Our days are numbered!

It has finally hit that we are leaving soon, very soon. I asked Warren to make a chart with the days left to go.

He went to office works and bought a big calendar. I think it is in 37 days!

We have a list of things down the side that we need/want to do before we leave.

I intend to clean out the pantry.

As I was up early this morning, too early to go to the shopping centre, I had some parcels to send, I made a start doing one half a shelf.

I "found" a bottle of cherry sauce, this is good stuff and can only buy it at the source (no pun intended) and the last time we travelled south we bought six bottles. This is the last and I think I have been saving it. Use by date is Dec 2014!

I also pitched some wraps that had gone dry and some coconut flour which doesn't seem to work for me. 

I envy women who have their pantries just so neat, mine is never neat. A shopping trip sees things put where ever they can fit although there is some rules. I have a special place for our milk and the paper products like gladwrap, foil and baking paper.

"My" car needs a road worthy done and that is on the list and an appointment been made for it so that is can be listed for sale. A sad day but we don't need two cars anymore and its not suitable to pull Maggie, the caravan.

Unfortunately as we cross one thing off the list another two seems to be added, need to get working on it, back to the pantry for another shelf.

Crossed off the list.

Yesterday I had a great day when many things crossed off my list. I don't have an actual list but I do think about things that I want to get done in the day. Most days I don't achieve even half what I set out to do.

I said to Warren Friday night as we prepared for bed, that I was going to stay in bed in the morning and finish my book. it was a rather intriguing story.  He said that he assumed I would want breakfast in bed, my reply "well that would be good."

Woke up reasonably early for a saturday and started reading, I had figured out who dunnit but needed to make sure that I was right. ( I was but always satisfying to have in confirmed).

Breakfast was served about 7.30am an egg on toast and coffee. It was good as after I got up I could start on my tasks for the day.

 Checked my emails and wrote a couple of things, then moved on to tidying the spare room, I had things out looking for a particular thing earlier in the week but then didn't have time to pack away.

Moved into the sewing room where I completed the items that I had started last weekend, six journal covers, stuffed the last teddy bears that I had knitted and sewed on their scarves and eyes.

Did two months worth of ironing (sounds pretty impressive!) two shirts and two pairs of pants.I don't ever have a lot of ironing and can't be bothered to get the iron out for one thing but as I had it out to iron my sewing things I thought I might as well finish them.

A jacket of Warren's was in my sewing room, he wanted me to make inside pockets in it so I did that, took about five minutes, why hadn't I done it before and got rid of it.

Then I made a Christmas gift!!!! I know it is only August and Christmas is a long way away but I had a thought the other day and decided to do it while it was fresh in my mind. We take along a gift to the value of no more than $5 for Red Hats so I bought a purple notebook and made a cover for it.

This is the result. I had everything else on hand so the cost was only $5 and a bit of time.

Lunch was something from the freezer heated and we went to friends for dinner so I was able to get a lot done, even some knitting in between.