Still busy on Sunday

I think I have figured out what this new piddle thing is all about! It's me! I remembered how one of the many wonderful menopause things is, that I smell different. Not temporarily, but permanently. And not like a different soap or such, but fundamentally. So: suddenly there's this stranger's smell in our home. All Mewthos is doing, is reasserting his home. Overruling this 'stranger' smell in his safe place.

Sigh. Nothing I can do about that. Let's just hope it won't continue for too long.

I took it easy this morning, but not for too long. One problem with Sundays is that there's no next day to leave things to, so, anything that must get done, must be done today. I re-packed and froze the meat. I sliced and froze the cucumber, I picked and froze the grapes, baked the loaf of bread - which did NOT come out like the photo at all! The dough was too dry and I had to add more liquid to get all the flour to form part of the dough. After baking, it looked not much different than before. But it's edible, so ...

I drank just about all the orange juice, except for what I had frozen in ice cube trays. I didn't get around to making any smoothies, and I also still have the lettuce and the peppers to figure out what to do with them. I've decided to make my standard spaghetti, tuna and celery tomorrow night - maybe I'll add some peppers into the mix. I had planned a greek type salad with the lettuce, but didn't get around to it.

That's the thing about Sundays, I have to prioritise. At least I cleaned the bathroom floor as well and I washed the dishes twice, so the kitchen is now clean. For dinner, I sliced part of the rump into strips, added a pepper, also sliced into strips and cooked some Spaetzle. Those are best, when you fry them quickly after boiling.

Oh, and mippies brought a mouse into my house! Into the kitchen, right in the middle of my washing dishes the first time! I had to carry mippies out one by one and shut the door, then I tried catching mousey. No luck. It's a field mouse. It finally hid under the fridge and eventually I couldn't keep mippies out of the kitchen any longer. In fact, Mewthos opened the kitchen door, so it wasn't even my choice. A few hours later, they had got the mouse trapped behind the kitchen door - but couldn't get there, themselves. I placed a box on one end and got lucky: mousey jumped into the box! I closed it and took it outside and was able to release the mouse without mippies seeing!

I had to wait for the bread to be finished before I could take my nap - that's the thing about bread: once you start, you have to keep at it until it has finished baking. And with the time to leaven that's quite a long time. Speaking of which, I think that's where the recipe went wrong, because it mentions only one rising time, bread normally needs to rise twice.

The feather duvet was totally dry today, so I packed it up and away - with help from Janey and Tynx! Tynx is still Miss Underfoot as much as she can! When I took my nap, she came running a few times, licking me awake! Right now she's on the duvet beside me, and when I get up to go somewhere, she's under my feet.

Janey needed lots and lots of cuddles all day long. She mipped at me to be picked up again and again, and if I ignored her, she'd jump on my lap! Apart from Ziva, they've all been underfoot and right by my side the entire day - and even Ziva hasn't been too far for long. I just went and fetched Mewthos - he was on the mat next to the toilet - now he's quite happily washing himself on the bed, by my feet, next to Tynx. They do smile a lot, though! Just go scratch them somewhere and they start smiling! Oh, not with their mouth, but with their ears!

Now I had better give some cuddles before going to sleep ...