Awake: 6:38am Temp 64 sleep 6+26 fog, then partly sunny overnight @ Nicktown.
Kathy makes her special sourdough pancakes with all the trimmings for breakfast… yummy.
And today is laundry day; (4) loads. While laundry is being attended, I spend some time & fix the “made in china” portable fan that Kevin picked out from the dumpster. The motor was seized up….big time; after taking sections apart, cleaning & oiling, it runs great & looks like new again.
Next I try to recharge a small (12) volt battery that would fit nicely onto our Snapper mower for the electric start. 1st attempt: 12 volt AC battery charger to no avail. 2nd attempt: (12) volt DC charge from motorhome source to no avail. Future attempt will be with caution; shielding the battery & zapping with a blast of (120 AC volts).
Late morning: grass was too wet for mowing; about 1:30pm, grass is dry enough for Kathy to mow more of the inside of our circular driveway. When the grass catcher fills, I empty the contents into the wheelbarrow; (2) bag loads & it’s taken to the forest & added to our mulch pile. I made 8 or 9 wheelbarrow trips to the mulch pile & then, the north section was too wet to continue mowing; 3hr+30 min of total mowing today.
Dinner: beef stroganoff with noodles, cauliflower & a fruit salad.
Finish watching DVR movie: “Week-end Marriage.”
I couldn't help but wonder what audiences in 1932 thought of this film, most particularly, married women. Would they have nodded in silent agreement that Loretta Young made the right decision in the end, or would they have been outraged that she was pigeon-holed in a certain domestic mold? I think the truth would be somewhere in the middle. Women are never as inflexible and stereotypical as presented in any film, modern or vintage. Every woman is an individual and makes her own decisions which are best for her.
Women in 1932, as today in 2008, know that not one decision is best for everyone. There are benefits to being a homemaker, a wife, and mother, and there are benefits to being a career girl. Women can combine both, but just in time factor alone certain things might very well be sacrificed, even inadvertently, and unfortunately one of the things that can be sacrificed is a marriage.
Quantity time is important, along with quality time. If a husband is feeling neglected because his wife seems to prefer a career over him then the marriage is in trouble. If she makes him know clearly and firmly that she values him more than any job or a paycheck then that marriage will most likely survive. It's all in the balance of what you wish to achieve, your priorities. In that respect Week-end Marriage's ending isn't necessarily a cop-out, but simply a decision by the wife to save what she values more than anything else, her man. Sometimes that does take some - horrors! - SACRIFICE. Author unknown.
Lights out: 11:10pm
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