Steadily climbing the mountain, enjoying the view along the way

Cheery_Daff · 30 August at 11:43PM

That sounds like a lovely relaxing homemaking kind of a day 🙂

KajiKita · 1 September at 9:07AM

Had a steady, productive day yesterday.

Mr KK left early to go to a militaria fair (and came back with yet more ‘stuff’ the most interesting of which was a WW1 trench lantern - quite a poignant object and the least exciting of was yet another gas mask, which he claims he will sell on … 🤔). That meant I got out in the garden early.

Picked 1.6Kg of tomatoes! 🍅 😊

Cleared the dead cucumbers and sweet peppers from the greenhouse and popped in some carrot seedlings and some grown on rainbow chard. Well watered, mulched and copper ringed.

Excavated the poor courgette plants from under the bindweed, tidied them up and fed them.

Weeded the leeks. They are growing quite well. Started mulching them, didn’t quite finish …

Chopped and de-cored the tomatoes, layered them up in a deep tray with red onions, sages, olive oil, salt pepper and fresh sage. Roasted for about an hour, stirring periodically, then blitzed down to a thick sauce I can use for pasta or for pizza bases. All in the freezer. 👏😊

Made a batch of split pea and leek soup for work, using the last of leeks I froze from the garden this spring 😊

Knitted a bit, read quite a lot of novel, did fascia release day 12, cooked tea and flopped.

Today I have an extra day’s leave, so am starting slowly and then will go and see my artist friend. I am taking her some self propagated house plants as she lost everything when she broke her hip and was away from home for so long, this will help with her restocking 😊 Going to take a small branch off my Bay tree too 😊 I am hoping we will have enough energy to go to Kiftsgate - probably my last garden visit of the year. It’s a wonderful place and I would be interested to see it in the latter part of the year to see what they do with the plantings.

KK

Merlin's_Beard · 1 September at 3:42PM

sounds like a productive time with lots of wellbeing in there!

KajiKita · 1 September at 7:41PM

Had an ‘interesting’ day … Drove to friends and then onto Kiftsgate to discover it was shut!! And I checked the website yesterday! Argh …. Did some frantic rummaging on goggle and ended up at Hidcote instead. NT so pretty expensive for us to get in and have lunch but at least we had somewhere to go! 🙄😂

The gardens weren’t in bad shape tbf and it was really obvious where the sun had baked things or hadn’t. My friend was confused why a top layer of a ground cover vinca had died when the rest of the large volume in the same area was in greta condition - I pointed up at a gap in the canopy and said there’s your answer …Trees, lots and lots of trees and big shrubs seem to have really helped there as well as planting really early and using water doughnuts around the base of key trees - fascinating, I have never come across them before.

Anyway, we had a good catch up, a nice day out and we both got compliments on our dresses from different people! 😂😊😉

KK

KajiKita · 4 September at 2:57PM

Done my 2.5 day working week - I don’t feel as shattered as I normally do on a Friday, but I shouldn’t really! 😉

House and contents insurance renewal turned up today. Auto renewal is £330 which I think is rather a lot so am planning on running what we have insured to what level past Mr KK, as I think we are massively over insured, before I start on comparisons …

Trusted the forecast this morning and put my bedding in the machine - it paid off and it is now on the line 😊

Made a huge, ridiculous, worthy-of-@Cheery_Daff-to-do-list for the weekend … 😂 Going to try and make a start on some of it this afternoon and then we are going out for dinner for our belated wedding anniversary / avoiding the chapel band event this evening … 😉

KK