some Monday things

 * I do think I'll have enough black yarn for all the squares for the color-bar blanket. I made a couple more tonight and have 14 of 17 done. I still have to do the white ones but then they'll be all done (and I will have to sew them all together)

* Mowed the lawn this evening, including finally knocking down the tall stuff over where the wasps were (they weren't around this afternoon). There was also a big tree-trimming truck, I think hired by OG and E? They took down one of the smaller junky trees in the alleyway. I was surprised to see it gone, but as long as I don't receive a bill, it's fine. (I don't own the alleyway, I received no notification this was being done, so I think I could contest any bill if I received one). I don't love getting back on the treadmill of lawnmowing but at least it's a different type of exercise.

* Still reading on "Dear and Glorious Physician." It's really good. Lynn - who recommended it to me - warned me "some tragic things happen" and yeah, whoa, they do (I'm not quite 200 pages in) but somehow it's more tolerable than in some novels. And it's interesting to see Lucanus' (the fictionalized version of St. Luke) anger at God, and supposedly his decision to become a physician is to snatch people from death - in his anger he believes God is choosing to kill people and he thinks he can fight that by learning to heal.

I don't know if it's the writing, or that there are sympathetic characters, or there's a general religious framework (Keptah, Luke's mentor, is basically a Christian-before-there-was-Christianity*) 

(*and yeah, that part confuses me; there seem to be people who already revere the cross, a sect that sees it as an important symbol, but apparently at least early in the book Christ is still a boy? I don't remember a lot of the Old Testament prophecy but I didn't think it was *that* specific that people would already basically have the groundwork laid beforehand for much of the faith path - especially people who were apparently Gentiles)