Saturday, January 7
Jan. 8th, 2023 02:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Lovely weather again, for this time of year. Sunny and bright.
I went to town for sanity and groceries. I went to the town North of us, because that is where we get our mail.
Unfortunately, the Post Office is now closed on weekends. This is becoming a real problem for us. We have a P.O. box there because we are rural. It is not the closest town to us (we got this box before we even had a permanent address, so we didn't know which would be the most convenient town) and we don't get there that often.
It used to be open until 9 pm, and weekends. Not the full service, but access to the boxes. Well, I guess homeless people started going there to warm up, and now we have less and less access to our mail. Now it is closed at 5 pm and not open at all over the weekends.
I am considering moving it to the very small town post office near us, but it would mean having to do all the change of address crap, including our driver's licences, all our bills, credit cards, bank stuff. Sigh.
I popped into the consignment boutique next door, though I didn't find anything. I did have a surprising chat with one of the owners, who is very social-justice oriented. She is trying to open a thrift store in the bigger city nearby that will be a better servant to the public good than ones like Goodwill, which are nothing more than companies, not charities. Good for her.
Then I went to the thrift store in town, and traded some books and DVDs in, and got some different ones. I also found a nice, new bathrobe.
I did some other retail therapy at the drug store (that carries lots of other things), and got groceries.
I am grateful for groceries, as always.
I came home and put everything away, had a nap, then spent a fair bit of time picking out an embroidered logo on the robe. It took forever, and maybe wasn't THAT big a deal, but there you go.
I started reading "The Witcher" novels, and so far they are engaging. The first book feels more like a series of short fairy tales, a grisly re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, and so on, though it is not particularly blatant. Lots of elements of the old stories.
Today I learned that birds only have one ovary (there is possibly the odd exception). They evolved from reptiles, which still have two ovaries. No one knows for sure why they evolved to have only one ovary, as the remaining ovary weighs as much as the two testes that male birds have, so it isn't to save weight for flying. It is also asymmetrical, as the ovary lies on the left side of the body.
https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2018/08/19/did-you-know-that-most-adult-female-birds-have-lost-their-right-ovary-do-you-know-why/
Lovely weather again, for this time of year. Sunny and bright.
I went to town for sanity and groceries. I went to the town North of us, because that is where we get our mail.
Unfortunately, the Post Office is now closed on weekends. This is becoming a real problem for us. We have a P.O. box there because we are rural. It is not the closest town to us (we got this box before we even had a permanent address, so we didn't know which would be the most convenient town) and we don't get there that often.
It used to be open until 9 pm, and weekends. Not the full service, but access to the boxes. Well, I guess homeless people started going there to warm up, and now we have less and less access to our mail. Now it is closed at 5 pm and not open at all over the weekends.
I am considering moving it to the very small town post office near us, but it would mean having to do all the change of address crap, including our driver's licences, all our bills, credit cards, bank stuff. Sigh.
I popped into the consignment boutique next door, though I didn't find anything. I did have a surprising chat with one of the owners, who is very social-justice oriented. She is trying to open a thrift store in the bigger city nearby that will be a better servant to the public good than ones like Goodwill, which are nothing more than companies, not charities. Good for her.
Then I went to the thrift store in town, and traded some books and DVDs in, and got some different ones. I also found a nice, new bathrobe.
I did some other retail therapy at the drug store (that carries lots of other things), and got groceries.
I am grateful for groceries, as always.
I came home and put everything away, had a nap, then spent a fair bit of time picking out an embroidered logo on the robe. It took forever, and maybe wasn't THAT big a deal, but there you go.
I started reading "The Witcher" novels, and so far they are engaging. The first book feels more like a series of short fairy tales, a grisly re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, and so on, though it is not particularly blatant. Lots of elements of the old stories.
Today I learned that birds only have one ovary (there is possibly the odd exception). They evolved from reptiles, which still have two ovaries. No one knows for sure why they evolved to have only one ovary, as the remaining ovary weighs as much as the two testes that male birds have, so it isn't to save weight for flying. It is also asymmetrical, as the ovary lies on the left side of the body.
https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2018/08/19/did-you-know-that-most-adult-female-birds-have-lost-their-right-ovary-do-you-know-why/
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Date: 2023-01-09 06:51 am (UTC)The sort-of local Loblaws was in the news yesterday, for selling a pack of five boneless skinless chicken breasts for over $35. I remember seeing those expensive packs and making a pffff! noise in passing. And about two feet away, frozen Christmas turkeys were selling for about $8 each. The pink boy eats a lot of pork, chicken, turkey and haggis - nothing at $35 a pack, though. Really.
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Date: 2023-01-09 09:14 am (UTC)The other thing I would stock up on, is those giant pork loins. Very inexpensive, and good eating.
It is always weird to me, how breasts have gotten so popular, and of course, any additional processing or packaging drives up the price.
I thought that was very odd about birds too, and they are already strange with their one hole for everything solution.
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Date: 2023-01-10 04:23 am (UTC)We always buy "enjoy tonight - 50% off" products and save them from the trash.
Those giant pork loins you described are now on sale, but even though they'd feed the good boy for some time, how would we store the thing? Also, it's saddening to look at it. It looks like the pink boy's leg.