Tuesday, August 9
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Warm and sunny. Lovely.
Our roses are really blooming right now.
A good phone conversation with my brother T. It was nice to talk with him just to be social. Too often, I only talk with this brother when there is something going on with Mom.
I was able to contact the contractor, to see if he could meet with my husband and help us figure out how to proceed with the siding. He said he can try this Sunday, when my Sweetie is home, and I really hope this happens.
If we can come up with a concrete solution to the issue of how to do the siding/trim around the windows, then maybe we can get this stage in motion again. We don't have a lot of time before it is too cold to do the siding.
My husband feels that all he needs to do to get things started with selling those stocks is to make a phone call, and hopefully that is correct.
I went to see River, and it was such a nice evening for it.
His eye is doing well, and we keep putting the ointment on it, and the fly mask helps a lot. He is back to wearing a fly sheet because it isn't horribly hot, and the flies are so bad. There are places on his neck where the bites are pretty bad.
The very new people (mother and daughter) who just started taking lessons were there. I cheered on the Mom, who managed to get a very heavy Western saddle on the lesson horse.
I worked with River in the outdoor arena, and the flies were bugging his face enough that he wasn't very focused on our Liberty/groundwork. He was trying, but you could tell he was annoyed the whole time.
I did ride for a while with just the neck rope, to see if he would listen in the outdoor, and while our circles weren't great, he halted and backed and generally did listen well.
I came home and let everyone out into their bigger pastures for a while.
I picked raspberries. It looks like the hornet's nest is destroyed, though there are still a few hornets milling around.
I learned that the speed of the Earth's rotation (i.e. one full rotation being 24 hours) slows down slightly most of the time due to the pull of the Moon mostly (other events can speed it up, or also contribute to the slowing). About 600 million years ago, the length of one day was about 21 hours.
Interestingly enough, events like temperature changes in the atmosphere can affect the Earth's rotation. At this same point in time about 600 MYA, the 21 hour day had been stable for a very long time, without slowing down. Then, possibly from glaciation events, the deceleration of the rotation increased, and the days started getting longer.
Other events can cause the length of a day to be shorter.
"Some recent large-scale events, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, have caused the length of a day to shorten by 3 microseconds by reducing Earth's moment of inertia.[48] Post-glacial rebound, ongoing since the last Ice age, is also changing the distribution of Earth's mass, thus affecting the moment of inertia of Earth and, by the conservation of angular momentum, Earth's rotation period.[49]
The length of the day can also be influenced by manmade structures. For example, NASA scientists calculated that the water stored in the Three Gorges Dam has increased the length of Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds due to the shift in mass.[50]"
Take home message: the rotation of the Earth is NOT static.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation
Warm and sunny. Lovely.
Our roses are really blooming right now.
A good phone conversation with my brother T. It was nice to talk with him just to be social. Too often, I only talk with this brother when there is something going on with Mom.
I was able to contact the contractor, to see if he could meet with my husband and help us figure out how to proceed with the siding. He said he can try this Sunday, when my Sweetie is home, and I really hope this happens.
If we can come up with a concrete solution to the issue of how to do the siding/trim around the windows, then maybe we can get this stage in motion again. We don't have a lot of time before it is too cold to do the siding.
My husband feels that all he needs to do to get things started with selling those stocks is to make a phone call, and hopefully that is correct.
I went to see River, and it was such a nice evening for it.
His eye is doing well, and we keep putting the ointment on it, and the fly mask helps a lot. He is back to wearing a fly sheet because it isn't horribly hot, and the flies are so bad. There are places on his neck where the bites are pretty bad.
The very new people (mother and daughter) who just started taking lessons were there. I cheered on the Mom, who managed to get a very heavy Western saddle on the lesson horse.
I worked with River in the outdoor arena, and the flies were bugging his face enough that he wasn't very focused on our Liberty/groundwork. He was trying, but you could tell he was annoyed the whole time.
I did ride for a while with just the neck rope, to see if he would listen in the outdoor, and while our circles weren't great, he halted and backed and generally did listen well.
I came home and let everyone out into their bigger pastures for a while.
I picked raspberries. It looks like the hornet's nest is destroyed, though there are still a few hornets milling around.
I learned that the speed of the Earth's rotation (i.e. one full rotation being 24 hours) slows down slightly most of the time due to the pull of the Moon mostly (other events can speed it up, or also contribute to the slowing). About 600 million years ago, the length of one day was about 21 hours.
Interestingly enough, events like temperature changes in the atmosphere can affect the Earth's rotation. At this same point in time about 600 MYA, the 21 hour day had been stable for a very long time, without slowing down. Then, possibly from glaciation events, the deceleration of the rotation increased, and the days started getting longer.
Other events can cause the length of a day to be shorter.
"Some recent large-scale events, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, have caused the length of a day to shorten by 3 microseconds by reducing Earth's moment of inertia.[48] Post-glacial rebound, ongoing since the last Ice age, is also changing the distribution of Earth's mass, thus affecting the moment of inertia of Earth and, by the conservation of angular momentum, Earth's rotation period.[49]
The length of the day can also be influenced by manmade structures. For example, NASA scientists calculated that the water stored in the Three Gorges Dam has increased the length of Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds due to the shift in mass.[50]"
Take home message: the rotation of the Earth is NOT static.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation
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Date: 2022-08-10 07:02 am (UTC)Glad that River is doing a bit better too, poor dear. It's good he has you to take care of him so well.
And will you make something with the raspberries or enjoy them fresh?
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Date: 2022-08-10 07:11 am (UTC)We do eat some fresh, or make crisp (for my husband), or jam (also for my husband, as I don't eat sugar any more).
Our roses are all kinds of varieties, I don't even remember them all. One red one is an Emily Carr rose. One kind in particular is a very deep pink with lots of petals, and has a very strong smell (lots of roses don't even have a smell anymore, they are bred for appearance).
I am glad River is doing better too. His poor eye was really swollen, and he was rubbing it constantly. It is almost back to normal now.
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Date: 2022-08-10 08:00 am (UTC)And my Uncle was great with roses, and he and my Mom would talk about so many no longer having a "perfume" to them. :) I truly do think that's sad. I love the smell of a rose - it's the whole thing that makes it lovely. The look, the color, the smell, the feel. all of it!
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Date: 2022-08-11 04:55 am (UTC)I think that is the saddest thing about those gorgeous roses you can buy, is that they don't smell like anything.
I would rather have a simpler, older variety that smells wonderful.
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Date: 2022-08-12 06:13 am (UTC)