General chat

[Dimity]

Brrr hope the coldpacks help and you can get warm again @Patches59. 

How are the circular cushions coming on? Is there any sort of cabling or other design?

I'm having to push myself to get anything done.There's a lot to catch up on after letting things slide, but I made a start this afternoon. 

The native frangipani tree is covered with buds. I expect it will flower as soon as there's a warmer day. It's beautiful but makes a lot of work when the flowers drop. 

[Patches59]

Frangipani tree flowers are beautiful, what colour will these ones be?  Is it in your garden or community garden @Dimity ?

Front garden of every new house has a tree and plants in it before settlement here.  Developers decided to put cherry plum tree in my front garden …. yuk!!     I submitted request for tree to be removed and replaced with tree I wanted.  I ended up doing it myself and planted coastal rosemary, needs a trim again which I’ll get to at some stage.

totally understandable your struggling to get things done.  I find taking this short period of time, maximum 2hrs, doing things followed by some down time for me helps me recharge.  Maybe something similar might help you.  

knitting pattern I’m using is pattern I’ve had for many years. no idea where the original double sided paper of picture and instructions has gone, I now use copy of it.  Pattern is for square textured knitted cushion.  One I’m working on I doubled the number of stitches as want it bigger when finished.  Number of stitches in the pattern procedures one side of average cushion size.  I have found one which is finished being knitted and is one side of the cushion, I’ll try to get it out of the box and take a photo within next couple of days depending on pain level

[Dimity]

It's a clever pattern @Patches59 and looks good. I bought some acrylic yarn over the last couple of weeks - blues greens and yellow ochre but I haven't started anything.

My native frangipani starts white and turns butter yellow. It's a rainforest tree unrelated to usual tropical frangipani plants. It's scented, particularly on warm nights. It's technically on the common property but in a small garden outside my livingroom window that I look after.

I just did chores for 1.5 hrs and will have a late lunch. I'll try to resist sitting down to news and Facebook. 

[Dimity]

Hope you're OK @Patches59 and the pain is under control.

I worked hard today - at least harder than usual - on chores and garden. I planted a sasanqua camellia and Arizona Sunset agastache. The weeds are taking off. 

I've been procrastinating on legal stuff I need to finish. Tomorrow i really must do it.

I took the plunge yesterday and enquired about a fortnightly exercise class. 

It's started raining quite hard. Hopefully it will settle the new plants. I have quite a few more to plant out.

Hope you have a good day tomorrow. 

[Patches59]

I’ve been taking things easy and spending majority of time of the couch since getting back here Friday morning @Dimity.  Feeling much better than yesterday and much better than I was expecting.  Tomorrow I need to start getting back into doing some things.  Hoping to go for a walk on Tuesday, depending on weather conditions.  Have had a lot of heavy rain last couple days.

Happy to hear you are enjoying spending time in your garden.  Hoping the rain hasn’t been too heavy for your newly potted plants.

I’m needing to get into routine of going for a walk, doing my physio exercises plus chair yoga.  Difficult bit will be trying to work out how to not do too much and cause flare ups in joints.

Take care

[Patches59]

Overcast, cold and miserable weather here this morning @Dimity      Both cats curled up to stay warm.

9 weeks time today will be first day of week long hospital stay.  I was going to start to unpack plus start to put items into different case, too cold to want to move off the couch.  Takes ages for reverse cycle to warm this place also ☹️.  12 degrees outside ….heater time

hope you are able to keep warm today and that rain these last couple days is helping with your gardening.  I go few weeds coming up between stones and against edge of tiled area, need to buy some spray one day soon

[Dimity]

The weather wasn't that cold here @Patches59 .

My reverse cycle aircon needs to be on a higher fan speed to really warm the place, and it's on a higher temperature setting than I'd wanted. I still have the gas space heater but rarely use it.

2 months should go quickly (if your pain is manageable).

I spent a fortune on catfood at PetBarn today but it should last weeks.

Today I was mainly working on paperwork.

[Patches59]

I didn’t do much yesterday @Dimity, what I did was too much though.  OTC pain relief plus cold pack so helpful.  Post procedure info says not to start light activity until 7 - 10 days …. Oops

Recently I recently spent a fortune on cat food from PetCircle (online store), wet food for months.  Next big expenses will be cattery fees.  Cheaper though than if I had paid for pet sitter to have stayed at my place.  Using cattery also means I don’t need to advise villagers management

[rav3n]

hey there @Patches59 @Dimity i've been catching up on the grandparents/family chats as well, intergenerational trauma definitely has its impact. it's hard when the responsibility of breaking that cycle is placed on the newer/recent gen, but every lil progress and step forward counts. 

how are you both going this week?

@Patches59 how's your recovery going? that knitted cushion pattern looks nice, how long would it take you do make it? 

@Dimity do you knit too? oo the frangipani tree flowers are so beautiful!! such tropical vibes!!

[Dimity]

I hope you didn't do any damage @Patches59 and have been able to rest up today.

Hello @rav3n. I'm not a good knitter and haven't done any for years but am thinking of picking up needles again. 

Today I had counselling. One small thing was how my great grandfather's acquired brain injury reverberated. And other things in other generations. 

Cattery fees can add up - Tiger had 4 weeks or more earlier this year - but there's peace of mind in knowing they're looked after.

The first few flowers on my native frangipani are out today. It's getting earlier each year - a few years ago it was late October. 

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