HAPPY NEW WEEK!!!
Last week's Chat thread is here.
Seems like a lot of folks on this thread have been facing adversity of one kind or another. Sending you all best wishes and good energy.
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Margo: I hope the next transfusion does wonders for you. I'm so glad your wonderful OH is with you all the time now. Thinking of you always.
dibnlib: That cat story is hilarious!
AQ: Glad you'll get your tour deposit back. I know that you are gifted at knitting and sewing. I thought you might want to see this quilt. It won first place at a local Quilting and Woodworking Show last weekend. Every piece features a bird species. Click on the quilt to enlarge a little bit. Also, I know you're from a rural background like me. You might like this quilt. It's the special Indiana Bicentennial Quilt. Click it to enlarge. It features historic barns from all of our 92 counties. It'll be auctioned as part of the state's 200th birthday celebration. The proceeds will go to preserve historic barns across the state. (Sorry if that's boring. I like traditional quilts. LOL)
Good Morning Everyone, A bright sunny morning at the moment.
Diane, Wonderful quilts. Really gifted people, especially the bird quilt.
Annette, I have seen the online Jigsaws, but I have tried any yet.
Dibnlib, Not a pleasant experience for you at the gymn. As for chewing gum, I do wish public places would ban it. I know you can be prosecuted for dropping it on pavements, but I don't know who enforces that law !!
AQ, If you withdraw money from the bank, it is deducted immediately. Never understand why we have to wait for money that is paid to us.
OG, You sound as if you are going to need a holiday by the time you leave.
Linda, Best wishes with the painting. I hope you can keep Bonnie away from the wet paint.
Housework now beckons :-((
Good Morning. Gradually brightening up here, after a grey start: supposed to rain later on, so trying to get some towels on the line, quickly, beforehand.
A bit late clocking on today here, as have been busy taking things out of the dining room: in spite of it being ornament free because of a certain four legged person, there are pictures on the walls, ornamental plates, and lots of very large framed photos on top of one of the wall units. Also on one wall, we have a very large metal piece of wall art - it's one of those which can be what you want, ships, birds.... I will post a photo on here sometime. We have decided to cheat and paint around the largest pieces of furniture: our biggest needs two large men to dismantle it and move it! Not looking forward to needing to empty it when we do get around to a new carpet in there.
Annette: I have a jigsaw app on my tablet, but only do one now and then, and then only with a limited number of pieces, as its so absorbing it takes too big a chunk out of my day!
OG: Hope the bathroom niggles can be resolved. You were both so pleased with your new installation, hope it hasn't disappointed.
Dibnlib: Don't even get me started on the chewing gum thing...... I do chew gum, occasionally, but what people do with it.... I get so hopping mad when you are in a public space and you wonder what the random pattern is on the floor! Litter is also a favourite bugbear of mine.
AQ: I have never understood why when I make a payment online it sometimes says "allow four days for this to be processed!" - It must be instant, surely. One of life's mysteries. Glad you're managing to get some reading in.
Diane: Off to look at your links, now. I love quilts!!
Margo: Hoping you're resting with your OH and there are no thunderstorms today: we've had a few rumblings lately, here. Not long now till tomorrow and your transfusion {HUGS}
Diane: Those quilts are both quite stupendous!! How clever, and how labour intensive it must have been. They can be very proud indeed of their work. Thanks for posting!
Another miserable morning here, so no bowls for OH. We had the central heating on yesterday. OH had a gilet on over his sweater and was still cold so we closed up the conservatory and he retreated to the sitting room at the front of the house and watched TV for the afternoon. War documentaries (again!) Meantime, I did housework!
MARGO - So good to hear from you - no pressure though, whenever you feel well enough to post is good enough for us. As you say, having your OH at home has made all the difference. Tomorrow will soon be here and you will start to pick up again.
Have a lovely time away, OG. I'm sure that J has received his gardening instructions! My OH waters the baskets and pots etc even when it has been raining. Like you, he says that rain doesn't penetrate, just runs off the leaves, especially the pots with large begonias. He is more careful with geraniums though.
Plan is to make soup today. Minestrone for my middle daughter and I and leek and potato for my OH. I don't think the weather will allow it to be served as vichyssoise, though! Actually, he hates cold soup anyway.
Don't know if I mentioned that Callum is driving sister Amy down to Edinburgh this weekend, to see their Dad. Their father, as an Army man who served in Iraq and Afghanistan is quite happy for this to happen. Presumably he has seen very young men take much bigger risks. As for the rest of us, we are quite nervous that such a young man (he is not yet 18) will be driving on the notorious A9 :-(
Better go and chop vegetables.
Good morning; cloudy but all rain-bearing clouds are promising to go round us again today, so OH is painting the front of the shed – will be good to have it finished. I shall be tidying, ironing and all the usual …
AQ – pleased about your travel insurance pay-out! I don’t know how often I shall post over next few days, so take this opportunity to wish you well for the operation and a satisfactory outcome and recovery.
Annette – one week stay, so eight days away including travelling days – which are Sundays to avoid as much of the English traffic as possible.
Brenda – good to have you “sounding” more like your cheery chirpy self!
Linda – so the decorating is starting in earnest now – good luck with it! We ought to do our bedroom – keep hoping J will go away for a week so we can sleep in his room. Still very pleased with the bathroom, just hoping they will soon calculate and let us pay the balance as money is sitting in the bank account waiting; push-plate was a manufacturer’s quality control error.
Heather – yes, J will be looking after all the plants for us – biggest risk will be over-watering! Soups sound good: man at gardening club made Gazpacho and it was disgusting! I think he added too many ingredients, and it had a horrible texture and tasted like medicine. I tried a sample and passed it straight on to OH, who usually will eat most things, but he also abandoned it! I am sure Callum and Amy will be fine on the A9!
Well, on with tidying – routine (slow) dash around all the rooms, picking up any strays!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
OG: Just seen your comment about watering houseplants - I used to ask Eldest to pop over and do it when we were on hols, and he only lived a short distance. He over watered everything and even did some of the artificial flowers and plants!!!!
We thought we would start on the decorating after seeing the forecast for this afternoon and tomorrow - not good. My OH is a whizz with decorating and can't bear to leave it half done, so once we start, its like a starting gun at a children's sack race! We're Off!!
LoL LINDY! Imagining you and him hopping around in sacks with tins of yellow paint! Haven't even thought about house plants yet, I meant in the garden and greenhouse; but, yes, he will have to have instructions for indoors too! Sometimes wonder whether going away is too much like hard work!
LINDY We share the same bugbears!!
OG - enjoy going away while you can. My OH likes the thought of getting away but as time passes, thinks that home is best. We had a talk over lunch, different places to go etc.
We perhaps need to buy a new bed. OH wakes up each morning with a sore back which wears off during the morning.