Monday, May 1
May. 2nd, 2023 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Beautiful weather.
I have been feeling really urgent about the house again, because we have good weather NOW. So little has happened since last fall, and I really am tired of how this process has dragged on, and on.
Now of course, is when we need to be doing the outside work. Soffits, siding, mulching around the house. My husband is trying to book a company to do the soffits, which he should have likely done in the winter, not in the spring when they are likely already booked now until next winter.
Everywhere I look is something else screaming to be done. The bare dirt on one side of the house needing mulch, the pile of dirt needing to be put somewhere, the garden, the dead trees here and there that need to come down, the crap in the sheds that should likely be sold or tossed, the discarded hay built up in the horse pasture that should be burned, and on and on.
I was able to do ONE THING to help, which was to take the truck to town so I could go to the dump before pottery class.
It was full of rotten lumber that we put in it about a week ago, and I added the stock pile of twine from this winter's round bales, two big bags of garbage from the garage, and some styrofoam from packaging.
At the dump, I actually found some nice boards with almost no nails in them (and only right at the ends) that would actually be useful to us at some point.
I changed clothes in the truck, and went to pottery.
Pottery was fun. The lady I often chat with was there for a while right when I got there, and she had me in stitches the whole time. She's hilarious.
Then my once dog walking friend and the other later evening person arrived, and we chatted a lot too. It's not necessarily a truly intimate friendship, but these conversations are really enjoyable and beneficial to me.
I spent the whole night trying to sculpt fish for raku firing, and it was a struggle, but I got something that might work. Some of the challenge is to try to make something that will heat and cool evenly (like not a thick ball of clay, few bits that stick out or if they do, make them thick enough, and so on) so it won't crack.
Clean up seemed to take an eternity, but it always seems that way.
Then I went to the grocery store. I had a scant half hour before it closed.
I went in, only expecting to get a few things, but I saw canned cat food on clearance for only FORTY FOUR CENTS a can, when it is usually over two dollars a can. This is a larger size, like a soup can. I checked to see when it was going to expire, and it was good until 2026, so it must be something like the label is changing, or they are discontinuing that flavor.
Anyhow, I now needed a cart, and I had to run back to the front of the store (of course the clearance items were almost as far from the front as you could get).
There were no carts inside. Nowhere. I was pretty upset, and one of the staff said "we're doing some renovations tonight, and the management wanted us to put ALL of the carts outside for the night".
I was pretty damn livid. What are the odds? I must have really projected it, too. This is after all, a BIG chain, and really, why would they not have a few carts still in the store (say, five or six) until closing time, and just put MOST of them outside until the last customers left?
So I got a basket, loaded THREE DOZEN cans into it and lugged it to the front of the store by the till, and said "can I leave this here, I still need a few things and I'm not hauling this around with me".
By the time I got back, someone had gone outside and got me a cart, which is fantastic because I hadn't really thought about how I was going to get it all to the car without a cart.
I thanked the clerk, and a few others, and I hope it gets back to whoever got it for me.
Then I went home and unloaded it all into the house.
Today I learned about the Danish evacuation of Jewish citizens during WWII:
The Danish resistance movement, with the assistance of many Danish citizens, managed to evacuate 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses, by sea to nearby neutral Sweden during the Second World War.[1] The arrest and deportation of Danish Jews was ordered by the German leader Adolf Hitler, but the efforts to save them started earlier due to the plans being leaked on September 28, 1943 by German diplomat Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz.
The rescue is considered one of the largest actions of collective resistance to aggression in the countries occupied by Germany during the Second World War. As a result of the rescue, and of the following Danish intercession on behalf of the 464 Danish Jews who were captured and deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, over 99% of Denmark's Jewish population survived the Holocaust.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_the_Danish_Jews
Beautiful weather.
I have been feeling really urgent about the house again, because we have good weather NOW. So little has happened since last fall, and I really am tired of how this process has dragged on, and on.
Now of course, is when we need to be doing the outside work. Soffits, siding, mulching around the house. My husband is trying to book a company to do the soffits, which he should have likely done in the winter, not in the spring when they are likely already booked now until next winter.
Everywhere I look is something else screaming to be done. The bare dirt on one side of the house needing mulch, the pile of dirt needing to be put somewhere, the garden, the dead trees here and there that need to come down, the crap in the sheds that should likely be sold or tossed, the discarded hay built up in the horse pasture that should be burned, and on and on.
I was able to do ONE THING to help, which was to take the truck to town so I could go to the dump before pottery class.
It was full of rotten lumber that we put in it about a week ago, and I added the stock pile of twine from this winter's round bales, two big bags of garbage from the garage, and some styrofoam from packaging.
At the dump, I actually found some nice boards with almost no nails in them (and only right at the ends) that would actually be useful to us at some point.
I changed clothes in the truck, and went to pottery.
Pottery was fun. The lady I often chat with was there for a while right when I got there, and she had me in stitches the whole time. She's hilarious.
Then my once dog walking friend and the other later evening person arrived, and we chatted a lot too. It's not necessarily a truly intimate friendship, but these conversations are really enjoyable and beneficial to me.
I spent the whole night trying to sculpt fish for raku firing, and it was a struggle, but I got something that might work. Some of the challenge is to try to make something that will heat and cool evenly (like not a thick ball of clay, few bits that stick out or if they do, make them thick enough, and so on) so it won't crack.
Clean up seemed to take an eternity, but it always seems that way.
Then I went to the grocery store. I had a scant half hour before it closed.
I went in, only expecting to get a few things, but I saw canned cat food on clearance for only FORTY FOUR CENTS a can, when it is usually over two dollars a can. This is a larger size, like a soup can. I checked to see when it was going to expire, and it was good until 2026, so it must be something like the label is changing, or they are discontinuing that flavor.
Anyhow, I now needed a cart, and I had to run back to the front of the store (of course the clearance items were almost as far from the front as you could get).
There were no carts inside. Nowhere. I was pretty upset, and one of the staff said "we're doing some renovations tonight, and the management wanted us to put ALL of the carts outside for the night".
I was pretty damn livid. What are the odds? I must have really projected it, too. This is after all, a BIG chain, and really, why would they not have a few carts still in the store (say, five or six) until closing time, and just put MOST of them outside until the last customers left?
So I got a basket, loaded THREE DOZEN cans into it and lugged it to the front of the store by the till, and said "can I leave this here, I still need a few things and I'm not hauling this around with me".
By the time I got back, someone had gone outside and got me a cart, which is fantastic because I hadn't really thought about how I was going to get it all to the car without a cart.
I thanked the clerk, and a few others, and I hope it gets back to whoever got it for me.
Then I went home and unloaded it all into the house.
Today I learned about the Danish evacuation of Jewish citizens during WWII:
The Danish resistance movement, with the assistance of many Danish citizens, managed to evacuate 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses, by sea to nearby neutral Sweden during the Second World War.[1] The arrest and deportation of Danish Jews was ordered by the German leader Adolf Hitler, but the efforts to save them started earlier due to the plans being leaked on September 28, 1943 by German diplomat Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz.
The rescue is considered one of the largest actions of collective resistance to aggression in the countries occupied by Germany during the Second World War. As a result of the rescue, and of the following Danish intercession on behalf of the 464 Danish Jews who were captured and deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, over 99% of Denmark's Jewish population survived the Holocaust.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_the_Danish_Jews
no subject
Date: 2023-05-03 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-03 04:46 am (UTC)I tell you, some kind of feral animal instinct kicked in when I was hauling that food to the till like I was a lioness trying to feed her pride.
no subject
Date: 2023-05-06 01:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-03 05:22 am (UTC)