April 2020... Please tell us how your day is Going... April Showers bring May Flowers...

Liberty said:
That green bell pepper pot I kept going all winter has a gazillion peppers on it - have already harvested a couple. Hope your green peppers grown from seeds come out great...never done that. I'm hesitant to put this pepper potted plant in the ground now!
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I check the seeds several times a day, haha... Perhaps it is like the saying "a watched pot never boils." I need to give mother nature a chance, but my eagerness (although irrational, since planted only yesterday) is a bit overwhelming! As to your plant, I have no idea if it would hurt to put it in the ground since it already has peppers formed. Let us know how that goes!
 

Empty said:
I check the seeds several times a day, haha... Perhaps it is like the saying "a watched pot never boils." I need to give mother nature a chance, but my eagerness (although irrational, since planted only yesterday) is a bit overwhelming! As to your plant, I have no idea if it would hurt to put it in the ground since it already has peppers formed. Let us know how that goes!
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Yeah, think I'll just leave these two plants together in the one big pot. It worked all winter and with the pepper population on it, well...if it ain't broke why fix it! Keep me posted on your seed sprouting! Thanx
 
When I went on my early walk around 6:40 to the convient store,it was 42.I didn't see anybody until I got to the store.I saw 10 cars,when the bus went by,2 people were on. The birds were chirping
This morning,its my usual weekly call to Canopy of neighbors members,see how they are doing.As much as I love doing this,I keep praying the office will reopen end of May/1st week in June.I miss being with Sasha{exec. director} Wendy{vol director} on Mon&Tues mornings
The rest of my day,read NYT as I'm eating lunch,after nap take a afternoon walk
 

The sun is bright this morning, which always helps my mood! Too cold (39F) now, but I will stick my nose outside later today. I'm still rubbing muscles and my elbow from the yardwork from the day before yesterday. I hate to admit it, but I'm not as young as I used to be!
 
Well our weeks of Sun and high temps seem to be coming to an end. Today it's overcast... I fitted a new sprinkler unit to the bird bath. Swept all the leaves off the path ..again... . (they'll all be back again when the predicted heavy rains arrive tomorrow and for the next week)... .

Took delivery of a new pattress we needed for the new chrome fan switch hubs has just installed ( oh the excitement ) :D... that will be installed tomorrow when we can't get outside to work because hubs is currently filling the cracks in the path with cement... , plenty time for that to go off, before the rains come.., and then he'll continue decorating tomorrow indoors !!

Took a close up picture of my spring flowers...

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and took an unintended comic shadow picture of mr HD ..working ....:D

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... cooked some black pudding for lunch for me... and , thus far we're up to just after 2.30pm... ...can't wait for the rains to come...
 
Dug like a grave digger this morning to get a big old fern out of the ground to move it...we had to have a big tree taken down that got struck by lightening last year and now the sun would scorch the poor old fern so had to move it. Thank God for coffee, sweet nectar of the gods...lol. Found a turtle (anyone know what kind?). Feed him some mulberries and he ate heartily. Lilies blooming and look at the Gardenia blossom...wish you guys could take a whiff of it, talk about heavenly frangrances:
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Good Morning Everyone...
Monday eh... Well, to be honest, lately, every day is a Monday...

Today I have to clean the trailer out, it's full of insulation (styrofoam 2" thick) It's been in the trailer all weekend, covered up out in the yonder... and then have to go to my nieces, she has a snowblower to scrap, but first going to try and fix it.

Well, that's about all that is going on today... So I hope YOU all have a fantastic day... Keep Safe... and God Bless YOU all!!!
 
Didn't get to sleep last night but got a 2 and a half hour nap this afternoon--better than nothing and it did help. The plumber was here around 10 am and did what he does to unclog the drains in the bathroom sink and tub. So far it seems okay but time will tell when the neighbors take their baths and showers--all 3 floors tub drainage are connected on the same line. Last night black gravel and water came into my tub from one of the other floors and that's why the plumber was here today.

My paw is still hurting, now over 3 weeks. I put a brace on it one night and woke up in worse pain. Talked to the doctor on the phone and he allowed me to take up to 2000 mg. of tylenol a day for it. He is my new gastro. dr. and I asked him what I could take. The tylenol helps some but when it wears off...yow! I'm thinking the time something like this takes to heal is around 6 weeks and so I hope it does heal.

Have to make an appointment for an ultrasound and get lots of lab work done, too. I also should get a mammogram--been avoiding it. Who likes those anyhow? o_O

Going to take doggie out soon. I wait a few hours after people have been in the hallway--actually should wait 3 like I did last time. You never know anymore what can be in the air. I would have sprayed the hallway but ran out of Lysol and you can't find it anywhere anymore.

Just watching The Voice. I really enjoy that show!
 
Shopping day today. We usually shop every fortnight but with the recent shortages, we've had to look around more often. Anyway, things are getting back to a sort of normality.

It's almost 9:30 am but no sense in rushing. Scottish trading hours are a bit different to the rest of the UK and we can't buy alcohol before 10:00 am. On the other hand, Scotland never had Sunday trading laws as such and it was mainly the influence of the (Presbyterian) church that stopped shops opening. That's all changed now and shops can open all day on Sunday - unlike the rest of the UK which has limited hours.

