifting to chat with other people. Have some possible opportunities to work with children and my horses again- simply have to find out how to "social distance" enlisting my geldings. Now- do I have to put a mask on my horses- ah that would be hilarious. Gus would want to eat anything near his mouth.

I spent most of the day out side enjoying nature.

I miss riding so much. That bond between horse and human. My friend and I were going to go but then everything is still closed. But it will happen again.