Fledglings are awesome in August - the Flylady thread

[TooStressyForMyOwnGood]

Welcome to the August Flylady thread. This is a lovely friendly thread where we loosely follow the Flylady system (see the Flylady website ) in the hope of having organised homes and lives.

This is the August thread so I am reliably informed that it is usually more of a general chat thread. Links won’t be posted by an official ‘thread leader’ every day but I will leave some links in this OP. Please do familiarise yourself with the Flylady website, especially if you are new. The Flylady is (understandably) keen that people do look at the website.

On the website there is information for beginners. You can also sign up to the Flylady emails but we would advise caution as there are hundreds of them.

We post our achievements (ta das) and our to do lists and any other general chatter about life / flying.

Information on getting started: www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/

The launch pad is also a good starting place:www.flylady.net/c/lp.php

Fly stands for Finally Loving Yourself. The general idea is that short bursts of tidying / organisation are more achievable than marathon efforts. Flylady advises 15 minute bursts is effort but you can tweak this to fit your own circumstances.

Be kind to yourselves, jump in where you are and be careful not to crash and burn!

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A daily summary (which should update automatically every day) is available on the Flylady website at flight plan here.

The link to the current zone and missions is [[http://www.flylady.net/c/sp.php#missions here].

Re. zones, do what works for you. I don’t always stick to the zones myself and do what works best at the time, with varying degrees of success!

daily focus

missions for the week

Flykids mission

August’s habit is laundry

beginner babysteps.

Happy flying everyone.

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re: rainbow tee!

Thanks sc I will try! It's hard to know the balance between too much and too little. :)

:o at escapologist hen. Why did she cross the road?

🐓 No idea ...to see what's on the other side. Village Green. I was taking DD to work when she went. DH let her into big pen and hadn't noticed she had escaped. She is sneaky.

Why did the rubber chicken cross the road?
She wanted to stretch her legs!

I don't know how to do links but did you know you can buy high vis jackets for hens 😁😂 Look on Omlet site which is where we bought fencing from.

SC 😁
That's a fowl yolk!

Sounds to me like she wanted an early tipple Bower!

Trying to think of hen-friendly drinks ...

Speckled Hen or grain whisky perhaps?

Exclusion diet was one of the ways that our allergies were tested - especially because of the allergy vs intolerance thing. Intolerance tend not to show up on allergy tests. The oil and maize which cause breathing issues here do not show up on blood or prick/patch tests.

I almost explained the sciency technical detail but it is too earlier for that biochemistry nonsense. Allergy is the catch all term in the public that makes people aware a bad reaction will happen - which works
until you try to test for an allergy.

The biggest difference between an allergy and an intolerance is how the reaction is caused at a cellular/and molecular levels. It is this difference is important to how things can be proven, and means ultimately an exclusion diet is often the only to clearly see if there is a reaction.

Oh and Bower is right sometimes if it is a simple 1 food stuffs you can just do that instead of the full blown ellimination diet (which is soul suckingly hideously boring). As there are possibly multiple causes which may improve - perhaps a watch and wait for now until you have proven that these are unlikely to be the cause?

Omg its not even 9am and DD is driving me insane.

Stop. Asking. The. Same. Questions. Over. And. Over. And. Over. And. Over.

Ds is sooo tired and soooo fed up of not being able to sleep. He went to sleep on the lounge floor last night because it was cooler. Which is a problem because we need to be up and doing and our lounge is basically a wide corridor for other parts of the house... So he is going to have to be woken up poor kid really needs the sleep.

I should be going out with the visitors. I have still yet to really see them. But I am tired, hurt and burn out has properly kicked in. Moving is going to be more of an issue than I would like. But there is blue berry muffins for breakfast...

Yes it could well have been stress related, it wasn't a case of just being late though it was just kind of stop start for a while but the gp couldn't say much until test results back and there is a big delay with them! And obviously stressing about the whole thing doesn't help

Ta da
Cleaned the washing machine as dh white shirt came out with brown marks on - oops. Just running the machine once then will put it back on with stain remover on and hope for the best!

We are going to avoid the heat and crowds today and hide at home! Might get the paddling pool out later on when there's more shade in the garden.

I should be getting on but I couldn't resist!

oh my giddy aunt!

Omg imagine trying to dress a chicken...

That's made my day

Chicken hi Vis!
Had a very lazy morning and feel bloody brilliant for it!

