Jean Pierre Serrier Saturday @ TDD - C&C

[Bama]

Happy Pi Day! Almost missed it, heard on the radio.

[Doggedly]

My rice cooker has had time to settle into a nice solid pease porridge. I am sampling it with green beans and heirloom tomatoes. I am all clean and sparkly from my shower, so I can turn my attention to thoughts of laundry.

One big win: it turns out that the First Mate dog food that I am almost out of, is once again yuck. And the Go! food that I have enough of, is once again delish.
As Bob The Dinosaur says: It may look like I'm doing nothing, but I'm actively waiting for my problems to go away. The car can sit in ice jail as long as it likes.

[Doggedly]

LOL, Happy Pi Day Bama!

[Kittykatt]

Hello, everyone!

L.Ann, a holiday in Hawaii sounds lovely!

Helia, I hope you manage to jog and enjoy the sun today. My Auntie used to have a house in Provence, between Nice and Marseille, on the outskirts of what was then a little fishing village called Les Lecques (sp) apparently named after the large flat stones in the cliffs. I can remember walking through fields of lavender and then down a path to the village, which made the best pizza in a traditional stone oven with what appeared to be half a tree inside. Of course there's been lots of building since then. Nice was nice, I remember, but Marseille was scary, and according to DNeighbour S, who comes from around there, is now best avoided. Back o5n the 1970s, I was told the Mafia tended to hang out there, but apparently now it's more drug gangs. ( not sure how true this is, but from what I remember it's certainly believable!) Aix-en-Provence was also nice, but I haven't been there either for a very long time. I'm sure FFB will have more up to date recommendations!

Trissie, I remember, "sur le pont D'Avignon" from school. Iirc, each verse had different actions for the different characters?

Laura, a family get together sounds lovely!

Bama, I think that poor lady may actually have had a lucky escape. Puppy farms still exist, despite recent legislation, and buying a puppy from one is likely to end in very expensive heartbreak. (Often the puppies have a LOT of very serious health issues, both congenital conditions from inbreeding and also from infections they may have picked up from poor living conditions.) But it's still very disappointing for her. I got the impression when I opened the door that she had already sensed things weren't quite "right" (the absence of dogs barking anywhere might have been a big clue!)

Dogged, the only ironing I do is to iron the scatter cushion covers when I wash them. DH doesn't wear formal shirts for work any more (and I had given up ironing them several years before that, when he said he didn't like how I ironed them, ... so that was one job he rapidly acquired, together with his smart trousers!) I'm careful when I buy clothes to ensure they don't need ironing!

It's been a good day. DH had fun at the beer festival with his friends, and Ive made progress in my garden. I've mulched the roses on the front garden and also topped up the bark path through the middle of it. And then I needed to sweep the front path as there was a bit of "spillage". I've also chatted with Dnextdoorneighbour C and cut the grass. Lunch for tomorrow is prepped, Ive made my coffee loaf cake for MQ's birthday, the cats have been fed, and DH is cooking sausages for supper.

[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 - DH cooking
Sort out lunch for tomorrow
Bake something flapjack for us and coffee cake for MQ's birthday
Text DF E re coffee tomorrow - not this week, she is out to lunch
Towels in machine
Towels hung up to dry
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:
Give my menu choices for women's breakfast to either AP or M
Message PM about MQ's birthday - shall I make a cake so we can celebrate it next Thursday?

Garden extras:
Trim bits on hedge
Cut grass
Weed/ deadhead
Look at my list of seasonal.jobs.and pick something!
Mulch roses in front garden
Top up bark in centre "path" of front garden

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[Doggedly]

Dogged, the only ironing I do is to iron the scatter cushion covers when I wash them. DH doesn't wear formal shirts for work any more (and I had given up ironing them several years before that, when he said he didn't like how I ironed them, ... so that was one job he rapidly acquired, together with his smart trousers!) I'm careful when I buy clothes to ensure they don't need ironing!

This was a life lesson that I took an embarrassingly long time to learn, Kittykatt.

It sounds like you have had a good and satisfying day.

[Lauralind]

Only time I use an iron atm is sewing... not very often.

Ugh I have extremely bad cats. Made me wash some spots on the walls and the night stand in the guest room. Waiting for the corner to dry and shove everything back in place and make the bed. It will be easy to move the extra stuff out. After I get the craft room a bit better. Most of that stuff belongs to ds27. A lot of stuff he won't even keep.

My washer just gave me a scare too. I don't know what happened. It got stuck mid cycle and stayed on 27 minutes for a good hour? I didn't clue in . Paused it and started and now it's finally finished. I guess it's probably 15 years old but I just told dh the other day I didn't want to spend money on that while it was still working so I could get a better one. Eeks.


Sitting for a bit then I will go switch it.

[Doggedly]

You are wise to give your washing machine the benefit of the doubt, Lauralind. What I keep reading on Reddit, is that the new machines are built so cheaply that they just don't last like machines from 20 years ago.

[kitkat]

Lauralind if it's a digital type, try disconnecting for :15 , then plug in and start

[helia]

Our friend AA wished us happy pi day, Doggedly! I'd forgotten. I'm sure my ds also remembered. He he - I don't iron at all, if I can help it, which I usually can. Mmm... rice porridge and veggies sound good.
Hopefully it's just an isolated glitch, Lauralind. I've heard the new ones aren't like the old. Our last washer and dryer lasted 30+ years. We bought a basic model of not too expensive machines in 1994 before ds was born. We replaced them in 2024 - or maybe 2025.
Kitty, your childhood memories of Provence sound so bucolic! Ha - that seems like the perfect adjective. LOL! I have a romanticized view of Provence, I admit. I didn't know that about Marseilles. That's good info. WTG on your garden progress.
trissie, we actually go to Europe every other summer to visit dh's family whom I really like. I wish we lived closer to them. Dh goes every year. So, is DtDK making dinner tonight? Ah - so true re: Creole. I wonder what FFB thinks though? Curious. . . .
Bama, so glad you found the key!

I would post more - but I'm at a coffee shop and dh is anxious to leave. It is 6:38 so we need to go home and rustle up some dinner.

Two BIG accomplishments for me today:
1. I jogged 3 miles. I'm trying to increase my distance.
2. I loaded 10 garbage bags of decluttered items (mostly my mom's) into my car and successfully dropped them off at a charity org!