And I did say I was not going to post on a Saturday but I was out for a birthday drink with my old school chum last night.
We share the same birthday. Same day, same age. Born on different continents. So, this morning I seem to be mooching about in bed just a little longer than I should.
Plus it is pouring down rain.
Rain always gives me the feeling of cocoons and coziness.
Everything is still so green outside. Rain and warmth does that to a field.
Him Indoors AKA The Blind Mower will be picked up by The Tall Teenager ( who is not a teenager any longer) shortly, to drive through the rain to Missouri to collect The Matriarch and bring her back – God Help Us All. It is about a five day drive. So I have two days of peace. The moment I introduced second hand shops to these two they took to the idea like ducks to water (permission to spend!) and have second hand shops and brick a brack halls all mapped out for the journey so I bet they will shop all the way there and all the way back.
Our John came back with a chip cutter the other day. A device specifically designed to cut a potato into chips (French Fries). (Sigh) It was only $7.50. He told me. I shook my head. I object to devices that only have one use. But he is having fun. At least it was second hand I thought. And if we keep the box we can sell it back for a dollar.
Time to get off out into the rain and feed out in the barn. Then back to my desk to continue the edits on tomorrow’s Letter from The Kitchens Garden Farm. I think I don’t want to finish it.
For you new readers it will be published through the door labeled Letters to my Mother on the platform named SubStack.
Where I am training myself to write. Longform.
Have a lovely day.
Celi
PS My favorite comment yesterday was from Sherry: As my grandma would say, “it’s a grand life if you don’t weaken”.
Isn’t that fantastic!!🤭
PSS. Pop over to see TKG Take Ten – 10 minutes in the barn. The pigs were doing their sitting on command practice. Funny! Though you will note what a bully Jude is sometimes.
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37 responses to “I know it is Saturday”
I love that quote. Have a great day.
Me too! It made me laugh out loud!
The weather has been really strange this year. Last week we had snow, rain, winds, sun, and yesterday it hit 53 degrees and felt like spring!
Snow in the mix too! Gosh – you had all the seasons. I could do without the wind.
Me too!
Me too!
Happy Birthday to both of you …yesterday!
Off to visit your blog pages now to see what deliciousness you cooked up this weekend!
Well Happy Birthday! I have a friend who has a special friend who, since retiring, has taken up going to estate sales, tag sales, yard sales, garage sales… She prefers to now call him a hoarder 🙂
Deb, when we first moved back to the U.S. from Asia I went to all of the above you mentioned to furnish our house. We had totally planned on a sustainable farm with little $ we didn’t make on the farm going out. It was great fun! But after getting everything we needed, and not needing anything else (we are fortunate!) I rarely went. Going and looking around is fun, but it can get out of control, like the friend’s friend you mentioned and people can totally lose it and become hoarders! I always think before I buy something, does it have a function and do I have a place for it? Now a days I rarely end up buying anything! 🙂 Or maybe just one thing I decide I can’t live without! 🙂
I can see the draw to finding deals, which is apparently how it started with the “hoarder” who always intended to fix, improve, or alter an item and then resell those things. The problem I am told is that the fixing, etc. never really gets done and the things just keep multiplying. It drives her crazy especially because she is a total minimalist- almost the opposite extreme of the hoarder I think 🙂
Yikes! That has got to be a tough one to deal with for her! Maybe as things pile up she can surreptitiously sneak the oldest items back to a thrift shop far away where he won’t come across them again. 😉
Are you sure you are not talking about Him Indoors? This sounds SO familiar!
LOL! Well, unless he travels frequently and quickly back and forth to Washington I suspect Him Indoors is simply one of many older men who enjoy “getting a great deal” on things 😉
Do I have a place for it is SO important. Can I even fit this in my house. If you saw Johns room you would see that he has the potential to be a major hoarder, I just shut the door. If I own anything more than two suitcases worth I start to hyper-ventilate. I ned to be able to pick up my pasta machine and move FAST!
Yes!!! Happy Happy Birthday Celi!!! I hope you’ll be kicking up your heels and celebrating all week long!!! I celebrate the entire month! 🙂 I mean, why not?!? And second hand shops are the absolute best! I rarely shop anywhere else!!!
Our birthdays were a week ago actually – and I tend to ignore birthdays to tell the truth. Thank fully everyone is grateful to be let off the ‘present hook’ so it is rarely celebrated.
Happy birthday and love the quote!
Thank you and yes I love that quote too!
Happy birthday, even though you don’t wish to acknowledge it.
And rain..It rained non stop here yesterday and it is looking to do the same today. I heard a quote years ago about rain – “Do not be angry with the rain for falling down, it simply doesn’t know how to fall up.” And hoarders? My late sister was a hoarder. I am glad I didn’t/couldn’t help with cleaning out her apartment after she died.
What a lovely quote!! That reminds me of something an old lady told me once when I said, it’s pouring down rain outside. She said. It would look bloody silly if it was pouring up!
Indeed!
Well, I’ll qualify my words and say ‘Happy happy happy belated birthday’ and may the forthcoming 350-odd ones in the coming year forget to bring anything unwanted . . . bestest from Down Under . . .
Thank you Eha. Have a lovely day!
Happy belated birthday to you…does your small town “allow” you have a drink with someone other than your husband…? 🙂
Hey Henrietta- not sure I understand the question?
What I mean is, do the folks say that it wouldn’t be appropriate because people might think that you and your husband are not still together as a married couple.
No. I just live my life. I don’t think our town even notices nor would anyone care what I do. Nor would I care if they did gossip. No one ‘allows’ me to do anything. I mean – they don’t comment when John goes out to the bar two or three times a week – why would they bother with me going out for my birthday.
Plus I travel – a lot.
Oh, my… okay. I appreciate your candor. I don’t get out much.
That’s ok. People don’t have a right to ‘allow’ other people to do stuff. Women are free to be themselves now. Great question though.
Second hand shops are fine so long as you follow the ‘one in, one out’ rule… Personally, I prefer the one in, three out. Can we start a collection of favourite sayings? Mine’s the catch-all ‘Lord willing and the creek don’t rise’. So appropriate here in monsoonal weather, since the creek rises with monotonous regularity in the Wet.
One in and three out works for me. And I love the idea of collecting great sayings.
Love how Freebee gave way to Jude, but continues giving a piece of his mind well after walking away… 😁
Lovely sound of your chooks in the background: )
Yes! That is a fantastic quote! Gonna embroider that on my heart.
Hang it on the wall! It may be a little less painful!
yeah. you’re right. went a little crazy with the metaphor. 🙂
May these next twelve months be good for both of you !