Monday, 12 January 2026

Busy-ness

 



A load of olive prunings from the olive grove of a good friend of ours 
A thousand thanks for a load of cheap firewood 



He dumped the load and we paid a couple of young workers to come along with a chainsaw, cut it all up and throw it into our front yard


Hardly more than an hour and they'd cut it, thrown it all over the fence, stacked and covered it.  
They got a tot of raki  before driving off

A job well done



Christmas is officially done and dusted
Grandson Jamie came, taped up the boxes and stacked them on top of our big wardrobe

All the boxes used to go into our store cupboard above the bathroom.  Now the Grandchildren have flown it's just too hard for us to retrieve stuff so it's stored in plan sight 
At least we can reach things when we want it
 
Jamie is another tall grandchild and didn't need to climb our IKEA  steps to arrange all the boxes . Thank you Jamie for helping out your Nana and Papou...... Now that Poppi has gone 
Jamie has now also left for Athens before another storm came in
 
When K and I want something we wobble on a stepladder and hope nothing falls on top of us

 




8 comments:

  1. How wonderful to have young people to do all the tall person stuff!

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    1. We often need them but they're not so easy to find anymore.

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  2. ooh those storage spaces above the bathroom... Mr T could climb a ladder if I left 9ne thete unattended for even a minute, and disappear into dark obstructed corners. He'd only come out when it suited HIM. Lucky you to have a tall mokopuna.

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    1. The patari has deep dark corners. I can imagine Mr T curling up there and refusing to come out. We have a lot of stuff there still in those dark corners. Heaven knows what!
      What a great word is mokapuna.
      I must try and remember to use it more often.

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  3. That is a great load of firewood. Well done Jamie. Tall grandchildren are a godsend.

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    1. That wood should almost last till spring. Depending on the weather of course

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  4. It's a Crazy World12 January 2026 at 13:46

    Oh, I so identify with this issue. We had a great Christmas tree that I loved, but it was so heavy that last year I decided I would give it away. It's just too heavy for me to take down from the high shelf it's on. (Later I discovered I could have sold it for probably about $75 or more, they are really expensive these days!). I bought a new tree a week after Christmas for 1/3 the price it was originally listed as. It weighs less than 15 pounds, and I just hoisted it onto the shelf, no problem.
    That's a great load of wood! Does olive wood burn slow like oak or fast like pine? Or maybe it's in between.

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  5. Your grandchildren are lovely. They definitely love their grandparents very much. Their parents have raised them brilliantly you should all be proud

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