Friday, June 16
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Nice temperatures, around 22 C instead of our recent extremes of 30 C or 11 C.
Some clouds. Maybe more rain at some point.
I didn't mess around, I kind of let my husband know he was doing SOMETHING on the house today, so he chose to work more on the tiles. Turns out he was NOT ready to grout, but was still cutting tile and adhering it to the wall. I guess he overstated his progress last time he worked on it.
It apparently still took him several hours today to cut the remaining tile and adhere it; fussy work.
I tried to pull grass and weeds out of an area I hope to mulch soon. I saw another garter snake, a small one (likely a male).
I also took a big bag of deposit items (here we get deposits back on many beverage containers, such as milk, aluminum cans, wine bottles). My husband was all like "there's only one garbage bag, not really worth the effort". I was like "the bottle depot is in town three miles away, why would I let it build up until our shed is full?".
From the depot I went to see River, though I detoured for a garage sale. I got some tiny antique bottles and a Nanking Cherry tree sapling they dug up from their yard.
I mainly worked on ridden equitation (walk, trot, canter) using the saddle and bitless bridle, and he got kind of insulted about having to work that hard again (using the bridle and saddle vs. liberty means I can try to collect him, which is harder work for him).
He really didn't do that well; he doesn't really like contact much. He "didn't want to do" a lot of very normal things, like just walk correctly or pick up a canter without trotting half way around.
Sigh.
Then we worked on a Liberty pattern, and he did not too badly with that, though his circles drifted a bit too big again in the one direction.
Overall, I know I worked him a bit too much, but it was mainly because he didn't want to just DO THE ASK when I asked nicely. I mean, he knows all of this work, he was just stating his opinion of it.
I did see some other folks around, so that was nice.
I came home, and my Sweetie was finishing up his tile work for the day.
I wanted to plant the cherry tree right away, so we did that after I let everyone out into their pastures.
Then we spent some time clearing grass and clippings away from some of the rose bushes and shrubs. I can't mow very close to them, and it's almost impossible not to get clippings on them.
Then we came in and watched "Tigerland", which was good. It was fairly early in Colin Farrell's career.
The film was meant to take place at Fort Polk, Louisiana (though it was not filmed there) which became a major training facility because of it's similarity to conditions to Vietnam. Very realistic war training took place there to prepare the soldiers.
Fort Polk is now known as Fort Johnson, and it is HUGE. The Army owns about 100,000 acres of land, and an additional 98,125 acres is owned by the U.S. Forest Service that can also be used for some of the training.
It has been operational since the 1940's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Johnson
Nice temperatures, around 22 C instead of our recent extremes of 30 C or 11 C.
Some clouds. Maybe more rain at some point.
I didn't mess around, I kind of let my husband know he was doing SOMETHING on the house today, so he chose to work more on the tiles. Turns out he was NOT ready to grout, but was still cutting tile and adhering it to the wall. I guess he overstated his progress last time he worked on it.
It apparently still took him several hours today to cut the remaining tile and adhere it; fussy work.
I tried to pull grass and weeds out of an area I hope to mulch soon. I saw another garter snake, a small one (likely a male).
I also took a big bag of deposit items (here we get deposits back on many beverage containers, such as milk, aluminum cans, wine bottles). My husband was all like "there's only one garbage bag, not really worth the effort". I was like "the bottle depot is in town three miles away, why would I let it build up until our shed is full?".
From the depot I went to see River, though I detoured for a garage sale. I got some tiny antique bottles and a Nanking Cherry tree sapling they dug up from their yard.
I mainly worked on ridden equitation (walk, trot, canter) using the saddle and bitless bridle, and he got kind of insulted about having to work that hard again (using the bridle and saddle vs. liberty means I can try to collect him, which is harder work for him).
He really didn't do that well; he doesn't really like contact much. He "didn't want to do" a lot of very normal things, like just walk correctly or pick up a canter without trotting half way around.
Sigh.
Then we worked on a Liberty pattern, and he did not too badly with that, though his circles drifted a bit too big again in the one direction.
Overall, I know I worked him a bit too much, but it was mainly because he didn't want to just DO THE ASK when I asked nicely. I mean, he knows all of this work, he was just stating his opinion of it.
I did see some other folks around, so that was nice.
I came home, and my Sweetie was finishing up his tile work for the day.
I wanted to plant the cherry tree right away, so we did that after I let everyone out into their pastures.
Then we spent some time clearing grass and clippings away from some of the rose bushes and shrubs. I can't mow very close to them, and it's almost impossible not to get clippings on them.
Then we came in and watched "Tigerland", which was good. It was fairly early in Colin Farrell's career.
The film was meant to take place at Fort Polk, Louisiana (though it was not filmed there) which became a major training facility because of it's similarity to conditions to Vietnam. Very realistic war training took place there to prepare the soldiers.
Fort Polk is now known as Fort Johnson, and it is HUGE. The Army owns about 100,000 acres of land, and an additional 98,125 acres is owned by the U.S. Forest Service that can also be used for some of the training.
It has been operational since the 1940's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Johnson
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Date: 2023-06-17 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-18 06:07 am (UTC)I just think they're so beautiful in the sunlight, all different colors.
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Date: 2023-06-19 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-19 06:33 am (UTC)I think you literally could use a spice rack, or a little rack meant to display figurines or whatnot.
A quick search, and you know what? Wal-mart has a wall-mounted display shelf hat might work, only I don't think it would work on a door. A wall, yes. Maybe in that space you mentioned between book shelves?
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Wooden-Wall-Shelf-Shadow-Box-Display-Storage-Unit-Brown/1XWJRLFU3XQ6?skuId=6RU2WSLHSNMU&offerId=6D9E5CF68826429BA8A0EDF817794491&utm_medium=paid_search&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=always_on&cmpid=SEM_CA_315_4WS7F53U7W_71700000099943873_58700008013744813&utm_id=SEM_CA_315_4WS7F53U7W_71700000099943873_58700008013744813&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1rqkBhCTARIsAAHz7K3yRGw-fz6y6f3vH5Qnp3IGodG05359cbZceVy1eKrTsHC4xa-BejkaAgisEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
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Date: 2023-06-19 09:13 pm (UTC)Is it feasible to make something bespoke? The Instagram DIYers do this kind of thing in no time. There's a woman there who is redoing her house to look like Outlander. She's doing a good job, too.
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Date: 2023-06-20 04:18 am (UTC)Straight forward shelves with slats like spice racks wouldn't be tough, but those nice curio style ones with cubbies would be tough.
Probably all kinds of places have nice wooden spice racks. I found my cute wall-mounted display shelves at Peavey Mart a few years ago, though I haven't seen anything like them since.
You might find one at a thrift store.
This would be easy to build. https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/200902833356734181/
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Date: 2023-06-30 03:23 pm (UTC)