Holding On and Letting Go 🎈

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savingholmes said:

Good that you are reclaiming your space and life again. You did a lovely thing. Hope the govt get round to send you some money.

Thank you SH. 'Reclaiming your space and life again' - that's a great way of putting it.

Fortune x

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Pottering

It's been a gentle day of pottering and working through my To Do List:

Health

• went for a 45 minute dog walk first thing
• had Avocado on Toast with Chorizo & Fried Eggs for breakfast, leftover soup for lunch and a Prawn & Avocado Salad for supper
• chores done - cleaned the spare bedroom, washed the mattress and pillow protectors from the guest rooms

Wealth

• still no sign of the Homes for Ukraine money 😢
• it's been an NSD

Happiness

• listened to an audio book whilst doing the chores
• prepped a canvas for my show painting and printed off some reference photos
  
• the nail varnish arrived today 🥳 so I've a fun evening ahead sorting out the old ones - I know how to party 😆

I'm going to have to replace the pillows in the guest rooms.  They weren't great to start with but they are beyond recovery now.  I put one through the wash today to see if I could save them but no luck.  I have £30 in J0hn L£wis vouchers so I can put that towards some.

It's an early night for me tonight - I'm exhausted 🥱  I think the excitement of the last weeks has finally caught up with me.

Happy Friday everyone

Fortune x

savingholmes

Show painting sounds intriguing? Is this with WI or something else?

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savingholmes said:

Show painting sounds intriguing? Is this with WI or something else?

It's going to be part of our WI's competition entry at the county show SH.

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Full Colour

I had a very relaxed day yesterday which I mostly spent painting 🥳  Mr F went out on his bike for the afternoon so I had a few quiet hours to absorb myself in the show painting - bliss!

We had a cheese and salad wrap for lunch (Mr F took his out with him) and Salmon with New Potato & Corn Salad & Basil Dressing for supper.  The salad came from the veg patch.  We are having to water the veg patch every day now as it's so dry.

MS-wise:

• I used the JL vouchers to buy some new pillows.  I choose the cheapest natural ones and had to add £25 to the cost which will come out of this month's contingency budget
• chased up the Council for the Homes for Ukraine payment - 72 days now 😢

Another relaxed day is on the cards today as we're expecting scorching weather.  I did all my chores this morning so as not to have to move much this afternoon.  Mr F has to leave after lunch for a business trip so I'll probably take advantage of the peace and quiet to do so more painting.

Stay cool everyone.

Fortune x

savingholmes

Enjoy your time painting.

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It's raining, it's pouring...

...and it's making me very happy 😁  When I checked the weather forecast last night it was due to be cooler but dry in the Shire.  This morning's forecast gave us a 26% chance of rain.  But, we got lucky!  Our lawn area is absolutely parched and needs a drink.  It's stopping now but was quite heavy for about 15 minutes so I'm hoping that some of that soaks into the ground.  It gives me a day off from watering at least.

I've spent the last few days trying to keep myself and FDawg cool and doing very little.  Mr F has been away on business so not much cooking has been required and meals have been mainly salad based.  I have done quite a lot of work on my show painting and it's about 70% complete.  I'm out and about for the next couple of days but I should be able to complete it at the weekend.  One of my show projects may not be needed now so I'm feeling a little more relaxed about things.

I've got a hair cut booked for this afternoon and Mr F is coming home.  Apart from that, I need to run the vacuum round - couldn't face it during the heat and FDawg is shedding hair like a yeti 😲

First I need to walk him though.  Having had some success with learning Ukrainian with Du0ling0, I have decided to revisit Spanish.  I learnt many, many years ago but thought I'd revise it and am using FDawg's walk to practice.  It's coming back quite quickly.

Oooh - it's raining again and quite heavily 😁

Hasta luego

Fortune x

ruby_eskimo

Oh I'm using Duolingo to teach myself Czech, so far on a 76 day streak but don't think it's quite going in!

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ruby_eskimo said:

Oh I'm using Duolingo to teach myself Czech, so far on a 76 day streak but don't think it's quite going in!

Oh Czech sounds difficult Ruby.  I think 5 days is the longest streak I've managed so far.  Can't help but picture a very tired, streaking eskimo now 😂

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savingholmes

Glad you're celebrating rain. My grass is yellow! I have been keeping my pretty bedding plants alive now - and giving my apple trees the odd drink.