Teide Tuesday @ TDD - C&C

[helia]

Quick ci but need to keep going and can't be social yet. I just had one Prof Dev meeting this afternoon, not 2. I need to go to WF now to get ingredients for dinner tonight.

Phone call from hospice - what I already knew - Mom is near the time of needing to be made comfortable for the end but not there yet. They'll be in touch with the NH and me.

I'm not going to change my mind about going to the baby shower. I'm anticipating no issue with the birth which is more than 6 weeks out, Oct. 24. We haven't bought those tickets yet.

I think my tickets for this week are non-refundable or change-able but I'll need to look into that. Plus, I need to communicate with the trustee and funeral homes -- but not today. I'm currently racing to get things done today that need to be done today.

Next:
- confirm we have all the spices on hand
- WF run
- put away groceries

Later:
- some qt
- 1 lol: w d f pa
- WF: order or pick up ingredients for dinner tonight
- payroll: set up to sub online
- 4:30 - 5:30 payroll: sub online class
- payroll: set up my Telegram group
- payroll: syllabus made
- payroll: progress with prepping for the first day of class
- make the salad for dinner
- 6:30 - ? host Tuesday dinner for ___ people (may just be dh and I cooking for our housemate)
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- update health apps
- anything else?
- can I jot down ideas in my writing folder?

TaDas!
- up; weighed self
- coffee
- ordered leftover boxes; mine seem to keep disappearing and I need more to take a meal to the Ks tomorrow night
- email deletions + weather website
- back exercises
- dressed to jog
- JOG
- payroll: pick up and drop off books
- lunch
- reclaimed kitchen
- s2s and self care
- 1-2:15 payroll: PD meeting
- lists in notebook
- squeegeed and wiped down shower
- made the bed
- menu plan and groc. list made

[Bama]

Helia, post and go is a good thing some days. Future baby visits are a very good thing.

Dogged, I’ll have to look up Mike Oldfield today.

Trissie, we never had to make a volcano. My girls must have picked a different project for that assignment. I do remember seeing others’ volcanoes on display.

LAnn, it’s nice to share the neighborhood. We had a rattlesnake in the chicken yard one time just strolling around amongst the chickens and they all ignored each other. I panicked but couldn’t do anything but watch. By the time dh got home he was long gone thank goodness. We’ve had turtles in the yard but I haven’t seen one in a long time.

Done:
Bible
Weigh
Water
Eat something
Pet chores - feed, water, litter
Dremel dogs nails - got both front paws on both dogs but it wasn’t easy. Nails are looking nicer though.
Dust
Spot clean floors
Vacuum
Went through moms recipe boxes
Load and run dw
Shine sink
Brought in packages delivered for dh

Do:
Log meal
Start load of laundry
Tidy/declutter kitchen, dining room, laundry room for a few minutes each

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Appt prep - cklist/gather
-Appt prep - clothes
-DS check in

Extras:
-Tuesday - prep for appt/wash hair
-Wednesday 830am SB here 10am Dr B Appt
-Thursday 12-1 HH Nurse
-Tasks -(make food options list)(DS pick up RX refills by 9/14)/(delete msgs)/(move desk area chargers)/(addtl)
-Declutter/organize/clean - 10 min
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Routine:
-1pm Eat
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-6pm Eat
-Close blinds
-Open & sort mail/file
-Prep for next day (clothes/calendar)

Done:
-Bedroom - pupa
-Dress/ready
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #1 to washer
-Medicine/vitamins
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-11-1pm Grocery Delivery
-Put away grocery order - partial
-Dr B - info - 25 min
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry
-Refill printer paper
-Put away grocery order
-Change batteries in flashlight
-Declutter/organize/clean - 5 min

[Kittykatt]

Hello, everyone!

Trissie, the "in thing" amongst kids here was slime (making it as well as playing with it -when DF CW went through G13yo's phone history, it featured questions like, "how to get slime out of carpet?) but recently in it seems to have been overtaken by making water bombs ( our long hot summer was very useful here, as G and L could be sent outside to make these!).

Bama, I think Freddie broke the mould when he was made. I can't imagine another cat like him!

L.Ann our only venomous snake is the adder. I'm very glad we don't have anything like Copperheads!

Congratulations to your DD, Helia! So good that DH is being supportive at this difficult time for you.

Dogged, it was very a refreshing change today not having to apologise for my cat every few minutes!

Laura, your tomatoes have certainly done well this year!

