Wednesday, January 24
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Beautiful weather for this time of year. About -5 C today.
I spent some time outside with Roxy, just letting her sniff around.
D from pottery texted to say that for now, her Father is doing better, though he is in precarious health. He apparently wants to live with her until he dies, but ...really? That would be so difficult for D to manage. He has just hated living in the care home in that town, even though it is considered to be luxurious.
I went to see River. We had a lesson today.
Once again, I'm just gritting my teeth over my own lack of progress. We worked on "improving the Liberty circles" again. Again. Again.
Then we worked on "improving the pattern" again. Again. Again.
At some point the pattern will pass, as we record it next week, and however bad we are at it will simply be how bad we are, and we will move on to the next challenge that I will likely also be bad at doing.
It would be nice to be good at something. I haven't had much of that in my life this winter.
I did put one coat of paint on the walls in the mud room. It will likely take weeks and weeks for us to get to where we have picked out a sink, since it hinges on being in the city together making decisions, with time to go to stores when they are open. That won't happen this weekend, as my husband is going away for work.
So, all I can do is paint the walls.
We can't go forward with the wood stove either, until we go to the city and pick out tiles for the floor. It took us months and months to pick tile for the bathroom. Then it took months to install it.
Really, from a practical standpoint, we are likely a year at best for getting the wood stove installed.
Perhaps two or three months for having a sink in the mud room.
I should just stop caring.
I came home, and my husband had fun rock climbing tonight. That's nice. I'm glad he's having fun.
We watched an episode of "The Expanse".
I learned that Titan, a rocky moon in orbit around Saturn, has enormous lakes of surface hydrocarbons. It is not known, but raises the question of whether or not Titan used to have life on it, as hydrocarbons generally arise from the remains of carbon-based life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)
https://time.com/4450810/nasa-saturn-moon-titan/
Beautiful weather for this time of year. About -5 C today.
I spent some time outside with Roxy, just letting her sniff around.
D from pottery texted to say that for now, her Father is doing better, though he is in precarious health. He apparently wants to live with her until he dies, but ...really? That would be so difficult for D to manage. He has just hated living in the care home in that town, even though it is considered to be luxurious.
I went to see River. We had a lesson today.
Once again, I'm just gritting my teeth over my own lack of progress. We worked on "improving the Liberty circles" again. Again. Again.
Then we worked on "improving the pattern" again. Again. Again.
At some point the pattern will pass, as we record it next week, and however bad we are at it will simply be how bad we are, and we will move on to the next challenge that I will likely also be bad at doing.
It would be nice to be good at something. I haven't had much of that in my life this winter.
I did put one coat of paint on the walls in the mud room. It will likely take weeks and weeks for us to get to where we have picked out a sink, since it hinges on being in the city together making decisions, with time to go to stores when they are open. That won't happen this weekend, as my husband is going away for work.
So, all I can do is paint the walls.
We can't go forward with the wood stove either, until we go to the city and pick out tiles for the floor. It took us months and months to pick tile for the bathroom. Then it took months to install it.
Really, from a practical standpoint, we are likely a year at best for getting the wood stove installed.
Perhaps two or three months for having a sink in the mud room.
I should just stop caring.
I came home, and my husband had fun rock climbing tonight. That's nice. I'm glad he's having fun.
We watched an episode of "The Expanse".
I learned that Titan, a rocky moon in orbit around Saturn, has enormous lakes of surface hydrocarbons. It is not known, but raises the question of whether or not Titan used to have life on it, as hydrocarbons generally arise from the remains of carbon-based life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(moon)
https://time.com/4450810/nasa-saturn-moon-titan/
