Saturday, July 16

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Another hot, dry day. Great for everyone making hay right now.

Well, another day of my Sweetie being gone most of the day. Today he drove to the city to help out that guy again with his garage.

At first, my husband said he was just going to drop off the big window (left from our own trailer tear-down) at this guy's house, but I said he should do his best to get it installed, otherwise he would just end up being asked by this guy to come help install the window another day. I figured that if he had to drive to the city to drop off that window, at least try to make it worthwhile.

So that's what they ended up doing.

Not much got done at our house, except for me pulling a ton of weeds. I pulled weeds for a couple of hours.

At least we did go for a walk at the park down the road, which wasn't terribly pleasant because of how bad the mosquitoes are right now, but it's still nice to see all the ducks and their babies.

Then we watched more of "The Boys".

I learned that an albatross barely needs to flap it's wings at all while flying across the ocean. It uses "dynamic soaring" and "slope soaring" to carve through the air, gaining velocity from wind gradients. It can cover almost 1,000km (620 miles) every day, all without a single wing-flap.

This conserves a great deal of energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross

Comments

[cf2princessawnw]

So when you win on Jeopardy some day... can we say we knew you when?
:D

[gottawonder]

I started doing the interesting fact a day because sometimes my posts seemed kind of boring and repetitive, but I really enjoy it now. You find out such bizarre things. Mostly I go to Reddit, and there is a thread called "Today I learned", and everyone posts fascinating trivia. It's a fun thing to do at the end of the day.

[cf2princessawnw]

Great idea you had, and I'm glad it's bringing you joy!

[ratunderpaper]

Hot and dry here, too. What kind of weeds are you pulling? I spent a good two hours yesterday on plantains, the remainder of the clover (which was once the primary headache) and prostrate knotweed.
Prostrate knotweed has taken over. It must be yanked out by its taproot, otherwise it'll be back to cause more trouble.

http://omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/ontweeds/prostrate_knotweed.htm

I hope spouse will return to timer-sensitive hometime once this window task is done!

[gottawonder]

We get a lot of Canada Thistle, and once it is established it is very hard to get rid of without spraying. Even pulling, you are just delaying it's regrowth, not killing it. It can have roots 20 feet deep.

[ratunderpaper]

We really have to go into the wilderness to find Canada thistle.

I did pull up a big basket of that knotweed today.