Leisurely Saturday

Lovely day! Up nice and early so I got the dreaded shopping out of the way early. Since I’m going out tomorrow, I should do the chores today – so the one thing I didn’t do today, is my chores!

Instead, I spent some time working on a strategy for my game. I was getting stuck, because I haven’t built the new buildings I need to progress. And I haven’t built them, because I had no plan how and where to build them. So, now I have a plan. And I started building. Ideally, I should build 22 buildings, to progress fast – I’ve got room for 10 and the goods for only 3. So I’ve built the three while I’m growing the goods I need to build more. I have one more expansion, which is room for one more building. I’ll have to come up with another strategy when I’ve reached the current plan.

I also need to decide about expelling members of the fellowship, who aren’t active enough. Not active at all is easy, they probably stopped playing – but not active enough is not so simple. There’s one new member I’m a bit troubled about: Female name, male avatar. Claims to be playing daily, but isn’t visiting daily. Messages nicely, seems to be English, but doesn’t come into the fellowship chat room. Says she doesn’t need help, thank you – but obviously doesn’t understand a lot of the basics of the game. But she’s been playing for weeks, which I know of, if not months. I have a suspicion, but I don’t know what to do. It’s not fair to the rest of the fellowship to keep someone just because I think they need help.

Then I spent a few hours in the garden, weeding the tomato bed.

Removing all yellow leaves from the Nasturtiums, quite a lot of them are breaking out in colourful flowers now!

Weeding the new flower border – the first Alyssum started flowering!

 Some more of those pink-white flowers have come in bloom again! Dark pink this time.

There are still more of the yellow flowers coming up in the planter.

On my days off this week, I also attended to the pot plants on my shelf – it’s looking beautiful now!

The fennel is in bloom!

I had bought a new Fuchsia a while back, it’s now in full bloom!

My neighbour told me that she’s taken to feeding Silver, the stray cat that’s been hanging around for a few months now. So today I bought some cat food as well – cat food isn’t cheap! Of course, since I don’t have a cat, I also had to buy a bowl. I choose a bright pink one. We have no idea whether Silver has a home, we’ve seen her cross the street, we’ve seen her next door and when we were looking for her cat, we saw her in the yard of a house behind us. I say her, but we don’t know. She’s coming into my neighbour’s kitchen, stealing her cats food – and her tom firmly disagrees. She’s had to stop quite a few fights already. When I went out to give the leftover bread to the birds nesting in my roof, Silver was meowing pitifully, so I put out the bowl, filled it up and called till she found the way up the stairs to the bowl. She’s wary of people – so I went inside to let her eat. But I had to take a photo, which didn’t disturb her despite the flash. When I looked later, the bowl was empty! Not even a crumb left! So I filled it again and left it outside.