It was breathtakingly beautiful and warm this morning up in the hills
The plaque was fitted, ready for Monday
The Saltire has been signed by the riders in the Scottish Commonwealth Games teams since Delhi...
Then a picnic lunch and a walk in the woods where one of Pirate's dogs is buried.. underground where he always loved to disappear!!
Then back home and some more quick seed sowing, getting the greenhouse working.
After a chilly night, the sun is really hot today.
Our houseguest has cleared their wood from my greenhouse!! Unfortunately it has had to go in my workshop, but at least all their wood is in one place now, and work can proceed on fitting out the van conversion. Most of the wood has already been cut to length, the present job is building drawers and cupboards from scratch..
Hopefully guest can move on within a month or so!!
The compost bin construction has begun...two stobs and one pallet for half the back. The aim today is just to do the rest of the back, a repeat of the first half, and pirate is having a siesta first. No point in overdoing things.
The top staging has been swept, now to choose and sow seeds...
Pirate's investigation was , he found out, just routine. An injection...making him "glow in the dark"!!....then a bone scan three hours later..good results, thankfully.
We used the three hours to post a sale, have a cuppa and share a cake in one of our favourite cafés, see friends...touching base after our return.
It was a very bright afternoon...not the best for showing the colours of the flowers unfortunately. The wind was strong and rather cold as well..but at least that meant the washing on the line dried quickly!!
Our house sitter is still with us, now as a house guest..their van is mid conversion...so my workshop is rather full of wood! However the kiln shed now only has kiln things inside...
I have my printing table to use as well, even though the study is full of their belongings...
They are working on their van when possible...and making art to sell which is paying for it. Can't fault that! I will be glad to have my space back when they find a place to move on to!!
There is a lot going on at the moment and I am feeling frustrated that nothing much is getting done...just small things, when big things need doing.
I must be stressing as remembering what went on yesterday gets crowded out! So I do need to blog every day!!
Anyhow, today was an awful dreich day, grey all day and rain more on than off.
I sat on the sofa most of the day, gradually re-listing more on fleabay...a pain, but at least I have a file with all the descriptions written on paper...as I forgot to archive them on the website, postings taken off are labelled Unsold, and disappear after 90 days. I couldn't access my account from NZ either....
Anyway I had my first sale this year, today!!
Post run tomorrow 🙂
It is fun taking photos from different angles!!
More items have gone on fleabay... unfortunately we were away for over 90 days, so the postings that had gone from live to dormant had just disappeared...luckily I have the listings written on file, so it is just a matter of re-photographing and re- listing.
Anything new will need market research, cleaning, weighing, measuring, describing and photographing. Mind you, there is plenty to be going on with before I get to that, and as they have been offline since November there may be a better chance of selling!!
It is still bitterly cold, but I needed a dose of vitamin D...so half an hour weeding the roses we have in pots...then sorting last year's runner bean crop
Now to sort the best for sowing soon.
One of those days that you feel you haven't done much....but you actually have.
Pirate has paid for a special seat to replace one that went derelict and was removed.....
His job today was to oversee the installation as he was still recovering from yesterday.
(We will know the results from that in a fortnight.)
The workers arrived earlier than arranged...and had it in place already!! We brought the postcrete, ready made and just needing filling in the holes and watering to make it set.
Whilst all that was going on, I took the camera and had a look at the burn...not as high as we have seen it in the past, after rain....but I still wouldn't go too near or go for a paddle!!
It's a beautiful place...and two minutes up the road is a house that pirate had wanted to buy many years ago. His boss at the time said No!!....too far from work at the airport...you should be within a reliable 30 minutes travel.
Then five years ago we had the job if grass cutting around the same house! Then with water , solar and wind power (and a generator just in case) and at that time pigs and chickens and a fruit and vege garden... previously it had been a small plant nursery with a large polytunnel, possibly run by those who bought it instead of Pirate!
Then the latest owner died, and moved to the Highlands to be with family...and now it looks like a summer holiday home. Postbox by the gate...the postie used to bring letters to the door...and a wooden frame to hold the rubbish wheelie bins...which are not there in the winter...
It's by the trees in the centre of the picture. A peaceful place.
Then the café gate...after Pirate's investigation we had a wee tiki tour and investigated a new café.
It has languished since the mines closed and industry left...but the community is now fighting back and pulling together.
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