Tongariro National Park Tuesday @ TDD - C&C

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Tuesday: DH WFH
At home for me
3pm coffee with DF PL
Wednesday: DH to office - back home early as I have my hygienist appointment at 4.50pm
9 am? Butcher to deliver Christmas meat pack
Laxapet for Jude and Matilda
9 pm Final touches to Waitrose order
Thursday: DH leaves to spend a long W/E with DBIL
10.30 am church
Any errands?
Collect Matilda's new food from vet? (Will Petplan pay towards this? I think it depends on on her test results?)
Take chocolates and card to vet to say thank you
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 at Chetnole
8 am flu jab at Boots - 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
DH returns at ??

Future dates to note:
14/10 Freddie Solensia appointment
16/10 Jude weight check

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
SORT OUT PREPAYMENT CERTIFICATE FOR PRESCRIPTIONS ON 1/10
Order new orthotics
CAR INSURANCE cancel old policy do by 3/10 at the latest -preferably earlier
Find scanned copies of menu for parish lunch
Send email with scanned menu to those on mailing list
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 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
15 minutes in back garden

Cats:
Cats’ breakfast and meds / supplements
Morning supplement - Matilda
Evening supplement - Matilda
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
Wash spare room and bedroom rugs
Wash throw on spare room bed and cat blankets

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
Plant foxgloves and return tray and pots to Dneighbour R
Prune roses - 16 done, 10 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. Maybe this W/E when he is away?

Declutter bedroom 15 minutes at a time!

Parish Christmas Lunch:
Date and venue booked
Caterers booked
Email parish administrator re printing tickets and poster
Email parish administrator again

Brain dump ( work through these one at a time!)
Email those people on mailing list for lunch and attach scanned copy of menu
1/ 10 set up new prepayment certificate
Amazon S&S items - review

Deep cleaning /decluttering in sitting room:
Tighten joints in chair
Ditto on footrest
Ditto on sofa
Rehang sitting room curtains
Clean picture and put back
Empty glass cabinet - declutter/ wash / polish contents
Move cabinet out from wall
Brush wall
Wipe skirting board
Hoover underneath cabinet
Put cabinet back in place
Put glasses back
Polish clock
Clean photos
Empty china display cabinet
Wash "pretties"
Polish cabinet
Clean glass
Replace "pretties"
Polish wooden cats that live on top of cabinet
Iron scatter cushion covers, chair-back and arm covers
Put covers back on cushions!
Wash rug
Wash staircase curtains
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[Bama]

Done:
Bible
Weigh
D2S
Charge phone
Feed inside pets
Feed me, logged
Strip dh’s bed and wash
- mattress cover drying
- blanket washing
Soak, spot clean floors
Bring in packages
Clean end table and contents in lr
Give dogs canned cat food leftovers and put tins in recycling
Stove - remove old knobs and clean area, put on new knobs
Tidy, wipe down counters
Dw unload load running
Hand wash items
Sink shined
Made angel food cake
Had to wipe down stove top again - cake flour is so airy lol
Tossed leftovers into compost bucket for turkey
Set out ingredients for supper

Do:
Clear off dr table

[Bama]

Kittykatt, sounds like you have some pretty items on display inside and a lovely garden to enjoy outside. Are your roses in differing colors or a color theme?

Hi peaches.

Trissie, good luck with new foods. I have a 21 yo who still prefers chicken nuggets over anything else lol. People have to be notified of a death here too, if they can’t be located an ad in the newspaper will suffice. At least it did for us, according to the attorney. Idk who would read a newspaper to see it though.

[Bama]

Done:
Bible
Weigh
D2S
Charge phone
Feed inside pets
Feed me, logged
Strip dh’s bed and wash
- mattress cover drying
- blanket washing
Soak, spot clean floors
Bring in packages
Clean end table and contents in lr
Give dogs canned cat food leftovers and put tins in recycling
Stove - remove old knobs and clean area, put on new knobs
Tidy, wipe down counters
Dw unload load running
Hand wash items
Sink shined
Made angel food cake
Had to wipe down stove top again - cake flour is so airy lol
Tossed leftovers into compost bucket for turkey
Set out ingredients for supper
Clear off dr table
Plug in new feliway plugins - one in dr, one in hall
Sort paper pile into multiple piles :p
Emails
Take cake out of oven, smells good, added apple pie filling, cinnamon, cloves to box sponge cake mix

Do:
Pick up floors
Put dogs out
Vacuum

[helia]

trissie, my brother has explicitly been written out of my parents' wills. I saw my mom's - and it very clearly states so. (He became addicted to drugs and violent. my mom was scared of him and possibly was also trying to protect my brother + niece and my and my family from him by keeping him out of the will completely.) After my father's passing, the lawyer ran a note/ message somewhere (paper?), and he had 6 months to appear and file a complaint or whatever. My brother didn't appear. I expect the same thing will happen again now that my mother has passed.

