Ever had....

That sort of weekend, when wife decides she wants a new garden area - one that's sloped to be flat?

I mean we have one nice area that oversees the house, but she wants a different area for a more medatative feel, maybe a small water feature (that's wife job to organise).

As for me, I'd like a few hours of "girl time". I got up early for a coffee and was kind of planning to visit the mall. I'd like to get a scooter, not sure if I should get a push scooter or electric to keep up with the grandkids. 

Just as I'm planning of going to the mall, I remembered there's no breakfast food for wife when she wakes (about 9am is her normal). I panicked and decided to get some bread and peanut butter for her (wine would have been nicer).

So by 11am, I'm lugging about 120Kg of timber around and framing the new garden and as usual, I run out of screws and need to go to Bunning for a box of screws when I only want 6. Might as well pick up some drainage gravel and have an afternoon coffee while I'm there.

Next was removing some concrete and leveling with soil I have elsewhere around the property.

I'm getting old - even my doctor said the same this week, my back is sore and when I mentioned to the doctor how I see a sexy girl and my brain wonders if she likes hiking or tennis. Doc even gave me some Viagra so I can relive my youth, but I really want to re-paint my car and don't think Viagra will help.

I like to pretented to be young and sexy, but this morning I'm still thinking "old", maybe even too old for crossdressing or carrying 35kg, 5 meter lenghts of wood around.

Busy month

Lots of projects on around the house, and the houses of my kids.

But I'm still surprised when you visit a coffee shop and they remember your preferance from a month or two ago. I thought I blended into the background, but the shop ladies remember me and my coffee. Okay I'm on first names basis with 2 of my locals.

Before wife realised how hard it is to refurbish furniture (yep, she's given up now), I had to pick up drop sheets and other stuff from Bunnings for her

We recently visited New Plymouth, unfortunately I forgot to take make up or shaving gear, but wife loved their gardens, the beach walks, lovely lakes and a romantic sunset with a glass of wine. We had an amazing time (without work pressures or pets or children to attend) and enjoyed a couple of pub dinners in town.

Before you knew it, we were back at work, back in the ususal routine 😞

Just been conned

Wife has a new interest - doing up old furniture

(okay, 1 week later - she likes it when I sand the furniture down, repair and re-paint paint them now she knows how much work is involved)

She also enjoys renovations at home

So here I am, removing all my clothes from the chest of draws from five big, deep draws so she can sell them and replace with her re-furbished set

And they have been replaced with "suitable" draws, that only fit my male clothes.

Perhaps my revenge should be storing all my female clothes on the lounge chairs (will mean I have to "lose" quite a few of her cushions).

So now most of my girl clothes live in boxes in the shed, so I need to plan a bit more before going out. Before the draw changes I had coffee out like.....

But now it's like whatever I can grab on the way out

Newmarket shopping

 It's been a while, but I'm finally back for lunch at Newmarket shopping mall.

I chose a summer tee shirt and wore the yoga pants that I found at an Op Shop that wife and I visited. Sorry about the lack of make up, but sometimes this old girl is just to busy for the fussy stuff.
I've been after a high speed SD card for a while (wasn't urgent) as I was using an old card from my drone, in my new insta360 camera. At the mall, I walked past Noel Lemmings, so while having lunch, I went online to check their prices, not bad at all so I paid them a visit.

The nice sales woman asked where I got my pants from and are they comfortable, so I told her about the Op Shop and yes, they are the most comfortable type of pants ever. It was a lovely chat, which also included technical stuff about the SD card.

As soon as I got home, I just had to test the card out, now I have four and a half hours recording available at 5K7 resolution - super happy about that.

A couple of mornings this week, was just a quick coffee stop, normally on the way to fetch furniture, for my wife as she learns how to renovate stuff.

Sometimes you wake up wanting stocking and mini skirts

Wife went to bed very late, so I knew she would sleep in. I can't do that and it doesn't help if I'm thinking of mini skirts and stockings.

So out for an early coffee.

So while everyone else got their cofee, I waited, and waited and waited, eventually got fed up and asked staff if order #185 was ready yet.

2 minutes later I got an barista coffee that tasted like instant coffee, with a "here you are sir"

Their wifi wasn't working either, so decided to try getting a decent coffee at another shop.

Next stop, good coffee and free wifi so all good, but I did get changed first as I felt under dressed 😁

Apart from the odd visit to the supermarket, I've not really been in the mood to dress too often in the last week or so. 

Wife has started a hobby that needs some significant carpentry repairs - that falls to me to fix.

I've also removed 4 downlights and re-fittted a centre light fitting in the room, patched up the old holes (still need to re-paint the ceiling). She now wants me to level another section of the garden as the shallow slope has no viable use except planting.