Barometric Dogs!
We have weather dogs. They have a forecast in for today. Great day for sleeping. They got up when we did, conducted their business, and went back to sleep! Didn’t even have a bit of kibble. Drizzle makes the cabbage grow, so it’s fine with me.
David Crosby (the singer) made a profound observation in his biography, Voyage. I can’t quote it exactly but it goes something like, people should not live in places where their animals can’t live. I don’t think he means move into the barn, but basically if your lifestyle doesn’t even have room for a gerbil- it couldn’t be good. I agree.
I’ve decided to experiment with homemade cosmetics. To try to make some basic cream or lotion. Long ago, I figured out by reading labels, that almost all skin care products are made from glycerin “and” , or mineral oil “and”; the “and” being some nice smelling things, or aloe, or extracts, and in the case of store bought, preservatives. Some of the store bought cosmetics have very vile things in them- like stuff leftover from the butcher, to put it delicately! Should be fun to experiment. Like cooking only without the calories!
Tenant of Wildfell Hall revisited. Last summer, I made a sincere effort to read this book. It was interesting, but way too wordy in the 19th century sense. I had the book out on loan from a local college (only copy for miles!) and even with a 4 week loan, couldn’t finish it. Lucky for me, it turned up on Masterpiece Theatre recently, so I was able to get a DVD on loan. so months later, I know how the story ended up! It was pretty interesting.
If I were an English major, I think I could write a paper about the cultural shift from Jane Austen to the Bronte sisters. Austen lived the generation before; the era of Lord Nelson and Wellington’s victory. By golly it was a great time to be part of the upper class. I’ve ranted about her before. Along with the benign indifference to the lower class folks she shows, it rankles me that it seems like a woman peaks around age 20. That might have been true.After a woman finds her true love, there be darkness. Perhaps she didn’t want to bring up dying in childbirth, or babies sickening and dying, etc. Maybe because she was writing for her peers and nobody wanted to discuss such things?
Then the Brontes, oy! There were five girls in the family. The two oldest sisters died. Charlotte was the oldest surviving daughter and she only made it to 39! They must have grown up gloomy. All three of them wrote about darker stuff- insanity, alcoholism, domestic abuse and vengeance!
My little “inner historian” is thinking that the rise of Industrialism in mid-19th century England, made people a lot more complicated and unhappy.
Probably because they got too far away from their animals.
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