...allowed me to eat this! A lovely breakfast (+ 2 slices f bread and butter, one with added marmalade) for 636 calories....
Leading on from Hidden 's message a while ago about what percentage our other halves do or don't get involved in the housework.
There is something about.... sheds and work benches / garage and my "chaps" - both husband and the man who comes and does about 2 hours in the garden each week.
At the start of the summer, I opened the door to the shed... and WELL I went crazy! I couldn't get in there for the mess - plastic pots, netting, paddling pools, plastic cloches, canes, etc all jumbled in there.
In my anger, I went in and started throwing everything OUT! Once it was out, I then started to put things back in TIDILY! I quite enjoyed making about 20 stacks of different sized plastic pots on the workbench in there... which took up far less space than the 70 or so different stacks that had been there before. I encouraged hubbie to help me fold the nets and tidy the cloches from their tangled mess....
Today we were in the garage looking for the plastic plug that goes int he ground when you take the rotary shopping line out. For the past two winters, we have not bothered, thinking we'll remember where the hole is in the lawn... but of course once the leaves have fallen and the grass around it have grown, we can't locate it without thorough searching on hands and knees!
Once again, I busied myself with sorting out what was there - various hand tools, parts for the house, plant ties, bits for the lawn mower, gardening gloves (now many gloves does one need?!). I'm pleased to say I FOUND the red plug for the washing line hole!
Came in at 1pm for brunch and a cup of tea. Back out to put everything back into some sort of order....
Why is it that some people just throw things into a pile when they've finished with it...???
Oh! And I've earned 140 exercise calories for the above, plus already exceeded my 3000 step target for the day (3,419 at present)....
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Oooh you have been a busy girl. Well done.
I'm interested in how many single gardening gloves you found? We always have a visit from a right handed thief during the winter, he leaves only the left ones behind!
I'm just the same. Order in a world of chaos. It's very calming. My husband prioritizes sport, over tidy outbuildings, every time.
At the beginning of this season, I sorted into different sizes and grades of plastic, all the unused ( and unlikely to be used ) plant pots and wearing my eco warrior hat, took them to the tip with the other assorted crud of ages we'd collected. I parked next to the plastic recycling bin, only to be moved on swiftly by the refuse operative, to the land fill/incinerator skip. "Don't recycle pots, duck, (dook)" I was told firmly. I almost took them all home again.
If aliens were to land on earth tomorrow, they would think that our most treasured and prized possessions, as a race, were half empty rusty paint cans. We store them so carefully and for so long.
Or they would if they landed here!
I'm enjoying your breakfast vicariously, looks so good.
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Ha ha well done. I remember having sold my previous flat and visiting it for a few days until completion. Well I found the small patio filled with junk from my tenants. There are a couple of tv's. loads of bricks, wood, and even a car wheel. Well that night I couldn't sleep and woke at 5 am with this playing on my mind and I got one of those 'I am going to sort it moods on'. So I got up and spent the next 3 hours lugging some of it to a skip luckily discovered down the road, and bagging the rest of it so the dustmen would take it away. I cleared it. x
Sometimes annoyance and frustration gives us that necessary boost of energy! Hubbie has helped to organise everything back into its "proper place", shed, house, etc. Hmmm I wonder how long it will last. I should take some photos so that I can stick them above the work bench with a big notice saying "This is how it SHOULD look". Sadly I know that it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference.
Hhhhmmmmm, hubbie didn't get as far as sorting out "pairs" of gloves. I didn't want to push him too far but I am certain that they won't all have a partner!
Men hey - mine is the same
I also need to find the plug for the rotary line
Your food looks scrummy - glad you enjoyed it as I think you well earned it
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