Weekly Flylady Thread 7th May 2012

LameWolf

miasnanny wrote: »

Lamewolf, I love to garden and I refuse to let all my medical problems get in the way of anything I want to do. I got all my flower beds raised and I have containers everywhere. I grow veggies in among my flowers and in among the soft fruit, I even grow tumbling Tom tomato's in hanging baskets. It has taken much scrimping and a lot of up-cycling to get here but its worth doing.

Unfortunately, since the last really bad flare, the whole garden has been left, apart from Mr LW keeping the grass cut, and it's a real mess now; also, gardening now makes me feel so tired and ill that I no longer actually enjoy it;:( so I need to a) get it tidy without knocking myself into Wednesday week, b) work out something out the back that I can cope with (planters I can work at sitting sound like a good plan) and c) persuade Mr LW that he DOES like gardening so that we can keep the front tidy, as I can't be out the front alone under any circumstances.

vanilla

Updated list..

Bank Holiday Monday DONE

Tuesday - Living Room, Hall & Stairs

Wednesday - Bedrooms
Level Two
Hoover floors that can be seen
Level Three
Clear and wipe top of drawers

Thursday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level Three
Clean windows

Friday - Bathroom
Level One
Clean toilets
Clean sink, bath, shower, etc
Level Two
Sweep and mop floor
Level Three
Wipe tiles
Clear and wipe windowsill
Clean towel rail

Not looking so bad now, i'll get the bathroom done later when everyone is finished. DD curently in the bath and boys will go later when they get back. School stuff all ready for tomorrow so i think everything is done that needs doing, so cuppa and a bit of surfing.

hex2

Lamewolf - it sounds to me like you need a visit from the flylady bus. I will take the elephant droppings home with me

gunsandbanjos

My lovely clean kitchen got turned into a workshop by my husband last night and is now covered in a fine layer of dust and dirt:mad:

Dontknowanymore

hex2 wrote: »

hello Don'tknowanymore, new thread usually starts Sunday evening. If you are itching to get started then ask people to join you in a half hour challenge (HHC). It hurts less when other people join in....

Dusty - poor DS3, hope it is just heat rash. The anti-his worked for me happily.

We collected some sacks of allegedley well rotted horse manure on the way back from the farm shop. One leaked in my car and all over me which was not good. Too ripe to use so I have layered it up with the green kitchen waste and wet sawdust moutain in the hope of making a perfect compost recipe. Turned the other bins in the hope I will have some fit to use for the peas/beans/courgettes in a few weeks. Turned, hoed and raked a quarter of the veg plot which is a start. Rather sore now so back inside.

Lamb in the oven for later, and I just put a carrot cake in too. Boys want yucky wheetabix chocolate brownies so I may as well do those whilst the oven is on. WM on for the third time!

Thanks, I'm going to start tommorrow! I've been ill for a few says with inflamed stomach lining, today I feel ok, but just want to relax(ish) have done 3 washloads and just put beef casserole in the oven, now I'm just going to chill with the small one on the sofa and watch the scooby doo film whilst browsing OS

greenbee

Managed to make blueberry, lemon and yogurt cakes just in time for visitors... Fairy cakes are great fir emergencies as they cook so quickly. The leftovers have been frozen.

WM was on while they were here with the cleaning cloths in on 90 so it has had a good clean. Last load of washing that needs to be done before I leave is in. DW needs emptying and reloading, grass mowing and some more tidying up doing. Then a list for the cleaner and packing. Guess I'd better check the forecast for Glasgow at some point.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Dustykitten wrote: »

Did the yeast work? I need to start operation slug control

Oh, it did work. I used one of those little salad tubs you can get from the supermarket salad bar. 12 hours later, I had to dispose of a very full container of slug soup. Did another one as I had the yeast out for a loaf, used about a teaspoon of each of sugar and yeast, if not less, (I've got normal dried yeast, not quick yeast - the stuff that's 64p for a tub with a pop off plastic lid) and had caught a bunch more by the time I was back from the garden centre.


I came back from the garden centre with a Rambling Rector, some round golden courgette seeds, some swede seeds, a reduced tub of white veronica and, especially for the birds (and the lad over the back ), a pyracantha with deep red berries. Oh, and a bag of manure. That's going where his feet usually land as he comes over the wall, swinging on the bird feeder pole.



Would love some more plants, but have plenty to be getting on with for this week, at least. And the [STRIKE]Ninja Kitten[/STRIKE] Great Gullumphing Muppet With Whiskers has dug up my canes (he thinks he's a dog) so i've lost the first set of french beans and petit pois.

greenbee wrote: »

Managed to make blueberry, lemon and yogurt cakes just in time for visitors... Fairy cakes are great fir emergencies as they cook so quickly. The leftovers have been frozen.

Cake? Now that's an idea.

I had a loaf rising on the top of the cooker whilst I went out, came back, popped it in the oven and pretty much demolished it when it was done. Perhaps cake might not go quite so quickly.




Must go, the Great Gullumphing Muppet has spotted Nemesis the Squirrel in the windowbox and is currently having coniptions amongst the venetian blinds. I'm sure Nemesis is doing this deliberately to wind GGM up.

Dustykitten

Dontknowanymore wrote: »

Hello lovely ladies, when does the new weeks thread get posted? REALLY need to get my arris in gear and know flylady will help!
Infact I am spending a fair amount of time lurking in OS as a whole lately! Can't be a bad thing! x

I'm just going to list some stuff on ebay then I'll do it so by 8pm

JoJo - thanks I'll mix up some yeast in a bit - I use the same stuff in a tub so have some to hand

hex2 wrote: »

Lamewolf - it sounds to me like you need a visit from the flylady bus. I will take the elephant droppings home with me

That would be real fun Is your garden big LW? I have heard of situations where people without gardens use yours for growing veg etc and keep the rest of the garden tidy and maybe give you spare produce in return. Not sure if this would work for you, I know you are wary of people but all gardeners are lovely

Restricted myself to just doing the strawberry patches today and sowed some spring onions and nasturtiums.

First BBQ of the year for dinner :T

Cake cooling. Kids all quite. I'm sampling the second bottle of prosecco for the street party, well it is clean sheets night

hex2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

(and the lad over the back ), a pyracantha with deep red berries.

We have 12 foot of pyracantha hedge, and a great monster one that grows up the house. Nothing hurts quite as much as pyracantha clippings, even through the thickest gloves. It goes through thin shoes nicely as well. My older ginger cat sprays it which strikes me as either very brave or incredibly stupid.

Still filling the WM, and the ironing mountain is staring at me :cool:

Dustykitten

How's you kitty Hex?

The world and his wife are in from the garden and trying to list on ebay IMHO.