Sunday, June 4
Jun. 5th, 2023 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Well, if nothing else, we are getting real summer weather.
Since we did so much yesterday, we took today a little easier.
We did go see River, and he was pretty tired since it was so hot.
He did do better after I hosed him down to help him cool off.
He did quite well on MOST of the patterns we practiced, but did not seem willing to turn nicely today with just the neck rope. Well, it's always something.
There were some of those horrible horse flies bothering him, to the point where they drew blood on his sheath area. I had to slather on some fly repellent balm and zinc cream to literally create a physical barrier so they couldn't bite him. Poor guy.
We came home and tackled some small tasks. We were able to set up the new circular clothes line VERY easily. You literally just have to pound in a stake, and the pole for the clothes line fits into the top of the stake. This means you could move it fairly easily if you change your mind about where you want it later.
I watered the garden again. Some of the things I planted a few weeks ago are sprouted now.
We moved the big half barrels for flowers onto the area we mulched yesterday.
A small amount of organizing in a shed. Taking all the recycling out and using up the pile of cardboard I had stored in there as well as getting rid of some garbage (all things we took to recycle/the dump yesterday) made a lot of space in there, and it will help us to organize what is left in there, and maybe even get rid of some more. Half the problem is when there is so much stuff you can't even get to it all to make decisions or use it.
We looked at the big catio we bought last fall, to assess what we will need to do to make a connecting tube to a window. That will have to be next time, but at least we looked at it.
We watched "Confess, Fletch", a new movie with Jon Hamm as Fletch. It was fun. Not quite as silly as the old ones, but good. Entertaining.
One of the things that I always say to those who want to live in "simpler times", is that I wouldn't want to live anywhere before the mass production of penicillin.
I learned that a golden mold found on a market cantaloupe was the breakthrough that would allow the mass production of penicillin, as other strains of mold that were being refined at that time were not able to produce high enough yields of the substance. The mold on this cantaloupe produced 200 times the amount of penicillin as the molds that were being cultivated at that time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/the-real-story-behind-the-worlds-first-antibiotic#:~:text=One%20hot%20summer%20day%2C%20a,penicillin%20as%20the%20species%20that
Well, if nothing else, we are getting real summer weather.
Since we did so much yesterday, we took today a little easier.
We did go see River, and he was pretty tired since it was so hot.
He did do better after I hosed him down to help him cool off.
He did quite well on MOST of the patterns we practiced, but did not seem willing to turn nicely today with just the neck rope. Well, it's always something.
There were some of those horrible horse flies bothering him, to the point where they drew blood on his sheath area. I had to slather on some fly repellent balm and zinc cream to literally create a physical barrier so they couldn't bite him. Poor guy.
We came home and tackled some small tasks. We were able to set up the new circular clothes line VERY easily. You literally just have to pound in a stake, and the pole for the clothes line fits into the top of the stake. This means you could move it fairly easily if you change your mind about where you want it later.
I watered the garden again. Some of the things I planted a few weeks ago are sprouted now.
We moved the big half barrels for flowers onto the area we mulched yesterday.
A small amount of organizing in a shed. Taking all the recycling out and using up the pile of cardboard I had stored in there as well as getting rid of some garbage (all things we took to recycle/the dump yesterday) made a lot of space in there, and it will help us to organize what is left in there, and maybe even get rid of some more. Half the problem is when there is so much stuff you can't even get to it all to make decisions or use it.
We looked at the big catio we bought last fall, to assess what we will need to do to make a connecting tube to a window. That will have to be next time, but at least we looked at it.
We watched "Confess, Fletch", a new movie with Jon Hamm as Fletch. It was fun. Not quite as silly as the old ones, but good. Entertaining.
One of the things that I always say to those who want to live in "simpler times", is that I wouldn't want to live anywhere before the mass production of penicillin.
I learned that a golden mold found on a market cantaloupe was the breakthrough that would allow the mass production of penicillin, as other strains of mold that were being refined at that time were not able to produce high enough yields of the substance. The mold on this cantaloupe produced 200 times the amount of penicillin as the molds that were being cultivated at that time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/the-real-story-behind-the-worlds-first-antibiotic#:~:text=One%20hot%20summer%20day%2C%20a,penicillin%20as%20the%20species%20that
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Date: 2023-06-06 02:59 am (UTC)Here, when things get cleared out (somewhat) there's always the realisation that there's much more to do than I first realised.
I'll be rubble-flinging tomorrow.
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Date: 2023-06-06 06:39 am (UTC)What's even more maddening, is that there was so much crap in that quonset that all of the building materials just sit beside the house, when they really could be stored in that quonset. However, I think that the quonset, which is only about 50 feet away from the stack of building materials, is "too far away from the house" to be used to store said building materials.
Yup. Everything must lie right out where you can see it. Right beside the house or all over the basement floor, which is even more visible thus handy.
Anyhow, yes. Every truck load of crap gone is generally helpful. Our yard is almost back to being as tidy as before we tore the trailer down. It has been a journey for sure.
I am always astonished at how much stuff we've hauled away to the dump. Load after load after load. A lot of it has been generated by the demolition of the trailer and bringing in the house.
I sometimes lie awake at night, thinking about how much more there is to do. I don't think we'll ever really be "done". We'll just die or something, and it will be someone else's problem.
That must be one of the weirdest things about getting old and having to sell your place, is that "IT ISN'T DONE YET!".
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Date: 2023-06-06 06:26 pm (UTC)I've decided to use the wheelbarrow that has been sitting in the back yard for a couple of years. I will fill it with gravel that has also been sitting around for years, and wheel it to the first area of the garden I would like to edge properly with gravel under the flagstones. I'm not sure how many flagstones I can pry up in a day, but I may as well try.
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Date: 2023-06-06 08:04 pm (UTC)