G'day, folks
Rabbit, enjoy your busy day. I hope you have dinner planned already.
Sharon/WO, I hope the weather is OK for the kids under canvas. I hope the insurance people turn up even if it rains - after all, that's when your roof is more likely to leak! YOU still have to put up with your damaged roof when it's raining, so why should they get out of having to inspect it then? fair's fair...
I had a busy day. husband left early because he was drivingMIL to the airport for the sunrise run. She flew business class and apparently they spoiled her rotten on the airline - she said she arrived even more relacxed than when she flew out. I had been worried about her because she is 85 and frail.
Then for me - the cleaning day (I work alongside my cleaner, whose bipolar seemed more out of control than usual, his moods were cycling radically). After he left I loaded up the car with the hevy-duty mulcher, the pole saw, a large plastic bucket, some empty feed sacks, the long-handled secoteurs and the ratchet secoteurs. My friend needed help removing a tree.
We got stuck into it although I still can't do a lot, my rib is still sore. I made te mistake of turning on the mulcher without first removing the garden stake that husband uses to poke the greenery in. The mulcher ate it faster than T could hit the shut-off switch! My friend, who had been wondering if my shredder could do the job, was suitably impressed.
It took us most of the afternoon, with difficult child 3 turning up to help (and complain about me being in his way, he was feeding sticks in one by one where we'd been shovelling entire branches in). It's a GOOD mulcher - all we had to do was poke the end of a branch in, and it would grab and drag the rest of the branch in, metre after metre of it, some half as thick as your arm. It was a 3 metre high weed tree loaded with ripening seed pods. Underneath are a lot of metre high saplings which were too well established to pull up, she will have to poison them.
But just before sunset she was sawing at the last of the tree and saying, asshe looked at my mulcher, "I can't believe it ate the whole thing!"
We bagged the shredded tree up and I took it home to the chooks and the compost bins.
My muscles are aching, I've got bruises from branches whipping around and lashing me, I needed a soak in a hot bath. difficult child 3 mentioned a few nights ago that with these cold nights he would [prefer a bath to a shower, so I ran a hot bath so I could soak then send the son in. It did wonders! We haven't used the bathtub since easy child 2/difficult child 2 moved out, so it was dusty and a bit cobwebby. I used the time while the bath filled to clean the bathtub first, then the bathroom walls. After my bath (while I was drying off) I opened up a new bathroom sponge packet and shammied down the mirrors. It's the easiest way to clean a bathtub - when you're in it. Similarly, wiping down steamed up mirrors makes it easiest to clean them.
JOb is done now, my muscles warmed up and hopefully I'll have more luck persuading difficult child 3 to get to bed at a decent hour.
Well, I can hope...
Tomorrow we have nothing planned (other than schoolwork followed by a tennis game afterwards).
Enjoy your Thursday, everyone.
Marg