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The day has gone pleasantly from cold to cool to sunny to almost too warm to be outside. Spring has sprung.
I just got a new prescription for my glasses and contact lenses, and so I sat out on the deck this morning in the sun, reading Taking Flight and breaking in the photogrey on the new glasses.
Am I the only person in the world who was confused by what "pipe cleaners" really were (other than to make cute crafty things out of)? I'd always wondered how one cleaned out (water/sewer) pipes with things that small. I thought that they weren't long enough, and you'd really frankly need things that were much stiffer, and I would think larger diameter. My father in law was cleaning out the barrel of a pipe (the kind you smoke tobacco in) this morning and I had a revelation.
It's the sort of thing where you think "Am I the only one who's this misguided?".
There's been a rock sticking up in the middle of the driveway coming down to the cabin bothering me. I don't think it was really seriously in danger of hitting the bottom of our car, but it's hard to tell. So I grabbed a sledge hammer and cracked off enough pieces that it's basically level with the road around it. The rock was pretty heterogeneous, so it broke much more easily than I anticipated. It's some igneous rock with streaks of iron oxide. Some of the fractures look to be the first time that those surfaces have seen sunlight in tens of thousands of years. I saved a couple of the smaller pieces for a geologist friend of mine.