Monday

It's always a good day, when I wake up early! Four mips looking at me expectantly ... sigh ... and I have to disappoint them! No outies today :(

At work, with less than half the workforce left, the rhythm now is: Monday morning delivery, thereafter nothing, except for the odd consumable booked out until Thursday afternoon, when they start booking in for next Monday's delivery; although most of it still comes late Friday afternoon and early Monday. So, I basically have three days to work on my systems ... or whatever I feel like.

When I first looked into online shopping, I came across something called 'air plants'. Now, I had never heard of them, yet, in hindsight, I had come across them - only, I didn't know what they were! Well, they were on 'special' last week, so I decided to give them a try. I told At about them and he replied 'Oh! I've got plenty of those! I'll bring you some on Monday!' Which he did! He brought me about six or seven of them, including one in full bloom, to show me the type of flower it makes. It looks like a mini Orchid! Absolutely beautiful in a luscious deep red colour!

When I got home with them, I also told Leon - and he pointed out plenty of his own air plants growing everywhere in the trees on his side! Sheez, I almost feel ignorant now! Only almost, though - he he he. Anyway, I've placed the ones At brought me in the trees, carefully choosing locations where I won't mind them hanging down, blocking my view. Most of them went into the tree by the bench. I just tied them with the green gardening wire and sprayed them with water.

Of course, the first thing I did, when I got home, was to water all my new seed beds! Yikes, it takes a long time to get everything watered, now! I was very grateful when Leon turned the sprinklers on and I could use the hose pipe, rather than carrying can after can of water from the house to each bed! I don't use water from the taps, which costs double the electricity - I only use rain water, or the sprinklers, which all can be connected to the hose pipe.

By the time I was finished, it was getting dark - so I just picked some basil leaves and counted my bulbs! I now have 18 or 19 bulbs coming up! Okay, so it's out of 34, which means only about half have come up ... so far! I'm not giving up on the rest, yet!

My two Zucchini are looking delicious, Leon said by Thursday they'll be lovely! The Nasturtiums are also doing well ... sigh ... maybe I should re-plant them? I've been thinking of keeping the Nasturtiums outside the bed, behind my veggie patch, rather than inside where they tend to so quickly overshadow everything else trying to grow!

Inside, I had way too much to catch up on! After treating my mippies, I first showered! Then I got busy in the kitchen, washing the dishes, washing the cheese cloth bag, re-packing and freezing the chicken hearts, preparing a loaf of bread to be baked tomorrow night ... by the time I was done it was nine o'clock! I really didn't feel like eating at that time anymore, so I just went to bed, watched an episode of SG-1 with mippies strolling past for cuddles.

It was past ten when I finally went to sleep and I feared that I would probably oversleep ... instead, I woke up early again! Lovely!