Living the Good Life - mortgage free and living in line with our values

Baileys_Babe

I'm another in a library of things black hole, none closer than an hour's drive (each way), a minimum of 4 hours driving to borrow and return something 😞

themadvix

Boo to the LoT black holes, but I know there is a lot of interest in them at the moment - our LoT has been very involved in helping others set up, so 🤞🏻 soon! I’m not sure of the rural logic though - surely there’s always things that people don’t own that they might develop a need for? 

EG, as Watty says, that’s a brilliant way to look at the day, but I think I still have the energy of an 18 year old in my head/i struggle to see the difference between what needs doing and what I want to get done.

 Have had another productive day today, without feeling completely exhausted by it - although I conked my head on a shelf pretty hard earlier, so feeling a bit out of it!
- bread and granola baked
- decking jetwashed ready for oiling (hopefully tomorrow)
- salad seeds sown
- brickwork in garage painted with tanking slurry (the bit we had repointed the other week - it’s lower than our neighbour’s garden and suffers from moisture coming through
- a tiny bit more progress with the caravan (waiting on a screwfix order mostly)
- washed old litter trays ready for the loft
- bed stripped and washing done
 Generally feeling a lot more on top of things now, which is good. Still tons to do but we are making progress. Have arranged to borrow friend’s bigger IP to do my bottling in. Just as well as have heard that apples are ready for collection too! Will need to buy more jars.

Dinner will be another bbq - remembered we have tuna steaks in the freezer, so a real treat. With leftover hg potato salad and hg salad.

Better go - currently cat sitting and resident cat has finished dinner and wandered off, probably wondering why I’m still here!

 Have a good evening all!

greenbee

Inspired by your activity, I checked my carrots and beetroot, and have pulled a whole lot up, so need to do something about them. 

Plus my mum's apples and pears need picking, and her mulberries will be ready soon. I need to have a major freezer sort out! And possibly take some time off work. 

KajiKita

greenbee said:

Inspired by your activity, I checked my carrots and beetroot, and have pulled a whole lot up, so need to do something about them. 

Plus my mum's apples and pears need picking, and her mulberries will be ready soon. I need to have a major freezer sort out! And possibly take some time off work. 

I think you definitely need some time off work. Get it booked! 😊

KK

themadvix

greenbee said:

Inspired by your activity, I checked my carrots and beetroot, and have pulled a whole lot up, so need to do something about them. 

Plus my mum's apples and pears need picking, and her mulberries will be ready soon. I need to have a major freezer sort out! And possibly take some time off work. 

Meant to reply to your previous comment re ethics - yes, I agree that everything seems to be a compromise one way or another!

Yes, I think I’ll need to take some time off this week, but not sure when! And I’m out with niece again on Thursday.