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noadvertising) wrote2025-11-26 07:18 pm
noadvertising) wrote2025-11-26 07:18 pm
Burnt
This morning I was working on outdoor decoration, using the hot glue gun to fasten the wood chips on the houses. Worked fine with the first roof, but then I had to insert a new glue stick. This one did glue continuously- wood chips, the paper, my fingers. Result came in form of glue everywhere and blisters- on fingers, on my arm, literally everywhere I came in contact with the hot menace. Never, ever will I use no-name glue sticks again! No clue how I am supposed to do tomorrow's Advent wreaths- I was barely able to hold the pencil when doing the tricky sudoku in today's newspaper (which I was able to solve long before hubby, who had started it before I did). I will have to put on garden gloves to not pop my collection of blisters open!
The rest of the morning I was searching for the clear lacquer I had stored in the cabinet only two days ago. Needed it to fix the paint on the wooden houses. Turned out that husband mine had carried it down to the basement. Basement is for storing such things, he says. Even if said things are needed the next moment. I was very much tempted to give him a proper tongue-lashing. Then he told me that he also had stored the pricy glue sticks- not in the box where they belong but among his working tools. Time for a tongue-lashing had arrived then...
A bit subdued hubby went outside and cut some thuja twigs off neighbour's hedge. At least I can do our outdoor wreath without those expensive fir greens and have my friend use up the fir twigs. She does so anyway- her Advent wreath is always twice as heavy as mine.
Since we had another dark, wet day with rain instead of snow- a feat that has been practiced by our local weather starting with last year, when it always had been raining at temperatures between zero to two degrees, temperatures when it had been snowing once- I did a short nap after lunch. Short, because I had to finish the handicrafting I had started. We barely had place enough for lunch at the dining table. Hubby brought the wooden panel for the bathroom to son and brought me moss from the woods behind son's house in return. Finally, I was able to finish decoration on the outside table. I also made three small clay pots filled with bird seed and hung them onto the fruit trees, cut oranges for drying and threaded more orange peels on a wire. Then son sent a message: Samsung had to be put down today. Cassian is devastated, he and his cat had been unseparable since birth! Another furry nose cat I loved gone over the rainbow bridge. After all, Samsung had been living with hubby and me for some time, when he was young!
Samsung, when he came to us:
Housework had to wait for tomorrow. Since my friend will come in the afternoon I will have to mop and dust anyway. Besides, I am not in the mood now...
The rest of the morning I was searching for the clear lacquer I had stored in the cabinet only two days ago. Needed it to fix the paint on the wooden houses. Turned out that husband mine had carried it down to the basement. Basement is for storing such things, he says. Even if said things are needed the next moment. I was very much tempted to give him a proper tongue-lashing. Then he told me that he also had stored the pricy glue sticks- not in the box where they belong but among his working tools. Time for a tongue-lashing had arrived then...
A bit subdued hubby went outside and cut some thuja twigs off neighbour's hedge. At least I can do our outdoor wreath without those expensive fir greens and have my friend use up the fir twigs. She does so anyway- her Advent wreath is always twice as heavy as mine.
Since we had another dark, wet day with rain instead of snow- a feat that has been practiced by our local weather starting with last year, when it always had been raining at temperatures between zero to two degrees, temperatures when it had been snowing once- I did a short nap after lunch. Short, because I had to finish the handicrafting I had started. We barely had place enough for lunch at the dining table. Hubby brought the wooden panel for the bathroom to son and brought me moss from the woods behind son's house in return. Finally, I was able to finish decoration on the outside table. I also made three small clay pots filled with bird seed and hung them onto the fruit trees, cut oranges for drying and threaded more orange peels on a wire. Then son sent a message: Samsung had to be put down today. Cassian is devastated, he and his cat had been unseparable since birth! Another furry nose cat I loved gone over the rainbow bridge. After all, Samsung had been living with hubby and me for some time, when he was young!
Samsung, when he came to us:
Housework had to wait for tomorrow. Since my friend will come in the afternoon I will have to mop and dust anyway. Besides, I am not in the mood now...