Maasai Mara National Park Monday @ TDD - C&C

[trissie]

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[trissie]

Maasai Mara, sometimes also spelt Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok County, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin. Their description of the area when looked at from afar: "Mara" means "spotted" in the Maa language because of the short bushy trees which dot the landscape.

Maasai Mara is one of the wildlife conservation and wilderness areas in Africa, with its populations of lions, leopards, cheetahs and African bush elephants. It also hosts the Great Migration, which secured it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, and as one of the ten Wonders of the World.

The Great Migration usually happens in July depending on weather as the wildebeest moves in large numbers crossing the Mara River from Tanzania.

The Greater Mara ecosystem encompasses areas known as the Maasai Mara National Reserve, the Mara Triangle, several Maasai group ranches, and Maasai Mara conservancies.

Blue wildebeest are the dominant inhabitants of the Maasai Mara. Around July of each year, these animals migrate north from the Serengeti plains in search of fresh pasture, and return to the south around October. The Great Migration is one of the most impressive natural events worldwide. It involves some 1.3 million blue wildebeest, 500000 Thomson's gazelles, 97000 topi, 18000 common elands, and 200000 Grant's zebras.

All members of the "Big Five" – lions, African leopards, African bush elephants, African buffaloes and black rhinoceros – are found all year round.

[Doggedly]

Thank you for starting us off trissie. We have arrived and are settled in our hotel room. This is a nice surprise: Germane likes her new playpen. She has food, water, and a familiar folded up fleece throw to sleep on, and it is covered in peepads. After eating and drinking, she settled right down and fell asleep. I think it helps that she can hear my audio book playing, and that she is tired out from our trip.

[Kittykatt]

Good morning Trissie and thank you for starting us off.

So glad you've arrived safely, Dogged, and that Germane is happy and settled. I'm sure you'll have a lovely time with your DBro.

I'm hoping for a more "normal" week! DH goes to the office today, and I really need to tackle my list of mostly admin tasks that are badly behind. I've already done one today - order my prescription. Maybe I can do a few more when DH has left for work and before I do anything else? Other than all that, there's my usual tasks around the house and garden (if dry!)

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Monday: DH to office
At home for me
Tuesday: DH WFH
At home for me
Wednesday: DH to office - back home early as I have my hygienist appointment at 4.50pm
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:
29/9 order HRT
14/10 Freddie Solensia
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
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
Breakfast and meds / supplements - me
DRINK WATER #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Check bank account
Go for my walk

Garden:
30 minutes in tiny front garden
30 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
Email DM re poster for Xmas lunch - apologise for late reply and explain
Email CM re chalice rota - apologise for late reply and explain
Create new SO to put a little aside each month for those irregular DDs (once or twice a year) that have been catching me out as I lose track
Work out how much I need to increase SO for SWW by, and amend accordingly (they have suggested a ridiculous figure )
1/ 10 set up new prepayment certificate
Amazon S&S items - review
Receipts for DF PL
Survey for vet

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

[FrenchFlybebe]

◕‿◕ * * * Good Morning! * * * ◕‿◕

Trissie, thanks for the start and the information about the Maasai park fauna.

Kittykatt, wishing you dry weather and a productive day, if that is your wish.

Doggedly, glad to know you're safe and settled.

Sunny and cold. I left the kids at the schhol gate 8 mins before opening time. On a rainy day I couldn't do that. Not sure if they can walk themselves to school anytime soon.
Some catching up at payroll, otherwise mostly boring morning.

TADAs
Hectic morning rush
Walked kids to school, left them there 8 mns earlier
Almost on time at payroll

TODOs
Payroll day, drive back home 6pm
Get kids from afterschool daycare
Evening routine until kids bedtime
Probably bed early

[Kittykatt]

Good morning, FFB! Does the school have a breakfast club the boys could go to on days when it's raining? Or even every day, if it would mean you could drop them off earlier and not have to worry about being late for your work. (Over here many primary and secondary schools have breakfast clubs, designed for children whose parents have to leave early in the morning for work, and also for those parents who have difficulty affording food for their children. I'm ashamed to say this still happening, even in what is supposed to be a well off country in the 21st century . No discrimination is made between the two groups, so no child feels stigmatised.) How far is it to walk to school? Are there any main roads they have to cross, or are there plenty of safe pedestrian crossings? It's still early in the term, so I'm sure they'll get more road sense (and stamina!) with practice.

I've achieved some items on my admin list, so that's progress. Into the shower now, and then I'll take a very patient Freddie for his walk.

