Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

PennysIntoPounds

Congrats on the now permanent role!
Great budget and payments work too.
You are definitely racking up the wife points 😁
Hope you have a cosy evening enjoying comfort food

KajiKita

PennysIntoPounds said:

Congrats on the now permanent role!
Great budget and payments work too.
You are definitely racking up the wife points 😁
Hope you have a cosy evening enjoying comfort food

We’ve literally just had HM apple crumble (supplied by MiL using our apples) and very posh custard 😊

KK

beanielou

You are a good wife.  Lot's of brownie points for you.

greenbee

Or you could just announce that you're going away for Christmas on a vegan yoga retreat and leave them to it

KajiKita

beanielou said:

You are a good wife.  Lot's of brownie points for you.

Thanks Beanie 😊

greenbee said:

Or you could just announce that you're going away for Christmas on a vegan yoga retreat and leave them to it

😂😂😂😂😂😂 Get thee from me, thou temptress! 😂😂

I slept so well last night 😊 Set my alarm for an extra 30 minutes and slept all the way up to it 😊 Chloe was like a champagne cork to get out of the house once I finally got downstairs and opened the door for her 😉❤️

My friend has cancelled lunch today as she’s not feeling well 😢 so my plans for my day have been upended. It’s dry weather here so I’m hoping to do something in the garden. Not sure what yet, but there’s plenty of choice! 😉😂

KK

Merlin's_Beard

I'm glad you've got a role where you're appreciated! It's amazing how much difference that can make.

Well done on the OPs.

KajiKita

Thanks @merlinsbeard 😊

Made some progress today:
- Finally stripped the cover off my summer duvet. That went in the wash this morning and the duvet itself got bagged up and put away in the cupboard over the stairs, waiting for next spring 😊 Summer shoes, that were buried by said duvet on the flower of my bedroom will be next! 😊
- Cleared the greenhouse of dead plants, harvesting what was left of the tomatoes and then stripped and disassembled the sweet pea structure. 

- Cut back the pond plant that is obscuring my Judas tree, which is about to turn the most fabulous shade of gold and cut back / pulled out the bits of dead / going over hostas in that area too.
- Dead headed flowering things 😊 Found that I spotted some perennial weeds as I did this, so they came out! 😉
- Cut flowers for the house 🤩❤️
- Dried two loads of washing on the whirlygig and managed to bring the second one in before a squally shower descended!
- Finished another novel - good and righteous ending to a novel that reads like it is based on an ancient Eastern European / Russian folklore tale … 🤔
- Emptied and relined both kitchen bins
- Deloused and thoroughly scrubbed the feline food facility (i.e. Chloe’s tray 😉)

Mr KK has been working on the retaining walls and upstands, and just for @beanielou here is a before and after of wall cappings:



The facing that is seen as you walk around the house is stone and the ugly bricks you can see facing me will have the soil pulled up to them with wild flower turf over the top to meet the capping stones.  
😊

KK

KajiKita

And just because I will see them when I scroll back through this diary 😊



KK

Brewerspride

KajiKita said:

KK

And there we have Mr KK doing some modelling! Nice poise.

skint_spice

The wall is looking great as are the lovely flowers.