Brückentag

Which translates as 'bridging day', as in the day(s) between weekend & public holiday, bridging a long weekend. The point is that I'm off today.

I woke up - again - with a headache. It dissipates after a while, but is still unpleasant to wake up to. My landlord was already watering again, so I took up the hose and watered where the sprinklers don't reach. Mippies were not too impressed with all this water sprinkling all over their playground, ha ha!

Having spent time yesterday cleaning up the kitchen, today I spent time dirtying it.

Mippies helped. They started the day by bringing a dead pigeon into my kitchen! I fear it was one of the semi-tame ones living in my kitchen roof - they haven't been around as much as usual. Sigh. I'm hoping that's due to the weather, not Ziva's breakfast.

I made myself a potato salad, using the steamer and a nice big glass bowl. I'm trying this Martinnaise I got online - it's tasting quite good! I also added all the veggies I could pick in my garden, and all the teeny tiny tomatoes I'd been collecting for a while. A lot of the tomatoes are no bigger than peas! Well, a little bigger, but not much. Not even half the size of a cherry tomato! Well, I added a few radishes and then added the left-over peppers.

The result is quite tasty! Although, for some reason, my stomach isn't happy - I've had cramps most of today. And I can't tell whether it was the food or just another one of those wonderful many-paws effects I'm enjoying.

Speaking of which, my paws are slumbering all over the place. I'm kissing the shaved tummy every chance I get - I'm tempted to re-shave it! Nah, just kidding! The weather seems to be turning, it's overcast this afternoon and unusually windy! I love it! I have tried to take a nap, twice so far, without success. I'm not sure whether to make the effort to clean the kitchen now, or whether to leave it for tomorrow. I've juiced half the carrots, adding to the 'dirtying' of the kitchen. I swept up all the feathers, but I should still wash the floor.

Oh, and right after I swept, Ziva came in covered in leaves and dirt ... and shook them off! Sigh.

After writing this, I decided 'bugger that!' and washed the dishes. Now the kitchen is almost clean - still need to wash the floor, though.

Then, I basically waited for the sun to be low enough so part of the garden would be in the shade, so I could work some more. I sowed two more marrows, two more cucumbers, and a few sunflowers! I got a few seeds as a sample included in one of my grocery boxes. And then I cracked the grow nuts! Literally. I followed instructions and they've been in my garden for months now - nothing! So, I've decided 'bugger that' and I cracked them open with a nut cracker and buried the open halves - I'm hoping the seeds are somewhere in there and I'm hoping to get at least one Gazania growing. I did the same with the Protea grow nuts.

I sowed two pots of tomatoes and one pot just Basil. I'm hoping that, without the tomato plants overshadowing them, they'll grow nice and big! And then I did some weeding around the Cosmos which are growing, then mixed in some compost and sowed Alyssium and Dianthum. Alyssium on the east, the Dianthum on the west. I want flowers! I miss my flower garden! Seeing weird little sprouts, watching them grow, wondering what they'll turn out to be! And this is a start.

Tomorrow, I'd like to tackle the next stretch, and then sow the other two packets of flower seeds I got. Funny thing: I may not have enough seeds! That would be a first! Well, I'll know - hopefully - tomorrow!