The Good Day All Thread

Good Tuesday morning all. Currently 21°C and clear. The heat warning continues and I've got another hot day to deal with. Some rain would be a great thing, but I don't think theres any in the forecast for at least a few days.
Last night after work I was kinda moody. Came home and had a swim and then started looking around the yard and on the porches and outside the garage and realized there was lots of stuff laying around. I cleaned all that up by putting things away and raking a little and felt much better about the way things looked. Then I watered the garden and had another swim and went to bed. I guess today will be much of the same at work and chances are I'll be a little moody again too. haha
Have a great day all

 

Today is to be our first three digit day of the year. No one is complaining, since by this time we usually have had at least 10, sometimes more, days at or above 100 degrees.
We had bunnies dancing on the front and back yards, and the cat watched them from inside the air conditioned house. She ain't no dumb bunny!
Not much on tap today except a bit of cooking (pasta salad in deference to the weather) and a lot of cat petting.
Hope you all stay cool and content today!

 

Happy Birthday to everyone I missed!

A bit of summer doldrums here. When it's too hot, I go out in the cool am to water everything. It takes an hour or two. I put several watering cans in a wagon and pull them to where they are needed, to reduce carrying and trips, and speed it up.

I am starting to plan for next year. There will be more downsizing the gardens. The container mini-dahlias make a big splash, then don't amount to much. So I won't overwinter those. I also want to reduce the container roses by 1/3 or 1/2, planting the biggest into the main rose garden where they need less care. The big motivation was fragrance, but they are not that fragrant after all. I will get rid of half of the day-lilies. I might dig up a favorite or two and containerize them this winter, so they can be enjoyed more on the front deck.

It's gradual, one step at a time, but a true reversal from years of adding more. There is a genuine sense of reduced burden. I want to cut back the container border too, mostly the geraniums. There it's a problem of, they all look too nice, plus I get attached to them after caring for them for many years, and nobody will want those. I think I'll pick a few that won't get overwintered but keep most of them.

Indoors, the decluttering is slowed down because there is so much less, which is nice. There is still some to do. I contacted two quilt museums to see if they want my great-grandmother's century-old quilt. No response so far. Ditto with the 60 year-old "vintage" sewing machine I posted to sell.

I removed hard drives from three old lap-top computers. The computers went to Best Buy for their recycle program. I need to destroy the hard drives. There is one more lap top remaining.

We had new flooring installed in the front entrance and hallways. More bright white-ish marble-ish. It's a light brighter! New baseboard, also nicer! Next comes painting. I have been procrastinating that.

We bought a Roomba robotic vacuum that also dry mops. That's a big help too.