Maiden Blush apple on Monday @ TDD - C&C

[L.Ann]

Morning Everyone!

1-dress and pick up bedroom
2-meds and temp for DD32
3-breakfast for DD32

4-walk a mile
5-pick up Little Bit

Menus
Monday-garlic lime chicken with roasted veggies
Tuesday-street cart chicken and rice
Wednesday-DD32 out/leftovers for me
Thursday-pasta for DD32 and Little Bit/something for me
Friday-spicy Peruvian chicken
Saturday-Mexicali black bean soup

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, call about medication, bank, groceries
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, dentist DD32@11:10
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, PS for DD32 3-8, cheerleading
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, bocce, register Little Bit for swimming, Little Bit to sitter from 9-12
Friday-Hopkins@11
Saturday-bocce tournament

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room and kitchen, dust
Detailed Cleaning of living room-wash window, wash screen, clean woodwork
Extra Stuff- work on last Shutterfly book, track down medication

Accomplishments
-knee and stretching exercises
-breakfast for dog, me and DD32
-diet site

[Kittykatt]

Hello, L.Ann!

I'm having a late lunch in my garden and enjoying the sun. I've finished potting up all the bedding plants I've bought, so I'm having a few minutes just to sit down before I do something inside.

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Monday: DH to office
At home for me
Tuesday: DH WFH
8.45 vet Freddie - Solensia injection & ORDER HIS FLEA CONTROL!
6.30 pm DH choral practice
Wednesday: DH to office
7pm DH choral practice
At home for me
Laxapet for Jude and Matilda
9 pm Final touches to Waitrose order - ORDER EXTRA MILK FOR CHURCH COFFEES
Thursday: County Council elections; DH is PO at our local polling station
Vote!
10.30 am church
Any errands?
Hoover car? ( Weather permitting!)
Bring blue crates up from garage (delegate this to DH)
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Laxapet -Jude and Matilda ( if we didn't do it yesterday)
Friday DH: WFH
At home for me
Saturday:
*Text DF E re coffee tomorrow* not this week, as we're doing coffees after church
Sunday: church 9.30 am We are doing the coffees this week
Coffee with DF E ? Not this week
Laxapet Jude and Matilda

Future dates to note: Order my meds

Outstanding deliveries: Animes, Mountain Warehouse, Seasalt

Extras:
Amend Amazon S&S items - TODAY WIP
Message P
Digital decluttering- Google Photos for 2024 and 2025
Pick up my footprints
House tasks: clean gutters and the swan neck on the downpipes where "stuff" tends to accumulate, clean cladding back and front and downpipes, and short return wall as well. Replace the bit of mortar that's fallen out of the edge of the roof (I think its called the verge?) , fix dripping kitchen tap ( new washer?), sort out cabinet that wobbles, fix garage guttering that's loose at one end and bending down. More as I think of them? Texted 10/3 and 14/4
If no reply by the end of the month, then definitely look for someone else (DF PM is also starting to become exasperated with his reluctance)
Steps to take to find a replacement: ask friends, look on local sources eg Nextdoor for recommendations
I may have to split the jobs between different people this year if I can't find someone who's good at a variety of skills, so:
For gutter cleaning, Dneighbours R and A used Ben's gutters -are they pleased with the work? Does BG also clean cladding? Do they have a website? Yes
Also The E Gutter Cleaners -they have good reviews
Prepare my "job spec" WIP
Fill in free quote forms for both the above companies
Wait and see the results!
Kitchen tap - DF E has given me the phone number of her plumber . I think DF CW also has a plumber she is happy with?
Garage gutter -probably something for a handyman - text /message a few likely people. Does Dneighbour R2 do handyman type jobs? I know he's done work for Dneighbour R in the past, but that was larger jobs, like laying a path!
Pick a new podiatrist from my "short list"
Book an appointment !
Take up and hem those thick winter curtains for the kitchen
Book eye test for me
Find picture hanging equipment for DH
Sort prints and put in albums (this will probably be an activity to do on wet days!) WIP I am now working on 2024
Think about setting up Guardianship for F,J and M - looked on Cats' Protection, I need their microchip numbers, approximate DOB, colour and markings and useful information about them. Bookmark link with local recommended solicitors (also ask DF CW?)
Change health centres to the one nearest us? On hold ATM , but I'll leave it on my list so I don't forget.

