NST February 15 for February

f0xh0les

Morning! I am still on 0 NSDs    Did the weekly shop on Monday, then had to buy an ingredient yesterday for DS3's birthday meal that  DH was cooking - the only shop that sells it locally is shut on Mondays (boo!) so had no choice if the boy was to get his requested dinner. Then we ran out of coffee last night, and DH was totally unimpressed with my suggestion he use the decaff until I had to go shopping again, so I was waiting outside Herr L's Shopping Emporium at 8am when it opened, bought a 6 week supply of filter coffee and left. Nothing else just coffee, and a tank full of petrol.

I am hoping that is it for the rest of the week until Monday.  

Now I just have to get DS4 to catch up on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday's school work so we are caught up so he can get behind again tomorrow when I am work and cannot stand over him with a whip, like a lion tamer in the circus.  Except it feels more like I am the seal with the horns (parp) banging my face against rubber bladders to the great amusement of others.  How can my kids be so judgemental of their brothers not doing their schoolwork, and then do the same thing themselves? No self awareness whatsoever.    Well. that was today's episode of Tales from the Home-Schooling Corner.

Grateful for: Nobody being ill, for the work getting done(even if it is late - sorry teacher-folks!),  food in the freezer, warmth in the house, fog in my horn.

Toni'sfriend

NSD No 2 and still really cold but at least Mr Peanuts ventured out this morning to collect his breakfast.

Used bits and bobs of vegetables plus a dollop of harissa to make a spicy soup for tomorrow's lunch. I'll blend it once it cools down. And I discovered a wonderful jar of pickle that we bought on our travels in a cupboard that I was tidying - kind of piccalilli with lemon grass and chilli. Had it with cheese on a sandwich for lunch. Absolutely sublime. Goodness knows what else I'm going to come across.

Had a lovely surprise. Himself had ordered me a box set of books by one of my favourite authors and another one which I haven't read as a gift. Not that I need any more but books are always lovely. Should finish the one I'm reading tonight. 

And I got a message from one of the Boy's friends to make sure I had an appointment for my COVID jab and that I was OK for getting to the centre. Such a lovely boy.

So, all and all, it's been a good day.

facethemusic

Wednesday- still on NSD 2/15. Spends today on animal related bits, spent slightly more than planned as topped up on seeds etc for the bird feeders as well. We are getting a selection of species coming to the feeders and we have a robin living in our hedge who is in the garden almost all day. 
Grateful for DD having a good music lesson, the birds in the garden, the woods and walks right on our doorstep. 

DawnW

Afternoon all

2 NSDs so far this month. Today wasn't one, as I had to go to the dentist's, and pay for that. Also bought a couple of things I had run out of in a co-op supermarket near the dental surgery, only £6.49, but that was enough on top of the eyewatering dental bill! I need to order a new sealing strip for the shower screen in the main bathroom, so I might measure it up and do it today, as it has been a spending day.

Grateful today for decent - ish weather, so I was able to do a couple of small garden jobs, a useful visit from a surveyor re some work we are going to have done on the house, and getting the dentist's over and done with!

apple_muncher

Today I am grateful for an easy day at work, a couple of good meetings after work was finished, for being at home (dodgy tum meaning I'm all feeble), for dd using her calligraphy skills on a card for mum, for my jigsaw being challenging but fun, for plenty of available water.

BadBookkeeper

Evening Turtles!
Still NSD 1/15.  Food I was going to use for tea went ood on 30th so binned (what a waste) easier to go and buy replacement rather than think of something else!!  At least we had a 30 minute walk.
Paid 87p to cc by rounding down my balance.  Every day the debt will go down.
My DS is learning about Tudor times and I had to explain what a servant was...basically described myself but without the free board & lodgings!!! 🤦‍♀️.
He has to write out a recipe for his cake for cubs zoom meeting tomorrow now!  It’s the end of the world!

Grateful for bright sunshine today charging my solar stars wind chime, for lighter nights  and a fab bunch of daffodils 🌼 

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi to all turtles
i've had a good day at work, tackled a work frog first thing so that set me up for the day Went out in the sunshine for a walk at lunch.  Have eaten well and did my exercise class this eve via Fb.  Had raspberries for breakfast and veg pasta bake with extra veg on the side for tea, used up 2 large wrinkly tomatoes to make my own tomato sauce and had a little bit of leftover mozzarella that i put in the bake.  Was lovely but i ate it all in one go rather than saving some for tomorrow, oops !  Not spent any money on food since Saturday but am going to buy a book for my next literature group meeting so not a NSD.  Also increased my monthly mortgage payments by £75.  Bit nervous about that but i have included the increase in my budget
Gratitudes - warm feet (in matching socks:) ; sunshine and birdsong at lunch; cosy bed 
Deni x

greent

NSD #2. 3 veg at lunch and 4 at dinner plus fruit after - success

Sold something via marketplace so another thing gone and money in - win:win. Flebay parcel collected by courier, too. And whilst we all ate dinner together, we ate different things - using up various things from fridge and freezer  

Thankful for - quick sale, using things up, the robo vac doing its thing 

mothernerd

Spent approx 4 hours outside painting raised bed pieces. It started raining a bit before I had finished but most of the larger slats are stood up against the fence (painted the same colour) and the bins are in front of them and there's a tree overhanging them. Stuff spilling out of the shed because I was pulling a raised bed package out of the shed, trying to stop the rotary clothesline attacking me and a pile of toilet roll middles (for starting peas off) cascaded to the floor and multiple empty 2 l bottles spilled out. I meant to go back but after painting by the time I was clean and warm again it was going dark. Will fill more of the bottles with melted snow and rainwater from the buckets tomorrow (some are so full they are too heavy to move as they are).

Struggled with family tree details this afternoon. Trying to decipher mum and her cousin's scribblings. It's not easy when one misses out her eldest half brother because he died when he was 5 yo and doesn't put down any children for her other brother (mum knew he had two sons and one was called Wayne but only because he was a friend of my brother). Mum put a whole chunk of history two generations out of place - one of those families which repeats the same names through the generations, just the wrong uncle D. I ended up with a headache and I'm not done. Hope I can find my graph paper (mum 'tidied' it away along with several other categories of paperwork) then I can just do the 3 additional clumps of info and indicate where they belong on the original chart.

The beef in garlic, chilli and ginger sauce was excellent. Many many veg went in and I made the recipe up as I went along - I always use cider vinegar instead of rice wine but found I was missing another ingredient (still convinced I have some somewhere) but as it was beef, felt sure that sloshing in Worcestershire sauce would work. I had it for my evening meal yesterday and was going to divide the remainder and put some away for next Friday but I was so hungry when I finally took a break from painting , that I wolfed it down and went back for the other half.

Today I am grateful that all the pieces for 3 raised beds have their first coat, for the bulbs in my Frieda bowl turning into tiny daffodils and for keeping going despite the crick in my neck and arthritis in my shoulder.

My seeds are germinating, I have seedlings, many many seedlings about 5 different types so far.

misstara

NSD 1 today   Grateful for coffee and a good shift at work.