Jean in Newcastle Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 TGIF everyone! still operate as ds's chauffeur, though his car is a bit closer to being done. continue to go through files. toss the garbage sack that is ready to go. finally get the kitchen clean. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 twins school work gardening. I have almost finished getting the winter veggie garden fully planted and mulched. it has been my project for the last 2 weeks as it is the winter school holidays for Ds15. the garden is about the size of a basketball court. somehow when I was digging a hole I thrust the shovel into the ground and it hit me in the head. I was completely stunned for a few moments. and lost my glasses. I found my glasses and my eye went all blurry. I walked to the house and DH took my glasses to fix them as they were completely twisted. It was only then that I found out that I had cut a 2 cm gash in my eyebrow and the reason my vision was so blurry was because my eye was full of blood that was running down from the gash. it has healed itself but around my eye is pretty swollen. Twin 2 tells me that I need to think about how to use a shovel before I use it and pay attention to what I am doing. -Great advice mate! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteryJen Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Glad you are okay, Melissa! Advice from kids is the best. We are going to have another hot day today. I have already watered and weeded. Not much else is on tap today. Dh has a tennis match later this afternoon. coffee/paper ds3 to tennis clean kitchen/general pickup bathrooms maybe some laundry grocery store jen things finish a library book Not sure what is for dinner or who will be here Have a great day! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) Good morning! Hi Melissa! Nice to "see" you here. Sorry about the shovel and your eye! Ouch! City Meet today! Hundreds and hundreds of swimmers. Thankfully, ds is now in the oldest age group and their session goes reasonably fast. Heat index today near 100. ✅ Breakfast and pack cooler ✅ Get ds set up at the meet, then serve as a timer. ✅ Come home and recover ✅ Figure out dinner. ✅ Dd to a friend's house for a sleepover. Edited July 12, 2019 by ScoutTN 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReader Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Ouch, Melissa! Glad you're okay now. Jean, hopefully this is your last day chauffeuring your DS. Fingers crossed! My day is an easy one -- work on the quilt. Try not to stalk the tracking for the fabric that's coming in for it. Work on the quilt. This honestly shouldn't take too much time -- sew a strip set of the reds, cut, sew into borders. Continue the strips of the greens, sew into borders. Attach. (back up; finish the applique from the incoming fabric first). Then the top will be done, I can detour next week to do the house wall hanging collage with my friend, and then still have three weeks after that to finish quilting. Easy peasy. I'm thinking I won't do elaborate quilting because I really want the applique's as the focus of the quilt. But also I do want to do *good* quilting because it shows up well on Cherrywood fabrics. So, we'll see. Should be plenty of time. Ha. Move in is Aug 15..... Other than that, today I need to work on laundry that got neglected yesterday, and figure out dinner. I know it will involve brussels sprouts, and probably chicken. Tonight, I get to binge ER while the guys play video games. :happy sigh: Happy Friday, everyone! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Good morning! Hurray for Friday! It is going to be hot here, too. (((Melissa))) That sounds painful! I was up early dealing with mold and shrews - which sounds kind of odd, lol. We had that whopper of a storm last week, and some rain seeped under the door of my biggest hayshed. I discovered yesterday that the entire floor had gotten wet, all the way to the back, and quite a few bales on the bottom row had become moldy as a result. Ds20 and I took all the hay out last night and tossed the moldy bales ($$$ down the drain 🙁) and cleaned up the floor. I knew we had some shrews living in there, but I didn't realize until we pulled the bales out that they had built an entire shrew metropolis in the back of the shed. So they have been evicted to the outdoors, and their nests and a huge volume of shrew poop have been cleaned up. Gross. Glad that job is done! The shed is clean and my hay guys are restocking the hay today. school w/dd office work bathe horses water plants, inside and out menu plan go to bank maybe go grocery shopping dinner: ?? read & relax tonight 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteryJen Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 The day is derailed by Wimbledon. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReader Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 ummm, yikes. holy crap. Went upstairs with DH while he ironed his pants. *I left the iron plugged in!!!!