Taking it easy today, but making progress - slow, but steady. I got up quite early - the sun comes up earlier now, which I love. I enjoy getting up early in the mornings - when it is not too cold to get out of bed!
Apart from coffee, breakfast and watching Warehouse 13, I haven't done much today - yet. Oh, of course I also brushed mippies, three of which are now curled up on the bed! Ziva is somewhere else - no idea where.
Well, I have washed tobacco leaves and spread them over the drying stand - in the lounge. It makes walking through a lounge somewhat tricky, but as my landlord is now watering the garden, I can't put it outside ... oh, and when I stood outside for a smoke, he also happened to come out and told me to open one of the sprinklers in my garden, so 'my flowers' can get watered, too. No: Good morning, how are you, happy Womens Day - just instructions. Anyway, I've got my tobacco dripping in the lounge, which is fine, as I planned to wash the floors only tomorrow, anyway.
Funny thing about this move, I'm planning: this would be the first time ever that I'm moving by choice! Every past move has always been for a reason beyond my control - this is the first time I'm considering moving for myself, my choice. I can't say that I like it, though. Kind of masochistic. Moving is a nightmare, every time!
Oh, and if I'm going to be cutting and chopping all those leaves today, I have the perfect excuse for not doing anything else until that's finished, ha ha ha!
Well, not much of an excuse, as it turns out. After I wrote the above, I went to check on the leaves and they were dry enough to start cutting ... which I did ... for at least 3 hours! Sigh! In future, I must remember to wash only a few leaves at a time - never, ever too much! Until I have a better cutting process, at least!
On the positive side, however, I now have enough tobacco for about a month!
As I was busy cutting tobacco, Mini brought in a pigeon again! Alive! I tried to get it away from her, but no luck - I could only hope she'd kill it quick. No such luck, though ... eventually Mini left and I took the poor pigeon and put it in the cage ... which, by the way, is pretty broken now! The flooring - from the last time mippies tossed it off the shelf! Poor pigeon, though - Mini had half-chewed through its neck ... it was really awful. I wish I could have just wrung its neck - kill it quick ... but I just don't have it in me. Watching it slowly die was awful ...
Well, the mission for this long weekend was to get a head start on everything - and on the tobacco front, mission definitely accomplished. Tomorrow I still want to bake another batch of cookies and then finish a head start on cigarette tubes. Sounds like a lot, but it's really not that much work. Then I want to sweep and do some superficial washing ... just so it looks cleaner.
Not the bathroom, though. I just don't feel up to cleaning up what looks like the inside of a feather duvet right now! Seriously - it's a mess! If I could get rid of that friggin' fertilizer I blerry would! I mean, WTF was Leon thinking? Oh, right - NOT thinking, as usual! It was bad enough when he'd just put some in patches around the garden - but now? The ENTIRE empty patch is covered in it - and the birds are going absolutely nuts! Can't really blame Mini for picking the odd one ... having a bird feeding frenzy right in her backyard?
All four mippies are curled up on the bed ... I think I'd like to join them. Maybe do some kitty brushing again!
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