Saturday

Second last day of my vacation and I feel awful! After the really awful night, I've had a headache the entire day and I just can't shake it. So, instead of any action, I've just been mooching around all day.

Oh, and the 'old wives tale' that thunderstorms turn milk sour? True. With raw milk, anyway. Fortunately, what's also true about raw milk is, that it's not bad just because it's sour. Unlike pasturised milk, it doesn't go all at once, but gradually.

I took a walk around the garden and boy, was that depressing! That flower growing so lovely and strong in the round pot ... broke off. At least one stem. I pulled it off and stuck it in the other pot - I hope it grows. One of the flowers growing from the bulbs was sheered off completely. Nothing left to save, I'm afraid. The rest aren't looking too healthy anymore, either. The Cosmos? Quite a lot of them are flattened or bent. The 'wall of cosmos' has quite a lot of holes in it now. The peas, tomatoes, basil and mustard all took quite a beating from the hail. The cherry tomatoes are ... sigh ... only about half of each plant is left. And don't even ask me about the watermelons. I don't know whether they stand a chance to recover ... One sunflower broke, I tied it up and hope it'll recover. It was very depressing!

But a new sunflower opened! That was the only uplifting news in my garden. It's about the size of Cosmos - both in height and size of flower.

Mippies are insanely demanding! They absolutely love it when I can't sleep at night, they get lots and lots of lovies whenever I'm awake - especially when they're all cuddled together on my bed, like they were last night. I can not walk around my garden without mippies coming running and throwing themselves at me! Ziva demands her roly poly, Mewthos jumps up to be picked up and Janey comes running and mipping and just wants lovies! Mini stays by the toilet and rolls onto her back every time I sit!

Oh, and the crackling sound in my ear is gone. It's been gone a couple of days, no clue what it was.

Today is awfully hot and humid again, I woke up with a headache and haven't been able to get rid of it all day. I've tried everything. Even took a nap - lasted two hours, still woke with the headache. I've also had no energy for anything. I didn't even wash the dishes. But at least I made myself dinner - I suddenly felt like pasta with tuna. At least that's an easy, quick meal to cook. Of course, I also still have several bread rolls with mince left.

I keep hoping tomorrow will be better, but that hasn't been the case all week ... 

Well, tomorrow is the last day of my vacation. I really should clean up a little - well, there isn't that much to do, at least. Since I've decided not to worry about the floor, ha ha! Two weeks and I've neither swept nor washed the floors!