To do:
Early morning:
Cuddles and treats on the bed with Matilda, Jude, and Freddie
Cup of tea
QT
Update latest Waitrose order when new dates become available
Make bed
Shower / wash hair/ moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
Physio exercises and back exercises
Proprioceptors exercises X1 x2 x3
S/S bathroom
Get dressed
DH launched
Breakfast and meds / supplements - me
DRINK WATER #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Check bank account
Go for my walk

Garden:
15 minutes in tiny front garden
120 minutes in back garden

Cats:
Cats’ breakfast and meds / supplements
Fresh water in cat bowls
Scoop cat trays
Check Jude’s bowl
Check Matilda's bowl
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Play with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Head rubs with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Cats' supper

House:
Rubbish down to wheelie bins
Kitchen clean up
Load DW
Run DW when full
Unload DW
PUPA downstairs
Quick dust sitting room
Quick hoover downstairs
PUPA upstairs
Quick dust bedrooms
Quick hoover upstairs
Lunch
Supper

Lay out clothes for tomorrow
Journal three things I am thankful for today
Hand cream

Extra house tasks:

Monday:
Clean bathroom
Clean spare room
Clean bedroom
Can I clean some windows?

Tuesday:
Clean hall
Clean sitting room
Clean stairs
Empty hoover before starting work
Wheelie bins back when dustmen have been
Filing paperwork for 15 minutes
Clean more window /patio doors?

Wednesday:
Clean kitchen

Garden extras:
Feed pots weekly
Beginning of June - need to order more fuchsia gall mite predator
Plant Begonias - shallow pot on manhole cover in front garden, also some for shallow bowl on patio? Bought 18
Geraniums - 12?? along fence by path?
?? along remainder of fence
15 for small border
6? for patio ? Bought 30
Allysum - need to plant these in a pot -which one?

Financial:
More work on budget WIP
Healthspan
Change CTax SO again in May!
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[Lauralind]

Hmm I guess you can't start typing here and set it down for half hour. I had a whole apple tree adventure story that I'm not going to retype.

Trissie I am so glad you had a great shopping trip with the girls. Did they find any treasures?

So my kitty lover friends. I am requesting ideas again for my brood of too many cats. I am thinking someone is going to have to make a trip to the vet again. I have 5. I don't know who but maybe more than one. Cleaning my mirror in the bathroom and lucky came up on the counter. Next thing I know she had peed right there in front of me. That is the second time in plain sight. Her both times. I think they all have a tendency to hide it while I am not watching. That bathroom is bad. And I have discovered we built that counter unknowingly as a perfect change table for grandbaby. Ugh. Who? Why ? Right in front of us? Could be territory. 3 and 2 are siblings. It's not new. They all have free accounts outside and lots of times do business out there. I took away one litter box as they never used it. I have 3 atm. I am at a loss.

Ok well I should be doing stuff. That was part way through routines. I am deciding when to go vote. Probably between school run and then go to work. I think I will make an easy morning as truck day again. I probably need to try and not push myself as much at freight until I start feeling a difference from the supplements. Not slow down just actually take breaks and maybe get help with heavier things more. I do have help but I am not afraid to do what I can by myself.

Work on crochet some
Finish qt after dh leaves
Start laundry tidy up some

School run
Vote
Work

[trissie]

Somehow, it's already 6pm??? The online seminar ran longer than it was supposed to and nothing goes as easy and as quick today as I would hope. Oh well, tires are swapped, another thing off my list and off my mind!

