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earthgirl wrote: »

Pleased you are making such headway with the garden!

It is only a tiny garden so prob sounds more impressive than it really is! I don't know if I'll get the fruit bushes planted as they are budding and leafing in their pots. I guess the ideal would be to dig a really big hole for each one and be able to dump the whole contents of the pot in... So it may yet happen...



Overdid it a bit today - pulling off ivy and cutting it back and turning over the soil = very aching wrists. Deffo a day off tomorow as out for lunch after church.

CathT

Am yet to get out into our garden, maybe today. The lawns really do need their first cut.

apple_muncher

The lawns sure aint gonna get cut anytime soon here... Phew.


Dh got builder friend over to look at the guttering so that may soon be sorted. Go dh! Will also need to replace some fascia, but I knew that from when mrs squirrel set up her nest in our loft.



Had a lovely mellow day at work. No raised voice, but plenty of hard Paddington stares were dished out.


Looking forward to a day off tomorrow with counselling and a fairly long list of things I'd like to get done.

Karmacat

I've been reading about micro clover instead of grass on lawns, on treehugger, sounds really good. Very interested to read here about hard stares from Paddington, I'd no clue about that!



Good luck with your long day tomorrow, apple.

the_cross_rabbit

love the visual I'm having over the hard paddington stares.
CRx

apple_muncher

In a previous school, one of the kids called it 'the evil eye' and asked me not to use it on her!



Today I have huffed and puffed in the name of 'running' a little. I have also done a made-up w/o: 4x 20 12k KB swing + 10 each 12 K 1-leg deadlift + 5 8K goblet squat + 5 each 8K windmill. Took just over 12 mins.


I have dug over and replanted 6 rasp canes + 3 gooseberry bushes. They were all already leafing but the alternative was to not do it until next year... My fruit wall (fence) is shaping up.



Primal keto bread is in the oven along with not-so-primal-or-keto spuds.


Dd is due home soon and we'll be off out swimming soon.


I love days like this where progress is made in various areas of life and I have the energy to enjoy it all.

Karmacat

apple_muncher wrote: »

I love days like this where progress is made in various areas of life and I have the energy to enjoy it all.

That really sums it up perfectly. Good for you

greent

Gosh, yes - how lovely! x

apple_muncher

Had a chat with dh today, and he also said that the only way he can get things done is by doing one little thing at a time. So it has been a period of both of us feeling stymied into inaction, which is why things didn't get done.

But we both seem to be starting to get the little things done now, which is a good thing.

I've had anothrr lovely day at work. The y10s were all on their best behaviour, as they have their parents' evening later on! I opted to come home after work and then go back, rather than hang around for 5 hours.

I have sowed/sewn(?) some more seeds in eggboxes. I was most disgruntled to find that the pack of tom seeds contained just 6 seeds. It was a packet I got in with the fruity order. So I read the pack and it only should have had 5 seeds in it. Most stingy, in my opinion! Anyhow, spinach and leetuce are starting to sprout; and toms, sunflowrrs and fennel have been planted. Just as well we eat lots of eggs...

And our wash machine is on the blink. It makes all the right noises, but it isn't spinning. Next door have said they'll put the sopping load through a wash for us. We reckon it's the belt. We hope it's easily fixable...

apple_muncher

Popped next door yesterday afternoon, and the box with our washing in was in exactly the same spot where I'd put it the previous day... The grandad was there, so I just asked if I could take the box back. He, of course, agreed, having no idea what was going on! So, the contents didn't get washed and I was keen to do something, else they'd start to whiff. So I ran a bath and dumped it all in there, gave it a few swirls every so oftenand then tried to rinse it. My hands soon gave up on the wringing out, but I got theteeshirts + tea towels hung over the climbing frame to drip, and managed to drape the towels and sheet and pillow cases over the towel rail at the end of the bath and the airer.


Dh has ordered what he thinks is needed to fix themachine... but in the meantime, I need to find an alternative way to get the washing done using friends and the launderette. We goto Texas on April 8th and I'd like to be able to take clean clothes...


Currently in brum. Have seen mum and she was on form, so it went well. And has left me feeling energised rather than drained.



I have also spent in the ch shops: a big white tablecloth for when I do fairs for £3.50; a Davina dvd cos I like her ex routines 50p; 2x thick orange wool to knit fox socks for £4. And £4.50 on a mag, using up the tenner dh gave me when we sold the rings. I feel a right spendthrift!


Should prob do some research on what to do in Fredericksberg... other than see MIL, go to the thrift store and visit the park...