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Catching up & a few more blocks.

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Last week we all ended up sick – fortunately not with covid, or the flu but the last few days I’ve just been resting/sleeping on the lounge all day. Today I’m feeling a lot better and have been up and about getting things done again.

I did get a few more blocks done for Summer in the Country:

I have the rest of the blocks cut out ready to sew. I’m looking forward to seeing this quilt top completed, its such a bright happy pattern.

DH and I are starting to work out new routines to our days together. Mostly its work about the house, having a leisurely morning tea together out on the front verandah when the weather is nice and planning our trips to the shops or to do errands together. I am enjoying this more relaxed pace so much 🙂 

This morning DH finished changing all our door handles over to lever handles instead of doorknobs. They look great and they are so much easier for me to use. I have arthritis in my hands and have found it difficult at times to turn the door handles.  

I’ve been plodding away at decluttering so we took 8 bags to the op shop today and stopped off at Bunnings on the way home to get some potting mix and some geraniums that were marked down. I’m planning on starting some seedlings this week but I cannot remember where I put the packets of seeds! As my family say – I put them in a safe place, I just don’t know where that is! If I have also been saving some seeds from my veggies and some cuttings. Vegetables are getting so expensive it just makes sense to grow them to save a bit of money and growing the from scraps saves even more. Do you grow veggies from scraps or have a veggie garden?  If so what do you grow – open to suggestions – I am cold climate NSW.

TGIF!

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 Oh thank goodness its Friday! The last week has been a bit of a sleepy blur here. I’ve had a virus and basically just slept and slept I went back to work yesterday and slept 13 hours last night! Just so fatigued and no energy at all but otherwise I feel well now.

Tests for Covid were negative but the symptoms were all there except the cough so it was either a mild case or just another viral illness doing the rounds at the start of the school year. 

So I’ve done no sewing at all and I’m hoping to get back into it and get caught up this weekend. 

Only six weeks to go until retirement! 

Holidaying at home.

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Earlier in the week I made a big pot of split pea soup and froze eight individual serves. I love soup and its been my breakfast each morning this week – its been quite cold here with some light snow about half an hour away so soup for breakfast really hits the spot. 
There were a few good specials at the supermarket this week so I will be doing some more cooking for the freezer this week as well. 

After 10 weeks working from home (12 for DH) we are both taking a week off – we’re having a holiday at home and I’m really looking forward to getting some work done around the house.

When we made the decision to change our downsizing plans and stay in this house when we retire, it meant that we will need to do different work on the house than if we were selling. We’ve been making plans for a big vegetable garden so that we can reduce our food costs when we retire. 
I love gardening and years ago we had beautiful gardens including a veggie garden out the back. But both of us had a few significant injuries that slowed us down a lot and now, after years of neglect,  we just have an overgrown mess to transform. I’m excited to get started! I’ll be quite happy to spend my retirement pottering about house & garden all day, and having the time to work in the garden.
Yesterday I made a list of what I’d like to get done before we retire and I’ve added it as a new page at the top of the blog. We need to update kitchen & bathrooms, get solar power put on and make the yard easier to manage. Theres painting to do and insulation needs to be re-done.  We still have quite a lot to get done to be ready to retire and so this week we’ll be getting started on that list. I don’t plan on spending huge amounts and we’ll DIY as much as we can.