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Good morning/ good afternoon, KitKat, Bama and Harriet.

KitKat, thank you, you're very kind. It's been grey and overcast this morning, but brightening up now, with even some . I've been doing indoor tasks this morning, including baking flapjack for the Y next week (I had forgotten it was my turn, and I won't have time tomorrow with going out in the evening).

Bama, I hope DH's appointment goes well.

Harriet, I think peonies sprout from thick swollen roots (tubers?) and they're *very* fussy about planting depth. I don't have the cat free space to bring on tender annuals indoors, but this year I'm experimenting with direct sowing Virginia stock in the area ( temporarily!) vacated by the forget-me-nots. The early signs are promising!

This morning I've dusted and tidied the bedroom, dusted and hoovered the sitting room, played with Matilda, taken Freddie out, put a few stitches in the neck of my dress that I want to wear to the meal tomorrow evening (the keyhole neck was rather too low), and cleared up where one of the Girls was sick (fortunately on the free newspaper that came with the groceries).

I was interrupted in all this by the JWs, who had evidently decided that a Friday morning was the perfect time to call on people, and that our estate was well overdue for a mass visit. So as well as K (my usual visitor) and her (female) mentor, I could see a whole "field service group" distributing themselves around the neighbourhood. After I had greeted them politely, they asked if I was busy, so I replied truthfully that yes, I was, as l'd just cleared up a pile of cat vomit, and now I was putting a few stitches in the neckline of a dress, as I didn't want my underwear showing when I wore it!! You can probably imagine the reaction! So, today I have learned that the JWs apparently do not mention their "unmentionables" in polite company.

I've made my flapjack for the Y and while the oven was on, I made a coffee cake for us. When that's out of the oven I'll go for my walk and post that card , and then I'll have an afternoon in my garden.

Today's list:

Cuddles on the bed with Matilda, Jude and Freddie
QT
Physio exercises WIP
Up, shower, personal care and dress
All cats fed
Take Freddie out
Breakfast and meds /supplements -me
Rubbish down to bins
Go for my walk
Run hoover round downstairs?
Quick dust sitting room?
PUPA and dust bedroom
Garden time - can I feed pots? A little deadheading?
Lunch
Delicate /wool wash
Clean shoes
Polish bag
Fold laundry and PA
Clean sheets and towels out of the airing cupboard
Does DH have choir practice?
Cats' supper
Our supper
Bed at a reasonable time!

Extras:
Post birthday card
Petplan outstanding claims
Email vet with meds and food order
Make flapjack for the Y
Make coffee cake for us

Garden extras:
Trim bits on hedge
Weed / deadhead
Plant that geranium
Cut grass
Feed pots
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Update - Jude has decided my lap is the place she *has* to be, and who am I to argue, so I'm not going anywhere for the next few minutes!

SHEM:

"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek." — Kate Summers

I should be pushing through on getting the air conditioner installed before the thunderstorms start, but I can't leave Kittykatt all on her own! I am up and cleaning around the air conditioner in preparation.

kitkat, I'm glad that your weather has started to cool. I've been picturing the soccer players trying to play in this heat and feeling sorry for them. It's under 30C here, but the humidex is still near 40C.

Thanks, Bama. I only feel the shot if I press right on that area, so I think that is the effect of the needle, not the shot itself. Unfortunately, yesterday I got trapped in a sports bra that I tried to put on in the humidity and when I realized that it had rolled itself into a straitjacket I hurt both shoulders fighting my way back out of it.
I hope that your DH's appointment goes well, and that his physician assigns dishwashing and dusting as physical therapy. A girl can dream.

Hello, harriet!


Friday
Wiped down the window inserts for the air conditioner
Realized that I had set the air conditioner on cooling rather than fan only, and the air being very humid it peed on the floor.
Set up extra pee pads to catch the air conditioner’s run off, and pee pads facing up because if Germane sees them she will use them.
Heart pill for Germane
Cleaned up the pee pads after Germane and air conditioner
Cleaned behind air conditioner
Cleaned the drip tray. I started eyeballing it and thinking “This is actually a dog’s food tray, and I would like to start using it for Germane. It would save the part of the floor where she keeps dropping bits of food to dry out and stick to the floor.”
Looked around the apartment and spotted a new, unused boot tray leaning against the wall behind furniture. It’s slightly higher than the dog dinner tray, so it should still fit where it needs to, but it’s bigger so it will do a better job of collecting overflow water. Boot tray, you now work for the air conditioner. Foyer, your glow up can wait.

We have reached the hot part of the day, where the effort of holding up a roll of tape and taping it has me panting, so I'm taking a break in front of the fan.
Friday
Wiped down the window inserts for the air conditioner
Realized that I had set the air conditioner on cooling rather than fan only, and the air being very humid it peed on the floor.
Set up extra pee pads to catch the air conditioner’s run off, and pee pads facing up because if Germane sees them she will use them.
Heart pill for Germane
Cleaned up the pee pads after Germane and air conditioner
Cleaned behind air conditioner
Cleaned the drip tray. I started eyeballing it and thinking “This is actually a dog’s food tray, and I would like to start using it for Germane. It would save the part of the floor where she keeps dropping bits of food to dry out and stick to the floor.”
Looked around the apartment and spotted a new, unused boot tray leaning against the wall behind furniture. It’s slightly higher than the dog dinner tray, so it should still fit where it needs to, but it’s bigger so it will do a better job of collecting overflow water. Boot tray, you now work for the air conditioner. Foyer, your glow up can wait.
Fitted the insert parts together to make sure that I know how they fit.
Taped the bottom section in place.
Placed the other parts on top and started taping them.

SHEM: We actively take on the world as it is, not wait for a world as we wish to be. --Mark Carney