Hello all....
Allergies and eczema in this heat must be a nightmare!
Bower your little hen sounds like such a character, wandering over to the local pub. Made me smile!
Well, most of my flying has been at Dd as I've been there for most of the time for three days. So need to tootle around mine today. It's not too bad really, mainly needs a dust and a good hoover!
Had a massive scare this week! Just thinking about it now brings a tear to my eye!
Dgs10's friend (2 years older) called for him to play, so off he went. They went down to the woods, next to the farm lanes again.
I saw that his friend was back and talking animatedly to his twin brother. I looked around for Dgs10 and before I could ask, he asked me had I seen my Dgs, I said no, he's with you, isn't he.
Then he gave this garbled tale about running and going down different lanes and basically they'd got split up.

I wasn't too worried at that point, I said, he'll be back in about ten minutes but something about him made me ask, when did this happen. He said about an hour ago, I felt such fear!!!

Luckily Dgd19 was home so she questioned the boy quickly where he'd last seen him and set off running.

She phoned when she found him, wandering back down the lanes towards home.
They'd been crossing the Farmyard and Dgs was chased and bitten on his backside by a farmdog, (luckily only bruised) and he'd ran down a lane and didn't know where it went to. He had to go back across the farmyard to get home.
This is the bit that makes my stomach turn with fear!
He waited, for an hour he said, thinking someone was coming to help him, then a car came along with a man in it, AND HE GOT IN........
Thankfully, the man was ok! But Jesus Christ Almighty!!!!!!!!
After EVERYTHING we tell them!!!
Dgs10 said that he waved the car down, explained his situation asked if the man could drive him over the farmyard. He said he had the door held open and the man was fine with that and just drove him the 50yds or so, very slowly.
He then started shaking and crying and I was comforting him and telling him, he was safe now and big lessons had been learnt, the main one being that he needed to always take his phone out with him, which has been bought for him for just this sort of emergency.

He told me that he wasn't crying because he'd been lost and he said even though the dog was nasty, he had elbowed it off. He was crying because he'd got in the car and he could have been killed!
He told me after, he was worried about losing his phone as his joggers only have shallow pockets, that's why he'd been leaving it at home.
Anyway, "all's well that ends well", as they say.
I've ordered a phone holder, waist belt, that runners use, from Amazon.
He won't be going out without his phone again.
As an aside! Dd drove to the farm that evening and had words with the Farmers wife about the dog, she was really apologetic and said that it must have got out.
The land through the farm is a "right of way" and Dd goes on the horse that way often, so he wasn't trespassing at all.
We're not going to stop him! In fact he was back there in the woods yesterday! With his phone! Lessons learnt!

Sorry such a long post! It's just, can you believe what he did, after everything we tell them?

Oh Honk that sounds terrifying. I am so glad it was all ok in the end. Also good to get straight back out again and enjoy being a kid! I grew up in the countryside and got myself in stupid situations on gas etc. All part of growing up but not so great for parents/grandparents mental health!
It's only now I am an mother I see how silly I was sometimes as a Young'un!

It sounds like he knew where he went wrong. He sounds like a very sweet young boy.

Haha that was supposed to say farms

Not gas!

Oh Honky you must have been so scared! Thank heavens your dgs all ok though and that the man he came across was helpful and decent. Doubly awful for you in position of responsibility though! . And on the positive side, your dgs has learnt a very good lesson for life now that he is not likely to forget in a hurry!

DD not once, but twice, engaged with strangers on Internet while playing games when she was younger; went against EVERYTHING we had taught her about only engaging with people she knows in RL. Fortunately no harm done (but there was potential for harm with second incident). It's so frustrating but DC not robots and need to live and learn!

Glad to hear you've had a bit of r & r Cucumber!

Glad all ok in the end Honky!

at hen jackets.

Ta da:-
Morning routine
Made two phone calls rearranging holiday things due to changed plans but at least that is all DONE now .
Wrapped a present
Posted on here as had horrifying realisation that I will need a bikini on holiday and may need to buy one online now.
DH has done food shop

To do:-
DH is here but may have to go to work. He is going to attempt to do some of home bleugh
I’m going to do laundry and general tidy up
Have encouraged the girls to relax and watch telly. Yesterday was a very busy day and we have an early ish start tomorrow. If they sit and relax now (famous last words) hopefully DH and I can get the house sorted.

We have a birthday party to go to later so I need to keep an eye on the time as they need lunch later.

Tonight I really need to make a list of what I need to buy for the holiday.

Big wing flaps to all.

Oh I forgot, the girls have tidied their bedrooms.