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Today was the only day this week with pleasant weather. Took a couple of walks, went to the grocery store, put the guest room back together. Feeling rather sad; a neighbour and friend is in palliative care and the ambulance came today. I won’t ask until something is said. She’s been fighting this cancer for 5 or 6 years.
 
I want to speak on yesterday because I fell asleep before I had a chance to come here last night. 24 hours ago (2:25 a.m.) I went down to the laundry room, while clothes were washing I disinfected the bags to carry them up in. I tip toed through a few rain drops as I went back downstairs and luckily the rain had stopped by the time I was bringing them up. I showered, made my prayers, ate breakfast, played Words with Friends, did a couple of Cody Cross puzzles and napped for what must've been a couple of hours. I had already put my laundry doing clothes in the dark clothes laundry bag before deciding I'd go to the supermarket, so I had to change clothes again (I don't wear street clothes in the house or my house clothes when I'm outside).

Got dressed again and walked over to the supermarket. I disinfected what was to be refrigerated, had a snack and started drying clothes. Shortly after, my sister called and while we talked I mended the ripped seam in the cloth grocery bag I'd used. I put most of the laundry away and had a very short visit with my youngest grandson who stopped by with my son after they came from the doctor. More (unplanned) napping after eating. Woke up at 1:00 this morning.
 

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Today, and tomorrow, are public holidays in the UK. So, instead of work I am going to see a tailor to get measured up for a suit and a sports blazer. My wife makes most of my clothes but she never mastered tailoring, although with some expert tuition she would have no problem. Today's trip to my tailor is actually a belated birthday gift from my wife. Don't expect slim line lapels and tapered trousers though, I'm old school.
 
Welp, had some plans of doing piddly work in house, but
my low back pain interfered with those plans, so I took a
heavy duty pain pill and now sitting on hot pad...dunno but what I better look at some senior living place...but doubt i can afford one.....ah well what the hell....have a great day if you can....:p
 
This afternoon I got the lawn mowed out the back.. front can wait for another few days , but I had to do the rear because after all the rain we had I had a huge carpet of leaves..
Incidentally a correction on my Laurel Hedge.. it's not 16 feet high like I thought.. it's actually 30 feet..OMG !! :eek:

Now it's almost 4.10 and I'm waiting for an Amazon delivery...
 
We had our coffee outside this morning...listened to the birds and watch Andy play. After breakfast I went to the PC (😲something I rarely do), and worked on backing up my photos onto a flash drive. It's a big project, and I worked on it until I was board. Then I checked in here, next I'm going to walk around a bit outside...see what mischief I can get into.
 
hollydolly said:
Not much planned for today.. chilly and overcast so no incentive to go out..


Just brought the emptied wheelie bins in....

I got a couple more parcels from the Postie.. another splint ring.. and some plant support canes... ,

Gonna do some Ironing today for the first time in forever. I tend to not buy anything that needs ironing .. because I'm a freakoid about creases. if there's a crease in something then I HAVE to Iron it.. but the drawback is a detest ironing.. Anyway, I can't get away with this today..I have one pair of fashion jeans that have to be ironed, and a couple of cotton blouses... so it'll have to be done.
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@hollydolly
Would you ever consider a small hand-held steamer? That's what I use to get creases out of clothes. For a
small crease or two, I boil the kettle and run the crease across the spout .. works well.
 
Trila said:
We had our coffee outside this morning...listened to the birds and watch Andy play. After breakfast I went to the PC (😲something I rarely do), and worked on backing up my photos onto a flash drive. It's a big project, and I worked on it until I was board. Then I checked in here, next I'm going to walk around a bit outside...see what mischief I can get into.
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Backing up photos is a long tedious job. I have over 70,000 on my computer and try to file and back up at least once a week, spending hours sorting, deleting and saving..
 
Pinky said:
Would you ever consider a small hand-held steamer? That's what I use to get creases out of clothes. For a
small crease or two, I boil the kettle and run the crease across the spout .. works well.
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By the time I get it out and set up, I feel like I can set up an ironing board just as fast. Forgot the kettle trick. I hate ironing.
 
Jules said:
By the time I get it out and set up, I feel like I can set up an ironing board just as fast. Forgot the kettle trick. I hate ironing.
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another trick is.. if you go to wear something, and the collar or some little area is creased ... use the flat irons.. you can adjust the temperature to suit the material and the beauty is that your clothes are hanging in the same room
 
hollydolly said:
another trick is.. if you go to wear something, and the collar or some little area is creased ... use the flat irons.. you can adjust the temperature to suit the material and the beauty is that your clothes are hanging in the same room
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What are the flat iron? Something in the kitchen?
 
This morning gave the dog and myself a bath. We were both getting a little ripe. Back in the shop now finishing up the 30' long trolley rail for the interior garage doors. Getting close to finishing this ridiculously long project. A few pics of the rail project, and Li'l Bit fresh from her bath, and back at work trying to get the chipmunk out of that steel pipe. Apparently not at all concerned about the Sasquatch standing directly behind her. It's a thankless task, but she is ever vigilant.

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We're doing as little as we can...had workmen here for 2 days installing the new HVAC's...hub checking, checking, checking...lol. That's the main reason we don't remodel - except what we have to - having workman all around for days drive us nuts.

Going out to eat at a fav place for "dunch" - a very late lunch early dinner.

Enjoy your day, folks!
 
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Well I ended up mowing the front lawn and cutting back the hedges after all. It was such a sunny afternoon and being a holiday weekend there was no-one around , and rain is forecast for over the weekend so I got it done after all...
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I need a blood transfusion from you. Then, maybe, I could get some things done that I used to do with no trouble. Who knows, it could make me have a beautiful head of hair (like yours) once again.
 
We have nice mild weather for a few days. Today I replaced the blades on my riding mower, and then tracked down a minor squeak in my trucks engine...had a buildup of dirt behind the serpentine belt idler pulley....easy job until I tried to reinstall the belt....remembered some cuss words I haven't used in years.
 
Yesterday I managed to sit funny and cause a painful catch in my back, plus I had developed a blister on my foot from my excursion to downtown Chicago the day before. As usual I catastrophized and felt sure my back and foot would be useless forever. Today they were better so I tried a short hike in a wild prairie type park that was about 10 minutes (driving time) away. My body survived tho I had to sit and rest on a bench. The weather was perfect and the park was very beautiful with wild flowers and shaggy grasses plus ponds and streams, and even a few barns with people in old costumes and having a few cows and chickens. There was also an old fashioned water pump handle that kids got to pump up and down until the water gushed out.
Even though there were lots of people and kids, there were enough little trails that I got to be alone in the woods and also stand out on a walkway over a pond where I saw fish come up and go back down, and hear weird frog noises, plus a variety of bird calls.

Tonight I will try to plot out what bus I will need to take to get to a museum downtown tomorrow, but I might not get to go because once a week my hotel room gets maid service, and while I had planned to just leave the cat in the large carrier with a little litter box and food and water, now I feel like it would be too hard on him to be stuck all day in the carrier when the cleaning people will only be here a few minutes. Unfortunately I have no idea what time they will come, the front desk said they do the rooms that have been vacated first, so it sounded like it might be late morning or early afternoon before my suite gets done, and then it might be too late to bother taking the train to Chicago. Very frustrating because I prefer to go during the workweek when there are frequent trains back out to the suburbs.

Maybe I can discover another awesome local park to visit instead. I guess it would be good for my character to learn to adapt and revise plans without whining so much. ha ha
 

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