Yawn Yawn, wakey wakey !! 2015 mk 2

Good afternoon @shiney I shall remember you for your inventive mind after all "invention is the mother of necessity"

 

Good morning everyone hope you are all in fine fettle and rearing to go,enjoy your day and look after yourselves

 

Morning @bigbore my friend best time of the day

 

Aloha everyone,

It's already a warm and sunny day

I found yesterday quite a tiring day and I think the hot sun probably had something to do with it. I started trying to catch up on bookwork about 2.30 a.m., fed the birds about 4.30 and then and stood near the feeder to watch them mob it - they got rather noisy .

We got a phone call from guests saying that one of them had a problem and they wouldn't arrive until 3.30, so change of timetable. As they were going to be late I set up the sprinkler in the front garden to water the new bed as it dries out quickly because all the compost, horse manure etc. hasn't consolidated properly yet. Setting this up takes over half an hour as I have to get out the extension hose and fit it (and move the cars).

Then I did a load of weeding in the veg plot which included digging out another eight brambles (ouch!). This was followed by an emergency fix on the greenhouse as another of the big glass roof panels was sliding out (run round in circles in panic ). Worked on how to do a total repair on the roof - with advice and help from a DIY friend.

As the wood that holds the clips that hold the glass panels in place (each are 5ft x 2.5ft) is completely rotten the clips won't stay in any longer. My friend said that all the timber strip needs replacing. So I went out to buy the timber. The thickness of the timber had to be exact because it would be sitting under the edge of the glass and the glass would have to slide over it and into its grooves.

So, having been out to get 4 lengths of 2400 x 70 x 1.5mm and a pot of preservative (plus a load of other things for Mrs S) I got back after our guests had turned up! As the sprinkler was in the way I had to quickly (relatively, as it was now 78F) move it so that I could get my car in and then juggle cars around so that I could wind the 100ft extension of hose back.

Then set the sprinkler up on the veggies (for those of you that have been to Shineyland you know that the plot is 300ft from the front garden).

After that it was just socialising and cooking. They enjoyed themselves sitting in the garden but it was getting too hot for me (eventually went up to 84.3F). By the time they had gone I was feeling a wee bit tired.

Today will be more relaxed. Lunch with friends at a pub (after some gardening) then off to a charity soiree (aren't we posh ) this evening. The house that the soiree will be is owned by a lovely couple. She was an opera singer but tends to sing standards, jazz and blues at this event. There'll be a buffet, lots of chatting and wandering around their nice garden.

Have a great day

Aloha!

 

A bit too warm and sticky this afternoon. No sunshine but over 80F. I started scrubbing part of the awning but got too hot. As we're going out soon I decided to stop (don't need much of an incentive ).

We're taking some food for the buffet at the musical soiree. I'm not going quite like this

 

Aloha Shiney and everyone,

The charity Soiree was good . Friendly people, very nice garden and good singing. The pianist was fantastic and was the only accompaniment to the singer. He did some solos of Jazz, blues and light opera (used to be in a pop band in the 50's/60's ). The singer (ex opera and musical star) sang songs from shows, standards, blues and light opera (Madam Butterfly etc.)

Today I hope to get a bit of weeding done before opening the bridge club. For the last hour or so I've been setting up files for our holiday photos and started transferring them to their sub folders. When I've done that I can start to delete all the rubbish and the duplicates (we both took photos). That will take a good few hours as I have to make folders for all the sites we visited, search the, almost, 2,000 photos to transfer them to the correct folders and then study each one in order to decide what gets deleted.

I always do this with our photos as filing them under lots of headings helps us to remember what they are and where they were taken. Otherwise, in a years time, or ten years, I wouldn't have the faintest what they were! I also take notes at some places but it certainly helps to file the photos properly.

Sun is shining and it's already 64F

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning Shiney and all my other friends are we all good and feeling fine on this Bonus of an August morning,the sun is shining the sky is blue ,enjoy your say my friends and take care

@shiney so pleased that you enjoyed the Charity Soiree yesterday

 

Hi @moyra

Don't let them talk you into getting new glasses unless you really need them. When I had my eyes tested a few weeks ago they said that my prescription had changed. So I asked them by how much and they said 'not a lot' and, when I asked them if I would be able to tell the difference, they said not to bother getting new ones.