Tomorrow is supposed to be bad weather, so much so that three people who were supposed to be leaving on the boat tomorrow headed off today instead. Today, however has been glorious, not November like at all with lots of sun and no wind. The solar panels were charging things up in the middle of the day. There is however the first dump of snow on the peaks on the mainland that we can see.
Two of them were Mike and Casey – Casey won’t be back until January. This feels very sad 🙁 I think she needs the break. She’s made me feel *old* several times lately and again today. Sometimes I feel as though her and I have really connected, at other times I realise she sees me more as someone’s ‘mom’ than as a peer. Odd dynamics here on Rum.
So, after Popmaster the kids went off to the shop to buy some pasta, Ady did some compost loo maintenance (it will not break down as quickly during the colder weather so will start to fill up, we have decided to bag it and create a compost area on the croft for the semi=composted matter in one of the sunnier areas) and I went to chop some wood. Then Casey arrived to say goodbye and have a cup of tea with us. We stopped working and came in, the kids returned and we had a cup of tea and a chat.
That took us to midday at which point Ady and I decided we were not hungry enough for an early lunch so headed down to the village to collect the washing from yesterday and get some stuff out of the freezer for dinner tonight and tomorrow. We met Sandy so had a chat with him about nissen shelters which is our current research project for a temporary house solution. We grabbed a couple of bags of firewood and came home.
We had lunch and then the kids washed up lunch stuff and headed out to play, Ady went to do more loo stuff and I finished chopping the firewood including the stuff we’d just brought up and burnt some cardboard. We have some rubbish weather heading in apparently but we actually have quite a lot of indoor stuff to be getting on with it’s just that when we have dry sunny days it makes sense to make the most of them outdoors.
I cooked dinner and had made cheesecake for pudding so two rounds of clean plates all round 🙂 We’re almost at the end of season 1 of Will and Grace but season 2 is on it’s way.