Cheery's country living adventure

greenbee

Looking forward to seeing the pics of the ceiling

Baileys_Babe

Here is the thread @Cheery_Daff mentioned a few days ago.
Thank you @rtandon27 for the instructions, easy when you know how 🤩

missymoo81

Hey Cheery! It sounded like a lovely day yesterday. I love a walk with tea and cake. I need to take a leaf out of your book and try and get some bits and pieces done over today and tomorrow. Hope Mr cheery is feeling better and the Chook chooks are ok.

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, look at us all learning stuff!  

Well I did get a few online things done last night! 

Ordered freezer door seal - took forever because of course the ice had frosted all over the door seal and had to be chipped away, then I couldn't find anywhere with the part in stock. Have ordered from the official Beko site who says they'll dispatch within 28 working days, so I'm not holding my breath 😂

Also ordered some headphones for my phone - I use them a lot for phone calls as it means I can be walking or pottering about while I'm talking, and mine have started cutting out every few seconds. They were buy 2 get 1 free so I'll be able to dot them round the house and hopefully not spend so long looking for them every time...

And I ordered a mouse mat with a cheery one of my photos on yes, an extravagance (although one that cost less than a tenner) but I just use a pad of paper at the minute and have trouble sometimes with the mouse skipping about (usually moving emails into the wrong folder, most annoying). So a cheery mouse mat it is! 

The weather is vile today, windy and cold and foggy, and I'm wishing I'd done a bit clear out of the chicken run yesterday rather than leaving it for today... hey ho. Had pancakes for breakfast and now I'm going to sit and do my knitting while I watch a few homesteading videos

Once I'm dressed, I'll bit the bullet and do the chicken run, then spend the rest of the day inside warming up I think!

Cheery_Daff

Well, today is proving quite productive so far! 

Started in my new favourite weekend way, by knitting (I'm making a new hot water bottle cover at the minute) and watching videos from Homesteading Family. They've got nine kids (!) so a life a little different to mine but I do enjoy their videos about preserving, growing food etc, and even household organisation (although, as I say, rather different to my household!) This weekend I've watched videos about growing a cottage garden, medicinal herbs, dehydrating, storing eggs, all kinds of things. Most cheerful to watch while knitting and while the wind is howling outside, and nicely fuels my fantasies of a beautiful garden and lots of food production!  

I've also cleaned the kitchen and done ALL the washing up, including all the bits to go in the recycling etc that were hiding about the place. This gets put off cos it's quite a palaver, with the sink being in a separate room (down a set of stairs) from the temporary kitchen. YAWN. Still, it's done now. 

And I togged up and got outside to clean out the chicken run - house cleaned out and bedding replaced, dust baths topped up with soil I've been drying in the greenhouse, old hay and mud scraped out and replaced with woodchip, treats given, and about 785 old plastic tubs and manky bowls removed - which now need washing up (but I'm using a different sink for that so it doesn't count in with the main washing up )

Just having a cuppa before I do that. Then Mr Cheery and I will tog up again to go for a walk, and then FINALLY I might get round to doing some more insulation. Oh, and I have to do something with my study before I go back to work tomorrow, don't I? And I'm having a video chat with a friend at 5pm. 

Oh, and I managed to drop and break my new favourite mug that Mr Cheery got me for Christmas He spent forever looking for it, and I loved it, and it just slipped out of my hand today - it would have been fine if it hadn't bounced ever so slightly onto the skirting board  

Karmacat

You've got a splendiferous day there, but what a shame about the favourite mug!  Sorry to hear that  

Baileys_Babe

We have a dishwasher which we use for most of our dishes, but somethings still need hand washing. We both detest washing up, hence the dw, we have a 2nd washing up bowl on the side into which goes everything to be hand washed to keep it all together and to prevent it hiding around the house, the theory is daily or when the bowl is full we wash up, the reality is the washing up spills out of the bowl and onto the worktop before one of us gives in and does the washing up 🤣🤣🤣 the good part is at least it is there ready to be cleaned and doesn't need locating first.

Cheery_Daff

Evening chums

I could come round to the idea of a dishwasher... there was a tiny one here when we moved in, but we never used it and it's gone now. I'd definitely have one if it loaded and unloaded itself!

Had a bit of a difficult and grumbly one today, not for any good reason. Mr Cheery had a rotten night and ended up on the sofa, I slept ok but woke up generally disinclined to do anything. Had a couple of phone calls, then... basically just wasted about four hours with mild internet distractions  

We sat with the chickens for a while, and then went for a grim, rainy, windy, cold walk round the lanes. Got soaked, and not in a fun way. Generally even more cold and grumpy when we got back! 

Finally got round to doing some work about 5.30 Got a decent bit done, but even so...

Writing today off, and am now curled up with some horlicks  

Tomorrow I'm trying a different tactic, going to start early and work for 3 hours or so, then have a big break in the middle of the day, to do DIY, cook some proper dinner etc, and then start again about 3. I often do my best work between 4 and 7, and I could never work out whether that time of day was just good for me, or whether I needed an 8 hour run up to get going so I'm going to try to find out!

Nothing financial to report. Not spent anything today. I did get a couple of free books in the post from a friend (that she'd had a hand in writing) though, which was nice, and I pulled the last of the covid study vouchers off the printer. Used up some gloomy looking veg for tea (a kind of lazy veggie shepherd's pie). But other than that, nothing to report!

Baileys_Babe

I get the children to unload the dishwasher and occasionally load it. My friend calls his dishwasher the magic cupboard 🤣
If you do decide to get a dw I would get a full size one even if though there are only 2 of you.if you have the space as otherwise it can be difficult to fit in cooking dishes, pans etc

Karmacat

Sorry the day was grumpified, Cheery - but that happens, doesn't it, sometimes.  I now take *very* long lunches, even though I don't actually work, you know I stop at 12.30 or so, and I'll start at 3.  Or, cause I don't actually work, I don't restart at all - it's tricky, its too crowded round here to go for a walk at that time, but just working in the garden is a bit boring.  So it goes.
OTOH - dishwashers!  Fantastic invention.  I definitely agree with getting a full size one - the smaller ones are difficult to fit things in, they're more expensive per item washed (I think).  I just love that the dishes and the cutlery are properly clean all the time and it hasn't affected my arthritis to get them like that.