*** For......3 days???? crap crap crap. I am so glad my dumb cats didn't knock it down, or it otherwise start a fire, or.....yikes. It was still warm. Today's first order of business then is to go buy an iron with an automatic shut-off for any future just in case. DH was very nice about it. I don't know if he knows how very much that means to me. I mean, he said, "wow, you really have to be more careful. Or maybe buy an iron with a shut off. This could have been really scary." but in a tone of voice that was very....we're on the same team, and it's okay, I've been the one to do dumb stuff too, and I'm not mad at all, just saying, yikes, we need to be careful. I grew up with......not that....so to have him handle such a scary scary scary bit of negligence in such a calm, not freaking out, not mad, just matter of fact way.....I really don't think he gets how huge that is for me. I've told him before, there's a Kelly Clarkson song about piece by piece you put me back together......and he's heard the stories and knows what I grew up with.....but, like, I was holding back tears of gratitude for how calmly he reacted, because the opposite, even after almost 22 yrs of marriage to this man, is still so ingrained in me. :sigh: Anyway, so, off to the store to buy an iron that won't risk burning my house down. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 I just saw that there was an earthquake near Seattle and had to come check if Jean's been here yet this morning! Hope all is well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 16 minutes ago, Selkie said: I just saw that there was an earthquake near Seattle and had to come check if Jean's been here yet this morning! Hope all is well. What is funny is that I first heard about the earthquake here on the forum. None of us in our house felt it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) Bring in the rest of the stuff from the garage- mostly ✅ Put away 3 boxes worth of stuff ✅ take son up to shopping area to meet with friends ✅ shop for a few items while up there ✅ Keep working on organizing spices!~ 😁 Pick up bed frame from FB Marketplace purchase ✅ Call insurance and find out who I can make appt with for various medical needs Edited July 12, 2019 by DawnM 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 Lost two pounds. Now down 25 pounds from highest weight. 75 pounds to go. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay! Ds, aka Tech Support, has been able to pull the hard drives off of my old defunct laptops and seems to have found the lesson plans that I have been tearing the house apart trying to find! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 dropped ds off at work (along with my laptops). human care done pet care done including calling the vet to set an appointment for both Juliet and Neko for shots/ checkups. medical care done did morning exercises/stretches. read a Katy Bowman blog post. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReader Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 2 hours ago, Margaret in CO said: Headed to the goat show, then on to steers, drop off a longwool fleece to a cousin, then a walk, then the grocery store, then MORE coffee, then more laundry, then pop sales with the Scouts--they're saluting the flag at the rodeo tonight, and sil is singing the Anthem! We sold an insane amount of water last night. Dh picked out a door for the new bathroom today--hoping to have a toilet today! Parade tomorrow, charge up the camera again, auction, then hit the road back to DIA with sil. And that will be another Cattlemen's Days in the bag! Margaret, can I ask a possibly dumb question? What is a longwool fleece? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 2 hours ago, TheReader said: ummm, yikes. holy crap. Went upstairs with DH while he ironed his pants. *I left the iron plugged in!!!!*** For......3 days???? crap crap crap. I am so glad my dumb cats didn't knock it down, or it otherwise start a fire, or.....yikes. It was still warm. Today's first order of business then is to go buy an iron with an automatic shut-off for any future just in case. DH was very nice about it. I don't know if he knows how very much that means to me. I mean, he said, "wow, you really have to be more careful. Or maybe buy an iron with a shut off. This could have been really scary." but in a tone of voice that was very....we're on the same team, and it's okay, I've been the one to do dumb stuff too, and I'm not mad at all, just saying, yikes, we need to be careful. I grew up with......not that....so to have him handle such a scary scary scary bit of negligence in such a calm, not freaking out, not mad, just matter of fact way.....I really don't think he gets how huge that is for me. I've told him before, there's a Kelly Clarkson song about piece by piece you put me back together......and he's heard the stories and knows what I grew up with.....but, like, I was holding back tears of gratitude for how calmly he reacted, because the opposite, even after almost 22 yrs of marriage to this man, is still so ingrained in me. :sigh: Anyway, so, off to the store to buy an iron that won't risk burning my house down. I'm sorry you have such unhappy memories. Nobody deserves that. 😞 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 rebooted the dishwasher put away the knives hand washed a ton of knives and pans. wiped down every surface that I could possibly wipe down in the kitchen microwaved all my sponges to disinfect them. Dh had gotten this new kind of sponge. It melted into a pile of goo in the microwave. . . THE KITCHEN IS CLEAN! