Cheery's country living adventure

Cheery_Daff

Yes I thought it was very cheeky! But no harm done. 

Mr Cheery is NOT a planner and gets quite overwhelmed at the thought of planning and lists... Good job one of us is organised I say.

Anyway. First coat of sealant is on, hooray! You'll be pleased to hear we are having a cuppa while it dries 😁

It was actually really easy to put on. The hardest thing about this whole job has been trying to get the suds rinsed off after the industrial cleaner - they recommend a wet/dry vac which we don't have 🙄 The sealant just went on with a paint roller on a long pole in about 30 seconds 😁

It's as clean as it's going to get now. I can't get rid of those stains in the middle without hiring an industrial buffing machine, which I'm not doing now. If we decide to do that in the future then fine, but in reality I suspect we'll just live with it.

Cladding isn't in the garage yet... 

Cheery_Daff

Oops, meant to show you a pic! 



Sadly most of the red ones will be hidden under cupboards which is a shame, and the cream ones with the stains are right in the middle of the floor! Hey ho.

themadvix

Baileys Babe, my husband is the same... but you have to ask in the right way too, otherwise it's viewed as nagging! But usually I just mention things and they percolate away in his brain (unless he forgets which he is highly prone to do!) and suddenly it's done. Considering his terrible memory lists would be great but he sees them as 'nagging' even if he writes them at my suggestion (this has got better in recent years and I do think is a hangover from when he was at school and his mum would leave a list of jobs for them to do before she got home from work - which was definitely viewed as nagging!). That said, Cheery's lists made me tired just reading them!

Cheery, the floor looks great!

Fortune_Smiles

That happens to us all the time Cheery.  We often get texts to say the driver tried to deliver but the truth is, they take one look at the address and decide they haven't got time to drive down little lanes to a rural property.  Very frustrating but they are given so little time for each delivery I can't blame them.  We often have to 'phone the company we've ordered from to get them to request extra delivery time for the courier.

Fortune x

Cheery_Daff

My lists are well known for being wildly over-optimistic and ultimately unachievable 🙄😂 I'm not advocating that as a good thing - consistently failing to live up to your own expectations of yourself is exhausting 😂

However, even if I only get half the list done it's usually a good thing. 

Headlight bulb is now fitted (surprisingly easy once I watched a video of a man pulling the first clip off with a pair of pliers because it was stuck - I'd been afraid of breaking it). Second coat of sealant is on and polished, the chickens are shut in and Bessie has had her medicine, and the cladding is all in the outbuilding.

Getting there! 

Can't even remember what else was on the list, but my currently plan is stick on another coat of sealant, make some simple food, polish the sealant, then have a bath and join Mr Cheery on the sofa for a well deserved drink 😁

We're off to see his family tomorrow for the first time since covid 😮 Some of them have been here, but not seen his dad since then. So nothing on the plan for tomorrow except that - and dropping a bit of water on the kitchen floor to see if there's enough of a seal - I think that's an achievable list even for me 😂

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, just looked at the list and the only thing I've NOT done is clear more stuff out of the offshot. I'm swapping that for an extra coat of sealant 😁

rtandon27

Oh ladies - I'm with you on the joy of cajoling menfolk!  They all went to the same school specializing in how to drive your woman mad, didn't they?!

Baileys_Babe

The floor looks lovely @Cheery_Daff

My Mum used to leave us a chores list, she says it was to give us less time each day to get into trouble. 

My OH also has an awful memory and has let me believe for over 20 years that he can't plan and get on since he has been working from home I have discovered he is fully capable during working hours, but for some reason feels he never has to do any planning at home.

Cheery_Daff

We always had a chores list each. My mum raised us on her own, and by the time I got to high school was working and finished about 4, so we had a bit of time to do stuff before she got home. Partly keeping us out of trouble, but also understandably not wanting to do everything herself! We did used to complain though, and whoever got 'empty cat litter tray would always try to swap it for something else 😂

Our boiler is playing up 🙄 well, it's always a little temperamental 😂 but this is a new one - running hot then cold then hot then cold on a cycle. Turned it all off and on again and it's fine, but we should probably have it serviced soon. Might wait til the builder gets here - they've got their own plumber, and they'll be doing stuff like plumbing in the sink and fixing radiators (and hopefully fixing the broken electric water heater on the other side of the house) so they might be up for doing it all... We'll see. I could certainly do without trying to find someone else right now!

LadyWithAPlan

I am loving that floor. 
Good luck with the builders.

I also love a list - but it is written for me to do it rather than anyone else. Although now Baltazar my new robot vacuum is here I can programme him to do  daily cleaning