What's on your agenda for today?

Ameriscot said:
Holly, we did get attacked when getting bikes out of car and putting paniers on so I quickly applied Jungle. Riding bikes though creates breeze which midges can't handle.
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Bleddy things...that's one thing apart from the Dreich weather that I DO NOT miss about Scotland.. :D
 

hollydolly said:
Bleddy things...that's one thing apart from the Dreich weather that I DO NOT miss about Scotland.. :D
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The only two things that keep Scotland from being perfect - midgies and dreich weather.

No midgies while riding the bikes and certain areas of Bute were windy. But they swarmed when we got back to the car. Didn't get bitten though, just annoyed. Still had some Jungle on.

We rode 41 miles today.
 
Shalimar said:
A short time ago, I received a phone call from Caramel Newman's brother informing me that he had been killed in a car accident a few hours ago. No further details forthcoming at this time. Ooooh, there have been a lot of losses this year.
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Shali, I'm so sorry about the loss of Caramel. My deepest sympathy goes out to you, my friend.
 

Dear Shali,
I just read over the previous post and realize that your friend Caramel Newman was the one who had passed away when originally I had though it was the brother. I am so sorry that you have lost your dear friend. How terrible! All my sympathy to you and I hope you are OK and taking good care of yourself. Many hugs.
 
Cloudy again today. Anxious for another 4 day spell (or longer!) of sunny weather like last week! Guess I'd better go grocery shopping if we want to eat today. It's my policy never to shop on a Saturday but didn't get to do it yesterday as we were on our bikes.
 
It has rained some but tonight we are supposed to get severe storms. It makes walking the dog a lot more challenging but that's the price that is paid for loving a pup. I got the dog her own raincoat with matching hat but she is very anti-clothes so she runs like the wind if I get out her raincoat. Sometimes she gives me "the look."

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awww sooo cute and with a Landsend coat and hat on... :D

Yesterday we had lashing rain so I didn't get down to St Pancras as I was going to. It's started off a little grim this morning, but it's supposed to brighten up later..if it does I'm going to take a long walk through the park which goes from one town to the next..have some lunch and catch the train back, no other reason than the exercise.. :)

Hope your storms aren't as bad as predicted Kath!!
 
Thanks for liking my dawg, Holly. I think the dog was torked because I stuffed her outsized ears into that hat!

We got plenty of scary thunder and lightening - the good part of rain is that it washes the bird residue (!?!) off the sidewalk so I don't have to do it. There were lots of cars parked on the street as people came to visit their dads on Fathers Day. The majority of residents in this neighborhood are from this area originally and most of their families as well - I'm one of the few whose kids and families are strewn all over the place. Today Suki the dog actually ate a piece of Brussel sprout- I was in awe but didn't let her know that.

Hope everyone had a terrific day!
 
haha! Kath it's cute :), but pets usually don't like clothes. Heck, yesterday I put a new collar on my cat and she squirmed and fought like crazy. :( Brat :mad: But now she's prancing around showing off. :rolleyes:
 
Kath, your dog looks cute! :)

Went to the gym this morning. We are actually seeing the sun today along with the clouds. But tomorrow will be mostly sunny so we'll be out on the bikes again. Crossing our fingers for decent weather next week as we've booked a cottage in a town that's a good base for lots of bike rides.
 
Finally got someone to come out and give us a price on cleaning up our front landscaping.. I had it done 10 years ago, and we have been trying to keep it neat and trimmed, but it has gotten away from us.. I'm so happy to be able to turn it over to professionals to have it done really nice... also, they clean up and haul away all the trimmings.. It will be nice to have the place looking up to snuff.. and not ragged as it has been. It's so hard to get contracters to come out for relatively small jobs.. everyone wants the big commercial jobs and stick their noses up at residential.. I thought folks were hungry for money?
 
I went out on my morning walk/jog (OK, to be truthful, it's 90% walk and 10% jog) early this a.m. I pass a house every morning that has a couple of dogs that bark like idiots at me from their yard; this morning, I came up over the hill and the dogs were out in the middle of the road. I thought "uh-oh, here's trouble". The dogs took one look at me, hightailed it back behind the fence and started barking at me like their usual idiotic selves. Thankfully, their bark IS worse than their bite. Thought I was safe until I went over the next hill and got attacked by two huge grey geese, who apparently felt that I was trespassing. I think I'd rather be attacked by the dogs.
 
Oh Lord you're right Geese can be far more scary than dogs sometimes..fortunately the Geese around here seem to be quite Tame..

Today has been a gloriously sunny day . I got loads of chores done and the dreaded ironing. We had high winds last night so the back lawn was covered in the dreaded dried Holly leaves...I blerry hate that Holly tree, we inherited it with the house and hubs likes it so he won't allow me to get someone to chop it down, but it creates a lot of work all year round.

I popped into our local market town quickly just for one errand, and as it was so nice I sat people watching outside Cafe Nero with a Latte for about 20 minutes

Popped into a little independent ladies wear shop on the way back to the car, and found not one but 2 jackets which will be perfect for work. One a cropped purple check wool jacket, and the other a Black with pink floral design . it sounds horrid but it's really pretty and best of all they are very individual.. :D..so I'm delighted with those.

Got back, and decided regardless of the heat, I would have dinner early (at 3pm)..so for the first time in months I made myself a whole roast dinner..Yorkshire puddings, Roast Potatoes, Carrot and swede mash, and just one wafer thin slice of Salt Beef. delicious, but it's not something my stomach could cope with every week, I am a very light eater most of the time, but I took it outside and sat at the garden table and enjoyed it al fresco.. :cool:

Just gone 4.30pm now, and it's still gloriously sunny and comfortable warm in the garden..temps about 70 degrees..
 
