Saturday, January 8
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
The temperature is still quite cold, but a bit better over all than a few days ago.
I took the car to get fuel, and to fill a gas can for the snow blower.
I used the snow blower for a while, but broke a shear pin. It's okay, it's meant to break if you hit something, and can be fixed pretty easily. My sweetie will fix it when he gets home. He says it's a deliberate weak point that breaks to keep something more important from breaking.
An otherwise quiet day, spent mostly on the computer or doing laundry and chores. It's still too cold to risk going anywhere if I don't need to.
Watching some episodes of "Hoarders" once again prompts feelings that I should assess possessions for things that could move along. I can't deal with doing too much at once or I get overwhelmed, but I came up with a box of clothes that can go. That's enough for one session.
I am actually grateful that these shows became popular, because until then my family had no name for what my Trainwreck sister was doing. I didn't understand it at all, or know that it is an addiction, and very hard to overcome. I see the same things happening with her; the way she cuts herself off from having people to her house, her kids can't sleep over there, she won't even sell her stuff because it would mean people seeing how she lives. She pretty much always has to live out in the middle of nowhere because she keeps getting into trouble with bylaws in town. It's also a hazard to live that way. She would like to move and live closer to her kids but of course her stuff anchors her to her shit hole trailer in a ghost town because she won't get rid of it or walk away from it.
I keep finding wool-moths, and that is upsetting. They have damaged some nice things, and seem nearly impossible to totally eradicate. I've washed things repeatedly, taken them outside to freeze the eggs, taken them out in the summer to let the sun kill eggs, and still I keep finding them here and there. I'm thinking of getting a whole bunch of big ziploc bags and individually storing things to at least isolate the potential damage. These moths apparently can live behind baseboards, living on dander in normal dust. What on Earth can one do? Cease owning wool?
I watched the newest version of "Ben-Hur" and enjoyed it. Say what you will about CGI, but it means that we can have thrilling chariot races knowing that no actual horses had to be tripped to make those scenes. A lot of older movies did terrible things to horses. I don't enjoy watching those scenes in older movies because there's a good chance that when a terrible thing happened in the movie, that a real horse probably suffered/died.
Interesting thing I learned today: That Earthworms in parts of North America are not considered a native species, though I wonder if it's just a natural movement. Apparently Eastern North America did not have Earthworms and the ecosystem evolved without them, but they have been introduced in the last few hundred years likely from human activity, but how would they stay isolated forever, mountains? Anyhow, the worms eat the tree litter much more quickly than would normally happen, and the plants that would normally live among the leaf litter are dying out, and it's changing the forests.
The temperature is still quite cold, but a bit better over all than a few days ago.
I took the car to get fuel, and to fill a gas can for the snow blower.
I used the snow blower for a while, but broke a shear pin. It's okay, it's meant to break if you hit something, and can be fixed pretty easily. My sweetie will fix it when he gets home. He says it's a deliberate weak point that breaks to keep something more important from breaking.
An otherwise quiet day, spent mostly on the computer or doing laundry and chores. It's still too cold to risk going anywhere if I don't need to.
Watching some episodes of "Hoarders" once again prompts feelings that I should assess possessions for things that could move along. I can't deal with doing too much at once or I get overwhelmed, but I came up with a box of clothes that can go. That's enough for one session.
I am actually grateful that these shows became popular, because until then my family had no name for what my Trainwreck sister was doing. I didn't understand it at all, or know that it is an addiction, and very hard to overcome. I see the same things happening with her; the way she cuts herself off from having people to her house, her kids can't sleep over there, she won't even sell her stuff because it would mean people seeing how she lives. She pretty much always has to live out in the middle of nowhere because she keeps getting into trouble with bylaws in town. It's also a hazard to live that way. She would like to move and live closer to her kids but of course her stuff anchors her to her shit hole trailer in a ghost town because she won't get rid of it or walk away from it.
I keep finding wool-moths, and that is upsetting. They have damaged some nice things, and seem nearly impossible to totally eradicate. I've washed things repeatedly, taken them outside to freeze the eggs, taken them out in the summer to let the sun kill eggs, and still I keep finding them here and there. I'm thinking of getting a whole bunch of big ziploc bags and individually storing things to at least isolate the potential damage. These moths apparently can live behind baseboards, living on dander in normal dust. What on Earth can one do? Cease owning wool?
I watched the newest version of "Ben-Hur" and enjoyed it. Say what you will about CGI, but it means that we can have thrilling chariot races knowing that no actual horses had to be tripped to make those scenes. A lot of older movies did terrible things to horses. I don't enjoy watching those scenes in older movies because there's a good chance that when a terrible thing happened in the movie, that a real horse probably suffered/died.
Interesting thing I learned today: That Earthworms in parts of North America are not considered a native species, though I wonder if it's just a natural movement. Apparently Eastern North America did not have Earthworms and the ecosystem evolved without them, but they have been introduced in the last few hundred years likely from human activity, but how would they stay isolated forever, mountains? Anyhow, the worms eat the tree litter much more quickly than would normally happen, and the plants that would normally live among the leaf litter are dying out, and it's changing the forests.
