A satisfying week !

Good morning friends and family, how is it that the days just seem to roll by faster and faster, Mondays come around before I blink hehe. I am taking much delight in the fact that the weather seems to be slightly cooler even if it is only by a few degrees, I take that as encouragement that summer will come to an end. Here in BB we have actually had a few evenings where the mercury has dropped below 20 c what a blessed relief, there have even been a few showers of rain . We had a relatively peaceful week where I got quite a few things accomplished in the house, I find that there is always something needing to be changed or modified and finally worked out what it is. When we bought our furniture and set up home in Boksburg, we bought everything for 'that house' so to speak and it always just worked, I never needed or had the urge to change things. Since coming down here I'm constantly re-evaluating the rooms then, on Saturday when chatting to Poppet I realized that it is because this house is completely opposite in style, dimension and even colour. Now that I've figured it out I am even more excited to bring about changes, my long suffering Hubby supports most of my ideas but I do think he cringes when I say "my love, I've ......" or "what do you think of ...." 🤣🤣 This past week we've removed the carpet that was down in the lounge and are thoroughly enjoying the screeded floor, the bedroom carpet is next 😉. In the bathroom from intending to just paint the 'offending' wall we are now planning to screed over the floor tiles, paint the wall and then retile the entire shower with the excess white tiles that the rest of the room is done in, big job. I also intend to get started this week in stripping the paint off a very old wooden unit that I've had since the late 80's (it was old then). Poppet has had it for years and now sent it back as she does not have room for it, so it is standing on the deck awaiting my ministrations. Hubby finally finished their meranti sever, he has been busy building it since December and it is another beautiful piece of furniture. On Saturday we had to move and transport it to Poppet's house and decided that her vehicle would be the best form of transport as well as her extra hands. It took the five of us to lift it and get it into her car with a LOT of stops and huffing hehe, when we got to the house Princess came out and proved to be as strong as Poppet, Jelly Bean and myself put together. It was a much smoother transfer but did result in some aches and strains here and there. See pics below. We then spent the rest of the afternoon with them enjoying a delicious braai and I managed to get lots of kitten cuddles and loving 😍, I was also really happy to see that Charlie paid little to no interest in the kittens even with them walking and sleeping on me. There is a new initiative in the Village aimed at rescuing lost and abandoned pets and, because I was involved in trying to find a litter of kittens a few weeks ago I am now down to foster any little/needy baby kittens that might be found, until they are ready to be homed. In amongst all the activity I even managed to finally finish a quilt square, set up and start another one, they have been a little slow over the last two months but I'm back in production. A few weeks ago I saw and fell in love with a gorgeous long sleeved, loose fit top and due to not paying proper attention and an unusual web site I ended up buying it 🤦🏻‍♀️. I was like ..... OOOPS what did I just do? Well it was a case of wait and see as it was not a local site and was in dollars. Over the course of about six weeks I've had occasional updates but not really held out much hope of A. it arriving anytime soon and B. Fitting. On Friday I received an SMS to say it had arrived at a local store and could be collected, oh my goodness the time of reckoning had arrived. Hubby had to go into town on Saturday and so collected it for me, I opened it slowly having convinced myself I would be re gifting it to one of the girls. It is everything they advertised and size wise is even slightly big for me, what a bonus and a surprise. I am absolutely delighted with their service and the product whoop whoop. Well folks, that's quite of lot of news and I will keep you posted on the renovation of the wooden unit as well as all the other projects. Hubby will also be picking up his hammer on the deck again and so more progress there to follow as well. Have a wonderful week and please stay masked, safe and healthy. Ciao ciao. Meranti Server (designed and made from a picture)