Stick Horse Saturday @ TDD - C&C

[trissie]

Triple Dog Dare!

Pick 3 things
Do them
Post your TaDas!

»»—-Cheers! WTG! Ygg!—-««

Don't think about it. Just do it!
~~ I Triple Dog Dare ya! ~~
Good Morning!
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[trissie]

A hobby horse (or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse. Children play at riding a horse made of a straight stick with a head (of wood or stuffed fabric), and perhaps reins, attached to one end. The bottom end of the stick sometimes had a small wheel or wheels attached. This toy was also sometimes known as a cock horse (as in the nursery rhyme Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross) or stick horse.

Hobby horses feature in the worship of Rajasthani folk deity Baba Ramdevji, a reference to a story about his childhood; wooden toy horses are popular offerings at his temple at Ramdevra. They also figured in the public rites of the Romanian Călușari.[1]

Hobby horsing as a sport became popular among young women in Finland and elsewhere in the 21st century.

[trissie]

Happy Saturday!

I'm still hanging in there. Trying to keep a sense of normalcy in a situation which is very much not normal - I think helia could probably relate, though if I recally correctly, your mom was already in care home when your dad died? DMIL has some kind of surgery planned for next week, so she'll be in hospital from Sunday till Tuesday or Wednesday at least. In any case, we're leaving for a 3 day family trip (Friday is bank holiday) on Thursday evening and DH is adamant we go no matter what. He's rather unhappy with his sister at the moment, because she doesn't involve him in any planning or scheduling (or answer calls or texts) and just expects him to step in whenever she needs, completely disregarding that it's a two hour drive for us and that we both work full time with four kids and no help whatsover, so we just need to PLAN to be able to add caring for MIL to our already crazy lives.
Anyway, enough of my rant. Up extremely early today - since 4:45, because DS has a youth beekeeper contest (he's in a beekeeper club at school and this is an annual event for schools that have beekeeper clubs) and the rande-vous was at 6:30 in the city. DH is driving him, but of course I was up to see him off. Also on the menu for today is DBD's scout field trip with rande-vous at 8:25 in a different town, and twins' birthday party, for which they opted for a jump park (we have a reservation from 4 to 6pm) and a sleepover. I think I am going to collapse in bed at about 9pm tonight!


TaDas
- up at dark oh thirty
- breakfast and coffee
- dressed to shoes
- readied DS' stuff (he really wasn't coherent at 5 am!)
- washed my hair
- morning routine
- load of cleaning rags
- 1 cake base baked and cooling

ToDos
- bake 2nd cake base
- ready DBD's stuff (including packing her lunch)
- 30 minutes downstairs, following the chatGPT-generated list

Braindump
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- lunch
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- feed breadstarter
organization
- drive DBD to rande-vous point
- buy soda for twins' party
- twins' birthday party
- download tax stuff to my laptop so I can work on it while overseeing them
- update land contract
- home insurance!!!
- 15 on filing
- 15 on anniversary planning (well... I think under current conditions, I am giving up on that)
- homework and backpacks
- plan for rest of April and May
- pay balance on the trip
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS1's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of darks
- load of outgrown darks
- load of outgrown lights
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- repot a new rose
- repot seedlings I bought
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- start cleaning out the carpool
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- start oiling garden furniture
- run pool vacuum
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

[trissie]

“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several attack me at once.” —Jennifer Yane

[Doggedly]

I love that SHEM, trissie! Thank you for starting us off. (((Hugs))) to you and your dfamily. You really do have a crazy busy day today. Hopefully at some point your DMIL can get into a care home and then everyone can visit according to their abilities.

I've just had my shower and Germane is alert and active, so I am cooking a piece of salmon for her treats before we go to bed.

[Kittykatt]

Good morning, Trissie! So very good to "see" you,.and so glad you're hanging in there, despite the craziness life is throwing at you. A.d a big WTG for keeping everything as normal as possible for the DKids.

Sleep well,.Dogged!

I had a good session in.my.garden yesterday and got the."must dos" done. Today I would like to start plamting.my.geraniums. I also need to check the pansies - they are.jot.a.f.an.of hot dry weather, and some were looking very sad yesterday. They've had a good drink,.so hopefully have recovered. And it's to.w.to spray the roses again.

