* Gonna be a stormy week; I expect tomorrow night I'll have to spend time hanging out in the middle of the house hall/bathroom area (it's the part of the house most surrounded by walls and far from windows). I don't like it. Been a bad spring. I suspect it's gonna be bad because I have a headache ALREADY tonight from the pressure difference; it's 20 degrees cooler in OKC (so, about 150 miles to the northwest from here) than it is here (I'm having to run the AC because it's super humid and that's bothering my asthma pretty fiercely)
*I've been watching a channel on YouTube called Ryan Hall, y'all. He's a "Weather analyst" who kind of collates storm chasing information. During our last storm outbreak I found him and it does help, it's information that The Weather Channel USUALLY doesn't give (unless it's a highly populated area, seems they ignore it, especially in the evenings when they're running their dumb reality shows). And the local weathercasters (well, "local" from 45 miles away) do a decent job, but they're only on when it's bad weather right nearby - this youtube channel covers everything, including things off to the west of me that might be coming in in hours. And he's fairly low-key but also tries to emphasize when people need to take cover.
Weirdly, I find bad-weather coverage easier to take than most news: yes, it's bad things happening, but it's not bad things directly caused by people, and the people involved are doing their best to try to mitigate the risk to human life.
* I spent some time yesterday after church and did some brush cutting/weed removal. Not as much as I'd have liked and a lot of it was having to use my big shovel to "pop" the wild lettuce and the pokeweed that was growing up where the tree was removed last year out by their roots. I've been stacking the stuff up by the back gate; the city no longer picks up yard waste unless you pay through the nose for it, but you can take it to the dump yourself for free, so I'm going to get a big stack and see if I can get someone who has a pickup to bring it into the alley and let me load it up and drive with me to the dump.
I suppose an alternative would be to get a trailer hitch put on my car and buy a small trailer, but then, I've never learned how to back up with a trailer and stuff like that, and I'd need a light enough one I could wrangle it myself.
* I will say being more active where I can periodically rest for a few minutes leads to less knee pain than the constantly-on-my-feet of lecturing. I think I'm also bending and flexing more. The worst knee problem is if I happen to bend the knee a bit far back (my knees hyperextend easily). I didn't hurt after doing the yardwork.
I'd have done more today but I graded until kind of late, and I need to buy some new gardening gloves and I didn't feel like running out to get them when I was headed home at 4 (and I did wind up spending another hour or so grading once I was home). It's supposed to rain the rest of the week so I may not get to do more right away
* I knit some more on the "wood pigeon" (a self-patterning in shades of greyed purple) socks this weekend, and more on the yellow vest (while invigilating an exam).
* I probably need to take my car out for an oil and filter change tomorrow; it's overdue by time but not by mileage (I don't drive much) but I also want to do it before the tariffs chaos and I worry that things are going to wind up being in short supply - lots of people worrying about empty container ships. And I KNOW if there are supply chain troubles, we will be hit harder than more prosperous/connected parts of the country. (And I hate that I have to do this kind of calculus now. I did also order ahead a few things and I stocked up on tp and paper towels some weeks back. It does feel VERY much like early pandemic days, that "I don't know what's coming but it feels bad" At least this time people won't be dying of pneumonia?)
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