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Posted by terrepruitt on January 6, 2025
Many of you may have heard about things like cat yoga and goat yoga. To clarify I am talking about doing yoga with animals around not the animals themselves doing the yoga. There are places you can go and pay to do yoga with cats, but I have cats and I am often trying to do yoga or stretches around a cat(s). I have stretched my hand out only to have it land on a furry body or I have had my head butted while I was lying in shavasana. Over the 2024 summer I had a friend that kept sending me information on pig yoga, but I never wanted to go because it was outside in the summer and therefore, too hot. But I thought the month of October would be cooler and we could do yoga with goats. So we went.
Now, I figured they would be walking around and maybe getting in the way or nibbling on something, it completely slipped my mind that they might be pooping and urinating on things. I hadn’t thought of that at all. But that is one of the first things the helpers told us when they saw us with our yoga mats. They kindly offered us to use their yoga mats because goats “are barnyard animals and will poop and pee anywhere and even as they walk.”
As a note when one goes to do yoga with animals it is really about the experience of the animals and not so much the yoga. But while I was there I was still trying to do some asana. The helpers walk around and place food on everyone’s mats so that the goats move around and interact with everyone. And there may have been one helper per three people and they were very good at taking care of any goat incident right away. They would sweep up the pellets and get a new mat if needed.
It was an interesting experience. The goats were goats not kids, one was even VERY pregnant.
At the end we were all given the opportunity to pose with a goat. The goat herders actually placed the goat on our backs. For some reason that goat was fine just standing there. The helpers took over 40 pictures and videos. It was kinda funny. Perhaps he was tired because I was the last person he had to stand on.
You may see that one was getting very close to my face . . . .
Do you have any desire to do yoga with goats?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Goat yoga, October 2024, winery, yoga and cats, yoga and goats | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on January 4, 2025
Don’t worry, I will not continue to post everyday. I just wanted to post a bunch of my Christmas decorations pictures and then I keep having little thoughts. Yesterday I had already posted my Friday Photo and I had a thought: It was dark. It had been dark a lot of December and so far a couple of days in January and I LOVE IT! As soon as I realized it was dark I ran around turning on all the Christmas lights. Now, I don’t mean DARK, I just mean, not sunny. I love that it has been not sunny so much that I have been able to turn on the lights. I think I mentioned it in another post because our Christmas tree looks like a dark blob on my Zoom classes, so the darker the day the better because then the Christmas tree lights show. So just one more picture (I think). All the lights are on in the late afternoon.
(From left to right) We have the tree, the garland, the lighted jar, the lighted cat, and the metal tree.
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas decorations, Christmas lights, Christmas Tree, December 2024, gray weather, January 2025, lights on daytime, not sunny | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on January 2, 2025
Many of you may have heard of SAD, I posted about it in February of 2012. According to the Mayo Clinic’s website “Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that’s related to changes in seasons — seasonal affective disorder (SAD) begins and ends at about the same times every year. If you’re like most people with SAD, your symptoms start in the fall and continue into the winter months, sapping your energy and making you feel moody.” If you have wintertime SAD the symptoms usually disappear in the spring.
I have a different kind of SAD, I love winter so it is not a depression of the CHANGING of the season, it is the ENDING of the HOLIDAY season. I get sad when it ends. I love all the decorations, I get sad when I have to take my Christmas decorations down and pack them away for another year. It is a bummer when we don’t have fun Christmas lights to light up the living space. I think that is one reason I like to keep “Christmas” up as long as possible. I miss the decorations and what goes along with them—the festive feelings. To me it seems like a collective vibe. People are anticipating parties and time off, and when it is over, it is as if the energy goes down.
I feel the same way when local sporting teams are in a championship game. I don’t care about sports at all, but when a local team is going to a game of all games the city seems alive with positive energy. And when they lose it is like a blanket over things.
So, I think I have a form of SAD . . . but for the Holidays. My SAD can be helped by keeping Christmas decorations up, but I still miss the collective energy.
What about you? How do you feel about taking things down?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas, Christmas decorations, Christmas lights, Holidays, positive vibe, SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder | 6 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 31, 2024
Here we are, the seventh day of the 12 Days of Christmas. And it is New Year’s Eve. It is going to be 2025 tomorrow. Wow. Here is another picture of our Christmas Tree. The star topper is just plain, but it tends to catch the light and make lovely reflections on the wall. I bought a new one this year (a metal gold star) so this may be the last year for this plastic one. We will see. But this is a delightful shot of it.
Happy New Year!
The shadow and the reflection are more visible than the topper itself.
Posted in Misc | Tagged: 12 days of Christmas, 2024 Christmas, 2025 New Year, 7th day of Christmas, Christmas Tree, Christmas Tree topper, Happy New Year, metal star, plastic star | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 30, 2024
Usually I tape cards up on the walls. But our walls were just painted this year so I didn’t want to chance it with tape, so I used some sparkly string I used to use years ago. I love Christmas cards. Such a festive way to keep in touch.
