Good morning to everyone on this rather lovely Sunday. The sun has been shining for most of the morning, after the last few days of rain it made such a nice change. There are a few clouds about but nothing too disturbing.
Need to get my ladder out later as the downpipe from one of my gutters needs some attention - water splashed out during the heaviest downpour yesterday it’s a stupid design intended to stop leaves getting to the rainwater tanks but they have their own filter so it really is unnecessary and just tends to splash water everywhere
Am not eating at all today because I have nibbled far too much junk food after being stuck in the house with the recent rain. Just drinking a lot of tea and coffee to stop me feeling hungry 
Might venture down to the supermarket to get milk later though it could wait until tomorrow. Might also test run at least one of my generators just in case - those California bush fires certainly concentrate the mind.
Yesterday arvo I finished my family video of the Christmas gathering, unfortunately I enjoyed myself too much and forgot to film important events so the video is a bit dull because I only remembered to film when there was a lull in proceedings 
Ho hum, I am out of practice.
Not a lot else to say about today, the weather is nice enough though I am anticipating that the combination of rain and warm weather will make the grass throw itself out of the ground as it loses its brown tinge. I can see the mower becoming necessary later in the week.
Have a lovely Sunday and enjoy the remains of the weekend.
Take care…
, with a possibility that the rain will turn into snow in hilly areas, which is where we live:neutral_face: I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it will not. 
. When we bought her last single-story house, we put a Dot in every room. She used them for all things - calling us, music (Sarah Brightman her fav), making grocery lists, medication reminders, and making emergency calls if she needed them. Unquestionably, they afforded her several more years of independent living in her own home, and she loved them.
. I think my butter was not cold enough, because a good portion seemed to run out on the cookie sheet while they bakes. They would not win any beauty contests and I look like I’ve been rolling in flour, but anything coming out of a warm oven masks the sins of mediocre baking. Still, don’t think I’m going to be invited to The Great British Baking Show anytime soon.
rather than getting a workout outdoors. I would sure love to be on a summery alpine hike about now 
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, my PTSD kicks in remembering the historic rainy day in 2020 when I wore my dad’s yellow rain slicker and valiantly (which means “stupidly”) cleared out gutters on my parents house and dug French drains in the mud and downpour in a futile attempt to keep the water from seeping into basement. All was well, until a neighbor drove by and honked, and I realized how funny I looked - bare footed and legged in that giant coat. I would have given about anything about then for my dad to have seen that whole situation and in a fit of laughter and bossiness chasing me off to do the work himself. This brings me to wonder why your council went to all the trouble of fussing at you when, in the same amount of time, they could have cleared the gutters themselves 
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