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alonewiththemoonI finished up the leaf compost yesterday with another four hours of work. So now I know it takes about 10 hours total to spread 10 cubic yards of soil. The final third of it was easier in some ways because the heat was much less intense yesterday, but on the other hand, the pile had compacted a bit and gotten rained on a little, so it was heavier soil on Sunday than it had been on Friday. I raised the overall level of the yard high enough that I had to shorten the downspouts. I'm just so, so excited about my terra rasa!
I did end up with sun poisoning by the end of my work on Sunday, with big itchy rashes all over my arms and neck. I wore sunscreen all weekend; I didn't get burned on Sunday but I guess whatever it is that triggers the rashes isn't stopped by sunscreen. I'm still bumpy today but it's going down. I need to look for some long sleeve gardening shirts.
We watched John Carter on Friday night. I guess the movie was a box office flop, but it wasn't a bad film. It wasn't a great film, either, but it was a solid piece of mid-summer hot night escapism. The aesthetics were really perfect. The set design and costuming looked like real labors of love of the original source material, because Barsoom and its inhabitants looked exactly as one would have wanted them to. The character of Dejah Thoris was really well done, so much so that it occurred to me as I watched that I wished the story could have been told from her point of view instead of John Carter's.
Saturday we binge-finished The Fall, the police procedural set in Northern Ireland starring Gillian Anderson. As I think I've noted before (if not here, then certainly in FB), it is very difficult to watch in parts, but it is truly a feminist crime drama, something really pretty unique. The Prime Suspect series showed feminist thought in its portrayal of the life of Jane Tennyson, but The Fall extends that line of thinking from observations about Stella Gibson's life to the situation of women in society as a whole, with Stella clearly using her own experiences with the power struggles in the police hierarchy to understand what is going on in the killer's mind. As much as Scully will forever hold an important place in my heart, this is by far the best work Gillian Anderson has done. The rest of the cast is also very strong. I was astonished to discover that the evil, bad, bad, bad murdering man is played by the same actor who played the Huntsman on the tv show Once Upon a Time, in which he was so nobly doomed. It's been renewed for another series, which is great because there is not exactly closure at the end of this one.
I have heard that there is a deer and her fawn hanging out in the Cemetery. It wouldn't be the first time, but it's unusual. I'm sure they are hunkered down somewhere for the day, but it would be sweet to see them on my lunch walk...
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I did end up with sun poisoning by the end of my work on Sunday, with big itchy rashes all over my arms and neck. I wore sunscreen all weekend; I didn't get burned on Sunday but I guess whatever it is that triggers the rashes isn't stopped by sunscreen. I'm still bumpy today but it's going down. I need to look for some long sleeve gardening shirts.
We watched John Carter on Friday night. I guess the movie was a box office flop, but it wasn't a bad film. It wasn't a great film, either, but it was a solid piece of mid-summer hot night escapism. The aesthetics were really perfect. The set design and costuming looked like real labors of love of the original source material, because Barsoom and its inhabitants looked exactly as one would have wanted them to. The character of Dejah Thoris was really well done, so much so that it occurred to me as I watched that I wished the story could have been told from her point of view instead of John Carter's.
Saturday we binge-finished The Fall, the police procedural set in Northern Ireland starring Gillian Anderson. As I think I've noted before (if not here, then certainly in FB), it is very difficult to watch in parts, but it is truly a feminist crime drama, something really pretty unique. The Prime Suspect series showed feminist thought in its portrayal of the life of Jane Tennyson, but The Fall extends that line of thinking from observations about Stella Gibson's life to the situation of women in society as a whole, with Stella clearly using her own experiences with the power struggles in the police hierarchy to understand what is going on in the killer's mind. As much as Scully will forever hold an important place in my heart, this is by far the best work Gillian Anderson has done. The rest of the cast is also very strong. I was astonished to discover that the evil, bad, bad, bad murdering man is played by the same actor who played the Huntsman on the tv show Once Upon a Time, in which he was so nobly doomed. It's been renewed for another series, which is great because there is not exactly closure at the end of this one.
I have heard that there is a deer and her fawn hanging out in the Cemetery. It wouldn't be the first time, but it's unusual. I'm sure they are hunkered down somewhere for the day, but it would be sweet to see them on my lunch walk...
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