Thursday, June 30
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A sunny day that finally didn't seem like eminent rain, so I made plans to go to the lake down the road with the kayak and Roxy.
It was a good day for it, not too windy, not too hot. There were hardly even any bugs! There has been so much rain this month that the water level in the lake is high, which is great because this lake is usually very low and full of weeds, but this year it is a lot cleaner.
Roxy was really good about sitting in front of me. She has a life jacket too.
We saw all kinds of water birds. Canada geese with their half-grown babies covered in grey fluff, plovers with their long, elegant legs. Gulls. Ducks of all kinds. They nest on the islands in the lake, and all along the shore that is kind of marshy and has lots of high grass and brush.
My Sweetie was part way home from work when I got there, so I said he should meet us, and he would likely be there when I got back from kayaking, and we could walk with Roxy.
So we did that, only I said he should kayak, and if he stayed where it was shallow then Roxy and I could walk beside him. It was super pleasant, as I managed to find the sweet spot where the bottom was sandy (though I kept my crocs on, I worry about broken glass or sharp sticks) and Roxy could find the bottom. We kind of moseyed along the shore and talked.
We came home, and within five minutes had a hose (he bought one on the way home from work) attached to the pipe where the water from the basement shoots out, and redirected it away from the house. Given how astonishingly easy that was, I do have to marvel at how hard it was for me to have something done about it, and why did it have to take three years? It was simply no big deal, and I am kind of nonplussed over the drama it caused.
I let everyone out into their pastures for a while, and afterwards we watched a pretty old movie called "Rounders". It has Matt Damon, Ed Norton, John Turturo, and John Malkovich in it. It's about professional poker playing, and the shady side of the "career" players. I really like it. It is crazy how young they all are in this movie, and that I remember it when it first came out.
Today I pondered an idea: the concept of Degrees of Freedom. It is actually a scientific term, used to describe particles. The idea of how many different things can this particle do, or how it moves.
"Degrees of freedom (often abbreviated df or DOF) refers to the number of independent variables or parameters of a system. In various scientific fields, the word "freedom" is used to describe the limits to which physical movement or other physical processes are possible. This relates to the philosophical concept to the extent that people may be considered to have as much freedom as they are physically able to exercise.[citation needed]"
It is an interesting way to think about freedom, and how it relates to our bodies, or the variables (different potential paths or outcomes) that exist, and our own ability to create those variables.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_freedom
A sunny day that finally didn't seem like eminent rain, so I made plans to go to the lake down the road with the kayak and Roxy.
It was a good day for it, not too windy, not too hot. There were hardly even any bugs! There has been so much rain this month that the water level in the lake is high, which is great because this lake is usually very low and full of weeds, but this year it is a lot cleaner.
Roxy was really good about sitting in front of me. She has a life jacket too.
We saw all kinds of water birds. Canada geese with their half-grown babies covered in grey fluff, plovers with their long, elegant legs. Gulls. Ducks of all kinds. They nest on the islands in the lake, and all along the shore that is kind of marshy and has lots of high grass and brush.
My Sweetie was part way home from work when I got there, so I said he should meet us, and he would likely be there when I got back from kayaking, and we could walk with Roxy.
So we did that, only I said he should kayak, and if he stayed where it was shallow then Roxy and I could walk beside him. It was super pleasant, as I managed to find the sweet spot where the bottom was sandy (though I kept my crocs on, I worry about broken glass or sharp sticks) and Roxy could find the bottom. We kind of moseyed along the shore and talked.
We came home, and within five minutes had a hose (he bought one on the way home from work) attached to the pipe where the water from the basement shoots out, and redirected it away from the house. Given how astonishingly easy that was, I do have to marvel at how hard it was for me to have something done about it, and why did it have to take three years? It was simply no big deal, and I am kind of nonplussed over the drama it caused.
I let everyone out into their pastures for a while, and afterwards we watched a pretty old movie called "Rounders". It has Matt Damon, Ed Norton, John Turturo, and John Malkovich in it. It's about professional poker playing, and the shady side of the "career" players. I really like it. It is crazy how young they all are in this movie, and that I remember it when it first came out.
Today I pondered an idea: the concept of Degrees of Freedom. It is actually a scientific term, used to describe particles. The idea of how many different things can this particle do, or how it moves.
"Degrees of freedom (often abbreviated df or DOF) refers to the number of independent variables or parameters of a system. In various scientific fields, the word "freedom" is used to describe the limits to which physical movement or other physical processes are possible. This relates to the philosophical concept to the extent that people may be considered to have as much freedom as they are physically able to exercise.[citation needed]"
It is an interesting way to think about freedom, and how it relates to our bodies, or the variables (different potential paths or outcomes) that exist, and our own ability to create those variables.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_freedom
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Date: 2022-07-01 06:48 pm (UTC)How did you water your garden all this time without a hose?
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Date: 2022-07-01 09:46 pm (UTC)With all the rain we've had this June, the weeping tile is re-filling very quickly, and the East side of the house where it pumps out is a mud hole. So, this hose connects to the discharge pipe and will take it further away.
I could maybe pump it into a tank to use for watering in the future.
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Date: 2022-07-01 11:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-02 08:05 am (UTC)