Sunday, September 4
Sep. 4th, 2022 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Finally getting a full night's sleep. No contractors today, no need to get up earlier than I normally would.
It was very hot today, and there is a lot of smoke in the air from some fires to the West.
I did manage to do some mulching where I had pulled the weeds a while ago.
I went to see River, and he was doing fine. He is not stiff on the leg that got punctured, and most of the swelling is gone.
R has been cold hosing that spot.
It was too hot to do much, but we did our groundwork/Liberty and he did well with that.
I gave him his antibiotics (and let R know, we agreed I could do them tonight and save her the trouble). It's a liquid you give orally with a syringe. He tries to avoid it by sticking his head up, but I got it in there.
Today I learned that the Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest non-polar region on Earth. There has not been any recorded rainfall there for over 400 years. It is often used for movies about Mars, and equipment intended to go to Mars is tested there.
It is believed by geologists that it has been a desert for about three million years.
"It's hard to overstate just how arid the Atacama, a plateau on the coast of northern Chile, really is. The Andes Mountains work like a 13,000-foot-high wall, completely blocking systems of moist air that might otherwise wander down from the Amazon Basin. As a result, the entire Atacama, a strip of land 1,000 miles wide, is virtually rainless. Arica, one of the desert's largest cities, receives an average annual rainfall of 0.76 millimeters, about the height of a flea egg".
Yet, there are some plants living there that survive mainly on moisture that comes in the form of fog.
https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-03-03/maphead-ken-jennings-atacama-desert-chile-driest-spot-on-earth
Finally getting a full night's sleep. No contractors today, no need to get up earlier than I normally would.
It was very hot today, and there is a lot of smoke in the air from some fires to the West.
I did manage to do some mulching where I had pulled the weeds a while ago.
I went to see River, and he was doing fine. He is not stiff on the leg that got punctured, and most of the swelling is gone.
R has been cold hosing that spot.
It was too hot to do much, but we did our groundwork/Liberty and he did well with that.
I gave him his antibiotics (and let R know, we agreed I could do them tonight and save her the trouble). It's a liquid you give orally with a syringe. He tries to avoid it by sticking his head up, but I got it in there.
Today I learned that the Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest non-polar region on Earth. There has not been any recorded rainfall there for over 400 years. It is often used for movies about Mars, and equipment intended to go to Mars is tested there.
It is believed by geologists that it has been a desert for about three million years.
"It's hard to overstate just how arid the Atacama, a plateau on the coast of northern Chile, really is. The Andes Mountains work like a 13,000-foot-high wall, completely blocking systems of moist air that might otherwise wander down from the Amazon Basin. As a result, the entire Atacama, a strip of land 1,000 miles wide, is virtually rainless. Arica, one of the desert's largest cities, receives an average annual rainfall of 0.76 millimeters, about the height of a flea egg".
Yet, there are some plants living there that survive mainly on moisture that comes in the form of fog.
https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-03-03/maphead-ken-jennings-atacama-desert-chile-driest-spot-on-earth
