Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, um, bird.
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♥Jan. 20th, 2014 // 04:37 pm♥
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So, I'm trying out Thunderbird. Thus far, it seems to do everything I want, and nothing I don't want, other than frequently SPODing as it tries to connect to gmail over a dodgy internet connection, so basically the same as with Mail. Sigh. It also seems to be less good than Mail was about telling me when there's unread mail in a folder: Mail did at least always tell me that it was there, even if I think had to wait half an hour to read it. I'm being charitable and hoping that this is just because it's still working on getting all the messages downloaded and indexed, and that Things Will Be Better when that's all done.
Other than that, I seem to have done very little today. I did try to take a picture, when out with the pooch, demonstrating how difficult it's now getting on some of the less-used paths to avoid walking on the bulb shoots that are popping up, but I fear it's not the sort of shot that an iPhone camera can do justice to.
Is anyone good at prints? I don't think that this can be bunny, because the backs would be larger than the fronts, but I don't know!
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Storage boxes
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♥Jan. 20th, 2014 // 06:12 pm♥
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I've finally convinced Mike to take the plunge and rip out the thirty-year-old repurposed kitchen cupboards in our back store room, which are in incredibly inefficient use of the space in such a small room, and replace them with open shelves, where hopefully we can store even more stuff in a much more organised way.
As part of that, and spurred on by the small, nibbled-looking hole I found in the bottom of a bag of bird peanuts yesterday, I want to get the vast quantities of bird food out of plastic bags and into something that's tidier, more meece-proof and easier to take small amounts out of without it spilling on the floor.
I was doing an Ikea order for shelves anyway, and I though that the stackable SORTERA Waste sorting bin with lid would be ideal, but annoyingly they're a Marketplace items, so not available to buy online. Our nearest Ikea is all the way over in Civilisation, on the other side of the Thames, and it's really not worth a drive up there to buy four boxes unless we also need a Costco trip, which we don't.
Has anyone seen anything similar to these elsewhere?
I had a look at Really Useful, but they only seem to have the ones where the whole, vertical front comes out, which would lead to an amusing but ultimately irritating avalanche of bird seed.
(Speaking of meeces, I've been very productive over the last few days in the barn: sightings have been increasing, and we went in the other day to find the box of treats surrounded by little black blobs (lid is now firmly on the box), and Jodie's been increasingly interested in one particular corner of the barn, which she couldn't get to very well and which, ominously, contained the sacks of GB's food. I pulled everything out, and found that the bottom sack had been torn open and half the contents spread on the floor under the pallet. It's now all been swept up, and I'll keep an eye on it, but I'm wondering if we need to start using the metal feed bin left from when TWWOTV was here. I've not been doing as it's in the tack room (which was built around it: it won't come out), and thus less convenient, but we might have to. As I was sweeping, also found lots of little piles of bits of wood, next to small holes in the bottom of the barn sides: they've obviously been working away at making ways in, as they were in places that I swept before we moved the horses here. Not sure what the solution to that is, possibly creosote in the summer when the barn's mostly empty of hay.) |
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