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I sold another guitar today! I lost a bit of money on this one, but I got good use out of it, and learned how to level and dress frets on it. That's about it for the guitars I wanted to sell. I'll ship it out tomorrow. Next, I need to sell our old Accord, which will no doubt be a pain in the butt dealing with people who want to buy a hail damaged car with 200k miles. Maybe not.
 
hollydolly said:
It's coming up to bedtime for me, but I've had a busy day right from 7am this morning when I got my Ikea delivery.. parcels were so large I had to ask the driver to lift them into my hallway for me.....one item missing so at 7.30am I had to call their customer services, and the awol item is being delivered tomorrow

Then all day today I've had meetings...so there's been lots of talking with lots of different people.. in groups and also one to one..meetings

After my last meeting, I needed to drive to the next town to do some business at a bricks and mortar bank rather than online , there are none left in my town ...so off in the dull, gloomy overcast weather to the next town.. and then after that business done... I caught my breath by having a latte at the coffee house next door to the bank , and writing up my Diary of the events of the day...

Treated myself to some new Ghost perfume..for being such an industrious girl..:sneaky::giggle:...

Stopped off at the supermarket and bought a bunch of groceries mainly meat and dry goods.. for stocking up because we're being threatened by great shortages this coming winter

Got home, checked the garage roof wasn't leaking where the corner of the flat roof had been tarmac'd and everything was dry.. so I can put my car back in there next week when the weather gets bad..

Weather was so dull that at 5pm it was like dusk...

Had a very easy dinner.. the remains of last nights Chow mein.. and added some soy sauce to it and served it with Bavarian ham..., watched a bit of TV... washed up, and now I'm here reading the forum with a cuppa char, before bed..
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Sounds like you had a full day. Ghost perfume? Is that something special for Halloween (not sure if that is a worldwide holiday or not)?
 
MickaC said:
Nothing exciting.
Usual morning cleaning chores.
Moving some dirt around.....i had 3 of the 4x4 raised garden beds with all regular dirt....learned that the dirt is too heavy....my other three, i had put a lighter soil mix.....worked perfect.....so i'm moving this dirt to the other raised beds, half filled, then the garden soil mix to the top....didn't get finished......rain for the next couple of days....hope to finish after it drys up.
Cut down my BIG tomato plant.....the branches that had tomatoes on them, i layed out on the stones on the ground.....to ripen more.
That's it for my menial day.
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I always enjoyed this time of year working in the garden, putting it "to bed" preparing for old man winter.
 
We're finishing up shoveling sandy dirt off the driveway. We've got a big big driveway and yesterday we got a lot up in the neighbor's tractor that had washed in from the dead end road we live on. They need some filler dirt so it worked out well. Then we'll jump in the pool. Hasn't done that in many many years so neighbor is going to take that area of the road down about 6" with his tractor on Sunday.

We'll get a couple loads of crushed concrete in to top layer it with. It does a wonderful job of filtering dirt down in the rains. How about you guys. What are you up to this gorgeous autumn Friday?
 
katlupe said:
Sounds like you had a full day. Ghost perfume? Is that something special for Halloween (not sure if that is a worldwide holiday or not)?
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LOL, nope not for Halloween. Ghost is a very well known perfume house....''Orb of night'' is their latest fragrance

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Today.......
Depends if it rains or not.......if it doesn't......might move some more dirt......got some more stuff to the shed for the winter last nite.
Still keeping the mower out, might need it for more leaves if we get any more nice weather......but.....forecast is for wet till next week.
I do this every day lately......watching for fall migrating birds landing for their pit stop.....none.....till this morning.....noticed one Junco.
If it does rain today......can work away at getting the garage cleaned up.

Still doing the countdown......if things still go according to plan.....my LOVE will arrive in 2 weeks. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
 
I did a heavy duty cleaning of my induction cooktop and the Instant Pot. I had to stop to get ready for our coffee meeting downstairs so didn't do the deep cleaning of the Instant Pot. Maybe tomorrow. Sonny is coming here for the meeting and to bring me more water. Beautiful day, 58 degrees and my window is open.
 
