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Daydream fund challenge part 4
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Done nowt here as it's been lashing down in the main. Seems slightly milder - snow on the tops the other day but just drizzle now.
Have a zoom thing with a surgeon later on today to chat about my op so that will be interesting. I'm scared.
I'm back to the dentist on Friday. Last Friday's gap is a lot less painful than the first one was, it was 3 weeks before I could clean that quadrant of my teeth at all. But have managed yesterday and today to have cleaned the latest stuff. Still eating mainly mush, but might try some gently fried sliced spuds with chicken for lunch today.
We had ground frost yesterday, but OH managed to find some nasturtiums at the lottie to bring home to me. As well as a lovely rose from our back garden.
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Consultant zoom thing without video & a couple of hitches went okayish but I have the choice of going in next week. That threw me completely. So will get phoned again Friday. It's a bigger op that I thought initially - it's all scary stuff.
Glad the tooth is on mend Maggie - it will be good when you're back on solids - so to speak.
The weather is still nasty here & cooler again. It's Winter I suppose.
Good for you going for a good walk. I miss those hikes with the dog. We have an elderly friend in his 80s who is doing all the munros to raise money for Alzheimer's charity as his wife has succumbed to that and it is so sad and sudden but boy is he game.
I doubt I could keep up with him.
Must try and get a bit fitter again.
Thank you to whoever gave me instructions. I shall try to add a photo of my Brussels and kale.
I've decided against the next week op as it's too near. I'll wait until Spring.
That's hard going looking after your Mum with Alzheimer's. It can't be easy especially in the Winter when we are stuck indoors most of the day.
Saw a moonbow this evening - that's only the 2nd time I've seen one. And it didn't last very long but quite special.
I had time this year to do things properly. Putting secure netting on the brassicas as soon as I planted them rather than after a few weeks and putting fleece around the carrots as soon as I planted the seeds rather than never getting round to it has really worked. I know doing it properly works but somehow I rarely get round to it, just chucking a bit of old fleece or netting over the top does not work!
Damp, cold and drizzle for most of the day here so it was a good day to sort out and store the seven dahlias I grew from seed which the slugs didn't eat. Sometimes I leave them in the ground but chickened out this year. All drying ready to be stored away.
Inside I potted up 9 streptocarpus grown from cuttings. Mum helped me so she felt useful. The only house plants I manage to keep
Quite a few branches down so had a little while gathering and snapping them into two boxes for kindling. I find that the most pleasant and meditative job there is. I love doing that bestest. Joint bestest is having fires. Banana boxes are good for that. I said to the young chap in LIDLs when he asked why I was always taking them - You can set fire to anything with these you know. So, he now has me down as an arsonist no doubt.
But alas you can't get them to burn wet clippings - so I've not managed to have a bonfire for a couple of weeks.