It's Sunday!

I woke up bright and early this morning, and my first thought was, "It's Sunday, and I don't have to turn my alarm back on!"  At least, not for a few more days -- which will go by way too quickly.   But for now, the good thing is I was able to get stuff done without feeling like I have to rush to get it completed by today...or not wanting to start stuff because I won't be able to finish it. 

I spent most of the day taking down and putting away my Fall/Thanksgiving stuff and starting to put out my Christmas decorations.  I'm a bit flustered because of my new baker's rack.  I usually hang a Santa and some elves on that wall, but with the baker's rack covering up most of that wall, I don't know where to put them now.  

I'll have to come up with something .... different.  I know.  Try to contain your horror.  I'm the kind of person that has to put everything in the same place year after year.  I even take photos to make sure I remember where it all goes.  

Not only that, I've got me a little problem with my outside lights.  I had four strings of this kind, 

and a couple of years ago, one of them went bad.  Try as I might, I could not get that string to work again, so that year, I only ran two strings across the porch.  Last year, I bought another box of those lights on Christmas...or so I thought.  

Turns out they weren't the same lights after all. 

Now I don't know what to do.  I don't have enough of either to do the whole front of the house.  I kind of want to use the bigger ones, and just run them along the front porch.  Or maybe use smaller lights, because I've got a butt load of these -- bought on clearance over the years. 

I also still have the white icicle lights that I put up a few years ago, but didn't really like.  I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'll come up with something.  

In other news, I forgot something yesterday.  The websites I was looking at said to put a baggie over my rosemary cutting to make a sort of greenhouse.  

After I posted, I ran in and did that.  It's kind of a pain taking it off to water the cutting, so it's a good thing I don't need to water it that often.  

This morning, I opened up my barrier stuff and put it down in the bed with my oregano and tarragon. 

It was plastic, so it was very easy to cut with regular scissors.  Right now I have bricks holding it in place, but in the spring, I'll get some of those stake things to hold it down, then I'll put mulch on top of it.  That ought to keep any and all critters out of the bed. 

And finally, all of my life -- since I was about 12 or 13, I guess-- I've heard that Giant Pandas aren't true bears.  I mean, as a small child, we always called them Panda Bears, but I remember somewhere along the way, I'd read or heard that they aren't true bears at all, and were more closely related to raccoons than bears.  I was sure I remembered reading articles in magazines about it, and all.    

Just a few weeks ago, I found out that Giant Pandas are indeed bears, in the family Ursidae, and suddenly my whole life was a lie. 

That was one heck of a Mandela effect.

Or so I thought...

Because I'm not the kind of person who can let something like this go, I dug into it a bit deeper and discovered that I wasn't as wrong as I suspected.  As it happens, for many years, there was confusion about the taxonomy of Giant Pandas.  As per Wikipedia:

For many decades, the precise taxonomic classification of the giant panda was under debate because it shares characteristics with both bears and raccoons.^[12] In 1985, molecular studies indicated that the giant panda is a true bear, part of the family Ursidae.^[13][14] These studies show it diverged about 19 million years ago from the common ancestor of the Ursidae;^[15] it is the most basal member of this family and equidistant from all other extant bear species.^[15][16]

Apparently, I missed that memo, but even so it wasn't as Mandelaic as I believed. 

Oh, and one more thing.  The person who wanted those glasses I was giving away never showed up.  Typical.  I guess I'll post them in the local groups again and hope someone else wants them.  Usually, it's the third or fourth person to claim an item that actually shows up to get it.