Errands and diving

Got up determined to be productive. I got up stripped my bed, started laundry. Did my laundry and the sheets. 

I then got dressed to go out. Why? Because I’m frustrated with Etsy and not being able to list craft stuff to sell it. Sigh. Maybe on Monday I’ll get it fixed with their help desk??

So off I went. 

I went to Goodwill, Lowes, Waffle House, it was noon,  then I went diving in lots of areas around town. 

At Lowes I picked up salt for the pool, drip trays, and potting soil;  The plants that I picked up before Christmas got some much needed soil. I had enough to full pot TWO and partially pot one. One remains. I need to go back to Lowes and get another bag of potting soil. But not tonight.

The corn plant is fully topped off.  The Fiddle behind him was actually potted at Christmas as he lost his pot and his pathos was looking a bit dingy. I got it potted in time to save 75% of the pathos. So all is well. He’s been hanging out here for a few weeks now. I need to get Butch to move the extra chairs in the living room else where so the corn plant can go there. 

I drove all over town. I got Alldees (don’t mention their real name so they don’t start locking bins). I got three bags of potatoes, a bag of spring onions two partial bags of onions two packages of zucchini’s. And 9 eggs. They were in there for two broken eggs that I dropped back in the dumpster. These have been washed and tested for their “health”. None float. There were so many more potatoes and other things buried in there but I’m not to the point of jumping in and really sifting for things. My grabber lacks some grip so some of the potato’s stayed simply because I can’t get them out. There were lots of heads of lettuce but honestly we wouldn’t eat them in time. So they all stayed. 

I found a box of dishes (looked like it was from a garage sale left overs?) Won’t mention the other bags in there that appeared to be catheter bags. What the actual heck?  I sanitized everything after that dumpster!!

I also found a bag from JC P full of clothes. I need to go through that one. I just grabbed it and left.  It was in a bin of garbage where there was lots of popcorn from the movie theatre. Part of me thought about packing BUT that would really be semi-yuckie as it’s a butter mix oil used to pop it!  

The JC P haul of young kid clothing. 

Wonder if they would fit and be enjoyed my Nicks kids?  All brand new. 

So. Four hours later I’m home, pots are planted as much as they can be and I’m laying on a completely unmade bed because that was not done before I went out!  Remember. Stripped but not remade. 

So blogging and having a snack and enjoying some downtime and debating if I should put my pants back on and getting some soil. (The answer was nope!!)

Oh, yeah, I got a car wash and went to the baby Walmart to grab some sodas because someone in the house is incapable of leaving said house. Sigh. Yesterday I got sucked into the vortex of sleeping and doing nothing all day. :( I started to take pictures of things to sell on Etsy. Then when I found out my account is still locked I got frustrated and quit doing anything and watched movies and slept. I did need the sleep as I was fighting a headache and yuckie feelings. I thought maybe it was Covid. I took a test. The answer was negative. So I was just done with everything and just slept and rested. I feel better now.

I still need a few plant dollies to let me move them around as needed as the pots are BIG. I will need to start a few more pathos for the top of the rest of the pots as well as I really like the way they look in the pots. 

So productive day. 

All-dees diving

I really HATE how wasteful our society is. 

I left about a bushel of bananas in the dumpster that were perfectly fine for banana bread  

Here is what I pulled out

Kids shirt - long sleeved pink

Dog elf feet ears

Partial package of girls socks

Two red-green washcloths 

A Mario brothers watch ban

Complete box of boys u does size 4

Package if TP sealed until I picked it woth my grabber :)

Box of granola bars. 

     (A few may be missing j haven’t fully opened it) 

A box of Lannxe cheese and peanut butter crackers 

     (all sealed)

A jar of peanuts (sealed)

A box of baggies (needed those!!)

Four grinding spices (you’ll see these later)

Single taco season package 

Under the taco is a package of died cranberries 

Bag of toast type charcuterie snacks

Four easy max type mac-n-cheese

Two sealed bottles extra virgin olive oil

1 flavor additive for water

Bag of lentils

Big of split pea 

Two round woven placemats

Three onions

Sealed jar of apple cider vinegar 

     (has floaters - need to see if that’s a big no no)

Can of corn

Details on the grinders. The middle one is duplicated to make four total. I tried the pepper one tonight. It’s pretty good. 

And chocolate. 

Every single thing in this hail was unexpired and sealed. 

Dumpster Diving and Christmas prep (sort of)

Adventures in dumpster diving. So I was zipping around Home Depot to to to the other favorite dumpster and what do I spy? TONs of 6’ tall fiddle leaf fig trees!!  Yep!  I drove into the ramp in front of the HUGE dumpster and pulled out FIVE fiddle leafs and one Hawaiian Cane (according to someone on my diving site!)

Two have bonus pathos in the bottom if their pots. One is missing a pot as it stayed behind on the dumpster. BUT they need real pots. I left another 5 to 10 plants IN the dumpster! My car was FULL!!

Next to clean out the dirt from my car and buy some proper pots for these guys. I promptly peed my pants at the second stop. I hate my body and it hates me. No warning just the thought “I better stop on the way home after this stop” nope. Twisted just wrong and there ya go, you’re sitting in a towel in the way home, thank you very much. Sigh. Oh well doesn’t stop me, just delays me a bit!

We had all our Christmas parties. This was at our division party. Fun!


And these are my flowers I bought at Kroger yesterday because I’m worth it ;)

I also did some glass “blowing” which was really glass pumping. More to come on that one once I pick up the or ornament today after work