Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 13 October 2019

Good Morning. Colder here today. My OH went out early to golf, so I pottered down to get my cup of tea a while ago, and got back into bed with it.

Heather, my mother had a combination microwave once and it too, was indecipherable as to how it actually worked. We had to give up, eventually. I suppose it's all according to the type and model.

Sun is coming out now, hooray!

What a day! The NBN was down from about 9am til 3 pm. So no internet, no land line, no friend phoning. Grrrrr! I needed to research what to see in towns this weekend & check Google maps to draw my “mud maps. Even the notes to go with my pics use online newspapers from olden days. Instead I decided to pack for trip – that took 5 mins. I did some weeding, making sore back sore-er, and followed up with a snooze. No idea why or what the problem.

How frustrating, AQ. Grr.

Sunshine here: I'm off to order a sofa cover for where Bonnie sits beside me in the evenings. At present we use a throw which I used to put over our old sofa, before this one, but its really the wrong colour which offends my eye.

Also will make a few phone calls. Hate phoning people in the evenings when they might be relaxing.

Had a nice chat with my late Friend G's OH: he has had a pleasant holiday in Norfolk, seeing old haunts.

The sunshine here is brilliant, and everyone is out mowing their lawns etc.

Here is the picture I tried to post a few days ago, of the metal flowers I've acquired, in amongst the real ones - the fuschia is a bush which comes out every year and is becoming so luxuriant that we have to prune it well, every spring.

 Morning all:

Diane: Thanks for the link re the mountain lions.  We are getting reports of continued sightings in our area.  The video below is from our neighborhood website, taken by a home security camera.  It was about a mile up the road from us.    I tried to upload it normally but then just clicked and dragged it on the page.  It says "Preparing Video" for about 15-20 seconds before it loads.

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Hello, ALL. Pleasant day here. Cleaner came this morning and broke one of my favourite things - a lovely 3D wooden Osprey standing jigsaw. I was glad to tell her we don't want her next week (boys will be gone for J's pre-op and I can't cope with her on my own) so I have two weeks to get over it!

All been busy today in various ways; still experimenting with different ways of cooking!

Oh, dear, OG. What a shame. I hope she was apologetic, and also, you don't say if it can be repaired. Hope so.

AQ, I saw a story this morning about a woman who got lost in the outback but has been found because someone saw her "help" message on the ground, when looking at his security camera. It was near Adelaide.

I was going to make some scones but only got as far as taking the butter out of the fridge. Went to sleep in a heap, as we used to say, but I suppose I must have needed it.

Annette -- interesting clip of your erm, neighbours. Have you ever seen one, even in the distance?

OG:  What a shame about your osprey jigsaw.  

Lindybird: I haven't seen a mountain lion in the flesh; just bobcats.

I'm continuing to  'downsize' the garden, took out some plants that require too much fussing to keep them looking nice;

Our new big Target store is having its Grand Opening Sunday (it had its "soft" opening yesterday).  Yay!  :-))