I had the most ghastly nightmare
last night – I must have rolled onto my back in my sleep, I always have bad
dreams when I’m sleeping on my back. It was absolutely horrid! I dreamed that I
was running for my life, through some abandoned factory. Never mind the fear of
being killed, running alone was nightmare enough! I don’t run! I puff and
wheeze just going up and down the front stairs – if I tried running at top
speed, I’d drop dead after the first 100m!
That nightmare woke me around five –
it wasn’t quite light yet but close. But too early to get up I’m afraid. I
turned on my side and went back to sleep … then woke around eight. Actually,
Ziva woke me up – decided it was time, so she sat next to my head and mipped at
me! She doesn’t do that very often and I was quite glad she woke me today.
It’s lovely and cool today, windy
though sunny – it’s almost cold! Lovely! It’s cold enough to finish the
vacuuming, if only I was in the mood for that ha ha! I re-arranged the flowers
from the glasses into my new woven vase and washed the dishes so the glassed I
had used were clean for packing – and I packed all extra glassware and
crockery. I’ve been meaning to do that for a long time and now it’s done.
I packed some more kitchen and
pantry stuff – it’s looking really bare now. There are still some tricky items
to be packed, like that heavy mixer motor (in the base), my records and the
baking forms but the worst of everything is done. I’m way past the 60% mark, so
well on track. I’ve done a lot of cross-packing – as in packed to fill the
boxes with unrelated items, so unpacking will be … disorganized to say the
least! I’ll be far more organized with the last lot, since it’s all ‘must have’
as soon as possible. I tend to get quite energetic with the unpacking – far more
than I do about packing.
This afternoon Lady Jane got quite
demanding, so I stuck a roll of toilet paper on the gate then told her to go
catch it – ha ha ha, she went at it right away! Rose found some of the paper
wrapped around flowers in her flower pot – I reassured her that it’s clean!
Finding tissue / toilet paper is always tricky; you never know where it came
from – and you DON’T want to touch it unless you do!
I also scored some short bread and
milk tart on a sponge base Rose had baked for another tea visitor –
deeeelicious! Coincidentally we’re both planning to cook our gem squash
tonight! Oh, in case I forgot to mention it, I finally picked the two gem
squash in my garden and gave one to Rose.
I took a walk around my garden and
found quite a few more of those lily’s – I put stones around each of them but I
think tomorrow I should go down and dig up as many of them as I can. The one in
the flower pot is still doing well, so they can survive transplanting – I just
need to dig really deep to get to the root from which it grows. I should take a
photo – it looks really strange. I think I remember digging up roots like that
way back when our gardener dug that last bed for me. I should also collect more
seeds tomorrow, a lot of the cosmos are full of seeds now. Mewthos and Romeo
helped with the watering again – as usual! I also showed Rose Lady Jane’s
bikini ha ha ha! Lady Jane is almost completely white from top to bottom
underneath with only a ring of grey patches around the middle; I call that her bikini!
That kitchen packing had been
bothering me for a while, now that it’s done I feel free to continue with some
basket weaving again. Rose lent me an ice cream container as that’s the size
and shape she had in mind. I’ve been looking at my different attempts and I can’t
quite decide whether the flattened or the ones keeping the round shape look
better – but I’ve collected quite a lot of shiny coloured papers just for that
purpose. I’ve used a lot of the other newspaper for packing – I’ve never had
such a lot of newspaper at my disposal when I was packing. I’ve never ‘collected’
all the newspapers and ads from the mailbox before. Well, in my last place
there was no way of receiving any post – they hadn’t installed post boxes for
tenants! Seriously!
For dinner tonight I made steamed
potatoes with that gem squash – I had left it too late again to defrost
anything. I also cut some fresh parsley from the pot outside the door to
sprinkle over them. Quite delicious!
Lady Jane was inside just after
seven, when I went to the bedroom to close the curtains she came running at top
speed – she almost crashed through the window! Poor girl caught herself quite a
bump on the head in her excitement! She was a little dazed for a minute or so. Well,
since she’s the tricky one to get in, I decided to take advantage of her
already being inside so I called Mewthos and Ziva in as well. Those two are so
food-obsessed it’s never a problem getting them to come inside! Offer them food
and they’ll follow me to hell and back ha ha ha! Lady Jane is the difficult one
– she’s not keen on the ‘treats’, she’s far more into the Whiskas outside.
Well, they’re all fed and happy now –
and so am I. For some strange reason, Mewthos opted to go nap on my bed.
Usually they all nap here in the lounge with me until I go to bed. Ziva used to
sulk in the bedroom but now she’s in here with all of us. They don’t usually
come as soon as I go to bed, they wait until I’m about to go to sleep before
they start coming one by one for their cuddle sessions.
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