Bama, did you make those stewed apples?
kittykatt, I think it's important to be authentic with one's kids, and understand that their world is and will be different from the one I grew up in. I mean, I know they think I am a dinosaurus, but I can at least be an authentic dinosaurus!
L.Ann, is LilBit old enough to swim on her own, or will it be a gma-baby swimming lesson?
lauralind, I think the girls are happy with their shoppings. They better be, given how long it's taken them to go through the stores!

TaDas
- morning routine
- mailbox work - MUST DO
- BoD material on OS contract with CP - MUST DO
- notes for tomorrow's presentation - MUST DO
- 1pm online seminar - MUST DO
- midday routine
- clean DBD's room (no vacuuming as she has her toy trains out, but we've agreed to vacuum tomorrow
- clean DS13's room
- clean twins' room
- clean master bedroom
- clean master bathroom
- get tires swapped
- load of lights
- load of cleaning rags

ToDos
- afternoon routine
- homework and backpacks
- start dinner

Braindump
work
- Q1 report - regulatory update (local) - NICE TO GET DONE
- Q1 report - copy updated deadlines to overview - NICE TO GET DONE
- Q1 report - update on internal development - NICE TO GET DONE
- start research for IDD report (probably not happening, will be on the list for weeks to come) - DREAM ON
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
organization
- DBD's speech therapy
- make medical apt for DBD - neurology
- make medical apt for all kids - eye check
- 2x15 on tax returns
- 15 on filing
- amendment to rental contract
- rental accounting
- pharmacy order (after we get back from the long weekend)
- order clothes stand for bedroom(after we get back from the long weekend)
- deal with insurance
cleaning
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
- spiff up office
- iron and rehang living room curtains
laundry
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
garden
- plant apricot tree
- plant treatment - pest
- plant treatment - mold & funghi disease (maybe not yet? check)
- watering
- tree and bushes pruning
- general pick up in garage
- general pick up around the house
- fertilizing
- April seeds in ground

[trissie]

TaDas
- afternoon routine
- homework and backpacks
- start dinner

ToDos
- evening routine
- DBD's speech therapy
- 30 on laundry

Braindump
routines
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
organization
- make medical apt for DBD - neurology
- make medical apt for all kids - eye check
- 2x15 on tax returns
- 15 on filing
- amendment to rental contract
- rental accounting
- pharmacy order (after we get back from the long weekend)
- order clothes stand for bedroom(after we get back from the long weekend)
- deal with insurance
cleaning
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
- spiff up office
- iron and rehang living room curtains
laundry
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
garden
- plant apricot tree
- plant treatment - pest
- plant treatment - mold & funghi disease (maybe not yet? check)
- watering
- tree and bushes pruning
- general pick up in garage
- general pick up around the house
- fertilizing
- April seeds in ground

[L.Ann]

Little Bit will do the lesson on her own. Hopefully! I am pretty sure the teacher does not allow parent help. She is a first grade teacher and is supposed to be excellent. No cats here, Laura, so no advice. Hi kittykatt. Little Bit and I did a bit of gardening this morning. Little Bit had a fever last night. She seems to have a cold with a runny nose and cough so she stayed home today and we let her sleep in. We had a relatively slow moving morning.

1-read
2-wash screen
3-windex window

Menus
Monday-garlic lime chicken with roasted veggies
Tuesday-street cart chicken and rice
Wednesday-DD32 out/leftovers for me
Thursday-pasta for DD32 and Little Bit/something for me
Friday-spicy Peruvian chicken
Saturday-Mexicali black bean soup

Events
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, call about medication, bank, groceries
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, dentist DD32@11:10
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, PS for DD32 3-8, cheerleading
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, bocce, register Little Bit for swimming, Little Bit to sitter from 9-12
Friday-Hopkins@11
Saturday-bocce tournament

