Come and tell me your dull and unexciting news 15: Calmly through the day

[MissConductUS]

I've started a new one. Please join us and share the boring and mundane things happening in your world. It will be calming for all.

I have planted all my new plants, with several breaks in the house to cool down. Also pulled some weeds and a small tree out of the strip alongside my patio out the back. Hooray for the barrier mesh, most of the roots were just along the surface rather than deep

So sorry about Spuddog @Spudlet (thank you for reminding me to do my lateral flow though)

I’ve ordered Indian as a mid week treat

Highlight of my week !

Sorry to hear about Spuddog @Spudlet, sometimes not having a pet is a boon.

@Sunbird24 swish away, I got my hair lopped the other day and it accentuated my male pattern baldness. :o

Sorry about your dog Spudlet.

My new and improved foot does not like heat, tomorrow I will try to wear my new sandals.

My surgery is now firmly booked for the 8th of July. I'll have the preop exam with a doctor I've never met but who is very convenient for me a week before. I'm taking a day of leave on Friday and I may get the lab work done that morning. It has to be done within a month before the surgery.

We have a lovely pick your own farm about 40 minutes north of us so I've booked myself, DH and DS to go there Friday afternoon to pick strawberries. It's not cheap, but the strawberries are organic and much nicer than the supermarket ones. We'll come home with four quarts of them. It's also a beautiful drive through the highlands to get there.

Where is nice to visit in that area MissConduct? I've been to the Finger Lakes - no idea if you're near there - and Buffalo. But nowhere else in NY state really.

ZZ, I'm in the southern part of the state, in an area called the Hudson Highlands.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Highlands

So not that far north of NYC. The highlands are part of the Hudson Valley, which is much nicer and more interesting a bit different than the north, where Buffalo is. There's no shortage of lovely places to visit, great restaurants and interesting things to see and do here:

Things to Do in Hudson River Valley

Going through central NY on your way here, I highly recommend a visit to the Corning Museum of Glass:

CMOG

The gift shop and glass-making demos are fab, and the museum is really well done. Did you know that Corning Glass invented the fiber optic cables that made the internet possible? They also developed a new hardened medical grade of glass just for covid vaccine vials. Normal medical glass is fairly fragile, so lots of vials crack during the filling and packaging process and have to be discarded, wasting the vaccine. Not so with Corning's Valient Glass vials.

I just ordered a pet cooling mat off Amazon as the thermostat in my bedroom is reading 24 degrees. I don’t have a pet, it’s for me. It can go between my mattress topper and my sheet and hopefully help me sleep through the night. Going to have to start taking my hay fever tablet before bed as well I think.

Cooling mats are a thing? Must tell DD!

Poor Spuddog.

When I was in John Lewis buying a duvet the other day they had a whole range of ‘cooling bedding’ - mattress covers and pillows and pillow cases.

Poor Spuddog Its hard when pets get old and ill, I hope you will still have plenty of good days left.

Dd is now off for day 3 with anxiety, she is supposed to be doing gcse exam mocks. I am on antibiotics for infection, ehcp meeting for ds tomorrow, cancelled my blood test as need to deal with kids and school. At least the loud buzzy fly who was going around all last night buzzing in my ears has gone. Dh put papers rubbish from living room in bag yesterday and forgot to remove it, today he said rabbit had lots of fun and all the rubbish is everywhere.

Waiting for my jab!!!!!!

Done!

That's wonderful, Prok, welcome to the club.

Take it easy for the next two days.

Thanks MissConductUS. I'd love to see more of NY state, and DH periodically has to travel to Vassar for work so I could hitch a ride and make it a long weekend. I heard there is also a really beautiful train route up the Hudson Valley too?

ZZ, you should! Vassar is lovely. DH went to college there in one of the early classes that admitted men. Poughkeepsie is a bit dreary and run down, but it's a great location in the center of the Hudson Valley.

It's a bit pricey, but this would be a lovely place to spend the weekend in the area:

www.mohonk.com/

You can also stay somewhere else and just go there for a meal and to walk the trails.

This is where we are going to pick strawberries tomorrow and it's not far from Poughkeepsie.

www.fishkillfarms.com/visit/pick-your-own/

You could also stop at CMOG on your way home, but that would add some time to the drive.

When I hear "Vassar" I always think off an old Marx brothers movie.

DD was going round our neighbours looking for a DHL parcel: The card had a flat direction and a name, that do not match. Turned out the name was wrong.

Prok, Vassar is iconic in American culture for a very selective, small, rigorous university. It was also open only to women for most of its history. It was founded by a brewer in the 1850's and gets mentioned a lot in popular culture.

Popular Culture: Vassar Steals the Spotlight

I'm impressed that you remembered it from the Marx Brothers movies. I was really impressed when I learned that DH had graduated from there with high honors.

Miss Thanks for the link - I'll expand my Vassar knowledge!

I've got a Marx brothers box set somewhere.

I'm at work and it is very busy. I bitterly regret agreeing to come in early for my next 2 night shifts

I’m in an online conference. We are doing a ‘morning stretch’ session. I am not. I am drinking coffee.

I’m lying in bed listening to a lawnmower. Will get up and make myself a bacon sarnie in a bit

Also listening to lawnmowers. Lots of them - I’m in the local park with my takeaway coffee from the nice coffee shop and the council gardeners are out en masse. I can count at least 8 men in hi-viz currently (orange and neon green). They are mowing and strimming like maniacs. Though a couple are standing round doing nothing much.

I working from him this morning

Work this morning is listening to All Filla no Killa podcast snorting lots and snacking

Have to go into work soon 😒