I've had Eden with me this weekend and we've had a great time, with lots of laughs but we don't seem to have got very much done and I even missed my blog yesterday!
When we got up yesterday, we went to get the paper and stopped in the garden centre on the way back to buy a few spring bedding plants for me to put in later this week when I have cleared some more of the annuals that have finished. When we got back home and put the plants outside, I put a few peanuts onto the shelf of the nut box and Eden asked why I had done this. I told her that I had to teach this new squirrel where his food was so that I didn't catch him hanging upside down again stealing the birds' peanuts in the wire holder! Anyway, it worked because he now eats the sunflower seeds that I put on the bird table for him and he has peanuts for 'afters' from the nut box.
While I made bread, Eden finished a homework project that she had brought with her and after we'd had lunch, we sorted out the glass cabinet and packed up a lot of the glasses so that her Mum could have them. I am still 'downsizing' bit by bit because I know that if I move to a much smaller place (this is only a very tiny house), I will not have room for anything other than the necessities. I feel sad that I have spent a lifetime scrimping and saving to buy bits and pieces that didn't even cost that much, but now I have to get rid of them.
Today we've had more fun in the kitchen making cottage pie and lemon meringue pie ready for when Sarah came to pick her up. The cottage pie is something we have made on many occasions in the past but today Eden wanted to 'do the top' herself. She smoothed the potato completely but I said she needed to make the top look as though the potato had been piped, then she spent about fifteen minutes doing some fancy fork work on the top.
The meal was very good, Eden and Sarah have gone home and I've done the washing up so now I'm sitting here in the quiet
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