Saturday, December 9
Dec. 9th, 2023 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A Quiet day at home. Nothing pressing to do today.
I'm glad my husband could have a lazy morning. He doesn't get a lot of time just to scroll and enjoy himself.
I think that it's been just cold enough, and just enough snow that I can let Wonder out into the bigger pasture now. She can't have a lot of green grass because of the sugar, so in the summer she stays in a small corral with pretty much nothing in it, and short periods out in the pasture with a grazing muzzle on.
If it warms up again, I will just put her back into the smaller corral.
My Sweetie worked on making an insulated box to put around the water tub for the goats/ponies. It has a heater, but would use less power if the tub were insulated.
We walked around the horse pasture with Roxy, and I spent some time just being with the goats and ponies in their bigger pasture.
I did some laundry, vacuumed, my Sweetie took out the garbage, and I took all the stuff out of the porch so I can hopefully sand the walls and paint them. I've had drywall mud on there for a year now, and don't go back and finish the job. You get too used to just seeing it the way it is.
Then we watched the newer version of "Shaft" that had Samuel L. Jackson in it, and enjoyed it.
I learned about a drilling incident in Louisiana in 1980. Drilling in a lake bottom ended up piercing into a salt mine shaft directly underneath the lake (man, how did THAT happen?). The ENTIRE LAKE drained into the salt mine, collapsing it, and creating a giant sinkhole that was deep enough that water from the ocean came up the river and into the now-dry lake, until equilibrium in water volume was established, and the salt mine entirely filled.
Now Lake Peigneur is a brackish lake about 200 feet deep, and before the incident it was a ten foot deep fresh water lake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
Here is a very good, fairly short video of the events with some incredible footage of barges being sucked down into the whirlpool, and a good explanation of what happened.
https://youtu.be/p_iZr2-Coqc?si=9Q1aMKrkEqD-Xf--
A Quiet day at home. Nothing pressing to do today.
I'm glad my husband could have a lazy morning. He doesn't get a lot of time just to scroll and enjoy himself.
I think that it's been just cold enough, and just enough snow that I can let Wonder out into the bigger pasture now. She can't have a lot of green grass because of the sugar, so in the summer she stays in a small corral with pretty much nothing in it, and short periods out in the pasture with a grazing muzzle on.
If it warms up again, I will just put her back into the smaller corral.
My Sweetie worked on making an insulated box to put around the water tub for the goats/ponies. It has a heater, but would use less power if the tub were insulated.
We walked around the horse pasture with Roxy, and I spent some time just being with the goats and ponies in their bigger pasture.
I did some laundry, vacuumed, my Sweetie took out the garbage, and I took all the stuff out of the porch so I can hopefully sand the walls and paint them. I've had drywall mud on there for a year now, and don't go back and finish the job. You get too used to just seeing it the way it is.
Then we watched the newer version of "Shaft" that had Samuel L. Jackson in it, and enjoyed it.
I learned about a drilling incident in Louisiana in 1980. Drilling in a lake bottom ended up piercing into a salt mine shaft directly underneath the lake (man, how did THAT happen?). The ENTIRE LAKE drained into the salt mine, collapsing it, and creating a giant sinkhole that was deep enough that water from the ocean came up the river and into the now-dry lake, until equilibrium in water volume was established, and the salt mine entirely filled.
Now Lake Peigneur is a brackish lake about 200 feet deep, and before the incident it was a ten foot deep fresh water lake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
Here is a very good, fairly short video of the events with some incredible footage of barges being sucked down into the whirlpool, and a good explanation of what happened.
https://youtu.be/p_iZr2-Coqc?si=9Q1aMKrkEqD-Xf--