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Monday: DH to office
At home for me
Tuesday: DH WFH
At home for me
Wednesday: DH to office - back home early as I have my hygienist appointment at 4.50pm
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:
29/9 order HRT
14/10 Freddie Solensia
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
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
Breakfast and meds / supplements - me
DRINK WATER #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Check bank account
Go for my walk

Garden:
30 minutes in tiny front garden
30 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
Email DM re poster for Xmas lunch - apologise for late reply and explain
Email CM re chalice rota - apologise for late reply and explain
Create new SO to put a little aside each month for those irregular DDs (once or twice a year) that have been catching me out as I lose track
Work out how much I need to increase SO for SWW by, and amend accordingly (they have suggested a ridiculous figure )
1/ 10 set up new prepayment certificate
Amazon S&S items - review WIP
Receipts for DF PL
Survey for vet

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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[helia]

Thanks for the interesting start, trissie. A friend and I spent a summer on an internship with a missionary who was working with the Maasai in Kenya, not far from Maasai Mara. It was an amazing time; my friend and I learned so much. We lived not in but next to a Maasai village. We went to weekly church services under a local tree, went to their festivals, visited some families with the missionary --> eating Maasai meals and drinking their chai, slept a couple nights in one of their villages. Some of the young men liked to come visit us. The women were all married at a young age, like 13, and they weren't free to visit us, unfortunately. There was one young man in particular who spoke English pretty well, and he became our friend. -- Although, we did get proposals of marriage. Amazing experiences. But we never got to the national park. We did hear the hyena packs in the distance at night, and the village was harassed by a young lion that was raiding their cows or goats.
Glad you arrived safely, Doggedly. Have a nice visit.
Hope you and Freddie had a nice walk, Kitty. Enjoy your day with dh away at work.
That's nice you could walk the boys to school today,FFB. Hoping payroll is more interesting than you're expecting -- in a positive way.

I'm up a little earlier to finish grading. A couple students aren't quite getting what is being asked of them, so I need to think about an activity to try to get at that today - without losing the interest of those students who are getting it. I need to be at payroll to teach 11-1. Dd27 wants to go for a walk with Fable late this afternoon, maybe along the river? I need to get some groceries, and a jog would be really good. And I need to connect with the business manager at the nursing home to make sure we don't pay any more rent and to ask if they'd like the dresser. If not, and I doubt they will, we'll go pick it up tonight. Ideally, I'd also get the thank you card written so I can drop off the chocolates and card for the memory care staff. Dinner: peanut chicken and a TBD veggie.

Next:
- payroll: finish grading midterm tests
- payroll: prep for IW D9
- back exercises

Later:
- s2s and self care
- squeegee and wipe down shower
- make the bed
- reclaim kitchen
- email NH manager with Qs
- 10:45 gather everything and otd
- 11-1 payroll: teach IW D9
- payroll: update gradelink week 3
- payroll: can I start one 1 exam for exam prep? (Ideally due on Thursday.)
- home; lunch
- find/ buy thank you card; write in it
- dress to jog
- jog?
- walk with dd27 and Fable
- WF - odds and ends
- laundry - 1 load w d f pa
- dinner: peanut chicken, rice, roasted veggie
- after dinner clean up
- duolingo
- health apps -- DO THIS
- pick up the dresser from the NH

TaDas!
- up; weighed self
- coffee
- email deletions + weather website -- sunny and high of 82*F.

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Mon 11-1 payroll: teach IW D9
Tue 9 - WW?/ KS2J get together/ 6:30 host Tuesday dinner for . . . 5?
Wed 11-1 payroll: teach IW D10
Thu 2-3 work out with trainer
Fri 11-1 payroll: teach IW D11/ 2-3 haircut in other town/ date night with dh?
Sat 5:30 - 9ish CG1 @ ____
Sun 10 - church local/ 3:30 - 6ish host CG2/ 6 - ? host Sunday dinner

September Brain Dumps
This Week - House
- get 2 guest beds remade with clean sheets
- clean sheets on bed
- repot my little orchid

This Week - Deskwork
- card to CM
- make appointment for check up - overdue

General Brain Dump
- progress decluttering clothes - wip
- new phone eventually
- buy queen bed frame + mattress + box springs for dd27's room - wip

Mom
- figure out what to do with the chest of drawers
- move it from the room if necessary - with the help of dh
- figure out what to do with the wheelchair
- life insurance letter - does it mean anything? Send pic to trustee
- start washing her clothes and blankets donation site

[Lauralind]

Morning all. I think I need to get in the shower soon and hope it helps. Probably work will just get me moving. It's going to be another weird week. Tuesday is a holiday. Truth and reconciliation. Meaning dh always has Tuesday off so he gets today off as extra. I work. Ds has school. Tomorrow we are all home. Truck comes today. Meaning hopefully not super late. I will get to be finishing it later in the week again cause tomorrow runs shorter hours and only minimum staff. I wonder if anyone saw my project and finished it. We'll see.

I have to do some basic routines and such this morning. I think I have shopping bags with odds and ends from our excursions still there. Just general tidy up.

Shower
S&s both baths and reboot laundry
Tidy laundry room and master bedroom some

Empty and reload dw
Finish tidying kitchen all the way
Put away some random groceries
Clean cat boxes and take garbage out from everywhere
Sweep everywhere
Finish getting ready for work
School run and work