Thursday, August 24
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Cooler temperatures.
My Sweetie still got up fairly late, and put in maybe two hours of work today on the house. He went to bed last night at about midnight, and still got up at about noon. Who on Earth needs 12 hours in bed night after night for over a week?
Every night he'll say something bothered him a bit, like a fly, or dreams, but really? That might make you lose a little bit of sleep, but he's in the sack for so long you'd think he would get enough....?
I'm hoping that soon he will feel caught up a bit and be able to get up a bit earlier. We are now into the time of year where the days are getting shorter.
He got a tiny bit more done on the insulation, and then it rained again, so he helped me with the mulch for a while. All together he maybe did two hours of work. Maybe three. It's not really enough.
Then he went for a bike ride for about an hour. I kept working on the mulching around the house. I am getting some of the wooden rails for the edge dug in. I actually got a fair bit done with the mulching today.
Then we both went for a walk at the park down the road. We went to the edge of the lake, away from the "beach" that the public uses so we could let Roxy run around. It was a really nice evening for it, and the breeze kept the mosquitoes away.
Then we came in and watched more "Shitt's Creek". It's pretty funny.
I learned about Sylphium, a now believed to be extinct plant that was once a very valuable and much-loved herb that grew mainly in what is now Libya. Sylphium could not be cultivated, it only grew wild, and it was used for perfume, medicine, and as a flavorful herb in food. We are not quite sure today what family the plant belonged to, but it is theorized that it might be part of the fennel family.
The value of the wild plant kept growing, to the point where it was worth it's weight in gold, tempting collectors to over harvest (defying laws protecting the wild plant) until it was completely gone.
It is frequently mentioned in ancient texts, poems, and stories.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb#:~:text=Scientists%20now%20think%20that%2C%20like,North%20Africa%20and%20the%20Mediterranean.
Cooler temperatures.
My Sweetie still got up fairly late, and put in maybe two hours of work today on the house. He went to bed last night at about midnight, and still got up at about noon. Who on Earth needs 12 hours in bed night after night for over a week?
Every night he'll say something bothered him a bit, like a fly, or dreams, but really? That might make you lose a little bit of sleep, but he's in the sack for so long you'd think he would get enough....?
I'm hoping that soon he will feel caught up a bit and be able to get up a bit earlier. We are now into the time of year where the days are getting shorter.
He got a tiny bit more done on the insulation, and then it rained again, so he helped me with the mulch for a while. All together he maybe did two hours of work. Maybe three. It's not really enough.
Then he went for a bike ride for about an hour. I kept working on the mulching around the house. I am getting some of the wooden rails for the edge dug in. I actually got a fair bit done with the mulching today.
Then we both went for a walk at the park down the road. We went to the edge of the lake, away from the "beach" that the public uses so we could let Roxy run around. It was a really nice evening for it, and the breeze kept the mosquitoes away.
Then we came in and watched more "Shitt's Creek". It's pretty funny.
I learned about Sylphium, a now believed to be extinct plant that was once a very valuable and much-loved herb that grew mainly in what is now Libya. Sylphium could not be cultivated, it only grew wild, and it was used for perfume, medicine, and as a flavorful herb in food. We are not quite sure today what family the plant belonged to, but it is theorized that it might be part of the fennel family.
The value of the wild plant kept growing, to the point where it was worth it's weight in gold, tempting collectors to over harvest (defying laws protecting the wild plant) until it was completely gone.
It is frequently mentioned in ancient texts, poems, and stories.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb#:~:text=Scientists%20now%20think%20that%2C%20like,North%20Africa%20and%20the%20Mediterranean.