We've had rain showers for the last two days and the garden is looking better for it. Still have to water the plants in the polytunnel and the small greenhouse. We'll do that when we get back from the shops.
 
I've just seen the news and they say our recycle centres will open this weekend.... I'm delighted. (y):D

Everyone whose been home this last 6 weeks has taken the opportunity, or would have done to clear out their homes of unwanted stuff, and or decorate, and we've certainly wanted to do it while hubs has been working from home and while he's been decorating here... but we've been hampered by not being able to take anything to the recycle centre... so although, as soon as they open I'm aware there will be very long queues initially , we'll definitely have a clear out here as soon as possible once the queues calm down a little...

Going to have to buy a new freezer, last night I noticed ours had died, and I had to transfer all the meats to our smaller fridge freezer.. but left all the veggies in the chest one for now..., Hubs has got it working again for now, but we have to have it on fast freeze power to keep it working, so I have to look for another one.. PITA at this time, because I'll have to buy online due to all the big appliance stores being closed

Raining here today , and I'm delighted. first rain for many weeks..garden needs it, and I want the huge numbers of people who have started flouting all the lockdown rules in the last few days , to get back indoors for a while...
 
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Good Morning All...
Not a lot to report, we got the snowblower, it's still on the trailer, but going to try, and get it off today, Need to pump up the tires... Supposedly, you plug it in, hit the switch, and away she goes... The problem with it is the thrower is full of rust, so the snow gets bonded up, and then plugs up. So going to take that apart, sand it, make it smooth, prime it, paint it, and then this winter I will spray some PAM or WD-40 down it, and the snow should just throw... if it doesn't work, then I will scrap it...

Nothing else to really report... I didn't do a lot yesterday... Well Ladies, and Gents, Hope YOU all have a very good day... Keep safe.. and God BLESS YOU all...
 
Capt Lightning said:
Holly, Hope you're all OK and things set sorted out quickly.

Up here in the village that time forgot, nothing has happened. I fitted a new burner unit to the central heating boiler yesterday. It had become very noisy and it was more economic to replace the whole unit than to buy all the parts. It was just a 15 min job. Take the old unit out, swap the fuel line and power cable and bolt the new one in. It runs on kerosene so no gas safety concerns.

After a dull start today, the sun has come out - clear skies, but a cool breeze. Tidied up the summerhouse and went for a walk.
Everything is very green and the crops are growing well. Some ewes and their lambs in the field behind us. Having a lazy(ish) afternoon.
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i remember as a schoolboy spending ten days up there on a school thing, we were in Whitehill, which amused me because i lived in Whitehill, Hamilton.... we went fishing off the small harbour wall, this was just after the herring shoals vanished, or were fished out, and it truly was the land that time forgot, they took us into Banff to shop for pressies...lol.. i remember i bought my grannie a wee brass bell... happy days
 
Yesterday afternoon I limped my car to the dealer to have the new tire installed. Even with zero air pressure, I was able to go the 7 miles without a hitch. Of course I only got up to about 25mph. But now I once again have 4 round tires on my car. :)

Mowed most of yard yesterday. Will finish up today, weather permitting.
 
Liberty said:
Dug like a grave digger this morning to get a big old fern out of the ground to move it...we had to have a big tree taken down that got struck by lightening last year and now the sun would scorch the poor old fern so had to move it. Thank God for coffee, sweet nectar of the gods...lol. Found a turtle (anyone know what kind?). Feed him some mulberries and he ate heartily. Lilies blooming and look at the Gardenia blossom...wish you guys could take a whiff of it, talk about heavenly frangrances:
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looks like a tortoise, has it got feet or fins?
 
Mahatma said:
i remember as a schoolboy spending ten days up there on a school thing, we were in Whitehill, which amused me because i lived in Whitehill, Hamilton.... we went fishing off the small harbour wall, this was just after the herring shoals vanished, or were fished out, and it truly was the land that time forgot, they took us into Banff to shop for pressies...lol.. i remember i bought my grannie a wee brass bell... happy days
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My auntie Helen, was born and raised in Hamilton , then married my uncle and moved to Toronto
 
Mahatma said:
i remember as a schoolboy spending ten days up there on a school thing, we were in Whitehill, which amused me because i lived in Whitehill, Hamilton.... we went fishing off the small harbour wall, this was just after the herring shoals vanished, or were fished out, and it truly was the land that time forgot, they took us into Banff to shop for pressies...lol.. i remember i bought my grannie a wee brass bell... happy days
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It's a small world. In some ways Whitehills must have changed quite a bit, but in other ways, it probably hasn't changed at all. Fishing boats have largely been replaced by leisure craft and the fish market has closed. There is a degree of modern housing - mainly retirement homes. It's a nice place to walk and if you're lucky you will see dolphins, seals and the occasional whale.

You may have been told something of the local history. During WW2, Whitehills was the site of RAF Banff (locally called Boyndie Drome) and this was the HQ of the RAF Strike wing which attacked German shipping in Norwegian waters. Banff was the home town of the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. Banff in Canada was named in honour of this.
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