This has been the strangest summer. We’ve had two rounds of dangerous heat – both several days long. We’ve had and continue to have smoke from the wildfires in Canada. Yesterday, we had thunderstorms all day long, big thunderstorms with lots of lightning and thunder, along with massive downpours that looked like solid sheets of water. And we’ve had long stretches of drought-like conditions.
It’s been exhausting. It’s also been maddening because everything out there is overgrown and very wild looking and I haven’t really been able to tackle it because of all of the above. I’m going to start pruning and cutting and cleaning it out today. Both Don and I feel like we haven’t been able to spend as much time outside as we normally do.
I’m taking a little break from the dollhouse renovations. I’ll eventually work on the floor for the second floor stairs/hallway. After that, I’m not sure. I have a very limited budget, as you know, so this will be slow going.
One good thing, I’m reading a lot again, which is lovely. I’m currently reading Ironwood by Michael Connelly, the second book in a new series for him that takes place on Catalina Island off the coast of southern California.
We watched Oppenheimer last night, something we’d put off because its SO LONG! We ate dinner a bit earlier so we could watch it and still not be up too late. It was quite well done and the acting was terrific. There were sound issues, which seems to happen a lot these days. The balance between the soundtrack and dialogue was really off and I spent the first hour constantly turning it down and then having to turn it up again. It’s really annoying and inexcusable, really. So we missed some of the dialogue. Something is or is not happening in the mixing process. Cillian Murphy was wonderful in the title role and Robert Downey Jr. was absolutely pitch perfect.
But it was too long and would have benefitted from some cuts.
That’s it for today.
Stay safe.
Happy Wednesday.
