Well again, a blog with such
different subjects… it’s just the way my head works…
A lovely Sunday, at least I feel
like something is getting done. Painting has begun. I’m having duck egg on the
bedroom walls. It’s a blue that sometimes looks like a very subtle green. I have the matching curtains and bedding. And
the light fitting I have is a bird cage. Well not actually a bird cage, but is
meant to look like one. It is cream with blue birds embossed on. As the bedding
has birds on too. Just every now and then. It’s mainly plain duck egg. When we moved in, there was a dreadful lot of
wood on the walls, that’s all off now. the old radiator has been removed
waiting for a new one.
Whilst Hub was drilling last
night, he said so calmly. “one wrong move and I have lost my fingers.””
Nice. Put it away love and we
will get someone to do it… no, we managed. But I think I aged three and a
quarter months…
I wanted to try to start the
paint, but Hub said no. I asked him where was his sense of adventure? If it’s
OK for him to do the DIY as a person who is blind, why is it not OK for me to
paint as a blind person? Answers on a postcard. Haha.
Luckily, he hasn’t attempted to
do the electrics. It has been known.
I have just groomed our dogs, no
one has told them it’s winter as their coats are shockingly being extremely
kind in sharing the fur, they have with us. I have groomed them as always
outside and left the hair for the birds to make their nests…
Storm Erik as it’s called. Has visited
us in the UK and claimed three victims. I must say the night before last was
the worst I have heard as far as wind is concerned.
People ask me what is the best vitamins to
take if you want to keep healthy eyes. Em, what would I know? Hahaha. Seriously,
vitamin A, B but I can’t remember if it’s B1, or B2., Zinc protects against
cell damage. Lutein, and bilberry extract and oily fish. Keep your eyes
protected from the sun by wearing a good pair of sunglasses. Then hopefully you
will avoid cataract operations when you are older. Unless you already have
something like my eye disease then I’m not sure you can avoid that sadly. I have
had both of mine done but I know some people who were fully sighted nothing
wrong with their vision then they needed cataracts done. And the end result hasn’t
been good. So, try to avoid getting them by protecting your eyes. I’m always
telling my Husband when he is working to slope the screen down on his lap top. Though
he can’t see any light what so ever, who knows if the light somehow is still
doing damage? The only time I need a screen is when my lap top goes wrong and
if I can’t fix it, then my Son may need to see it. Otherwise I would never look
towards it. As I too slope the lid.
I was reading today about a deep-sea
dive to the Antarctica. Hundreds of feet down. I’m always interested in deep
sea diving and wonder why no one has found something like another world. Technology
can’t obviously get as low as one wants as the article, I was reading today said
how they worked with manufactures to design a wet suit that kept them warmer. As
in the conditions of the sea, in the old suits, they would die within ten
minutes it is that cold. But they have these special suits now, so they can
stay under water longer and dive deeper with new improved equipment they can
last five hours now.
It’s so scary they dig down
through ten feet of ice. If they dive down and can’t find their hole to come
back up, then obviously they will be drowned. The story I read, a man went head
first down a hole they dug. Then on his way back up, the ice had started to
already frees covering the hole up that he was to come back through. He got a
blow to the head as the other guy he was with was frantically digging to keep
the hole open. Can you imagine the fear of that? It’s my nightmare to be
trapped under water.
Seals can dive and when they need
air, they somehow manage to find their hole again. But if that hole starts to frees
over again? Oh, heck…
The divers now use a luminescent
yellow rope so they can follow the rope back up again.
The new suits have four layers. Thermal
underwear, an electrically heated bodysuit, a thick fleece and a thick layer
of waterproof neoprene. I think that is an oily rubber.
It takes an hour to get into
their suits. Their suits weigh 200 lbs. Imagine that? And, one hour? The divers
for five hours documented plant and animal life up to 230 feet below the surface.
When the divers return to land,
their skin is all wrinkled. Their lips and legs swollen. When the blood starts
to flow again, the pain they said was unbearable. Damaged nerves mean it will
take seven months before their tows can once again be felt.
Apart from spiders under the sea
there are some creatures that have twenty arms. Twenty? Imagine giving one of those a manicure or
pedicure?
Some creatures just keep growing
until something disturbs them. Wow, what if we, humans did that? And I wonder
why they do?
But what is under the sea? We always
focus above us. How can we go higher than lower? Especially now we have the suits…
I guess it’s all to do with how cold the water gets, our equipment isn’t that
good, not good enough anyway. Or, perhaps we are just meant to leave their
world alone. May be under the water is a perfect land, may be that is where
heaven is?
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