Hi all,
It looks like I've been lurking, but I haven't been - I posted in one thread and then my GF and her 2yo came over and I didn't close the browser! Anyway, I'm all caught up now on the thread.
Washing - trying to avoid going outside at all! I think MIL has our big antique laundry tub and I'd like to put Oscar in it, doh! She took it when we went away because she was going to hang all the washing that was in it for us at her place. There was another basket, too, and that one came back...but that's no good for splashing in!
Had a lovely catch up with my GF, we ate strawberries, dip, crackers, lychees, chockie bikkies...mmm!
Simone - it must be weird having all that free headspace, no wonder you're filling it with all sorts of thoughts! I agree, reading about how to turn negatives into positives is really helpful. If you can get your hands on 'The Journey', by Brandon Bays, it's a good read (my copy is still lent out, unfortunately!). I am glad that you have finally made the break you needed
Mel - at least you didn't take Chelsea on her birthday! Hope it's not too hot to walk to the clinic...
I'm going to put this sleeping boy down and make some phone calls to organise a few things before DP gets back tomorrow. It's like a race against time now! I've also been running around like a mad thing trying to find ways to reuse the water from the house into the garden. I'm washing my dishes at the end of the day, and then in a rectangle bucket, leaving the used water (if not too dirty) in that bucket and putting all the next day's dishes in that. When comes time to wash them, take them all out, put that water into a big bucket nearby, wash my dishes in new water and start again. The old water then goes into a bigger collecting bucket outside until I have enough that I can still carry the bucket and then disperse it into the garden. Sometimes this happens when it's dark already, but that's better because the water doesn't evaporate.
I'm going to see about reclaiming an old feed bin of mine that I left at my parents' that they don't use. I'm going to collect washing machine water and shower water in it and use that for the backyard - just bucketing it out over the natives (that's all that we have in the back, and some of them have carked it!). This year DP will install a greywater system. Can't wait for recycled water...although I'll probably be 70 when that happens...
I'm also not flushing the loo if it's only pee, but flush it when the loo paper starts to look like it needs to go somewhere (dont' need a blockage!). Showering with Oscar seems the way to go, too. I reckon that by implementing these measures I'm doing my bit for the water crisis. And I like the manual labour aspect - I'll have to do manual labour when we're on a farm, anyway!
Ok, better go and see to my list of things to do...