Hi, Peaches!

I managed to get more clearing up done in my garden today, and cut down some hollyhocks and pruned another rose. I made it back I side before the rain started (it came down in stairs rods) and the sitting room is now clean and tidy. I even managed to deal with a little paperwork this evening, after piling onto the bed with all the cars for a snuggle session!

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Tuesday: DH WFH
8.45 am vet - Jude boosters
Can I book Jude's October weight check? Practice diary still not updated
Wednesday: DH to office
At home for me
Laxapet for Jude and Matilda
9 pm Final touches to Waitrose order
Box up flapjack for Y
Thursday: DH WFH
10.30 am church
Any errands?
Drop off flapjack at the Y
Can I book Jude's next weight check at vet?
Lunch with DF PM at garden centre (and some shopping!)
Hoover car? ( Weather permitting!)
Bring blue crates up from garage
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Laxapet -Jude and Matilda if not done yesterday
Friday: DH WFH
At home for me
Saturday:
*Text DF E re coffee tomorrow*
Sunday:
Church 9.30 am
Coffee with DF E?
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
16/9 Freddie - vet Solensia & blood tests
9/9 boosters -Jude
10/9 order my meds

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
SORT OUT PREPAYMENT CERTIFICATE FOR PRESCRIPTIONS
EMAIL DM RE PARISH CHRISTMAS LUNCH - TODAY
Order new orthotics
Ask DH to replace the hinges on storage compartment of oven when they arrive. I've asked, now I'm waiting for him to do it! He's done it!
CAR INSURANCE cancel old policy
Can I do 15 minutes of decluttering in the bedroom each day?
Digital decluttering- Google Photos for 2024 and 2025
Pick up my footprints
House tasks: Replace the bit of mortar that's fallen out of the edge of the roof (I think its called the verge? Can this wait until next year when we get the house painted when a roof ladder will be in place?) I need for it to stop raining before I ask anyone to come and look!
Verge and ridge tiles on garage roof
Sort out cabinet that wobbles - does the back need some sort of bracing ?
Fix garage guttering that's loose at one end and bending down. Dneighbour R2 may fix?
Fix dripping kitchen tap (new washer ?)- DF E has given me the phone number of her plumber . I think DF CW also has a plumber she is happy with?
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
Lightbox session
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 for his walk
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
45 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
Cut nails FJM
Brush FJM
Flea control FJM
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

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

Wednesday:
Clean kitchen

Garden extras:
Water pots
Feed pots weekly
Buy and plant pansies
Plant foxgloves and return tray and pots to Dneighbour R
Either repot or top dress bulbs in pots and feed
Prune roses - 10 done, 16 to do (the totals might change as this time of year I assess what hasn't done well, and whether it gets another chance, or whether it's time to say goodbye!)

Financial:
More work on budget

Things that need to happen at home before DH retires!
Reorganise office WIP DH still needs to deal with a crate of "stuff" He's just about done, although there is a crate of "stuff" in the garage which needs his attention - I've picked out a few things that need to come up to the house! I've managed to fit everything in the cupboard -It needs a good sort out and tidy.

Declutter bedroom 15 minutes at a time!

Parish Christmas Lunch:
Date and venue booked
Caterers booked
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[Doggedly]

(((helia and dfamily)))

Bama, I think that there is one or two species of venomous snake in Ontario, but they are so rare that we tend to view snakes more as you would see frogs or toads. I worked with a lady from Nigere who was terrified of them. She explained that where she was from, snakes could drop on you from the trees as you walked under them. I did reassure her that ours stay on the ground and don't kill you, but I don't think that either of us shifted our attitudes to snakes much.

Hi, Peaches

That's great to make it back in before the skies opened, Kittykatt, and to get time in your garden before then.
(And on everything you got done.)

I read these posts earlier, answering them in my head, and then went on a reddit binge. Imagine my surprise when I came back and found that my thoughts had not been transcribed and posted here! Where is Elon Musk's chip in the head when you need it?

Time to take Germane out for a walk to the animal hospital to stock up on her food.

[Bama]

How’s it going, folks?

Dogged, I’ll have to pass on the snakes. What kind of varmints do you have or is it too cold for any? I guess it’s what you’re used to? Dd had to live near Miami for a year and stepped on an iguana. Gives me shivers. I couldn’t think of the word “iguana” so searched Miami creatures and apparently they have an alien too. Some traveler left pythons in Florida so there’s that. I’m good with our wildlife thank you very much.

