Yawn yawn, wakey wakey summer (or is it) 2017

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  1. CanadianLori

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    Good day everyone
    It is going to be another sunny day - the guessers have said it will be 84f that will feel like 97f when considering the humidity level. Guess I'll be putting some shading on the greenhouses.

    Being Sunday, I shall be spending most of the morning in the kitchen. My full week of Corrie episodes will keep me company while I bake some breads and putter :)

    I hope everyone has a lovely day and plays safe!
     
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      Aloha everyone,

      We got back from France last night and are trying to catch up on everything :phew:. Got through all phone messages and am working my way through the snail mail. Washing and drying done but ironing still to do (@CanadianLori how about you popping over to do it for us? :thumbsup: :heehee:).

      I'll need to check on whether the runner beans have decided to go to seed from not being picked for over a week :sad: but haven't had time to do that yet. I'll be in meetings from 10.00 until about 2.30 so it will have to wait until then.

      Keep well and have a great day :biggrin:

      Aloha!
       
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        Good morning fellow WW'ers :spinning:

        Last weeks trip to Wales went well and the Graduation ceremony was so well organised and presented it was a really moving occasion. I've attended graduations at Kent, Lincoln and Swansea and I have to say that Swansea wins, hands down, for presentation, content, atmosphere and celebration. Well done, Swansea :thumbsup:

        We stayed in a B&B which I had stayed at twice when #2 son was in his first term of his first year and it was as good as I'd remembered it. The only problem we had was that #2 son had to be at the campus for 9am. No problem, Merle would serve breakfast at 7am :phew:
        However, when out for the evening meal and checking up on parking .. no parking on campus and the only way to park and get there was by a special park and ride service a few miles outside of Swansea and the only bus was at 8am :hate-shocked:
        No problem, Richard offered to drive us there so we could relax over breakfast! :phew: How kind was that? :thumbsup:
        Gave Mr "M" a bit of a scare on the drive home ... I was in the back seat and had my camera with me. Felt a bit bored, so down went the window so I could play ... why did that scare him? ... because, at one point, I had to lean slightly out of the window and steady the camera above the roof of the car to take a picture :lunapic 130165696578242 5: So, I got a lecture on the demerits of doing it :waggy: speed :rolleyes: ... :waggy: overtaking lorries :rolleyes: ... :waggy: arm chopped off :shakehead: ... :waggy:lose the camera :rolleyes: ... *anything* could have happened yadda-yadda-yadda :slaphead: Naturally, I pointed out the benefits: ... no backseat driving! :thumbsup: :heehee:

        Finally got Ozzy booked in with a Hydrotherapist! :yahoo: Had one lined up, but there was a communication issue and half way between trying to sort that out, I found another one :heehee: This one has the water treadmill (as did the other) but also has a very long pool :yes: It also does lazer treatment :yes: :yes: and a physio who does all three treatments :yahoo: So, I'm very happy that Ozzy will have all of his treatments under one roof instead of 3 different places and the biggest bonus ... he's booked in for his preliminary hydro session *this* Thursday, with two more appointments scheduled in for next week! The way things were looking with the other one, it would have been next week or beyond before we could even get the initial assessment done! The physio Ozzy was under (until this morning) has only seen him once and has rescheduled the 2nd appointment three times :th scifD36: so I think this new one is where we were meant to be ;) Can't believe how excited I am for him :redface:

        He has improved a bit over the past few weeks and is less stiff/lethargic but is still on restricted walks. I bought a toy for him to keep his mind active and last night he was going at it with a vengeance! :heehee: He was chasing it around the room, knocking it under the coffee table and searching for it the other side - it was hilarious!! A heart-warming moment to see him almost back to his old self in terms of joie de vivre :doggieshmooze:

        Miles of smiles and positive vibes for all
        xxMxx
         
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          Good day everyone
          @shiney I'll be finished the ironing in quick time - my boiler system hold 7 liters of water and the iron head weights almost 8 pounds - can get a lot of ironing done quick with that :)

          @"M" I am happy to hear that Ozzie is improving.

          I shall be spending a good part of the day working at my blind hemmer to get these panels closer to completion. I don't have a delivery date but I do prefer to get in-house work finished and ready to go so that I can play with a clear conscience :)

          And I'd better get on with it!

