02-12-2022, 02:48 PM
Hi from a lovely sunny HB supposed to rain tonight so that will save me watering my veggies -I didn’t keep track of which seed was which - one cucumber is so much faster and more prolific than the other - they are the short green ones - tomatoes have already started to ripen but the lettuces have bolted and the radishes they are all tops.I belong to a veggie swap group - swapped 8 avocado for half a dozen free range eggs which turned out to be bantam size with no yolks - won’t swap with her again
Hunny the cat I am sure has found the perfect home - I let my family talk me out of getting another dog - shouldn’t have listened to them - I still miss him and I used to walk 2km everyday now hardly ever go walking - give myself all sorts of excuses why I shouldn’t
I have been watching a pair of young blackbirds construct a nest in my kowhai tree - kept telling them it wasn’t the ideal place - yesterday the nest ended up on the lawn - it was so intricately built I put it back as high as I could reach but they flew off and I haven’t seen them today
I have stayed away from any where I am likely to get covid including the doctor - actually that’s not true it’s not because of covid I never go just ring for the repeat of the same meds I have taken for years - new doctor insisted I come in for blood tests wouldn’t give me a repeat until I did - so went Monday and was gobsmacked to see people without masks - the nurse who took my blood was maskless - received notification yesterday that several staff had tested positive so to be wary of any symptoms - grrr.Good to hear your recovery is progressing well Kiwimade - one of my sons now has it for the second time - he is supposed to be shearing his sheep tomorrow hope he doesn’t overdo it
New low at the supermarket yesterday - a 13 year old girl pulled a knife on another shopper - somebody is going to get really hurt - both my grandkids are working during the holidays along with several other school and Uni kids frightening really
Lilith thank you for the heads up re the genre of my neighbours style of painting - has made me really look at her work - it has many layers - I have never really looked at abstract art before .She is enjoying being here - she is a night owl like me so instead of the whole street being in darkness except me by about 10.30 she stands out like a beacon as she is two story .When we were young my Dad started a trucking company and we were really hard up - so on an occasional Sunday evening as a family outing for us 5 kids he would borrow my Granddads car and bring us into town and we along with other families would park outside what I thought at the time was the most magnificent two story house - it has a big front window and a staircase coming down into the large front room - the lady of the house would come down the staircase to her grand piano with a huge candelabra and play for us all for about an hour - my grandads car doors opened in the middle - we used to sit there with the doors wide open - I can’t really remember the music but my over active imagination used to have me coming down those stairs .My Dad would be tickled pink to think I am now living opposite this very same house
Hunny the cat I am sure has found the perfect home - I let my family talk me out of getting another dog - shouldn’t have listened to them - I still miss him and I used to walk 2km everyday now hardly ever go walking - give myself all sorts of excuses why I shouldn’t
I have been watching a pair of young blackbirds construct a nest in my kowhai tree - kept telling them it wasn’t the ideal place - yesterday the nest ended up on the lawn - it was so intricately built I put it back as high as I could reach but they flew off and I haven’t seen them today
I have stayed away from any where I am likely to get covid including the doctor - actually that’s not true it’s not because of covid I never go just ring for the repeat of the same meds I have taken for years - new doctor insisted I come in for blood tests wouldn’t give me a repeat until I did - so went Monday and was gobsmacked to see people without masks - the nurse who took my blood was maskless - received notification yesterday that several staff had tested positive so to be wary of any symptoms - grrr.Good to hear your recovery is progressing well Kiwimade - one of my sons now has it for the second time - he is supposed to be shearing his sheep tomorrow hope he doesn’t overdo it
New low at the supermarket yesterday - a 13 year old girl pulled a knife on another shopper - somebody is going to get really hurt - both my grandkids are working during the holidays along with several other school and Uni kids frightening really
Lilith thank you for the heads up re the genre of my neighbours style of painting - has made me really look at her work - it has many layers - I have never really looked at abstract art before .She is enjoying being here - she is a night owl like me so instead of the whole street being in darkness except me by about 10.30 she stands out like a beacon as she is two story .When we were young my Dad started a trucking company and we were really hard up - so on an occasional Sunday evening as a family outing for us 5 kids he would borrow my Granddads car and bring us into town and we along with other families would park outside what I thought at the time was the most magnificent two story house - it has a big front window and a staircase coming down into the large front room - the lady of the house would come down the staircase to her grand piano with a huge candelabra and play for us all for about an hour - my grandads car doors opened in the middle - we used to sit there with the doors wide open - I can’t really remember the music but my over active imagination used to have me coming down those stairs .My Dad would be tickled pink to think I am now living opposite this very same house