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Triple Dog Dare!

Pick 3 things
Do them
Post your TaDas!

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Don't think about it. Just do it!
~~ I Triple Dog Dare ya! ~~
Good Morning!
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A skipping rope (or jump rope) is equipment used in sport and play that involves rhythmically jumping over a rope swung underfoot and overhead. The activity is practiced recreationally and competitively, with disciplines such as freestyle routines (featuring creative, combination techniques) and speed events (maximum jumps within timed intervals).

The activity has a long history across multiple cultures. Evidence of rope-skipping dates back to ancient China, where Han dynasty peoples practiced it as part of New Year celebrations, and to ancient Egypt, where children are depicted jumping over vines. In the 16th century, European explorers recorded vine-jumping activities among Indigenous peoples in Australia.

Once treated as a gendered pastime with primarily boys skipping in Europe and America during the 16th and 17th century, as In many communities the activity was initially considered improper for girls, who were discouraged from exposing ankles;

However, participation by girls grew in the 18th century, along with the development of skipping-rope chants and games organized and led by girls, including rules about turn-taking and entry to play.

By the 19th century, skipping flourished in urban settings and children's street culture. In thei United States, smooth sidewalks and dense neighborhoods made group play easier. In the mid-20th century, educator Lucy Nulton documented rhymes that American children chanted or sang while jumping rope.

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Good morning everyone and happy Sunday!

Ime er made it back yesterday, but I did get my begonias and 12.of the geraniums planted, and the roses sprayed. Oh, and I made tiramisu for dessert today.

Today we need to leave arly as usual for church, then I'm going to visit DF E for coffee. Od like to play.t9rw.getaniums, but I'm not sore what the weather will do today.

Have a good day, everyone!

SHEM:

“May your Sunday be peaceful, soulful, restful.” — Author Unknown

To do:
Cuddles and snack for Matilda, Jude and Freddie
Bible reading and meditation
Update latest Waitrose order
Cup of tea
Get up!
Scrub out litter trays (DH)
Change sheets on bed
Shower/wash hair/moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
S/S bathroom
Physio exercises
Get dressed in casual clothes
Give everyone fresh water
Cat breakfast and meds /supplements
Breakfast and meds /vitamins for me
Hang up sheets to dry
Quick kitchen clean up
Load DW
Quick PUPA downstairs
Quick dust and Hoover downstairs
Change into smarter outfit
OTD to church
Coffee with DF E
Back home again, change back into casual clothes
Meat in oven
Coffee with DH
Put potatoes to roast
Put up my vitamins and supplements for the week
Weigh out Jude's and Matilda's dry food for the week
Quick PUPA upstairs
Fold laundry and PA
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden
Dish up lunch
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Head rubs with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Play with Freddie, Jude, Matilda
Run DW when full
Unload DW
Post list with my plans for the week
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:

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Kittykatt, thanks for the start ! I hope you have a good time at church. Oooh tiramisu...

Dogged thanks for the gardener's video. Incredible to have so much snow at the end of April... I can see how the harvest season is shorter for you Canadians !

I'm more or less caught up on posts. Such a busy Saturday. We had 4 guests for dinner. I spent part of the morning doing shopping and cooking, after an appt with my doc. MrNG did some cleaning, fortunately the house wasn't too bad. He also cleaned the barbecue, who had rusted a bit during winter. In the afternoon I managed to go to the library with DS7, also went to the pharmacist for my HRT prescription, then the guests arrived. We had a very good time, and as everyone brought food and I cooked more than needed, we have leftovers for today.
We have beautiful weather, yesterday was warm and we ate on the patio - which is a good thing because we don't have enough indoors chairs.

A lot of little things to do today... and the kids go back to school tomorrow, so our morning routines are going to be hectic again, after two weeks of calm (MrNG was home most days and I had 3 days off myself).

TADAs
up after decent night
bfast with MrNG - neither of us was hungry
handwashed a sweater, now dripping on the patio
load of delicated in

TODO
unload washer, clothes on drying rack on patio
another load ?
a letter to prepare (paperstuff, health insurance related)
also :
pic sorting and putting into photo book : February
leftovers for lunch + cook asparagus
get the kids outdoors
wash hair
have MrNG take car of my should wound (the nurse won't visit until Monday)
post list for the week
leftovers for dinner, probably
get kids to bed early - how ?

I intend to BBL.

I need to spray my roses too, kittykatt - but it's been too windy for that lately
lauralind, glad you had a good time at the concert!
Frenchie! I missed you and was wondering if you were away or something! Is your shoulder wound a new thing, or is it the absces thing from earlier? I thought that was located on your neck?

I totally crashed after 9om yesterday. Had a good 10 hours of sleep, then some lazy time in bed, but now am ready to face the day! We need to reclaim the raspberry patch, the rose arch needs some work, and I'd love to prune some bushes - we have probably two hundred bushes in our garden, and they could use some thinning and removing of dead branches. Can't be done in a single day, but over time, I will see progress!

TaDas
- really slow morning
- breakfast and coffee
- dressed to shoes
- DW unloaded
- internet time

ToDos
- 30 minutes downstairs, following the chatGPT-generated list
- start lunch
- 30 outside

Braindump
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- lunch
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- bake bread
organization
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for rest of April and May
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 towels
- load of linens
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- 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

Good morning!
Thanks for the start Kittykatt! Confession: I could never skip... or, at least, could not get a flow with a rope...
Love reading about your gardening... I just noticed the ferns are poking their heads through the soil... Slow start, but a start.

trissie you NEEDED that sleep! Good that you got it.
FFly good to have a few days quiet... How is your shoulder healing?

I'm up ... a little sluggish: spent about an hour trying to control a coughing fit last night just before bed...
I have a class this morning, then we are watching an afternoon play off game. In between, I must take my pup out: the sun is shining!

Need to get moving with MR/meds etc.

trissie it's still the same wound, the kyst was located halfway between shoulder and nape. I had nurses visiting daily at home since the 4th of April, we agreed on Friday that MrNG would check on the thing himself and they would return on Monday, then maybe it will just be a "normal" wound and heal without need for supervision.
I've been following your difficult times, added stress and improvisation to your already very full days... I hope you can find a way to at least get some predictability in the coming days and weeks.

kitkat, the ferns are the first signs of Spring where you are ? The wound is healing well but it's been very slow ! Difficult to be home every day from 6pm to 7pm for the nurse visit, no way to do after work shopping or errand of any kind, for 3 weeks already. And I should consider myself lucky that the nurses visit at home, instead of having to go someplace in a waiting room full of people. Anyway MrNG will do most of the supervision from now on.

We ate leftovers for lunch, and asparagus because Spring can't be Spring without a few dishes of asparagus. So now there are the same number of plates and dishes of leftovers, the fridge is a Tetris game, and an added plate of leftover asparagus on a pile of other things .
We must remember not to do the weekly groceery shopping on the same day that we're hosting dinner !

TADAs
unload washer, clothes on drying rack on patio
another load
letter ready to post (heallth insurance stuff)
leftovers for lunch + cook asparagus
played 5-10 mins of soccer with DS7 in the garden
10 mins of dandelion busting

TODO
pic sorting and putting into photo book : February
get the kids outdoors
wash hair
have MrNG take car of my shoulder wound (the nurse won't visit until Monday)
vacuum upstairs
post list for the week
leftovers for dinner, probably
get kids to bed early - how ?

I hope to BBL.