in further chicken news, all the hens are together-they have or still are establishing pecking order but it's not bad at all anymore. they also will be staying in again today as the weather has been way too hot for them out there. i put the ducks in the back pen with a pond and falstaff in the upper pen with a pond......... and kept chickens in the cool basement.
yesterday i got all my summer tops washed but not ironed.....which began the quest for a new iron.
hmmm if any of you have shopped for a new iron lately (and started that shopping by reading reviews) you will understand the state i'm in at the moment....... no one iron is good... it seems that even with in irons that have the bulk of good reviews there are a ton of bad things. seems to me that it's an "iffy" thing this whole iron business.
some irons work fine but sometimes the very SAME model is a total garbage experience. with the manufacturers not really caring either way.
and bad irons are actually BURNING
great
now what do i do?
i can't wear wrinkled seersucker, i just can't
ewwwwww
do i go back to the old fashioned sad iron?
and don't think i haven't considered it...........
oye
today's agenda:
first up the post office as my post master called me that there are packages for me (must be a lot of them)
then maybe kmart for an iron
if i find one under 12.00 then that's the way i'll go. considering it is most likely disposable
after that...... winter clothes washed... (they'll be needing the iron too)
flannels hand washed and hung...... with one sweater a day washed as all my sweater dryers have broken their plastic stretcher thingies.....( i need to make something for the sweaters..... the netting is still good)
has anyone noticed that at no time do the words..'dust, .... vacuum,...... sweep' enter the conversation...
oye
i have to do them shortly and really i hate them
i'll be ok once i start doing them, it's the starting of doing them that is my problem......that and i don't have a vacuum.
doesn't everything stay better with ohhhh sayyyyyyyy two or three inches of dust on it? did wonders for Pompeii didn't' it?
and i love early halloween ..........no?
well that's my story
and i do love halloween so there
anyway being forced to have to consider dusting........ i also better consider a strategy as there are area's around the bookcases that i am not kidding about the 2-3 inches of dust.
please i never READ THOSE BOOKS anyway....
i also need to decant budgie seed into jars,
start brussel sprout seeds
continue to weed the garden
battle slugs ( i hate slugs- currently i am slightly ahead.......but that will change with the rain)
grind some wheat (which i will again find a reason to put off)
i have to bundle some old magazines and catalogs for recycling, they can't be used in the garden or composted due to the paper (and inks)
however most of the mountain of cardboard can and has been SAVED for garden use.
i think that needs to move out of the front room though
for right now however i am drinking my first cup of coffee
talking to you folks, hoping i didn't make too many typo's in this post
morning everyone
We also photograph eggs and other evidence of a productive home grown life. So glad to see you do, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm going through bookshelves as well. We sadly did not produce prolific readers and so are going to let go of the "legacy" of approximately 10,000,000 paperback books. I don't know what we'll do for insulation now.
-Garilynn
On the iron front--I will only ever get a Black and Decker Classic iron. The others are so light that you have to apply too much pressure to get anything ironed. Exhausting. And I don't ever put water in them, I use a spray bottle. Just my 2 cents.
ReplyDeleteLove the eggs. Wish I had the nerve to have some chickens. Not sure I could give the care they need in the winter months. I just buy irons at yard sales now. I bought a couple new ones and they were terrible. Have a good Holiday weekend.
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