Breaking Through, Travelling On

beanielou

Hope you had a good day

Karmacat

The day was lovely, thank you It was slightly less lovely for my sister, who drove me back to my place so she could use my scanner for some legal documents, but discovered she hadn't brought them, so drove back to hers and *back again* to mine, to get the scanning done and dusted :eek:

But we had a good natter about the highways and byways of the last few months, it was good to catch up in a less pressured way.

Sun holidays. I was collecting the vouchers, yay. The cutoff date for applying for the holidays was last week not so yay. Totally my fault I'll remember next year.

Today - bit more work in the garden, but prioritising safeguarding against Storm Doris - burning an experimental bonfire to get rid of some branches and twigs :j and cleaning some pots and holders so they can come into the house.

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Karmacat

Got so caught up in the paperwork yesterday (taking a break from the garden because of Doris) I forgot to post here. Loads and loads and loads of paperwork out of the house! Some of the stuff that was in the box that got damp was protected enough to be spared, and some of *that* is unused postcards - before there were digital cameras, and the web, if you wanted to be sure you had a good image of whatever you'd seen, you had to buy a postcard so there are many, many, many postcards Nearly all of them are still really nice, but why did I want a photo of the Pirates ride at Universal Studios or wherever? Mad :rotfl:

Anyway, today, its back to the garden. Some stuff was blown over in spite of my precautions, so I tucked things away yesterday, as it was all dying down. Today - tidying and weeding, I think.

The bonfire didn't work maybe the wood is too wet at this time of year, even if it was cut last year, maybe I didn't use enough "tinder" (the paper from teabags :rotfl:) though the flames at the start were a foot high. I'm not going to bother right now - I'll try again a bit later in the year, so all these branches and whatnot will just have to fill the broken wooden shed for now. Weeding, here I come.

earthgirl

Yey to loads of paper out of the house. I'm not sure about the fire either, it should go if it is dry enough, I used a little bit of ligher fluid last time I had a big one.

Karmacat

That may be it, earthgirl, I didn't use any "accelerant" - aka "vaseline", as I want to spread the ashes on the garden, I don't want to use stuff like lighter fluid

What I *can* do soon is burn all the confidential paperwork I'd normally have shredded, as long as I weed out (ha, good pun) the highly coloured or glossy stuff.

Today: more garden navvying, though I might be tempted to the shops so I can find a really good birthday card for my brother.

earthgirl

I'm loving being out in the garden at the moment. Thanks for the reminder re ash on the garden, I'll give it a try, along with all the chicken manure!

Karmacat

Yep, the more organic matter, the better, added gradually and in some sort of proportion.

I was clearing the bit immediately outside my back door - nothing really grows there, so I let it become a dumping ground, but it looks bad every time I go outside, so working on that was great for uplifting my own experience of the garden.

Also weeding around the back of my beautiful, beautiful rhubarb - nasty old piece of carpet with stuff growing on them, so lifted that, vented the soil a bit and checked weeds, then the leaves of the sedge towering at the back have been chopped onto that space. Soil and toasted eggshells will go on there, and then bark chippings, ta da. Other rhubarb plant, which isn't doing nearly so well, will be similarly pampered today

Plus more garden tidying

rtandon27

oooo - garden tidying sounds delightful!

My Sunday chores include laundry/ironing/mending & making a list for the OH to tackle during the week!

Karmacat

I like the idea of that list :j :rotfl:

rtandon27

The newly retired & supposedly bored one has a differing opinion!;)

Still waiting for the kitchen floor to be swept and the carpet to be vacuumed!:p (from last week's list)