This morning I have women's breakfast at the community shop at 9 am. DH has complicated-sounding plans involving a model railway exhibition with his friends. I'm glad he's rekindling old interests and developing new ones in the run up to his retirement.

Werw forecast another warm.sunny.day,.so I would really.like.to bring the cushions.for the patio furniture out of their winter hiding place!

[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
Sort out lunch for tomorrow (find recipe for tiramisu)
Bake something?
Text DF E re coffee tomorrow
Towels in machine
Towels hung up to dry
Clothes laid out for tomorrow
Clean shoes
Polish bag

Extras:
9 am women's breakfast at community shop
Find cushions for patio furniture ( they are the kind that need to be brought in at night and when it rains, so I'll hang them on the coat hooks in the hall when we're not using them)
Can I wrap another couple of items.Ive.listed.on eBay?

Garden extras:
Start planting geraniums (24)
Start planting begonias (12)
Tidy, add some new compost and feed that bowl of begonias that heroically made it through the winter - their stamina and tenacity should be rewarded!
Spray roses in front garden
Spray roses in back garden
Move 2 things from remaining mess on hard standing (I am slowly tidying it up, as it really was an eye sore, but a lot of it involves rearranging heavy bags of compost) - planting the geraniums will help with this!

[trissie]

Good night, Dogged! I'd love me a salmon treat too!
have fun at the women's breakfast, kittykatt! I have some geraniums in my garden too - if, of course, you mean these beauties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium

Downstairs is company ready, and the cake is waiting to be assembled. I think I can afford a 15 minute power nap in the garden in the sun to recharge!

TaDas
- bake 2nd cake base
- ready DBD's stuff (including packing her lunch)
- 30 minutes downstairs, following the chatGPT-generated list
- drive DBD to rande-vous point (well another mom called and offered to drive her)
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
- load of outgrown lights

ToDos
- assemble cake
- 30 minutes upstairs, following the chatGPT-generated list
- 30 outside

Braindump
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- lunch
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- feed breadstarter
organization
- buy soda for twins' party
- twins' birthday party
- download tax stuff to my laptop so I can work on it while overseeing them
- update land contract
- home insurance!!!
- 15 on filing
- 15 on anniversary planning (well... I think under current conditions, I am giving up on that)
- homework and backpacks
- plan for rest of April and May
- pay balance on the trip
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS1's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
laundry
- load of darks
- load of outgrown darks
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- repot a new rose
- repot seedlings I bought
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- start cleaning out the carpool
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- start oiling garden furniture
- run pool vacuum
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading

[Kittykatt]

Trissie, I have those types of geraniums growing in the garden, they're so easy and trouble free. The ones I bought yesterday are the pelargoniums (commonly also referred to here as "geraniums"), which are actually hardy in parts of Cornwall and can grow to enormous sizes, but. Everywhere else are treated as a half hardy annual:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelargonium

I'm back from women's breakfast - there were 10 of us at our community café. It's a beautiful sunny day, so I'm going out in my garden to make the most of it.

[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 ( he found another cat under a car to try and pick a fight with! )
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
Sort out lunch for tomorrow (find recipe for tiramisu)
Bake something?
Text DF E re coffee tomorrow
Towels in machine
Towels hung up to dry
Clothes laid out for tomorrow
Clean shoes
Polish bag

Extras:
9 am women's breakfast at community shop
Find cushions for patio furniture ( they are the kind that need to be brought in at night and when it rains, so I'll hang them on the coat hooks in the hall when we're not using them)
Can I wrap another couple of items I've listed on eBay?

Garden extras:
Start planting geraniums (24)
Start planting begonias (12)
Tidy, add some new compost and feed that bowl of begonias that heroically made it through the winter - their stamina and tenacity should be rewarded!
Spray roses in front garden
Spray roses in back garden
Move 2 things from remaining mess on hard standing (I am slowly tidying it up, as it really was an eye sore, but a lot of it involves rearranging heavy bags of compost) - planting the geraniums will help with this!
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