Monday, September 25
Sep. 26th, 2023 02:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Sunny and temperate.
My Sweetie chose to stay at home and work more on the house. A good day for it.
I went to pottery.
I did go for recreational shopping first, and it was nice to be by myself. With my Sweetie it feels like you have to hurry, and the sense of pressure ruins the whole point of leisurely meandering and perusing.
I did find a kick-ass pair of satin-y pants.
Pottery was nice. I applied glaze to two items and put them on the cart for firing, and I trimmed some leather-hard ones.
I have to say, I am doing several vases in a very similar fashion, which can be good or bad in terms of being able to repeat myself, but it's maybe time to try something different; yet I still don't feel like I've achieved what I want in terms of silhouette.
Still, I enjoyed being there, and socializing, and not everything is about our house.
Then I got groceries, and I was good about finishing up at pottery in time so that I didn't feel rushed. I'm still struggling with the store layout, as it was different again this week.
I came home, and we began watching "The Peripheral", based on a William Gibson novel. It's good so far, and it's too bad that there is only one season, and it didn't complete the story.
I learned that the spread of potatoes to Europe effectively ended famine in many areas once they grew potatoes. This assisted the "rise of the West".
The growing of huge fields of potatoes also spurred the Guano industry, as they needed nitrogen based fertilizer in greater amounts, and it then led to the development of pesticides in the effort to kill the potato beetles that came along.
Also, that the very old, original potatoes are toxic, and people must eat them with clay to absorb the toxins. These varieties still exist due to their hardiness.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-potato-changed-the-world-108470605/#:~:text=Equally%20important%2C%20the%20European%20and,first%20intensive%20fertilizer%3A%20Peruvian%20guano.
Sunny and temperate.
My Sweetie chose to stay at home and work more on the house. A good day for it.
I went to pottery.
I did go for recreational shopping first, and it was nice to be by myself. With my Sweetie it feels like you have to hurry, and the sense of pressure ruins the whole point of leisurely meandering and perusing.
I did find a kick-ass pair of satin-y pants.
Pottery was nice. I applied glaze to two items and put them on the cart for firing, and I trimmed some leather-hard ones.
I have to say, I am doing several vases in a very similar fashion, which can be good or bad in terms of being able to repeat myself, but it's maybe time to try something different; yet I still don't feel like I've achieved what I want in terms of silhouette.
Still, I enjoyed being there, and socializing, and not everything is about our house.
Then I got groceries, and I was good about finishing up at pottery in time so that I didn't feel rushed. I'm still struggling with the store layout, as it was different again this week.
I came home, and we began watching "The Peripheral", based on a William Gibson novel. It's good so far, and it's too bad that there is only one season, and it didn't complete the story.
I learned that the spread of potatoes to Europe effectively ended famine in many areas once they grew potatoes. This assisted the "rise of the West".
The growing of huge fields of potatoes also spurred the Guano industry, as they needed nitrogen based fertilizer in greater amounts, and it then led to the development of pesticides in the effort to kill the potato beetles that came along.
Also, that the very old, original potatoes are toxic, and people must eat them with clay to absorb the toxins. These varieties still exist due to their hardiness.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-potato-changed-the-world-108470605/#:~:text=Equally%20important%2C%20the%20European%20and,first%20intensive%20fertilizer%3A%20Peruvian%20guano.
