Thursday, June 15
Jun. 15th, 2023 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
The rain. Everything is pretty wet for the moment, and we got a fair bit of water in our big rain tanks for later watering of the garden.
I saw a beautiful Garter snake in the garden today. I've never seen one in our yard before!
I had to get up pretty early today so that I could take Roxy to the vet. I got a lump checked, and thankfully it is fatty in nature. It is a weird lump, kind of in that flap of skin on her flank.
Since I was in town early anyhow, I picked up some of the animal bedding I use for cat litter and spent some time with the store cat, and made a donation at the local cat shelter that is always overwhelmed.
I went to a thrift store that I hardly ever get to, and found a very nice button up shirt and a summery dress.
I looked around at the Restore, but didn't find anything. Nice to look.
Stuck my head into a florist to see what they had for little plants, but nothing small enough for a terrarium.
I came home and fed everyone at what would be my usual time more or less, but felt loopy as I didn't get much sleep and had been up for hours and hours already.
I tried to sleep for a while, and was doing well, but my husband called to see if I needed anything on his way home, and I couldn't fall asleep again.
Before he settled into "I want to just sit here" mode, I got him into the car so we could go walk at the park down the road together. It's the first time in over a month that it hasn't been hot as a frying pan, and now that it rained, it will be the last day likely before there are tons of mosquitoes.
It was the perfect temperature for a walk, and everything was fresh and clean from the rain.
We came home, let everyone out for a while, and watched "Ace Ventura: Nature Calls". It was absolutely silly, which is nice sometimes.
I learned about the earliest attempts at flying an airplane from a ship at sea, and landing it again. Modern aircraft carriers have an elaborate system of hooks and cables to slow the planes so that they don't fall off the carriers at the end of the runway; this earliest attempt had people run after the airplane as it attempted to land, and CATCH ROPES AND DRAG THE PLANE TO A STOP using mainly the weight of their bodies.
Ahh, the early days of flight.
https://www.historynet.com/birth-aircraft-carrier/
The rain. Everything is pretty wet for the moment, and we got a fair bit of water in our big rain tanks for later watering of the garden.
I saw a beautiful Garter snake in the garden today. I've never seen one in our yard before!
I had to get up pretty early today so that I could take Roxy to the vet. I got a lump checked, and thankfully it is fatty in nature. It is a weird lump, kind of in that flap of skin on her flank.
Since I was in town early anyhow, I picked up some of the animal bedding I use for cat litter and spent some time with the store cat, and made a donation at the local cat shelter that is always overwhelmed.
I went to a thrift store that I hardly ever get to, and found a very nice button up shirt and a summery dress.
I looked around at the Restore, but didn't find anything. Nice to look.
Stuck my head into a florist to see what they had for little plants, but nothing small enough for a terrarium.
I came home and fed everyone at what would be my usual time more or less, but felt loopy as I didn't get much sleep and had been up for hours and hours already.
I tried to sleep for a while, and was doing well, but my husband called to see if I needed anything on his way home, and I couldn't fall asleep again.
Before he settled into "I want to just sit here" mode, I got him into the car so we could go walk at the park down the road together. It's the first time in over a month that it hasn't been hot as a frying pan, and now that it rained, it will be the last day likely before there are tons of mosquitoes.
It was the perfect temperature for a walk, and everything was fresh and clean from the rain.
We came home, let everyone out for a while, and watched "Ace Ventura: Nature Calls". It was absolutely silly, which is nice sometimes.
I learned about the earliest attempts at flying an airplane from a ship at sea, and landing it again. Modern aircraft carriers have an elaborate system of hooks and cables to slow the planes so that they don't fall off the carriers at the end of the runway; this earliest attempt had people run after the airplane as it attempted to land, and CATCH ROPES AND DRAG THE PLANE TO A STOP using mainly the weight of their bodies.
Ahh, the early days of flight.
https://www.historynet.com/birth-aircraft-carrier/
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