The What makes you Happy Thread 2018 version

[Small pumpkin]

Cats showing their contempt.

[Thelma Sanders]

We've had gentle rain nearly all day, everywhere is damp! First time in months

[lottie dolly]

The first few word should be on the rant thread but,
my car refuses to start{panic},rang the RAC,no am not covered for home break down,BUT,because i have been with them for 16 years,are sending a person within the next 2 hours as a coutesey,now how nice is that

[lottie dolly]

Just to say,the very nice man has fixed it,the battery was had it,and he happened to have a new 1 on the van,it apparently has a 5year warranty on it,thats me double happy now.

[self-contained]

I ate my first leaf from Henry Hispi in a corn tortilla with a veggie burger. Yum

17 months ago, the Hispi cabbage seeds were the first veg seeds I bought. It's taken me all this time to actually get a cabbage out of them but I seem to have turned into a (novice) gardener along the way. I mean, I just bought some walking onions from Real Seeds! (Because they are obviously going to be ideal for a container gardener... <sigh>)

[Lumpy]

I’ve just ordered myself a book on how to read basic hieroglyph.
My Classical Latin is rusty and my Ancient Greek is very, very bad.
I thought my brain cell needed a complete workout.

[Snoop Puss]

Two

Lumpy's brain workout.

and

Another 5 mm of rain today and a cold night ahead (14 ºC). On the downside, no rain now forecast for the next x weeks and daytime temperatures are on the rise.

[happyhumph]

By pure chance happened to see a wren catch a tiny butterfly, while I watched with a cup of tea. Butterfly was flying close to the ground so the wren was half flying, half running.

[Nannysally99]

Going out on Saturday night and dancing
No chest pains, and my knees didn’t play up on the Sunday

[1Bee]

Making a kitten play house and kitten bed out of cardboard boxes with the boys. Lots of paint, feathers, sequins, pom-poms, glue, intense fun and nobody died!

Rosie comes home on Tuesday.

[Lumpy]

Spent an hour very early this morning watering the garden.
As an afterthought I put the thingy on spray and watered the leaves.
Fifteen mins later was fascinated watching all kinds of bugs on the leaves having a drink.

[lottie dolly]

The nice gas man looked at my scrible and agreed,not good enough,then gave me all his details,saying we not on his list,but ring BG,so upshot is,he has been given the job for today,the original bloke,had said in a report,he both rang and,came to the door,OH NO HE DID NOT,the furthest he must have gone was pull up on the front,i have been waiting for 5 weeks for this boiler service,and just hope the nice man does come back.

[self-contained]

After a horrible hot sticky day and a long walk home in full sun, I reluctantly dragged myself into the garden to do the watering. But I got a shock. All of my pots seem moist. I have no idea how, but they all looked recently watered, even though I last did them yesterday evening and it's been super-hot today.

So, I am happy with my unexpected evening off :-)

[muck lover]

Two of my sons found a baby bird in the garden and brought it inside as they were worried it would fall prey to a neighbourhood cat or our own dog.
I was a bit dubious but they made a little enclosure and asked me what to feed it. I happened to have an outbreak of lime green caterpillars on my indoor pots of basil so we used tweezers to feed the little bird (and cleared the plants of bugs at the same time. Later when I was checking up on my worm bins I noticed they had been disturbed. MY SON WAS TAKING MY BABY WORMS TO FEED THE CHICK. I calmly informed him that if I even suspected he was taking my baby worms to feed the chick he would find himself minced up and fed to the worms in recompense.
Anyway the chick was well fed overnight and first thing on Monday morning they phoned the vet to ask what to do. He told them to put the chick back. They did so and ten minutes later the mother bird appeared and led the chick away.
I have to say it was one story I was so sure wasn't going to end well. Cheers to the devoted parent bird.

[roitelet]

The best crop of potatoes I have ever had. The rain ( see Raining Thread) came at just the right time. So many I am giving them away!