Kittykatt, I see lots of smiley faces on that list. We tried slime but I didn’t like the feel of it.

Done:
Bible
Weigh
Water
Eat breakfast, lunch
Pet chores - feed, water, litter
Dremel dogs nails - got both front paws on both dogs but it wasn’t easy. Nails are looking nicer though.
Dust
Spot clean floors
Vacuum
Went through moms recipe boxes
Load and run dw
Shine sink
Brought in packages delivered for dh
Log meals
Start load of laundry - mop done, 2 chair covers going now
Tidy/declutter ~
*kitchen cooked cabbage casserole and mixed greens, chicken thawing, tossed empty cheese stick box and added cheese sticks to grocery list, dusted fake figs and put in cloche, tidied my snack area, decluttered piece of cake in my belly…
*dining room went through some cookbooks, duplicate in box to go to Hollywood along with some other items that need to go there, wrote out recipe from the a sweet older lady in the 1980s that is fading, recipe boxes put on shelf, …
*laundry room tidied shelf and sink area some

Dh just walked in so taking a break.

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Close blinds
-Appt prep - alarm/clean out bin/hygiene gather
-Eat

Extras:
-Tuesday - prep for appt/wash hair
-Wednesday 830am SB here 10am Dr B Appt
-Thursday 12-1 HH Nurse
-Tasks -(make food options list)(DS pick up RX refills by 9/14)/(delete msgs)/(move desk area chargers)/(addtl)
-Declutter/organize/clean - 10 min
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Routine:
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-6pm Eat

Done:
-Bedroom - pupa
-Dress/ready
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #1 to washer
-Medicine/vitamins
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-11-1pm Grocery Delivery
-Put away grocery order - partial
-Dr B - info - 25 min
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry
-Refill printer paper
-Put away grocery order
-Change batteries in flashlight
-Declutter/organize/clean - 5 min
-Appt prep - cklist/gather
-Appt prep - clothes
-DS check in
-Order food

[Doggedly]

We get black bears from time to time, Bama. They swim across the river from Gatineau Park. They aren't harmful. You could provoke one into attacking you, if you really wanted to, and that wouldn't end well for you, but mostly they just want to eat your garbage and maybe your garden. I'm much too far south for polar bears, who are fast, stealthy and will eat you, and too far east for grizzly bears who have a similar attitude. We get raccoons, squirrels, crows and other birds, skunks and lots of deer. Very occasionally a young moose. Oh, and more and more we have coyotes right in town, so we have to keep a better eye on small dogs and cats. The sorts of beasts who annoy us are mosquitoes, mice and rats. Nothing exotic, I'm afraid.


Go, Peaches!

Germane and I walked to the animal hospital and bought two flats of food. Germane is more confused and gets more startled by the traffic on the main road, so it was mostly a carry. We stopped at the food truck on the way home, and I bought an aloo tikka burger. It is delicious! I wasn't sure if they would close down in September, so am happy to still see them there. The animal hospital is only a block away, but somehow it feels like a big outing to us both. Germane is sleeping it off in the bathroom.

[L.Ann]

1-diet site
2-shower

Menus
Wednesday-DD32 out/me left overs
Thursday-cheesy chicken enchiladas
Friday-pasta
Saturday-cranberry thyme chicken

Events
Wednesday--Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, doctor for me@9:50
Thursday--Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, urn pick up
Friday--Little Bit 7:40-7, Little Bit school 9:15-11:45, no center for DD32, museum special needs night@5 w/boat ride@6:30

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room
Extra Stuff- work on last Shutterfly book
Little Errands-drop off DM’s driver’s license, send email and documentation to delete DM’s Facebook accounts
Phone calls-pick up urn

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and DD32
-temp and meds for DD32
-dress and pick up bedroom
-soak foot
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds and temp for DD32
-walk outside
-pick up Little Bit
-breakfast for Little Bit
-walk with Little Bit
-soak foot
-temp and meds for DD32
-dress and pick up bedroom
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds and temp for DD32
-walk outside
-pick up Little Bit
-out to breakfast with Little Bit and friends
-take Little Bit to school
-recycling to dump
-dentist for me
-pick up Little Bit from school
-lunch/snack
-put Little Bit down for a nap
-walk outside
-read
-snacks
-library
-take Little Bit home
-dinner prepped and eaten
-kitchen clean up
-walk
-evening meds