GRRRRR..a small bird hit the car on the roof and left a small 2"x3" damage paint mark. Took the car to a auto body place,
Cost $450 to repaint the WHOLE friggin roof, insurance has a $500 deductible.grrrrrrrr
Job will take 3 days and insurance company will give me $20/day for a rental car...whoopee!!!!

Remember the old days when they could simply repair and paint those small spot and have your car back within hours?

Don't know if that bird survived but if I catch it.....GRRRRRR
"I HAD THE RIGHT OF WAY YOU STUPID BIRD!!".
 
Sun is shinning and its 90 degrees in Texas....heading into summer, we've had so much rain that the grass is growing like crazy, I'm having to mow every other day just to keep up, I have help coming on Friday to do some of the harder jobs around here and that will help.

Everyone have a great day!
 
Jackie22 said:
Sun is shinning and its 90 degrees in Texas....heading into summer, we've had so much rain that the grass is growing like crazy, I'm having to mow every other day just to keep up, I have help coming on Friday to do some of the harder jobs around here and that will help.

Everyone have a great day!
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Sometimes it gets to be too much.. for sure.. This is the first year we are hiring a company to come out and trim all our hedges and landscaping. We used to do it all ourselves and it was quite a job.. What's nice about it is that they trim and tidy everything up and haul all the trimmings away!! Hubby's got a bad back and we are getting a bit too old to do all that work out in the heat.
 
Jackie22 said:
Sun is shinning and its 90 degrees in Texas....heading into summer, we've had so much rain that the grass is growing like crazy, I'm having to mow every other day just to keep up, I have help coming on Friday to do some of the harder jobs around here and that will help.

Everyone have a great day!
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Jackie it's been the high 70's here and just lovely and comfortable..set to be the same the rest of the week, we tend usually only to get up to low 80's during summer here in the south of the Uk which is the hottest part..sometimes tho' (not today) the high humidity can be horrid.

Today I took myself off to see my friend who has a boat on the river..and we put the world to rights for a little while then I went off and did some shopping in a brand new superstore that's opened in a town near by...oooh it was lovely, even tho' it's been open a couple of weeks the aisles were almost empty of shoppers, everything was spotlessly clean, AC was set just right not too cold.. and the Car park had much more spaces than cars..wonder how long that will last :rolleyes:

Stopped off and had a drink outside pretty little Greek taverna, read my book and people watched for about 1/2 an hour., very relaxing..

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Back to the workhouse tomorrow..12 hours of madness...
 
Holly - That picture of the Taverna is beautiful! The flowers are awesome and look so perfect! I've been reading up on places I hope to see when I finally get my UK journey off the ground. There are lots of places I haven't seen in the northern part of England and haven't been to Scotland yet. Last time I was over there, it was in the Spring but I may do the next trip in the Fall. I hope your day in the workhouse isn't too awful tomorrow...keep thinking of the picture of the Taverna with flowers...well, don't I sound like a sugar plum fairy (sometimes I make myself nauseous)! I had a long, often chaotic work life so I know what you face on a workday! I tried and tried, but I couldn't quit my smoking habit until I left the job.

This morning I discovered a bunch of ant hills in my lawn - first time for ants but have lots of other bothersome bugs. Anyway, I drove to the hardware store and got a big container of ant eradicator and sprayed myself silly. After the Ant War, I did some pruning on the rosebushes and vacuumed (i.e., hoovered) the garage floor. When the weather is sunny with relatively low humidity like it was today, I sure feel more energetic than it's more hot and humid.
 
Morning all, just getting ready to leave for my first day back at work for almost 3 weeks..temps are set to be almost 80 degrees today but I won't get to see much of the sun today...

Kath yes the Taverna does look picturesque doesn't it? :D


..as for your next trip...Some parts of the North of England are beautiful and of course my birth country Scotland is stunning in many places..however the drawback with both of those is the horrid weather ....You should come and visit us in the warm South.. :D

I blerry hate Ants, I hate them above almost any other insects apart from roaches and fortunately I have never seen a roach here only in Spain and Greece.. That said in the rented place we had a couple of weeks ago we woke up one morning to Ants all over the livingroom floor..I was straight to the Todo shop to get the biggest can of Bug spray I could fine and they were HISTORY!!

Ooops must dash...running late...have a good day folks.. :cool:
 
hollydolly said:
Morning all, just getting ready to leave for my first day back at work for almost 3 weeks..temps are set to be almost 80 degrees today but I won't get to see much of the sun today...

Kath yes the Taverna does look picturesque doesn't it? :D


..as for your next trip...Some parts of the North of England are beautiful and of course my birth country Scotland is stunning in many places..however the drawback with both of those is the horrid weather ....You should come and visit us in the warm South.. :D

I blerry hate Ants, I hate them above almost any other insects apart from roaches and fortunately I have never seen a roach here only in Spain and Greece.. That said in the rented place we had a couple of weeks ago we woke up one morning to Ants all over the livingroom floor..I was straight to the Todo shop to get the biggest can of Bug spray I could fine and they were HISTORY!!

Ooops must dash...running late...have a good day folks.. :cool:
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London is great to visit for the history, but for landscape and gorgeous scenery you can't beat Scotland and the north of England. Ok, ok, the weather often sucks but I'll keep Scotland. And Scots are the friendliest and funniest. ;)
 
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Plans today are some muscle workouts and housework. I've begun packing for our trip on Saturday and a week of biking. Forecast shows drops of rain most days but also shows some sun. Temps 15-18C/60's. That's fine. Got rainsuits if needed although I'm fine with drizzle as that is what it's likely to be. We wear nylon trousers which dry very fast if they get wet. Midgies can't catch you with the breeze created on a bike. :playful:
 

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