How is your day Today, plans and achievements 2024....

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Laundry day. My mind is on how we entertain a two year old for four days. 😮
I've got ideas, many ideas.
It brought to mind this: When my kids were young we had two large truck inner tubes. They played with them all...the...time.
I'm sure they got hot as blazes in mid summer but still, they and the neighborhood kids had a blast with them. Rolling, trying to roll themselves inside 😯, jumping off the swing onto them, putting them in our little pool, or just laying on them when they tired themselves out.
DH thinks we have one. 🤔
 

Well got some brkdfast in me, and managed to do those durn dishes.....hands are still painfull but my
attitide is better....last eve I had another bad tv dinner, this time it was Boston Market, so add that to the
"NO" list along with Callendars....running out of choices I think.....I'm thinking about calling the hospitals pain clinic to see about injections in my painful hands....but if
they require a ref from another doc I prob won't do it....we will see...take care all.....:giggle:
 

Laundry and cleaning out the fridge on my 'to do' list this morning. We had yet another storm this morning, I've lost count of the rain/storms we've had every day. This morning I found two baby snakes on the driveway when I went to get the trash bin, I guess they were flooded out of their nest.
 
I'm home. Tomorrow's a day off, but I was scheduled to work alone on Friday. Alone again? So Sir asked our new person if she'd like to work Friday. Yup. Yay. She's coming in at 6.

Today I'm gonna get the a/c cleaned up and ready to turn on. Finally. There's some weeding to do, but I don't feel like it.

@Sliverfox Yes. You may be excused. Sorry, I don't know a chef.
 
Right almost 4pm... and I've got so much done in the gardens... even got the huge Cherry laurel chopped back quite a way... Still need to be able to get up over the barn , I might try doing it myself later this week, and if not I'll call someone in. Anyway everything's looking neat and lovely for at least another week..

My new Flatbed Microwave/grill arrived. It's pretty heavy and of course the delivery guy just put into the foyer, so at some point, I'll get out and have a look, and then swap over the 2 appliances. I'll put my current one up for sale


I love my air fryer.. just be able to cook stuff without standing over it. I cooked Lamb Mousaka for lunch while I was gardening, and so it was all ready when I'd finished.. and I sat down and had it while watching my fave tv show which I record...

I don't think I'll do anything more today...
 
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8:30am PDT. Just getting up now late as was up during half the wee hours recovering from yesterday's excesses after falling asleep sitting up. Had doors windows open. First heat wave this year. 92F yesterday and more today. 74F inside currently, will climb towards 80F as I don't have AC.

Yesterday morning began preparing files to work on html coding for updating my imaging website with 2024 field trip work and this morning will start coding and then looking at how it displays. In the afternoon, was down along a creek where mom's brought toddlers to play.
 
A/C ready to fire up this evening.

I think I mentioned that Whatsisname, The Father of My Children, died last fall. His widow (aka That Woman) send a box of family pictures to DS. He went through them, took out two pictures, one of his grandfather and one of his father, and gave the rest to me to pass along to DD. After going through them, I wish I'd just told DS to throw them out.

DD told me months ago that she didn't want to even look at them because she wanted no reminders of That Woman. I've just gone through them all, pitched everything having anything to do with That Woman, including pictures taken when the kids were visiting, and kept only an old, old album of pix of their grandmother and grandfather and Whatsisname and his brother when they were kids. Also found an album of pix of them when we lived out West, long before That Woman came along, and kept that one to ask if DD wants them. If not, they'll get pitched.

Looking through all those photos has reminded me of Whittier's poem Maud Muller: "For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'." and how different the kids' lives would have/should have been and would be now if they'd had a dad who hadn't opted out. We didn't get a divorce, he divorced all of us in favor of a long-legged, hard-bodied, blonde and much younger California girl from a well-known family. That woman didn't like kids and called them screaming meemies, hated when they were there visiting, hated it most of all when one or the other of the boys lived with them for short periods. And made it known.

It's so true that a result of divorces is that the wife lives far less well than when the couple was together, and the husband lives far more well than when married, most especially when there are kids.

Okay. Enough gloom and doom and ruminating about the past. It's done and has been for 50 years.
 
Yesterday I finally scrubbed out the entire refrigerator.

Sliced boneless chicken thighs into strips for shawarma adding some za'tar to the marinade and baked in the oven. Made a portion of quinoa with onion, garlic and frozen spinach. That was supper.

Today ate the leftovers again for brunch.

Guess I'll saute my mushrooms. May or may not make a pizza.

Made hair appointments for both Doggie Delight and myself.
 
Corn all panted, potatoes showing well. Lots of flowers on the blueberry bushes, so the crop should be good. Tomato plants developing well in the greenhouse. Strawberry bed needs a second weeding.

Yesterday I had to plan the squash mounds for the big garden, hope to get them made & planted tomorrow. But today was all about getting DW to the hospital for scheduled cataract surgery. A 50-minute drive each way, and she came out of the hospital about three hours after admittance. Home & resting for several hours now.

I've been making a hearty Mexican-style soup for our supper, and I suppose we'll accompany that with tortillas. A friend dropped by and said the kitchen smelled great... rather encouraging. While soup is simmering, I just had a good phone chat with one of the other board members of our river-ecology stewardship group (we've got a meeting coming up in five days). My best wishes to all those who read this thread that Hollydolly graciously started for us.
 
After I'd cut all the lawns, and hedges today.....I cleared out and re-arranged a lot of the shed... then I washed the car..🚗

I spoke to the company who is supplying the decorator for my kitchen after the flood from next door.. and they've booked for the 25th June..

Then had to call my CC company with a query.. what a faff trying to get through to them. They are just one of a few CC cards I hold, but the rest are with various banks.. this one isn't so it's PITA trying to contact them



I knew I'd achieved a huge amount today, I should really pace myself but it's never been in my nature ..I just tackle stuff until I get too tired..

However I didn't really feel tired and around 7pm I sat down with a cuppa tea to watch some TV... and fell into a really deep sleep sitting upright on the sofa... when I awoke 2 hours later, I was so disorientated I didn't know where I was or any idea what time it was. It was still daylight .. at 9pm... so that was even stranger... but it means now I'll be up half the night...

It's 40 minutes past midnight now..
 
At 2 a.m. I emptied the litter box, washed it before refilling it and got the garbage ready for my son to take out. I also made my before sunrise prayer, which I try to do most mornings. I mostly relaxed, watched TV and napped during the daylight hours until my son got home. He finally made it to Costco, so I put away all of the items. I decided to break up the big bundle of TP instead of trying to store it intact to save space. That worked out great.

He had to get Charmin because Costco had the nerve to be out of their own brand! Charmin costs arout 8 or 9 dollars more and doesn't last as long. I think I probably use to much TP anyway; that'll change while using Charmin. :LOL:
 
Making adjustments here. Life is change.

Could be worse, a friend is having roommate woes and really needs to get out into a better home situation. I've been fortunate to keep my life together better than that!

Cooling off a bit now, but I'm glad I ran the A/C a while to bring humidity down inside.
 
I might get to mow today!!!
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