17th
June 2018 (Sunday)
.... 09.00 Nae ‘flap on’...... I feel ‘unflappable’
this morning. I’ve been for a walk (Chapel
Green etc) on what has been, up till now,
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a ‘bright and sunny’ morning. However clouds are beginning to crawl in
from the Northwest, and already the ‘bright and sunny’ isn’t quite as sunny as
it was half an hour ago.
I
sanded the gate before I went for the walk..... it, the gate, is wet along the
bottom from all the rain we had yesterday, so couldn't be painted. The ‘plan’ is to get a coat of wood
stain on it as soon as it is completely
dry: and before any rain that might
happen today. I don’t think rain is mentioned
in the weather forecast until later in the afternoon.
12.00 I watched a fly land on the gate just a
few minutes ago: and it took off again
without leaving its legs hanging from the gate.
This is excellent, because it
means the stain is dry.... which is really excellent; it looks like it could rain at any ‘minit’. I’m using water based stain which does dry
quickly.
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Maggie
used to tell me... “do without a hearing aid as long as you can”! However I’m beginning to think perhaps that
time might be nigh. Either that or
everyone is whispering. I hear dogs
nae bother; but they don’t do ‘whisper’. I’ll make an appointment to have my lugs
looked at.
19.30 I’ve had a ‘working day’, and the inside
of the gate is finished, having had three coats of wood stain. The outside has had one coat, and will get
the other two tomorrow. The sky was a
bit ‘iffy’ looking later in the afternoon, so
I decided to go up to Balcarres for a walk, but big drops of rain
started to hit the car windscreen when I got to Kinneuchar so I aborted that
plan and went back to ‘The Royal Burgh’ and had a cuppa; glad that I had decided to leave finishing
the front of the gate until tomorrow.
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tomorrow’s weather forecast there should be more sunny
spells, and wind. Good drying day so I’ll
do a washing.
I
found an old sign that used to be on the front gate (not the one I was looking
for) so I will paint it up and have ago at doing an ‘Ivy Cottage’ sign. I have some gold leaf for the letters. This should really test my arthritic hands. I’m looking forward to the challenge.
