gottawonder

Today I am grateful for:

Sunny and moderate temperatures.

A day to try to work on something at home.

My Sweetie went right back to work on the siding. He puts in fairly short days of about four hours, but at least he's gotten into a steady routine.

I worked on the mulching again. Sigh. The part that I find difficult is that I want to put garden ties (poles) beside the brick walk way to hold back the mulch, so that means digging a small trench to lay them in. The ground is packed clay, so very hard to dig, and very heavy to take the wheel barrow full of it away (even if I do a half full load).

The rest isn't so bad, laying down cardboard and putting the mulch on top.

We tilled the area first that I was working on, to try and level it a bit.

So, that was pretty much our day.

I also continued washing out another horse blanket. I don't know how clean they get being soaked in a big tub outside and then rinsed, but the wash water gets pretty black, so it must be helping. Then I hang them over the fence to dry.

We came in and watched "The Running Man". That's right, the one from the '80's with Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was still fun to watch, though it's incredible to think of how our aesthetic has changed, and even the things that would have been considered GREAT effects look pretty cheesy now.

What did surprise me, is how GOOD Richard Dawson (who was a game show host for decades) was. Sure, he also played a game show host, but throughout the movie he was the best actor hands down as far as good delivery of his lines and "natural" expressions. He really could have had a career as an actor.

I learned that: Stick charts were made and used by the Marshallese to navigate the Pacific Ocean by canoe off the coast of the Marshall Islands. The charts represented major ocean swell patterns and the ways the islands disrupted those patterns, typically determined by sensing disruptions in ocean swells by islanders during sea navigation.

Fascinating!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart