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'Kate wrote:
Where's Bev?
Where are our newbies?

Sure is quiet around here.

Me? Oh.. things are ok. My sister shipped mom & grandma's bedroom
furniture. I can't fit it in my house. I don't want to put it in my
garage to store it. I have two pieces that fit nowhere and I'm so tired
from painting, moving, and shuffling things around this last week. These
pieces are real wood.. not the kind of stuff I'm use to. I have to teach
the teens how to watch out not to hurt the good furniture... and I
don't really want the responsibility! That's what's new at my house.
How'ya all doing?

'Kate

Hi! I'm alive! - just, been so poorly fighting that
virus off, had the worse headache for a week, even
my spine hurt, could hardly move my head cos my neck
was so sore, dr said to take paracetamol and if any
bumps came up call asap.

Its been sunny and wet this week, went to the Chemists
to buy new sun glasses cos my eyes hurt, took 5 minutes
to choose em, the moment I stepped out onto the pavement
it began to rain, yep, a sense of humour really keeps
me together somehow, if I lose my humor somethings wrong,
- sometimes life demands a little bit of the lateral,
if we don't bend a bit we'd snap.

I'm having a tidy, I came to the conclusion that I don't
possess things, they possess me. I'm a bit of a horder
mom and dad were into old stuff and old houses, something
always needed mending, restoring, decorating. Sadly I've
only inherited the junk hoarding gene, the desire to
clean it up and resell didn't come too. I've got the
'that'll come in useful I'm sure, don't bin it' and
nothing in my house is worth over a couple of lousy quid.
At one point I had 9 bikes, can you imagine? 9 bikes !
and only one of them works - the rest went into a skip.
Anything that was worth anything was sold to pay the
outstanding bills when he left.

So I cleaned out my wardrobe. It's sad to see those
lovely dresses that'll never see the twinkling lights
of a summer city evening again, I thought I'd sell those
and save, it'll be nice to take the kids on an outing.
Then lit'lun saw the loose slates up on the roof,
-and I'm sure not going up there -

We've been making patchwork (pink of course) for floor
cushions... (the bags of feathers were left over from
a sofa reupholstering episode-the sofa frame cost £10
the feathered cushions from a factory outlet)we had to
rebag them in the garden, we sneezed for a day or two.
The fabrics which don't match I'll run together anyway
and wash through with a pink dye I found.

The flour dough was a great success and we'll make
more this week.

The Ugh of the week has been the slugs. They squeeze
into my kitchen in wet weather after dark. They are
disgusting. I've tried to be green about them, you know
contemplating the beauty of Gods creatures, some are
mottled, some are brown, some even have an orange line
down each flank...you know like a go-faster-stripes?.
Ugh! Its when I'm bare foot I hate them most, I've popped
a slug in the night once before......I'm gonna find
an hedgehog and lock it in there for 24 hours. I'm sick
of sweeping up salt. Ugh! I brewed of coffee one morning
and boiled one. I only noticed when I took a mouthful.
AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!#~%!!!

Bye!

Miri

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'Kate wrote:
Where's Bev?
Where are our newbies?

Sure is quiet around here.

Me? Oh.. things are ok. My sister shipped mom & grandma's bedroom
furniture. I can't fit it in my house. I don't want to put it in my
garage to store it. I have two pieces that fit nowhere and I'm so tired
from painting, moving, and shuffling things around this last week. These
pieces are real wood.. not the kind of stuff I'm use to. I have to teach
the teens how to watch out not to hurt the good furniture... and I
don't really want the responsibility! That's what's new at my house.
How'ya all doing?

'Kate

Hi! I'm alive! - just, been so poorly fighting that
virus off, had the worse headache for a week, even
my spine hurt, could hardly move my head cos my neck
was so sore, dr said to take paracetamol and if any
bumps came up call asap.

Oh, please don't give it to me... A while back, I had something to get over
and it was quite far from fun... Hopefully you're feeling better now!

Its been sunny and wet this week, went to the Chemists
to buy new sun glasses cos my eyes hurt, took 5 minutes
to choose em, the moment I stepped out onto the pavement
it began to rain, yep, a sense of humour really keeps
me together somehow, if I lose my humor somethings wrong,
- sometimes life demands a little bit of the lateral,
if we don't bend a bit we'd snap.

It's been like that here too, I guess... It's been raining and raining, then
there's some nice sun, and more rain. Nice lightning too, and some thunder
the other night... I did not sleep well lol

I'm having a tidy, I came to the conclusion that I don't
possess things, they possess me. I'm a bit of a horder
mom and dad were into old stuff and old houses, something
always needed mending, restoring, decorating. Sadly I've
only inherited the junk hoarding gene, the desire to
clean it up and resell didn't come too. I've got the
'that'll come in useful I'm sure, don't bin it' and
nothing in my house is worth over a couple of lousy quid.
At one point I had 9 bikes, can you imagine? 9 bikes !
and only one of them works - the rest went into a skip.
Anything that was worth anything was sold to pay the
outstanding bills when he left.