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Well I am bummed today. I had set up a special nail appointment for my girls for their annual summer treat. The appointment was for 10am. Then I realized I had a conference call / client board meeting (I have to present financials at these) at 10:30. I was going to try to make it work, but I was really nervous, and when I realized an auntie/colleague was free this morning, I asked her to take the girls. They were disappointed and so was I. (Plus, they were late and stressed me out even more.) Then, what do you think? Somehow my calendar note [emailed by the client] is for the wrong date!? The client says her calendar note says July 26, so I don't know how this is even possible. But whatever. I missed my kids' special appointment for nothing. 😞 Anyhoo, the calendar note did motivate me to finish some things that have been on my to-do list for a while. So that is good. Also, last night I got all annoyed because the maids demanded a schedule change from 1pm to 8am this morning. Then this morning they called and cancelled. Yet another thing to get me all stressed out over nothing. And to be relieved about once I found out it was for nothing. 😛 Glad I didn't stay up half the night cleaning like I wanted to - that would have really ticked me off. Done: Up early to send out some financial reports. Kids up & ready & off to nail appointment. Sat on conference call for 15 minutes and then found out I had the wrong day. 😕 Got some more work out. Got kids busy practicing their TKD form, doing some summer bridge work, and practicing their instruments. (Theoretically. I haven't heard any music yet.) Caught up on social media, emails, news. To do: More work. Try to get through lots of personal emails and filing. AHG, summer camp, bills, etc. Take kids to TKD. Dinner out. Shop for camping stuff. Wash clothes so kids can be clean for tomorrow's belt test. Exercise? Whatever else gets done. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Bluebell the goofy lab has been banished from the back yard. There is a cardinal's nest in a little tree and Bluebell is obsessed with it - she sits and stares at it and barks. Mama bird is unhappy about the situation, so Bluebell is back in the house. Got two loads of laundry washed. I need to go hang those and put away a few loads of clean stuff. Kitchen is clean. Got our hay delivery. Bathed the horses and did chores. I'm not ambitious enough to go grocery shopping today, so I need to figure out what I can make for dinner. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteryJen Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Watching tennis wrecks my motivation. I haven't moved since the end of the men's semifinals. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Home from City Meet. Ds got two heat winner ribbons. 😎 I am resting. Dd is playing piano. Ds is at a neighbor's. Dinner will be pizza. I'll pick it up on the way back from taking dd to her friend's house. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted July 12, 2019 Author Share Posted July 12, 2019 One load folded and put away one load washed and then in the dryer one load in the washing machine grocery shopped. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Ended up taking youngest and 4 of his friends to the local theme park (they all have summer passes) and had to drive to each of their homes to collect them first. That ended up taking quite a bit of time. I am happy to do it, but it does take time. I did not call the insurance company or any doctors. That will have to wait until Monday. Part of the issue is I can't find my insurance card. I may have to call and get a replacement. My goals for the summer are: Physical (it has been about 6 years) Mammogram (3 years) Colonoscopy (never) Dentist (3 years) Eye Doctor (4 years) Pap (over 10 years) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReader Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 4 hours ago, SKL said: I'm sorry you have such unhappy memories. Nobody deserves that. 😞 Awww, thank you. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReader Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Well, I got back and bought the iron. Yay! It shuts off no matter what position you leave it in, so we should be safe. Egads. Also bought 2 new shirts, and 3 large storage crates (so cheap!) for trying to create order in my corner of the bedroom with all the school stuff. It's a mess, DH won't let me buy a bookshelf b/c he says he'll build one. Which he will.....but the mess is annoying me. So, crates. Because then after the shelf, I can use them for toting things to/from school, and they are cute. Turquoise. So, totally worth it. Went up and sewed for about an hour; have maybe half the strip set made. Had to come down and eat a snack, then DH got home, and now sitting with my feet propped up finishing my snack (DH came home in the middle of it). I'd like to get that done today, the strip set, but being honest.....hopefully by the weekend I'll have the top done. The "deadline" for this part (self-imposed) is by the end of Tuesday, so I can clean up on Weds, and my friend comes over Thursday to do the house thing. So, lots of time, just need to do it. In between I'm working on school stuff, so it's not procrastinating, just juggling more than one to-do-list item. Did not touch the laundry yet, so need to do that. I need DH to carry up the basket from our room so I'll load the wash tonight when he does that. For real. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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