Do you display your Christmas cards?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: 2024 Christmas, 2024 Christmas cards, displaying Christmas cards, hanging Christmas cards | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 28, 2024
You may have seen my Friday Photo post on December 13, 2024 that was titled One Angle Of Metal Christmas Tree. Here are more angles. I really love the metal tree because it allows me to hang heavy ornaments and allows some ornaments to be seen better. I always think it will be fast to put up, but it is not.
It took me a particularly long time to assemble this year as I had thought I had mislabeled the parts, but I had not. Then I didn’t open every box (containing ornaments) that I have and start pulling things out. I was trying to do a few boxes at a time which meant different ornaments were going on the tree. I try to use the heavier ones on the metal tree, but I also like to use ones that look good from the back.
Also, I am not part of the Christmas-Day-is-over-decorations-come-down crowd, I like to at least make it through the 12 days of Christmas and then it depends on the status of the tree (is it super dry?) and when the weekend falls.
Anyway, we enjoy our metal tree. Here are just a few of the MANY pictures I took of it. Thank you for looking!
Merry Christmas!
When do you take your decorations down?
Both my tree skirts, this one and the one around the other Christmas tree, were made by my mother-in-law. She was an amazing seamstress.
Posted in Misc | Tagged: 2024 Christmas, Christmas tree ornaments, Christmas tree skirts, Metal Christmas Tree, Metal Ornament Tree | 6 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 26, 2024
I had planned on posting the Christmas Tree pictures on Christmas Day, but I forgot until it was too late to do so.
We put it in a different place this year. Just a couple of feet over, but I was thinking the cats would like it better if they didn’t get kicked out of their spot. We normally move their tower. I was also thinking they would appreciate not having to give up the best sun . . . but this whole month has been kind of gray without a lot of sun during their normal sunning hours.
We will not be doing this again. It was too hard to decorate being so close to the entertainment center. Also it was too close to the door because having it out further would have made it feel like it was too much into the room. And its placement just made it show up like a black shadow on my Zoom classes I teach. When the sun wasn’t shining in it was ok because I could turn on the lights and it would show up ok, but if it was sunny it was just a black shape. It was ok, but not good so we will stick with the original spot from now on.
In the second picture you can see the blank spot I mentioned in the last post.
Anyway, this is just me posting a few of the many pictures I take and never normally post.
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, is having a Happy Chanukah, and is enjoying any and all Holidays that you and your family celebrate.
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Chanukah, Christmas Tree, Christmas tree 2024, Merry Christmas, never again spot, new spot, Teagan, weird tree | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 24, 2024
So, as I said, I am just posting all the pictures I have taken of our Christmas Tree ornaments. Well, actually not ALL, but most. The same ornaments from different angles. Just showing the menagerie we have on our tree.
As you will see in the next post, the Christmas Tree post, there is a large “hole” in the tree. We use that to hang a lot of ornaments. We try to fill up the blank section. This is that section.
The bauble on the left is at least 45 years old.
I think that is the Enterprise.
There is another one of those baubles that are at least 45 years old. In the lower left.
I believe that blue bulb on the right is a part of that collection of old ornaments.
Another star ship, right next to a tea cup and saucer.
“You’re My Lobster”.
Pink bulb part of the old collection. Above the Mach 5. I can also say that those candy canes are at least 20 years old.
The tree is still very green, good tree this year. A bit narrow and wonky with a huge blank section, but it’s ok. What is your favorite Christmas Tree ornament to put on your tree? (Or hang, if you don’t have a tree?) Do you have a favorite you look forward to every year?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: 2024 Christmas, beaded candy canes, candy canes, Christmas Tree, Christmas tree ornaments, Enterprise, friends, space ships, Spiderman, Star ships, You're My Lobster | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 23, 2024
I said in a previous post I take a lot of pictures of our Christmas Tree ornaments. I don’t normally post them all, but this year, I am and not only the ornaments, but the Christmas decorations. There are actually less decorations this year because I am hesitant to put tape on the newly painted walls and I didn’t get my ceiling hooks up. But still, it is festive!
This is a sweet angel night light. She is so pretty. I love her!
And while this includes pictures of the tree this is not the tree pictures post. And there will be at least one more post of ornament pictures. I just figured . . . why do I take all of these pictures. I want to enjoy them. And I am sharing them with you.
I love Christmas decorations. Do you put up lights inside the house?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas 2024, Christmas decorations, Christmas tree 2024, garland, Glass angel night light, metal sprial trees | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on December 22, 2024
Ha, ha, ha, ha! Yes, I asked for the Peloton Ornament set for Christmas. And my husband said, “Why wait until Christmas to open them when you can put them on the tree now?” So he gave them to me early so I can enjoy them on the tree this year – 2024. Yay! They are a nice size. We really put all types of ornaments on our Christmas tree!
This one has a high-five on it. Hilarious. I LOVE IT!
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Christmas 2024, Christmas Tree, Christmas tree ornaments, High-five, Peloton, Peloton Ornaments | Leave a Comment »
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