G'day, everybody.
LDM/Sharton, don't forget to update your sig! Happy birthday for easy child.
SharonII, I'm glad you're enjoying the cooler weather.
bby - get well soon. Forget the lysol - it won't do a thing except make work. If the family is in the habit of cleaning as you go especially food prep areas, and hand-washing before meals, they'll be fine. In emergencies it helps for everyone to have their own cup and nobody to share.
Beth, all the best with difficult child 2's session today.
Linda, I also hate early starts. I always used to feel sick in the mornings, I could never stomach breakfast. And with husband's work - as my kids would say, "Just nod and smile; nod and smile."
mother in law & I saw our GP for the monthly prescriptions appointment. It really is too far from home and inconvenient not to be able to see a doctor of his standard more often. She has important blood tests due in a week and no local GP available to do them. "It's school holidays," the local practice manager told mother in law. Which means, they can't hire a locum for love nor money. I'm going to introduce mother in law to the new GP I've found, only half an hour's drive from the village. She is now my emergency GP, maybe developing into the regular GP to replace the bloke we've been seeing for ten years (and who moved so far away, blast him!)
A large cold front is moving across the east of the country, they say it's dropping rain inland which is good - a lot of farmers who planted in the June rains are now losing their crops. Here's hoping tonight's is enough to save it. It will bring us a morning storm and it's dropping a little rain tonight (literally a few drops, no more) so wish us luck in the rain department. Tomorrow is my day for hanging out the washing, so some heavy rain inland tonight, please, and then a dry sunny day would be lovely.
I rang the lasagne company today, they thanked me for telling them about the rat tooth and said they'd reimburse me for the two lasagnes I bought. Somehow I'm a bit disappointed - surely they could do more? They want me to post the rat tooth to them. husband had a closer look at it tonight, he declared it to be an upper jaw left side pre-molar (tricuspid) of a rat, probably the common black rat (feral, arrived on the First Fleet). A man of many talents, husband. I can recognise it as a tricuspid premolar and that's it. But I didn't spend as much time with rats (from that angle) as he did.
BF2 came home tonight. He absolutely adores lasagne from this shop. I collected him from the 7 pm ferry and said, "I need to discuss with you what to have for dinner. I bought two lasagnes yesterday..."
"Great! We can have lasagne..."
"Not so fast - we cooked one last night..."
"Rats!" he replied (oh boy, more than you think), "Well we can always cook the other one tonight, can't we?"
I explained to him about finding the rat tooth in last night's bought lasagne and he was quiet for a minute and finally said, "Maybe I won't have lasagne after all."
I need to find a neighbourhood dog I can feed this stuff to, if even BF2 won't eat it...
I just find it hard to think about difficult child 1 happily eating last night's lasagne, even after we found the tooth. He even went back for second helpings of rat - er, lasagne.
Sometimes life can be very INTERESTING!
Enjoy your Wednesday.
Marg