[Kittykatt]

Helia, over here you can leave your estate however you wish. But is someone wants to do gerot someone who might reasonable be expected to inherit a shared, the. They are advised to include a sentence (in formal legal language) stating their reasons why. I'm sorry you're having to deal with all this on top of losing your DMum.

Bama, my roses are mostly shades of pink and white - I wanted everything to be very soft and romantic and reminiscent of a cottage garden. I do have a couple.of yellows in the front garden - one DH chose, and the other is a climbing rose with a very restrained habit that I wanted for outside the front door (it responds well to bring pruned as a bush rose )

On the subject of obituaries in the local newspaper, I do have some elderly friends who read them each week...mainly to see who they e outlived ("I saw in the paper that X had passed away. A mere youngster at only 87!!!") And also, on a more practical note, to see if there's someone who they can cross.of the Christmas card list, especially as postal is now so expensive!l ( DF E 99 said to me last week that she was crossing off everyone older than her u less she had heard from them in the past year or so, "as they're probably dead by now!")

And on that cheerful note, I shall say good night to everyone!

[helia]

Kitty, I actually don't have to deal with the issue of my older brother. The lawyer will do what she is required to do by law as she did with my father's will. And since everything now goes to the trust, I don't need to worry about that either. I wonder if my parents set up the trust to protect my brother and me. Well, I believe more and more that death is the start of a new kind of life! I guess we'll each find out some day.

I think it might be easier to disinherit a person here than in many European countries. Dh has told me about laws in the Netherlands, and it's also more difficult to do that (maybe impossible?) there than here.

[Gma]

trissie, thanks for sharing yoru family dynamics. You are establishing a family of your own where your children all feel valued, and your descendants will have a better past to remember.

this has sat here for quite a while, I was going to tell you about my noon with mother, but now it's time to go back.

I ate a cold,loaded baked potato, while talkign to my dsis3 and dcousin about mother's issues. I am aware that when people are dying they often refuses food, and have no appetite. But right now we are treating this as an after effect of covid, and as such, an infection that, with supportive care, she can overcome. Last night mom was OK, today she either couldn't tell the difference between cold, pain, and fatigue, or she had all 3 at once.
10 more minutes of watering, then I will change clothes (again) and head back to her to work on feeding her supper.

[L.Ann]

1-vacuum kitchen floor dry dishes
2-polish bedroom furniture
3-diet site

4-evening meds


Menus
Wednesday-DD32 gone/leftovers
Thursday-Vietnamese style shrimp lettuce wraps
Friday-dance DD32/me Panera?..
Saturday-eat out after DM’s service
Sunday-spicy Peruvian Cauliflower Bowls

Events
Wednesday--Little Bit 7:40-5,DD32 w/ps 3-6, Little Bit to school 9:15-11:45
Thursday -Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-11:45
Friday-Joy Prom for DD32 5-8, -Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit to school 9:15-11:45
Saturday-DM’s service and lunch 11:30-1:30
Sunday-tractor parade????

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, bathroom, kitchen, dust
Detail cleaning my bedroom- wash all bed linens, wipe down woodwork, polish furniture, flip mattress, vacuum
Extra Stuff-
Little Errands-drop off DM’s driver’s license, bank$ for priest at funeral
Phone calls-

Accomplishments
-breakfast for me and dog
- knee and stretching exercises
-dress and pick up bedroom
- meds and temp for DD32
-start laundry
-outside walk
-pick up Little Bit and breakfast for her
- call bank about fraudulent charges
-reboot laundry
-Little Bitto school
-library drop off and pick up, book donation to free library
-walk
-pick up Target order
-read
-pick up Little Bit
-groceries
-put away groceries
-lunch
-Little Bit down for her nap
-walk
-read
-dinner preprep
-make lunch for DD32
-read/talk to DGS11
-walk with Little Bit
-take Little Bit home
-dinner prepped and eaten
-kitchen cleaned up

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Close blinds
-Restock ice
-Eat
-Change trashes
-HH PT - phone

Extras:
-12-1pm Arrival - HH PT
-3pm Arrival - HH OT
-Wednesday - HH PT
-12pm Thursday - HH Nurse
-Refill office ice/water
-Tasks - (laundry)/(confirm bills mth)/(load dishwasher)/(air filters)/(test heat)/(food options list)
-Declutter/organize/clean - 10 min
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

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

Done:
-Bedroom - pupa
-Dress/ready
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water
-Medicine/vitamins
-Long catchup DS
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Remove tags
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min
-Online search - solutions - 2 hrs
-Phone DH
-Restock kitty food