Monday, December 11
Dec. 12th, 2023 01:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Getting a good night's sleep. I had several days last week where I had to get up earlier than usual, and got much less sleep than I need.
Still very mild weather.
I went to pottery, and worked on the two teapots I started last week. This session was trimming the individual parts of the teapot (the main body, the spout, the lid), pulling handles and letting them "set up" on a round form, and then assembling the teapot (putting the spout and handle on, making the hole inside the spout).
It has to be done while everything is still leather hard (firm, but still moist), and allowed to dry as one piece so that the parts will adhere, and hopefully not crack at the joints.
This means that I have to do it all today, I can't do part of it now and more later, unless I were to put things in a wet box where they could not dry out.
So, I got it all done in about two and a half hours, then I had half an hour of clean up. Frantic clean up, since I still needed to get groceries and it was LATE.
I had fun socializing with other potters today. We had two people who were "just visiting" our day, they normally work on other nights.
I got groceries in a mad dash half an hour before the store closed, though that's how I normally have to do it. Every Monday after pottery, I am there right at the end, rushing like mad.
I have to give myself some credit here, I generally do our entire week's shopping in a mad half hour dash, and it usually works out just fine. That's trying to buy enough fresh vegetables for my husband's lunch (he packs a big plastic tub of veggies for his lunch every day) and for suppers all week, and the usual staples.
I guess this is why I tend to buy the same things over and over, as much as possible.
My husband always makes like I'm a bit nuts for buying so much food, and makes a few comments about how full the fridge is when I am done putting it all away, but you know what? That fridge is pretty much empty at the end of the week, so I'm not over buying.
I don't want to eat up my life going to town for groceries three times a week. I have no time or patience for that. Every time I have to go to town, it takes up my whole day.
So, once a week, and be SERIOUS about it, and get it DONE!!!
I am always grateful for the means to buy groceries, to have stores full of good food, for the car, and being strong and able to do this.
I learned about the Luna 1 spacecraft (unmanned) that was launched by Russia in 1959. It was intended to land on the Moon, but passed by it, and fell into orbit around the Sun, about halfway between Earth and Mars, where it still orbits today.
It was the first craft to escape the Earth's gravity and travel through space, and in spite of not landing on the Moon as planned, it gathered a lot of information and had the technology to send that information back to Earth to help plan future missions.
"The measurements obtained during this mission provided new data on the Earth's radiation belt and outer space, including the discovery that the Moon had no magnetic field and that a solar wind, a strong flow of ionized plasma emmanating from the Sun, streamed through interplanetary space."
From this article: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1959-012A#:~:text=Luna%201%20was%20the%20first,The%20spacecraft%20was%20sphere%2Dshaped.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_1
Getting a good night's sleep. I had several days last week where I had to get up earlier than usual, and got much less sleep than I need.
Still very mild weather.
I went to pottery, and worked on the two teapots I started last week. This session was trimming the individual parts of the teapot (the main body, the spout, the lid), pulling handles and letting them "set up" on a round form, and then assembling the teapot (putting the spout and handle on, making the hole inside the spout).
It has to be done while everything is still leather hard (firm, but still moist), and allowed to dry as one piece so that the parts will adhere, and hopefully not crack at the joints.
This means that I have to do it all today, I can't do part of it now and more later, unless I were to put things in a wet box where they could not dry out.
So, I got it all done in about two and a half hours, then I had half an hour of clean up. Frantic clean up, since I still needed to get groceries and it was LATE.
I had fun socializing with other potters today. We had two people who were "just visiting" our day, they normally work on other nights.
I got groceries in a mad dash half an hour before the store closed, though that's how I normally have to do it. Every Monday after pottery, I am there right at the end, rushing like mad.
I have to give myself some credit here, I generally do our entire week's shopping in a mad half hour dash, and it usually works out just fine. That's trying to buy enough fresh vegetables for my husband's lunch (he packs a big plastic tub of veggies for his lunch every day) and for suppers all week, and the usual staples.
I guess this is why I tend to buy the same things over and over, as much as possible.
My husband always makes like I'm a bit nuts for buying so much food, and makes a few comments about how full the fridge is when I am done putting it all away, but you know what? That fridge is pretty much empty at the end of the week, so I'm not over buying.
I don't want to eat up my life going to town for groceries three times a week. I have no time or patience for that. Every time I have to go to town, it takes up my whole day.
So, once a week, and be SERIOUS about it, and get it DONE!!!
I am always grateful for the means to buy groceries, to have stores full of good food, for the car, and being strong and able to do this.
I learned about the Luna 1 spacecraft (unmanned) that was launched by Russia in 1959. It was intended to land on the Moon, but passed by it, and fell into orbit around the Sun, about halfway between Earth and Mars, where it still orbits today.
It was the first craft to escape the Earth's gravity and travel through space, and in spite of not landing on the Moon as planned, it gathered a lot of information and had the technology to send that information back to Earth to help plan future missions.
"The measurements obtained during this mission provided new data on the Earth's radiation belt and outer space, including the discovery that the Moon had no magnetic field and that a solar wind, a strong flow of ionized plasma emmanating from the Sun, streamed through interplanetary space."
From this article: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1959-012A#:~:text=Luna%201%20was%20the%20first,The%20spacecraft%20was%20sphere%2Dshaped.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_1
