Saturday, May 14
May. 14th, 2022 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A very lovely warm day.
I could finally just spend a day at home. Lately it seems like I've had to do a lot of things requiring extra trips to town.
I did a bunch of little things in the house. Putting a few things away that have just been lying around. Put away a few winter items. Did some laundry. Swept. Lots of that kind of things.
I went to the very small village nearby to get fuel, and to check out the second hand store. I think the deal is, the couple who own the building (which used to be a mechanic's shop) are using this to sell their own stuff. The mechanic shop has a section that used to be the office, and it's now being used to sell things. She's selling things for some of her friends too. I have often considered renting one of these unused buildings for a month or two to sell a bunch of stuff. It would be easier than a yard sale.
I found a couple of nice hand made pottery bowls. Not that I need them!
I got fuel, and went back home.
I let the animals out into their pastures while I worked in the garden some more. The one strip of garden that is a walk way was full of grass, and hard as bricks because I don't add compost to it. I think I will this year, because otherwise I can never get the grass roots out of the soil Just mulching it with straw never kills the grass, you always have to pull it out.
Then I got started on another part of the garden, and right away you can tell how much easier it is to work that soil because of all the compost I've added. Pony poop for the win!
Then I groomed horses/ponies for quite a while. The horses are nearly done shedding, and so is Ursula, but Dandy still has a downy undercoat that he's hanging on to. He did this every spring I've had him, and it eventually sheds out. I don't suspect a metabolic issue because everything else seems normal.
I learned that the Rosetta Stone "was discovered there in July 1799 by French officer Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic script. Lithographic copies and plaster casts soon began circulating among European museums and scholars. When the British defeated the French they took the stone to London under the Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801. It has been on public display at the British Museum almost continuously since 1802 and is the most visited object there."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
A very lovely warm day.
I could finally just spend a day at home. Lately it seems like I've had to do a lot of things requiring extra trips to town.
I did a bunch of little things in the house. Putting a few things away that have just been lying around. Put away a few winter items. Did some laundry. Swept. Lots of that kind of things.
I went to the very small village nearby to get fuel, and to check out the second hand store. I think the deal is, the couple who own the building (which used to be a mechanic's shop) are using this to sell their own stuff. The mechanic shop has a section that used to be the office, and it's now being used to sell things. She's selling things for some of her friends too. I have often considered renting one of these unused buildings for a month or two to sell a bunch of stuff. It would be easier than a yard sale.
I found a couple of nice hand made pottery bowls. Not that I need them!
I got fuel, and went back home.
I let the animals out into their pastures while I worked in the garden some more. The one strip of garden that is a walk way was full of grass, and hard as bricks because I don't add compost to it. I think I will this year, because otherwise I can never get the grass roots out of the soil Just mulching it with straw never kills the grass, you always have to pull it out.
Then I got started on another part of the garden, and right away you can tell how much easier it is to work that soil because of all the compost I've added. Pony poop for the win!
Then I groomed horses/ponies for quite a while. The horses are nearly done shedding, and so is Ursula, but Dandy still has a downy undercoat that he's hanging on to. He did this every spring I've had him, and it eventually sheds out. I don't suspect a metabolic issue because everything else seems normal.
I learned that the Rosetta Stone "was discovered there in July 1799 by French officer Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic script. Lithographic copies and plaster casts soon began circulating among European museums and scholars. When the British defeated the French they took the stone to London under the Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801. It has been on public display at the British Museum almost continuously since 1802 and is the most visited object there."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
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