Today I am going to continue organizing my kitchen and pantry, after my sweet daughter demolished my former organizational efforts. I moving things around to accommodate her stuff -- it is mostly food and spices. She has an, shall we say, adventurous palate.

She took Aidan (dog) hiking yesterday. He came back with the slight limp which got much worse as the hours wore on. She ended up taking him to the e-vet. He has a bruised paw and is now on painkillers. I don't know what the medicine is, but it is the same stuff he had after he had surgery to remove a large lipoma from his front leg. I thought he'd be real sedate today, but no. He is running around barking his fool head off at everything. He's used to living in the country. His territory was as far as he can see. There were no other houses we could see from ours. Here in our subdivision, there is always something going on -- people walking dogs, kids playing, delivery trucks, deer, rabbits, squirrels. There is a lot more wildlife here than we saw in the country. I guess they had more room to spread out there. Or preferred the woods or something. Anyway, it's just a lot noisier than we are used to, and Aidan barks at every noise.

I don't think Aidan ever saw a squirrel before we moved here. For some reason, we only saw them (3) in the winter, when they raided the bird feeder. (Were people eating them???) I bought them raw unshelled peanuts to eat, but the blue jays ate them all. I had a large silver platter on the ground for the ground feeders, but those squirrels loved the bird seed. I didn't mind, just thought they'd prefer nuts (or at least they would think peanuts were nuts). Peanuts are legumes. Also, ground feeding birds have a problem, I figured, finding food when there is a snow.

I tell ya, living in the country is tons more interesting than living in civilization. There is something fascinating to discover every single day.
 
katlupe said:
58 degrees and my window is open.
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My husband hated having the windows open. Mine are open today. I love it. The leaves have just started turning color. I am hoping it rained so much this summer that we don't have much snow. That correlation worked just fine to predict snow amounts when we lived in Boston, but I don't know if it works here because I forgot about it. I am not fond of snow, to put it mildly. Everyone thinks it is beautiful, but I hate being cold. Give me that humid, sunny South any time.
 
WheatenLover said:
My husband hated having the windows open. Mine are open today. I love it. The leaves have just started turning color. I am hoping it rained so much this summer that we don't have much snow. That correlation worked just fine to predict snow amounts when we lived in Boston, but I don't know if it works here because I forgot about it. I am not fond of snow, to put it mildly. Everyone thinks it is beautiful, but I hate being cold. Give me that humid, sunny South any time.
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I am just the opposite. I would rather have cold weather than hot, humid weather (and from someone who grew up down south). I can always get warmer but there is only so much you can shed to get cooler (or live with air conditioning on all the time).
 
MickaC said:
watching for fall migrating birds landing for their pit stop.....none.....till this morning.....noticed one Junco.
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Every year around this time, when I lived in the country, hundreds of crows would arrive (together) and alight in the trees in the woods behind my house. They made so much noise cawing a person couldn't hear themselves think. I'd take out the binoculars and get the dog and we'd watch them until they finally took off. I figured they were migrating because I didn't see them in winter. It was exciting for me, and the dog would stay quiet while watched the crows.

Sometimes in the summer the hawks try to get them. They do not succeed, at least while I've been watching. The lone crow is instantly rescued by the other crows (25 to 50 of them, I estimate). They all suddenly just swoosh out of the big tree across the road. The other crows chase off the hawk. It is quite exciting to see. Those hawks used to try to get my dog. I'd walk him, and flap my arms so they would think I was a bigger bird. When he was larger (too big for them), they'd sometimes fly right over him. I had to stand guard because I didn't want the dog to catch the hawk. That would have ended badly - probably with an injured dog. Aidan is really good at leaping into the air and catching birds. He's done it three times in 10.75 years. Luckily they die instantly. I didn't know birds would fly that low over a dog. I guess they don't know that terriers have high prey drives.
 
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