Ninja Saving Turtles Challenge August 2025

KajiKita

Gratitudes for today:

- Got to spend time in the garden and found it easier to clear a very weedy section than I thought it might be 😊
- By doing ^^ I made space for the final Japanese anemone that my very serious gardening friend gave me last autumn ❤️
- My cat is actually in the house with us this evening 😊

KK

f0xh0les

Gratitudes:
food in fridge and freezer
Laundry dried on the line between showers 
All bills paid, and work expenses paid early!
Happy August! We made it! 

grandmanerd

Yes, found the purse (this minute). I pulled the seat cushions off on Wednesday to get at the debris underneath. I have redone the couch excavation with DS3. He also insisted on checking my handbag (I've done it 3 times already). He has just been to the cash machine for me, so I can pay the bill at the GPO tomorrow and I started picking clean stuff up and putting it in a bag and then scraping the rubbish into the small rubbish bag. I have also found a hole in the couch (if the purse had been in there I'd have had to cut out the bottom. Anyway my purse was on the floor, under the last cushion, which has been on the floor for a week as I tried out various combinations when supporting my leg. All cushions are now back stacked on the couch, I have a level surface to sleep on and a spare cushion stuffed down at the end to stop them moving about. 

He won't take the couch upstairs, that would be work (it would be difficult making the turn to get it on the stairs). He refused to take the chinchillas upstairs and their cage could be broken into parts. 

Other than that, it's been a fairly successful day. I have bags for each of the recycling bins ready to go out and a small rubbish bin (2 black bags went on Wednesday)

Grateful for water bottles in the fridge, clean dresses hung up, 3 bags for the cs and 3 items to go to the food trolley in the library (substitutions I only noticed later).

Thrifty_Taylor

Please can I be #18 @grandmanerd? A tip I have read about all berries (though haven't tried!) is to store them in a glass jar in your fridge, they keep for a lot longer. Glad you found your purse 😀

NSD#1
Did a 10 minute yoga routine for neck, shoulders & upper back. Thought yoga would be ok to do after my cataract surgery last week.
The highlight of my day - after a late breakfast, I was clearing out long grass & weeds from an area at the foot of our driveway, DH was moving wood that's just been delivered & DS2 was creosoting the raised beds (DS3 at work). I felt so content, we were all doing things to improve our garden 😍 I then bagged up old tarps, broken bits of plywood, etc ready to take to the dump. Tidied a the floorspace of DS3's greenhouse & stores the sacks in there. 

Dinner was wholewheat pasta with stir-fried veg & pesto. Really enjoying using veg up this way at the moment. Read another chapter of my book whilst eating. Did some weeding afterwards & brought the line dried washing in. Put the next cd on (only 1 left to go now), put the clothes on the airer, then sewed the gonk's arms in place. Took photos of it & the previous one I'd made, in the garden. I've now knitted 15, with enough beards for 2 more.

After tea, I made 6 cards (forced myself to do it, but enjoyed it once underway). Then started another gonk.

Grateful for the policeman in Aberdeen phoning & saying we can get everything apart from DS1's phone back, when we go down next week, the feeling of contentment I had this morning, & looking over the newly cleared space & seeing what was underneath it all, which can now be used for their intended jobs 😀