Thursday, February 1
Feb. 1st, 2024 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
More beautiful weather.
I put another coat of paint on the wall where the sink will go late last night, before more work was done today.
One of the plumbers came (he works for Brad). He wasn't versed in my weirdness though, and he knocked on the door, waited, knocked some more, the dog barked, and I had to get up and pull on clothes and peek my head out and let him know just to go ahead and work in the mud room.
He was not quiet, like Brad. I don't know why he needed to go outside so much, but I bet he had to go outside at least five times, there are two doors, so each time opening and then SLAMMING them.
Well, I'm not really that upset, if it moves things ahead. He's not used to me, and I know it's a lot to ask of people to have to tiptoe around me to do their work. Brad is a bit of an exception.
I spoke with him before he left. He's not finished, there are a few details yet to be hammered out, but he got the plumbing in the walls all sorted out and installed. We'll get there, though I really didn't expect just installing a sink to be a drawn out thing just like every other project.
I talked on the phone with Sister E for a while, and they are in the middle of moving her MIL to a new care facility, to one that is less crowded and a little nicer. I hope it works out for them.
It sounds again like it is Sister E doing all the work for her MIL, and her husband is too...emotionally stunted or something to deal with it. There's a lot of paperwork to be done, setting up payments and accounts at the new place, signing certain waivers and contracts, and so on. Likely transferring all her medical records and wishes such as DNR and who has power of attorney. My sister is doing all of this. That's what she has to do tomorrow.
No wonder she's thinking her son, who is a lot like his Dad, won't be the right person to help her when she's older.
It's funny how many women I see doing all of the heavy lifting when it comes to the elderly parents and relatives. My brother T did a lot for our Mom, but he's looking like an exception.
I spent some time outside with the animals. I let the goats/ponies out into their larger pasture for a while, and there was some bucking and pony zoomies.
I cleaned up some of the pony poop.
When my Sweetie came home we walked around the pasture with Roxy. She seems to move okay when we're outside, but in the house I think she gets stiff from lying down. I don't know what to think.
We came inside, ate and watched more of "The Expanse".
Kiribati is another group of islands in the Oceania region. There are about 119 thousand people there, and half of them live on one atoll (Tarawa). This means that because so many live in a small area, the population density is quite high, and being not very developed, there are great challenges with hygiene and sanitation, and lots of transmissible disease.
Kiribati became independent of the U.K. and the U.S. in 1979, and now has a Democratic Parliamentary system with an elected President.
They used to export phosphate, likely from sea bird droppings that can make enormous deposits of pure fertilizer, but those are mined out now (likely why everyone was suddenly okay with giving them independence), so they rely a lot on copra and fishing.
Wikipedia contradicts itself by saying that there is very little farming as the soil is mainly calciferous sand, then saying that 80% of the population farms, mainly things like cabbage, watermelon, and cucumber. Maybe it means there is no commercial farming or exports?
There are no native mammals, only those brought by colonization (dogs, cats, pigs, rats).
They are one of the least developed areas in the world, and also one of the areas (probably all of the islands in Oceania) very likely to disappear in any rise in ocean levels. Increasing severity of cyclones could potentially strip the islands of soil and vegetation.
They rely heavily on money from other countries for development, and recently there has been a lot of focus on adapting to climate change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati
https://youtu.be/TZ0j6kr4ZJ0?si=PzTrI6m84-8tuM7G
More beautiful weather.
I put another coat of paint on the wall where the sink will go late last night, before more work was done today.
One of the plumbers came (he works for Brad). He wasn't versed in my weirdness though, and he knocked on the door, waited, knocked some more, the dog barked, and I had to get up and pull on clothes and peek my head out and let him know just to go ahead and work in the mud room.
He was not quiet, like Brad. I don't know why he needed to go outside so much, but I bet he had to go outside at least five times, there are two doors, so each time opening and then SLAMMING them.
Well, I'm not really that upset, if it moves things ahead. He's not used to me, and I know it's a lot to ask of people to have to tiptoe around me to do their work. Brad is a bit of an exception.
I spoke with him before he left. He's not finished, there are a few details yet to be hammered out, but he got the plumbing in the walls all sorted out and installed. We'll get there, though I really didn't expect just installing a sink to be a drawn out thing just like every other project.
I talked on the phone with Sister E for a while, and they are in the middle of moving her MIL to a new care facility, to one that is less crowded and a little nicer. I hope it works out for them.
It sounds again like it is Sister E doing all the work for her MIL, and her husband is too...emotionally stunted or something to deal with it. There's a lot of paperwork to be done, setting up payments and accounts at the new place, signing certain waivers and contracts, and so on. Likely transferring all her medical records and wishes such as DNR and who has power of attorney. My sister is doing all of this. That's what she has to do tomorrow.
No wonder she's thinking her son, who is a lot like his Dad, won't be the right person to help her when she's older.
It's funny how many women I see doing all of the heavy lifting when it comes to the elderly parents and relatives. My brother T did a lot for our Mom, but he's looking like an exception.
I spent some time outside with the animals. I let the goats/ponies out into their larger pasture for a while, and there was some bucking and pony zoomies.
I cleaned up some of the pony poop.
When my Sweetie came home we walked around the pasture with Roxy. She seems to move okay when we're outside, but in the house I think she gets stiff from lying down. I don't know what to think.
We came inside, ate and watched more of "The Expanse".
Kiribati is another group of islands in the Oceania region. There are about 119 thousand people there, and half of them live on one atoll (Tarawa). This means that because so many live in a small area, the population density is quite high, and being not very developed, there are great challenges with hygiene and sanitation, and lots of transmissible disease.
Kiribati became independent of the U.K. and the U.S. in 1979, and now has a Democratic Parliamentary system with an elected President.
They used to export phosphate, likely from sea bird droppings that can make enormous deposits of pure fertilizer, but those are mined out now (likely why everyone was suddenly okay with giving them independence), so they rely a lot on copra and fishing.
Wikipedia contradicts itself by saying that there is very little farming as the soil is mainly calciferous sand, then saying that 80% of the population farms, mainly things like cabbage, watermelon, and cucumber. Maybe it means there is no commercial farming or exports?
There are no native mammals, only those brought by colonization (dogs, cats, pigs, rats).
They are one of the least developed areas in the world, and also one of the areas (probably all of the islands in Oceania) very likely to disappear in any rise in ocean levels. Increasing severity of cyclones could potentially strip the islands of soil and vegetation.
They rely heavily on money from other countries for development, and recently there has been a lot of focus on adapting to climate change.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati
https://youtu.be/TZ0j6kr4ZJ0?si=PzTrI6m84-8tuM7G