I'm the same way. I'm a hoarder. Been to flylady? Fly thru the clutter
and stuff... Yeah, right... I made an attempt at the first 'task' and
scrubbing down the kitchen sink like there's no tomorrow just didn't work.
I'm sorry, I just don't have the time and patience (and I don't care enough)
to put a clean tea towel in the kitchen sinks each and every night before I
go to bed. That just seems like extra laundry to me...
I think EVERYTHING might come in handy, or be used for the first, sometimes
second time... Doesn't matter what it is. Oh, just might need this useless
kitchen gadget that I've never used before and no idea how to work it
anyways... We had a bike lot going for a while... Now it's not so bad...
Norm's a big bike fan, and 'parts' are always needed, it seems... My dirty
problem right now seems to be wooden spoons. I think there's 11 of them
right now... What I need 11 wooden spoons for is beyond me... Also, pens...
Most of them don't even work... Why am I keeping them again???
Over the last short while, I've gotten rid of a bunch of useless crap that
someone else probably could find useful... Thinking of the kitchen, I gave
away 2 small crock pots (I don't think I've ever used either of them
before), a cookie press machine - I've never baked cookies, unless all you
have to do is add some water to the powder from a package, or cut off slices
of a half frozen roll of cookie dough... a small George Foreman type indoor
grill - too small to even be somewhat useful for our famil, as it is good
enough to fit on maybe 1 boneless chicken breast - I normally need a good 5
or 6 chicken breasts cooked at a meal to feed everyone... A teeny tiny rice
cooker that is pointless when the best rice I can cook up is called, "Minute
Rice", old silverwear after I just went out and bought a new, matching set,
a bag of coffee mugs - no one even really drinks coffee around here, so I
kept a total of 6 and brought my dad over about a dozen and a half coffee
mugs for him to keep at his work... a small food chopper thing, some corning
ware type dishes... Hm.. I got rid of sooo much clutter... Then moved on to
the MANY boxes in the basement... Got rid of about 4 HUGE boxes of toys that
no one's looked at in ages and no one's missed yet... Packed up all of B's
clothes that he's grown out of - the ones that I didn't care to keep and had
no reason to keep - and passed them on to a single mom friend with a 3 year
old boy and also a 10 month old boy...Shoes, jackets, boots, pj's, shorts,
socks, shirts, jeans... You name it... Some stuff I packed in a box, but not
much! Figured I should pass on those Spiderman and Bob the Builder clothes
to a little boy who can use them now, rather than keeping all of it for Amie
to NEVER wear (as I assume a little girl would probably prefer flowers,
butterflies and Barbie over Bob the Builder, Spiderman or the Hulk, and who
knows if in 3 or 4 years kids will still like the Hulk???)
I actually didn't sell a thing... It might have come in handy to *try* and
sell some of this stuff for a bit of spare change, but I wanted it gone and
out of sight, out of mind ASAP, so I gave it away like free advice.
Plus, I was trying to cut down the clutter and useless stuff, so finding
someone who could use it helped.

So I cleaned out my wardrobe. It's sad to see those
lovely dresses that'll never see the twinkling lights
of a summer city evening again, I thought I'd sell those
and save, it'll be nice to take the kids on an outing.
Then lit'lun saw the loose slates up on the roof,
-and I'm sure not going up there -

I hauled off 2 or 3 boxes of clothes neither Norm or I have worn in forever,
and have no plans to wear in the near future, and the Goodwill was happy to
accept it all!
I also don't dare go on roofs anymore... A couple years back, I helped a
girl friend remove shingles on her roof and put shakes in. Boy, was that
NOT fun, and we were fairly unproductive. Her bro and his friend did a lot
of the work. We clung on to the peaks on the roof for dear life... She took
out a section of the railing on her bedroom's balcony, and nearly took out
her own life thanks to that roof... Me = not a fan of being up on any roof,
nevermind a 3 storey roof that is, I think, something like 8/12 or maybe
9/12 on most parts with hips and valleys everywhere you look.

We've been making patchwork (pink of course) for floor
cushions... (the bags of feathers were left over from
a sofa reupholstering episode-the sofa frame cost £10
the feathered cushions from a factory outlet)we had to
rebag them in the garden, we sneezed for a day or two.
The fabrics which don't match I'll run together anyway
and wash through with a pink dye I found.

The flour dough was a great success and we'll make
more this week.

The Ugh of the week has been the slugs. They squeeze
into my kitchen in wet weather after dark. They are
disgusting. I've tried to be green about them, you know
contemplating the beauty of Gods creatures, some are
mottled, some are brown, some even have an orange line
down each flank...you know like a go-faster-stripes?.
Ugh! Its when I'm bare foot I hate them most, I've popped
a slug in the night once before......I'm gonna find
an hedgehog and lock it in there for 24 hours. I'm sick
of sweeping up salt. Ugh! I brewed of coffee one morning
and boiled one. I only noticed when I took a mouthful.
AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!#~%!!!

Bye!

Miri

Mm.. Slugs... That would be a pain... Slugs are just homless snails...
They're the bums and hobos
Go-faster-stripes?? Like the stupid racing stripes you seem to see on every
Sunfire and Cavalier, with quite a few of the Dodge Dakotas/Rams fitting
into the 'gay' category... Maybe your slugs are just trying a bit too
hard... Just get a hedgehog. Name him Sonic and let him have some fun for
a bit They're cute anyways (the hedgehog, not the slugs)