Daydream fund challenge part 4

I_have_spoken

Found one of my cactii in the terrarium was rotting, so pulled it PDQ. One of the pieces seemed OK and had some root, so dusted with sulphur and planted in own pot so will see what happens.

Also was checking the alarm system and found all the upstairs detectors needed new batteries. Oops!

choille

Great vids Dave - Here's one I posted earlier but still love it: Cows With Guns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Great vids Dave - Here's one I posted earlier but still love it: Cows With Guns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI

Loved it, though I had a momentary problem with the 'cow' referred to as 'he!' :rotfl:

Gosh, it's quiet in here. :shhh: Out in the world, things seem to have moved up a gear again, with promises of action from our builder, leccytricians and plumber, all without any pleading on my behalf. Perhaps everyone else is skint! :huh:

choille

The last one of the links you posted is amazing - how long must that have taken to do, to choriograph [sp?].

Good you are getting the trades back Dave - we have been left alone by the joiner who has vanished - still we do owe him some money so I expect he'll be back!

Nasty neighbours have got a new nasty dog - heard it barking a lot but hadn't seen it until this afternoon when I met it on the road where it's adept at chasing cars by the looks of things as Mrs neighbour waves a flexible cane at it. It's madness. It was almost completely out of control when a lady I know came along with her lovely calm dog. It's a massive brute of a thing - as is her husband!

Neighbour down the road has an out of control one. There's a lovely beach nearby that someone used to go with their little dog but can't as her one attacks theirs. It's terrible.

Blowing a gale again.

OH has had another allergic reaction that is rather worrying.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

OH has had another allergic reaction that is rather worrying.

Hope it soon clears-up. Will your Dr behave and come out now?

The choreographing on the video was done by computer. It's no accident it was done in Japan, where they could get 2300 schoolgirl extras and about 50 Honda personal mobility scooter things on the cheap.

Sad that so many people seem to think a nasty animal makes them feel big.

Mr Dog hasn't replaced his cocker spaniel yet, but whatever he gets will just learn the barking routine from the other one. It's a blessing he's spending so much time at home these days, though not so good for the dogs, as he locks them up so that he doesn't have their noise. That's just for other people.:mad:

A change in Mr Dog's pattern of behavior suggests he's either ill, or rich enough to be indolent since inheriting some money a year or two ago. He's a jumpy type, who was always on the go, but now he spends his days indoors, and he's not the sort to read great works of literature or compose poetry! :rotfl:

choille

It was a locum who we spoke with on the phone & OH took some anti-histimine, but as it was his tongue this time it was all rather worrying as it swelled up really alarmingly - just on one side. On Xmas day it was his lips. It's scaring me as we are over 70 miles from the hospital.

The dog thing is not good as she works a few days a week & I haven't seen him in ages, but I think the dog is tied up outside most of the day, or in a run. It goes on & on....the barking. I'm not really outside that much just now, but it is noticeable when I am - you can't help but hear it even though the are quite a distance off - thankfully!

I don't know why they have dogs - some folks.

lostinrates

I_have_spoken wrote: »

In the conservatory, pelargoniums are remaining in flower,

I have pelargoniums in flower in pots in the garden. It hasn't been worth pulling them all in yet, and seems unlikely to be yet. Pelargoniums in coral and fuschia cyclamen make striking combination, in many ways.

Davesnave

I've chopped all the pelargoniums in the conservatory right back. I always do that once a year, when they've gone completely out of control. They sit in two large planting beds made from breeze blocks, although they're all individually potted.

As the roof leaks, we have polytunnel plastic fixeded under it, which catches the drops and funnels them down to gutters that empty into the planting beds. It's very Heath Robinson, but it's enabled dry use of the conservatory for 6 years.:D

Of course the humidity is high; so high that ferns are now growing with the pelargoniums, but they all seem to get on with each other!

I_have_spoken

My local Tesco is selling off amaryllis for £1.25 down from £5, seem like good bulbs in the ones I picked up.

Had a bag of sphagnum moss delivered today, was going to try that around the canna and dahlia tubers so they don't desicate while in winter storage.

choille

Quite a biting wind here. Went down to the waterfall & there's more trees down, but awkward to get them up here. Quite dead they are, so lightweight. Wish I had a Malamute though. Mush mush..........

Occupational therapist arrived with a stool so OH can have a shower.
I said things had gotten so bad I'd had to take him outside & just hosed him down. Now where is the pressure washer when you need it....?