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Hissing Sid, Jo, and the little orange guy (Peach Crumble) were released from the stable a few days ago. (I stayed farrrr away from the litter. You don't have to twist my arm for that LOL!)

By the way, I was surprised that Erlend was so agreeable to us taking that third cat! I'll admit, I *was* batting my big brown eyes at him... But then again, he's rather fond of cats and it was only *one* more puss and they do have this way of earning their keep...

Did I tell you folk that Brodgar went missing three months ago??? My lovely little black puss that always went for walks with me?? **sniffle**

We've seen the three new cats darting about the farm so they haven't run off yet... though I haven't seen "Crumble" in a couple of days. Hissing Sid and Jo were rubbing each other in the doorway of one of the barns and both looked as content as can be ~ Sid even had a plesant expression on his face and he was being all blinky-eyed and cute. So it looks like the farm is their home now. Yay!

I've hit that crazy nesting must-clean-everything-including-invisible-cobwebs-behind-furniture phase. Problem is, with this "pubis symphasis" I can't like move in ANY direction except straight forward on a level surface with my thighs together so it kinda limits my ability to clean! Erlend very sweetly washed the windows because I was totally obsessing about them ~ that after a long day of farm work!

So, as I reached the next level of obsessive cleaning I started hauling junk out of drawers and boxes... (Er...you know, hidden junk just *might* sneak up on the newborn baby when I'm not looking or something!!) I know it's there... it's looking at me... Our livingroom ended up looking like a tornado hit and then Erlend went and purchased us some lovely new livingroom furniture. He took the old stuff away (except for the one raised chair I'm using) and we discovered that our previous cats, King Tut and Brodgar, had so kindly turned the carpet yellow behind one of the chairs and one side of the sofa. EGADS!!!

(The furniture is great! A brown sofa-bed and two wine-red wingback chairs ~ they take up so much less room then the older, "puffy" stuff...)

Ok, so, pregnant lady eyes cat pee stains furnitureless livingroom... you can just imagine what was going through my hormonal brain!! I promptly dumped a ton of baking soda on each yellow section and left it overnight. The next day I called our dear friend K~~~, a retired teacher, and asked, "Can I borrow your carpet shampooer?"

"Sure!" K~~~ replied and a few minutes later she arrived.

She didn't just arrive though! She came bustling into the house like John Wayne and set about removing all of the junk from the livingroom as fast as you can imagine! (Meanwhile I tried my best to help in my slow, can't-bend-over sluggish way...)

As if that wasn't enough, she then whipped out our vaccum cleaner and before I knew it she was on her hands-and-knees vaccuming all the edges of the room and dusting the base boards and vaccuming the cobwebs in the corners of the ceiling... and then she was vaccuming up all that baking soda and the rest of the carpet as well...

AND THEN she turned around and shampooed the carpet!!!!!!!

(I tried a few feeble protests in regards to K~~~ doing all this work but let me tell you, K~~~ doesn't take any flack. She made it known that NO I was NOT going to do any of this myself so I backed off hahahaha! We are glad that K~~~ is on *our* side...)

AND THEN she goes and sweeps the kitchen floor!! And with that, K~~~ bustled away and left us staring at the carpet in stunned surprise. I mean... it's practically glowing!!

So there you have it! Our livingroom carpet looks GREAT! It'd been three years since it was last cleaned and you can imagine what that water looked like with all that cat pee and coal dust... uuuuuugh!

I am so totally greatful for K~~~'s invaluable help! She was literally a God-send because even though I was going to force myself to shampoo that carpet... I wasn't looking forward to the pain! As much as I want to play tough-lady, the truth is I'm not fit to even run a broom over the kitchen floor. (Yet I can walk four miles??? I DONT GET IT!) It must be something about when you walk forward on a flat surface your pelvis moves one certain way... and when you sweep etc it moves the pelvis another way + you have to bend somewhat. Walking HURTS like the devil but not nearly as bad as even the slight twisting and turning/bending while sweeping, mopping, or vaccuming. That's my guess at least...

Tough lady I am not! So thank you K~~~!!!!!!!!!! And thank you Erlend!!!! Such wonderful, sweet people.

But seriously, I'm not surprised. Good people are found everywhere in this world!! Earlier another friend, F~~~, came down and helped me to do some MAJOR clutter-busting upstairs!! I mean... she really cracked it out and now the upstairs is looking sooooo good! You know it must have been a good job if a nesting pregnant lady is actually *satisfied*...

Oh ~ while foaming rabidly at the mouth in persuit of preggo-lady HOUSE CLEANLINESS I dropped some 拢拢's on some much-needed cleaning tools from Lakeland. Ah well, money spent on cleaning tools is never wasted! I can't wait until they arrive!! I've always enjoyed housework but now I'm totally LOVING it!

I could get used to this... hehehehe

I'm still having to stand up most of the time but I've noticed that my feet ache a lot now, since this past week. They never ached before with all this standing so that's odd. My pubis symphasis has also gotten worse but that's not exactly surprising seeing as how I'm pretty much due any time now. The baby is 3/5 engaged in my pelvis and my Aunt and also the midwvies have told me this means s/he's putting a lot of pressure on my pubis so that explains the pain.

I eat standing up with my plate on a stool that is perched on the table. Erlend and I have become accustomed to this odd arragement but the other night we went to some friends' house for a church gathering and dinner. We called ahead and explained about the stool... and so, there I stood stuffing face from atop a stool... even though everyone present were well-loved friends I still felt like a weirdo hahaha! We all had a good laugh about it.

I'll admit, I can't wait to return to eating while sitting down like the rest of society hahahaha!

(I'm typing standing up with the keyboard on a stool. These Orkney stools are invaluable!)

So, time for a hot cup of tea. CHEERIO!