Rainy Saturday

It’s been raining throughout the night and still pouring this morning – however, for tomorrow sunshine is forecast, so I’m postponing the dreaded shopping to tomorrow. Now I’m glad I did part of it yesterday already – at least I have fresh milk and veggies. Meat is never a problem, since I always keep some in the freezer. I’m thinking of making a Curry today – I’ve got all I need for that, and the weather fits.

Around nine it stopped raining so I went outside for a photo-shoot! Clambering around the puddle at the bottom of the stairs is a bit tricky, though.

The flowers are pretty with a wet sheen on them.

The Nasturtium leaves look especially stunning with droplets of water all over them.

My beans are starting to flower as well.

And my Alströmeria is finally opening up again!

Back upstairs and the rain started again. I tried to capture the rain against a dark background.

And then I saw a neighbour hanging up washing! Hanging it up! In the pouring rain! I’m speechless – I can’t imagine even the least shred of logic involved in this.

And then I saw Silver climbing over the wall into my neighbours garden, so I called her. She cleaned out three bowls filled with food (I refilled twice)! In between she’d look at me, meowed and even came up for attention. She was soaking wet, so every time after petting her I’d have to wash and dry my hands. She seemed really keen on attention though – but once the food bowl was filled again, that got her full attention.

Then the rain stopped again and the sun came out. The puddle had grown even larger – the cat-TV box is too high up for it to drain through there, so it has to seep away into the ground through all the cracks. And clambering around that is really tricky – and, of course, dangerous.

Silver was sitting in the sun drying off, when she looked up I noticed for the first time what beautiful green eyes she has when she’s happy! Almost like my Mynx. His eyes would be yellow when I was teasing him and go emerald green when he was happy – and in a black cat, emerald green eyes look absolutely beautiful! Anyway, I tried to get a snap of Silvers green eyes.

Then it started raining again. Some Hadeda’s dropped in picking something edible out of my garden.

I’ve been investigating recipes and all lamb curries and stews recommend marinating overnight, so I’ll do that. I also found a promising recipe for the venison goulash – although that’ll take 2-3 hours and sour cream, of which I don’t have enough. So I’ll have to add coconut cream. Grated some fresh nutmeg – and, of course, I went a bit too far and grated my knuckle as well. The marinade tastes awesome, so I hope for a great curry tomorrow. Venison is simmering in the left-over sour cream and coconut cream. I’m in for a gourmet weekend! Ideally the venison goes with rice but I’m leaning towards paste – cooked in the sauce so it absorbs the flavours. Both meals are too much for one, though, so there will be some bagging and freezing for a lazy day. The hardest part is trying to work out how to simmer on the induction cooker. I’ve got it on the lowest setting I could find: BBQ 80 – but still gotta keep an eye on it, stir regularly and still it’s burning! Sigh. I normally use my electric pot for slow cooking – but I want that for tomorrow.

You know what’s really bad about my cooking? The venison turned out so well I finished it all! Three bowls full! If tomorrows curry turns out even half as well, I may need a wheelbarrow to move!