Secateurs Saturday

[Kittykatt]

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[Kittykatt]

Secateurs - secateurs or pruners for one hand, are the tool of choice for pruning and clipping flowers in the garden. They are able to cut all kinds of stems, from the tough rose to the thin Batchelor Button, and they are a handy garden tool.

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[Kittykatt]

Good morning everyone and happy Saturday!

Trissie, I hope you enjoyed the theatre yesterday evening, and you have a lovely weekend at the cottage.

KitKat -thank you far asking after the bite - it's taking its time, but it's getting there. It was very deep ( Fred has long fangs!) but it's healing up from the bottom, which is what we want.

Bama, I'm sure your hair looks even more beautiful now!

L.Ann,.I hope you have a lovely day with your family celebrating your birthday.

Helia, I'm sure AC valued your input over the text books.

Dogged, good to know that Artemis has landed safely - those pictures they sent back were amazing!

Good to see you, Gma!

I never made it back yesterday, but I sprayed the rest of the roses, cut the grass and fed the pots , and attended to laundry. Today I need to check on C (DF PL's Mum) and take her for coffee at the community shop. I need to leave at 9.45 am, so I would like to have a quick run round with the hoover down before I leave, so when I come back the house looks welcoming! My other plans for today are to water on the nematodes against vine weevil, and to fi d a way of hanging the little sachets containing the predator mite on the fuchsias - there's not ait of too growth yet!

Have a good day everyone!

[Kittykatt]

SHEM:

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." — Arthur Ashe

[Kittykatt]

To do:
Cuddles and treats with Matilda, Freddie and Jude
QT
Update latest Waitrose order
Cup of tea
Get up!
Shower/wash hair/moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
S/S bathroom
Physio exercises
Get dressed in casual clothes
Make bed
Scoop cat trays and give everyone fresh water
Cat breakfast and meds /supplements
Breakfast and meds /vitamins for me
Quick kitchen clean up
Load DW
Quick PUPA downstairs
Quick dust and Hoover downstairs
Wind clock
Quick PUPA upstairs
Quick dust bedrooms
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden
Go for my walk
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Head rubs with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Play with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Run DW when full
Unload DW
Lunch
Cats' supper
Our supper
Sort out lunch for tomorrow
Bake something?
Text DF E re coffee tomorrow
Towels in machine
Towels hung up to dry
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:
Reply to SR
Coffee report
Lunch report
Can I do a little with my dolls house -set up blue teaser in the kitchen?

Garden extras:
Water on nematodes
Predator.mite.for fuchsia gall mite

[FrenchFlybebe]

◕‿◕ * * * Good Morning! * * * ◕‿◕

Kittykatt, thanks for the start. You've been very active in the garden ! Thanks for all the info on gardening tools this week. The word for secateurs is the same in French, sécateur. I will probably spend some time chasing dandelions, maybe sow sunflowers, maybe other things too.

Not CUOP - but I lurked a bit during the week. Kids are on school break for two weeks, I will have a few days off and MrNG will be home several days as well. It's grey but dry. DS10 has athletics practice and I will drive him. If I manage to get him out of bed. Supposed to leave in 35 minutes...

TADAs
had a decent night's sleep
tea
mail exchange with DM

TODO
whatever the morning brings
during the weekend : time on my résumé, some decluttering of outgrown clothes, some cleaning, some paperwork, some picture sorting...

[kitkat]

Good morning, as I wish for dandylions...

Kittykatt I just call those clippers... now I know better. Thanks for the start
Glad you are healing well:)
I love your TODO list, FFly (Mine is: just keep going) Are you done with the visiting nurse?

The sun is shining. It's on the cool side.

We are supposed to have the gentleman to fix the stairs... Fingers crossed. - well, that just got cancelled for today...
Frustrating. (and dangerous if someone decides to walk on it... although I have a sign attached)

Then, the next thing:
meds/suppl.
D2S
take pup out for walk.

[helia]

Sounds like some gardening is in your future, FFB. Nice that you have some time off. I recognized secateurs as a French word, though it's not one I'm familiar with. I call those tools something ungraceful like, garden clippers. LOL! Or pruners.
Enjoy coffee out with C, Kitty! It sounds like you've been busy in your garden.
Our weather is similar, kitkat. It looks like the sun is now making its way through the clouds. Enjoy your walk!

Dh and I were tracking Artemis II during their trip. Dh had some concerns about their re-entry, so we were happy to see they arrived safely! Photos have been amazing!

It is gray and 40*F, but it looks like we'll have some sunshine this afternoon and get up to 54.

Yesterday late afternoon, I got in a short jog along the river path. I was very slow, but in the end, I enjoyed it. I even got to see a muskrat sitting on the shore eating something. I never regret getting out for a jog! Dh and I went to a nearby favorite bistro for a dinner of small plates. Then, we went for a walk.

Today, there are no meetings/ appointments/ events on the calendar! Woohoo! However, there is a lot I'd like to get done. I'd like to whittle away the brain dump list. Also, I'm planning to join dh at a coffee shop to work ahead for S4 set up at payroll so that when we leave on Thursday, as much as possible will be done. I've invited AC to join us - and I think she will. I already have laundry going - though it's occurred to me that it might wake up M -- she sleeps very late but I want to get it done before we leave for a coffee shop. Dh and I are planning on going to see Hail Mary Project today! Probably not too late, maybe late afternoon-ish. I'll confer with him on what I should pull from the freezer for dinner.

Our bird feeder is empty again.

