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Cheery_Daff

Glad to see both rats are gone! I did laugh at MrsPG's predicament 😂😂 how funny 😂😂

All fingers crossed your grievance is dealt with appropriately and quickly. And if no, well, I am sure they will live to regret it when they see you at a tribunal!

All fingers and toes crossed for OH's treatment xx

Greying_Pilgrim

rt - I laughed about MrsPG's encounter too - although I would be on standby for the (inevitable) "who put/slung this in our garden?" accusations. We had that at Greying Towers ☹️ Our neighbour undertook activities that actively encouraged a rat population to move in, which we reported to EHO (I was pregnant with LG at the time and they were scuttling about willy-nully in the daylight 🤢). Neighbour denied they were the issue, but played merry hell with me when they encountered a dead rat by their back door 🙄 As if I'd pick a bl00dy dead rat up 🤬

Echoing @Cheery_Daff in sending all good wishes to your OH.

Greying X

rtandon27

@Cheery_Daff - thanks hunny - all words of encouragement on all fronts greatfully received!

@Greying_Pilgrim - MrsPG is so very paranoid about burglers that she has a deadbolt on her gate and a lock - the only way the plastic grass can be accessed is under her gate the 'hedgehog' gap (or so she told me when i bought the place!) - there is also a matching padlock on their shed! Hilarious as she leaves the back door wide open and has been known to forget to shut it upon going to pick up MrPG from work!!!

Currently I have the bait box up against the gap with the entrance along the run the creature were last seen using! Our gate is directly opposite her's and routinely patroled by the fat orange tomcat who lives with the other neighbour and who gleefully tells me all about what he's recently killed or played with! Fingers crossed that the bait took care of MrRatty and his ilk, as not one has been seen (alive) front or back since I put out the poison! OH messaged me mid-week to say he'd heard (through the open window) a child on it's way to school shriek 'mom - look - it's a dead rat' - so that's two that have expired! I did look for it when I got home but it's not anywhere to be found, so hopefully someone else cleared it up!

rtandon27

So on to more pleasant subject - it's Canadian Thanksgiving!

…and on that note…

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."

I am quite simply thankful that OH is still with us. This year we won't be having turkey, cranbery sauce, or pumpkin pie. OH has never been a fan, and this year I'd rather he ate 'something' than struggle through a meal that for me is only pure nostalgia!

So this week, which I've taken off as leave as I do every year, we are trying to eat from the stores as much as possible. Partly to siphon off the funds to other pots that are in need and partly as we do have a lot in the stores to work through as and when

Saturday breakfast - our treat of the week - McD's breakfast
Saturday lunch - we had steamed freezer dimsum - now only one bag of mini stuffed bao left
Saturday dinner - pickety bits (antipasta) from the fridge & part bake bread from the stores

Sunday brunch - spinach borek from the freezer with salted labneh
Sunday dinner - steamed carrots, sprouts & home-grown potatoes with oven roasted herb marinated chicken

Monday breakfast - mini pastries baked fresh from the freezer & bodum coffee
Monday lunch - mini-manti (turkish ravioli) with marry me sauce
Monday dinner - french onion soup made with home made bone broth - croutons & cheese on top

So far snacky bits seem to materialize from what we have in stores - who knew that these would appear appear seemingly seemingly from thin air! biscuits, crackers, crisps, fruit all suitable for fueling. OH is also supplementing with 2x liquid supplements as he needs to keep his calorie intake up!

Cheery_Daff

Happy thanksgiving! An excellent thing to be thankful for xxx

thriftmonster

Happy Thanksgiving!

Watty1

Happy Thanksgiving to you both

Greying_Pilgrim

I've learnt something rt. I knew the Canadian Thanksgiving was in October, versus the US Thanksgiving in November, but I always wondered if the Canadian event was date orientated, whereas the US is the last Thursday in November. I looked it up, and it's the second Monday in October for the Canadian day. Interesting.

And a better observance of gratitude for harvests, hospitality, community than we (personally) currently observe. The school's collection for the FB - which is supposed to represent their observation/nod to, harvest festival was - I hate to say it - pitiful this year.

Greying X

beanielou

Happy Thanksgiving.

rtandon27

@Greying_Pilgrim- yes indeedy, I've always seen Thanksgiving as tied to the bounty of harvest. Back before the days of international food trade, I can remember helping my Gran (back across the pond) with preserving so that we had plenty at reasonable priced veggies ready for the winter. We would buy peppers, tomatoes, onions, carrots etc. by the bushel or half bushel and store in various ways in the basement, including canning. My Grandparents also had what we referred to as the side of beef freezer and in the autumn, we bought half a cow, an entire pig, about a dozen whole chickens which were butchered and packaged up and stored in the cavernous chest. Back then, groceries did actually become both scarce and expensive in the winter! If you wanted to eat well in the cold months, then there was an element of stocking up that needed to be done.

@beanielou- thank-you for your wishes hunny, so lovely to 'see' you.

So Monday dinner ended up being bitsa this and bitsa that as OH suddenly lost his appetite and could only face tinned soup - go figure, the body wants what the body wants!

This morning the appetite was still gone but he managed a meal replacement powder shake blended with some berries from the freezer. I had a smootie as well but fortified with about 100mL of yogurt.

By lunch time (and after a trip to the hospital for a picc line dressing change) appetite had returned and french onion soup and 1/2 buttered seeded roll was had - chased up by most of a chicken sandwich on buttered lavash bread. I had the same but my soup had grated cheese and croutons on top and my whole sandwich was downed!

Not sure what is on for dinner, but we have two roasted chicken breasts left and I'm hankering for some stir-fried rice with assorted veg in it. The other alternative is chicken kebabs from the freezer with salady bits and a yogurt tahini dressing in lavash bread for homemade kebabs. Let's see what OH fancies and go from there!

On the laundry front - yesterday's load is almost dry - it had to be indoors with the dehu running as it was unexpectedly rainy and wet yesterday and nothing was going to dry in the summer house! Today we have sun and it is breezy but I've not yet managed to sort out the next load!