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room and kitchen, dust
Detailed Cleaning of living room-wash window, wash screen, clean woodwork
Extra Stuff- work on last Shutterfly book, track down medication

Accomplishments
-knee and stretching exercises
-breakfast for dog, me and DD32
-diet site
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds and temp for DD32
-breakfast for DD32
-email about center appointment on Thursday
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit and get her dressed and ready to leave
-bank
-some more steps, breakfast for Little Bit that she didn’t eat
-read books, garden
-call about DD32’s medication (so far pharmacy sent a fax, I texted, called and left a message )
-groceries, snack out
-unload groceries
-chop veggies for dinner and put away groceries
-lunch for me…. Little Bit still not really eating
-Little Bit down for her nap
-walk another mile
-mail sort
-call dentist twice and have answer that yes she can do her appointment tomorrow
-multiple texts about DD32’s schedule

[Bama]

Good afternoon!

Kittykatt, extra neck scratch from me to Jude. Re “habits”, maybe it’s something some kids pick up on…? My mother smoked (lots of stress in her life long term, she passed from copd), my father whom I never knew was an alcoholic or so I’m told, I never had any desire to smoke or drink although exposed to it quite a bit, my older brothers did both socially but quit, friends did, I grew up in the era of disco and nightclubs with ladies night, buy one get two drinks free, all sorts of temptations, but thankfully didn’t go down either path (smoking or drinking to excess).

Hi LAnn! Hope lil bit is doing better.

Hi Laura! Cats are so individual it’s hard for me to peg. I try everything and when that stops working go back around and change it up until it works out. We have males and females, siblings and non siblings, all ages all mixed in. All sterile. We got stainless steel x large litter boxes off Amazon which helped a lot. Scoop at least once a day. Put out as many as you can. We only have so much room so have 2 in the laundry room, and 1 in each bathroom. We can’t have them in open living spaces as the dogs would feast upon them. Use odoban to clean messes, there are lots of cleaner and disinfectant options, I switch it up occasionally so they don’t become used to any one and start to mark their usual spots again. Tux is a senior and doesn’t seem to want to climb in the litter box (arthritis mostly) so the foyer is his spot of choice, we have concrete floors and I daily spot clean every area he uses, it is what it is. No small kids here any more so it’s just me and I can’t stand the ammonia smell. I’ll probably die from Lysol inhalation Consistency is key, clean thoroughly with odoban or similar, make sure to get any cracks and crevices, wipe down before they use that spot to keep it smelling fresh and hope they move on to the litter boxes. We used to have someone (never did figure out who it was), pee on the couch daily. They haven’t done it in months. I do buy pet covers and keep 2 layers of covers on all furniture and wash often. Keeps the fur off too, no pet stains of any kind (urine, feces, vomit, body oils, fur) on furniture. And if there did happen to be an accident, I swap out the cover a lot easier than scrubbing a couch. I digress haha, most of my chores revolve around these animals. It’s a good thing I’m fond of them. We wouldn’t have this many if I had a choice but everyone is a rescue except for Beau, my German shepherd, and I’ve always wanted one so when the opportunity arose I got him. Also, brush them all with the same brush to intertwine their scents so if it is a conflict that might calm them some. Kittykatt uses feliway I believe. I tried it but couldn’t tell a difference in behavior, maybe I didn’t give it long enough.

Trissie, I would say time flies when you’re having fun but a seminar doesn’t sound that fun lol. Apples are tbd for now. Dh called, gravel guy is coming at 3 so I’m trying to speed through inside chores so I can spend my days outside taking gravel. They dump it but don’t spread it and it’s two dump trucks full.

[Bama]

I’ve updated my list. Heading to the porch to pot some tomatoes and peppers.

[Lauralind]

Thanks Bama. Most of that I have tried. Except for putting litter boxes in plain sight. I have 2 in the furnace room and 1 at the end of the hall..the dog would get them in too visible places. I have thought of getting felway but other than vet visits I am at a loss.