Next:
- reclaim kitchen
- some qt
- back exercises

Later:
- s2s and self care
- make the bed
- tidy the cedar chest in MBR
- Walgreens run
- refill bird feeder
- write bd card for ds + prep for the mail (although, we'll be there Thursday and it might be just as fast to just bring it. . .) LOL!
- darks: d f p/a
- steam shirt - to get out wrinkles
- lunch
- after lunch clean up
- communicate with AC
- coffee shop
- payroll: finish checking drafts
- payroll: make COs for S4
- update lists
- dinner: TBD - from freezer + salad
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update health apps

TaDas!
- up; weighed self - slightly higher
- darks washing
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Sat
Sun 8 a.m. 5K citywide run (with M and dh)/ Lunch with LA (immigration lawyer friend)/ 6:00 host Sunday dinner for up to 8

Mon 11-1 payroll: teach IW D11/ 1-1:40 payroll: instructor mtg/ 1:40 - 2:40 CA ci mtg w. AC/ 6-7:30 church plant BS
Tue KS2J get together
Wed 11-1 payroll: teach IW D12 - final exam/ payroll: stay and grade final exams (or go home and bring them back Th morning)
Thu 10 otd to airport/ TRAVEL SAFELY to Seattle/ see grandbaby I
Fri outing with friend DS
Sat visit with DSon, F, and baby I
Sun church with ds + fam/ evening - drive to hotel in Seattle (dh is key note speaker at an academic conference M morning)

Mon payroll: finalize info for start of S4/ TRAVEL HOME SAFELY
Tue KS2J get together? (not sure I can go)/ 11-1 @ payroll set out books for teachers; finalize slides/ 1-3 lead PD meetings

Menus:
M quinoa, rice, toppings, salad
T (host diner crew) - Easter leftovers (lamb, mashed potatoes, root veggies), roasted broccoli
W ON MY OWN - dh is giving his final exam
Th (early - I need to be otd by 5:40 to help with Vol. ESL class) ON MY OWN - dh is grading his final exam w/ his grad students
F OUT with dh
Sa leftovers
Sun (host up to 8 people) rot. chicken, bread, pizza

APRIL Brain Dumps
This Week - House
- remake guest beds
- can I spend some time decluttering in MBR?

This Week - Deskwork
- Writing progress - wip
- order wedding gift: V + J
- BD card to DS

This Week - Errands
- buy pillows?

General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- new phone eventually

[trissie]

a free day, helia? Don't you feel kinda anxious about that? How many are you hosting tomorrow?
is it indoor or outside stairs, kitkat? I so get it being frustrated when you set everything for a repairman and then they don't come!
so, is "gardening scissors" not a real term, kittykatt? that would be the literal translation of what we say in Czech.
oooh, your kids are getting close to the teen "no getting up before lunch" phase, Frenchie!

My teens (well the girls aren't really teens, not till tomorrow) are indeed still in their PJs despite it being 1:30pm [ETA: they are dressed now that I found this post sitting unsent at 3pm ]. Up till about noon, I was of the opinion we were indeed leaving for the cottage, but you can't fight the tide, so we are staying home this weekend and going next weekend. I did have a lovely time at the theatre last night and I didn't get home till midnight (oh those after-parties! so that contributed to a late start too. Apparently, Dinner with Friends has an HBO movie with ⁦⁨Dennis Quaid⁩, ⁨Andie MacDowell⁩, ⁨Greg Kinnear⁩ and ⁨Toni Collette, and I would very much like DH's opinion on it, so I am putting it on our list.

It's twins' birthday tomorrow (13! I will officially have three teens in the house, though for all practical purposes, they've been teens for at least a year!), so I will take them birthday shopping - they want some "real jewellery", so that's what they'll be getting, plus they are likely a size up for their normal clothing and shoes.

TaDas
- much needed sleep-in
- breakfast and coffee
- dressed to shoes
- quickie trip to the gardening store (got raspberry plants, salads and kohlrabi seedlings)
- morning routine
- lunch
- midday routine
- load of darks running

ToDos
- 1 hour outside
- 30 on laundry
- bake something sweet

Braindump
routines
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- feed breadstarter
organization
- update land contract
- home insurance!!!
- 15 on filing
- 15 on anniversary planning
- homework and backpacks
- plan for April
- get started on taxes
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS1's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- repot seedlings I bought
- sow mid-April seeds
- water veggie garden
- water flowerpots
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- start seeds
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- start cleaning out the carpool
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

[helia]

Ha ha trissie! I do feel kind of anxious that I'll just fritter the day away. Wow, 3 teens in the house! Your kids are really growing up.

M, our renter, is 26 years old and sometimes acts more like a teenager. She sleeps in very late after staying up very late playing games on her computer - but she'll probably be up before 1:30 pm. I think. . . And she told dh yesterday that she needs a break - from her job. In his mind, dh laughed and wondered from what? Her job is quite chill, less that 40 hours/ week (30-ish?) though she gets paid for full time work. She can do most of it remotely, so she just works from home. She's told us she can (and does) sometimes take a nap in the afternoon. She takes more vacations than we do. . .But we are a different generation, and I bet our ancestors would look at us and say we don't work very hard. LOL! Well, maybe not dh - but certainly me!

OTOH, M is also very easy to have around, quite clean and helpful. She has taken on our Sunday dinners, so she heats up all the food since we often are at CG2 and not available. She's not too intrusive. She cleans up after herself in the kitchen, etc. Her bathroom might be messier than I would have it, but I don't really worry about it. At her age, I was also messier.