          Have a super day and play safe ;)
           
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            Good Morning all, Have a good day, stay warm and dry and above all safe and well.
            God bless.:wub2:

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              Aloha everyone,

              There were not too many disasters in the garden but the person who was doing the watering didn't water some of our chilli plants properly. Three were almost dead but two of them are recovering well and one is struggling. These were our next three biggest Nagas that were due to be delivered to the Indian restaurant this week :doh:

              The black plum tree has branches snapped or breaking under the weight of the fruit :sad: These are/were large branches between 10ft and 20ft. I've managed to prop up some.

              Beans have done brilliantly :hapydancsmil: and I've picked loads of runners, French and Bridgwater
              (@Zigs do you want us to give Bridgwater seeds to people at the end of the season?), courgettes are now marrows and I've picked lots of blackberries, plums and rhubarb.

              It took me an hour to weigh up and bag them for sale and shall be picking and bagging more this morning. I hope to get about £50 for the charity today. :blue thumb:

              The trouble with all this cropping is that it's not too good for my back so I have to take a lot of breaks. Sarafi came and joined me for a chat (I think he was saying "feed me") when I took a break.

              Keep well and have a great day :biggrin:

              Aloha!
               
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                Morning early people :)

                Only quick visits here for the next few days, my data is running low and doesn't renew till saturday :doh:

                Yep, good idea to spread the seed @shiney :thumbsup: Glad they're cropping well :)

                Sounds like a good time in Wales @"M" :)

                Have a good day everyone :spinning:
                 
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                  Good day everyone
                  We are looking at another sunny day here. The grass could certainly use some water and we are promised some toward the end of the week. Guess I'll have to water the driest spots while we wait for it.:fingers crossed:

                  I am attending a celebration of life today at the Royal Botanical Gardens here in Ontario. The RBC covers 2700 acres however I shall be in the main building remembering another young life lost to cancer instead of visiting the gardens.:sad:

                  I must try to get some work done on setting up a website for my younger son. I had used one host only to find that their platform really sucks. A friend who is a mucky muck in the IT area gave me the name of an excellent platform and a good quality web hoster so I feel like I have cheated on my exams! But, I will have to spend a good deal of time learning these new apps. :doh:

                  @shiney I went for a low flow irrigation system to try to avoid plants being left out of the watering cycle. Mine isn't automated but the instructions are, turn on faucet, open valve marked "raised bed" for umpty minutes,close, then open .... My gardens are much smaller than yours so it was not too expensive for me to do this. :)

                  Have a good day and play safe!
                   
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                    Morning early people :)

                    Raining here :sad:

                    Have a good day everyone :spinning:
                     
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                      Good morning all, have a good day, stay warm and dry and above all safe and well. God bless. :wub2:

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                        Aloha everyone,

                        It was sunny earlier but is now overcast. I hope to cut down the wild area and mow today.

                        @CanadianLori over 40 years ago I put in a watering system but it became too much effort to keep it working. We must have over 1,000 plants in the greenhouse and they are constantly being moved in or out. so the system was mainly to water the capillary matting and into pots that would be there a long time. It's too much effort, nowadays, to even change the matting (I think we may have changed it about 25 years ago :rolleyespink:) and we never clean the greenhouse any more. :old: Fortunately we don't seem to have any diseases and no resident snails. :fingers crossed:

                        Keep well and have a great day :biggrin:

                        Aloha!
                         
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                          Hi Shinny ,
                          Is your greenhouse a scheduled Ancient Monument or on the Buildings at Risk Register ? :roflol:
                           
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                            Ooh I've only just realised ( reading it back ). Sorry you're Shiney not Shinny aren't you :)
                             
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                              @KFF Definitely buildings at risk register.

                              About five years ago I got the manufacturer's people round to see whether they could do some replacement of rotten wooden parts. They took one look at it and said "No!". The sections come in 5ft x 2.5ft size. Unfortunately, they are now metric so wouldn't fit. They also said that if they tried to replace them the greenhouse might collapse so they would have to, first take it down and then rebuild it with new parts. Cost was £3,500 (I think) :rolleyespink:. A new one would cost about double that. :doh:

                              Their recommendation was to leave it as it is and hope it doesn't fall down. As some of the roof glass panels (5ft x 2.5ft) were sliding out because of rotten wood a friend and myself replaced the wooden batons ourselves (he's an expert DIY person and a carpenter and I was his apprentice on this job). We've replaced the batons on one side of the roof. The worst parts are right at the bottom of the greenhouse but they can't be replaced. :dunno:
                               
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                                I'm used to answering to anything! At work it was usually "Oy, You!".
                                 
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