Thursday, January 12
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
The beauty that can happen in winter. We had stunning hoar frost on everything today.
I didn't have to go anywhere, so I spent some extra time with the ponies/goats, picking up frozen manure.
Then I snowshoed (apparently there is no known correct past tense for this; there is "I went snowshoeing", but not "I snowshoed", and though the past tense of shoe is shod, it sounds weird to say I snowshod). I went around the horse pasture with Roxy, and the snow was perfect for it.
My Sweetie came home from work, and brought me a happy bundle of grocery store flowers.
He was able to pick up the special food for Jones at a vet clinic that just opened up in the town where he goes for work, and it is significantly cheaper than at our normal vet clinic. That really makes you wonder, because the town where my husband works is kind of considered "remote", which means a lot of prices get jacked up. Funny that the cat food is actually cheaper there.
We made supper, did dishes, changed sheets, and other sundry tidying up things.
Then we watched "The Rhythm Section", which was based on a book series, but never became a second or third movie. It is about a woman whose family is killed in a plane "accident" that was actually a terrorist action, and she trains to kill those responsible. It was interesting to me, because this person was not that GOOD at the fighting and killing, because she hadn't done it before. The movie showed her falter, and fail a bit, and make mistakes, and get scared, and she got a little tougher by the end.
It didn't score that high in the ratings, nor did that well at the box office, but I personally really LIKED that it showed her struggling. I LIKE that she was vulnerable and unsure of herself, but determined to throw herself into the deep end like that. I would have liked to have seen sequels where she kept developing. Too many action movies show these super confident people that you pretty much know aren't going to fail. I fall asleep in those, because you know the lead will be just fine.
Then I worked on a macrame necklace.
I learned that it took a while for the piano to catch on, because it was expensive, and a little awkward to play (it evolved).
"When the piano was invented in 1700, it failed to catch the public's attention due to its expense and the fact that the harpsichord was the preferred instrument of the time. Very few people knew of the piano until after the Seven Years' War when a young man named Johann Zumpe fled Germany for London. While there he refined Cristofori's piano, introducing separate sections of black keys as well as treble and bass capabilities. This new piano was extremely difficult to play, and very few people learned how to play the instrument because of this. That changed when Zumpe convinced Johann Christian Bach, the personal music master to Queen Charlotte and an international celebrity, to purchase and play on a Zumpe piano for the first ever Zumpe piano concert in 1768. Because of Bach's fame, the piano soon replaced the harpsichord as the predominant instrument of the time, and later composers such as Mozart and Beethoven chose to play on a Zumpe piano.[8]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_history_of_the_piano
The beauty that can happen in winter. We had stunning hoar frost on everything today.
I didn't have to go anywhere, so I spent some extra time with the ponies/goats, picking up frozen manure.
Then I snowshoed (apparently there is no known correct past tense for this; there is "I went snowshoeing", but not "I snowshoed", and though the past tense of shoe is shod, it sounds weird to say I snowshod). I went around the horse pasture with Roxy, and the snow was perfect for it.
My Sweetie came home from work, and brought me a happy bundle of grocery store flowers.
He was able to pick up the special food for Jones at a vet clinic that just opened up in the town where he goes for work, and it is significantly cheaper than at our normal vet clinic. That really makes you wonder, because the town where my husband works is kind of considered "remote", which means a lot of prices get jacked up. Funny that the cat food is actually cheaper there.
We made supper, did dishes, changed sheets, and other sundry tidying up things.
Then we watched "The Rhythm Section", which was based on a book series, but never became a second or third movie. It is about a woman whose family is killed in a plane "accident" that was actually a terrorist action, and she trains to kill those responsible. It was interesting to me, because this person was not that GOOD at the fighting and killing, because she hadn't done it before. The movie showed her falter, and fail a bit, and make mistakes, and get scared, and she got a little tougher by the end.
It didn't score that high in the ratings, nor did that well at the box office, but I personally really LIKED that it showed her struggling. I LIKE that she was vulnerable and unsure of herself, but determined to throw herself into the deep end like that. I would have liked to have seen sequels where she kept developing. Too many action movies show these super confident people that you pretty much know aren't going to fail. I fall asleep in those, because you know the lead will be just fine.
Then I worked on a macrame necklace.
I learned that it took a while for the piano to catch on, because it was expensive, and a little awkward to play (it evolved).
"When the piano was invented in 1700, it failed to catch the public's attention due to its expense and the fact that the harpsichord was the preferred instrument of the time. Very few people knew of the piano until after the Seven Years' War when a young man named Johann Zumpe fled Germany for London. While there he refined Cristofori's piano, introducing separate sections of black keys as well as treble and bass capabilities. This new piano was extremely difficult to play, and very few people learned how to play the instrument because of this. That changed when Zumpe convinced Johann Christian Bach, the personal music master to Queen Charlotte and an international celebrity, to purchase and play on a Zumpe piano for the first ever Zumpe piano concert in 1768. Because of Bach's fame, the piano soon replaced the harpsichord as the predominant instrument of the time, and later composers such as Mozart and Beethoven chose to play on a Zumpe piano.[8]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_history_of_the_piano
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Date: 2023-01-14 03:17 am (UTC)It's possible that the more eccentric one is, the more they attract like-eccentricity.
We live on an eccentric street, but with the shifting of generations, the eccentricity is waning.
There used to be a house not too far from here that an artist owned. He named it LEPTIS MAGNA and had all kinds of metal sculptures in front, as well as a descriptive legend to the works and reason for the name. As the generational shift occurred, he received complaints from neighbours, and after he was gone, the house was razed. I can barely remember exactly where it was; that neighbourhood is uniformly pleasant but very bland now.
I also lived near this house a couple of decades ago:
https://freaktography.com/torontos-weirdest-house-toronto-castle-house-unique-homes/
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Date: 2023-01-14 10:07 am (UTC)I love things like a tidy Victorian home painted in bright colors, or a whole front yard filled with wild flowers.
We are not widgets or units or cogs in the machine.
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Date: 2023-01-15 10:03 pm (UTC)There's no societal prize for eccentricity, though I admire those brave enough to forge a unique path.
(Thinking of the late Vivienne Westwood. She was irrepressible.)
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Date: 2023-01-14 03:20 am (UTC)Millie snowshoed from dawn 'til dusk since being snowshod yesterday. :-)