Lock-down Day 155

Lovely night, usual Mewly morning - treat mippies, close the passage door, make coffee, off to work.

I want to do my laundry today, after work. It isn't much, so I can maybe add a mippie blanket to the load. Oh, and the towel off the sleeper couch, which Mewthos has marked ... almost to the point of soaking! Poor darling, I hope that stops in our new home!

I was wondering why I hadn't received a reply to my tobacco accessory mail, yet, so I looked up their number and gave them a call. They are inundated with mails and are working hard to catch up! I told them, no worries, no urgency, I'll wait until you get around to my mail. Glad to hear business is booming for them, though! I saw that my tobacco leaf supplier is also now selling through their Parys shop!

Happy to be home, now! Washing is in the machine, last week's laundry folded and packed away, dishes in progress ...

And then the power went out! Just for a minute, but enough to stop the washing cycle and turn off the PC, of course! Well, the fabric softener tray was empty, so it must have already entered the rinse cycle. Fortunately it also has a Rinse & Spin setting, so I used that to finish the washing, then hung it in the lounge to dry.

Mippies come mipping for lovies, Mewthos mewlis for attention - all given! Even though I really didn't feel like it, I made a tray of cookies, which are baking now. I'd much prefer to be able to do that WHILE watching my show, rather than INSTEAD OF. Especially as the Boeremusik is on again ... 

I really fear that, although I'll have more personal freedom, in other aspects my next home may not hold much promise ... based on what I've seen on the market, I'm really worried. Anything decent is pricey - and I'll have to really tighten my budged just to make it through each month. And 'decent' doesn't make it safe, either. And, I'm reading so many posts of 'missing' cats ... what if mine get out and go missing? Or get run over? Beggars can't be choosers - my finances don't allow me too many choices ...

I just wish that, just for once, I could catch a real break in the 'home' department. Not the 'at first it seems better than anything I've had before' until true colours are revealed ... Well, I was happy in my flat in Gezina. And apart from being too large, my home in East London was great! But since then, I've had a streak of bad luck ... the flat in Pretoria North, was bearable, once I got the power turned on. Port Elizabeth was bearable, but definitely not what was promised, and the same applies here. It was all great at first - until they started with the restrictions ... 

Anyway ... I washed a single leaf for an experiment. I've just cut it into thin strips and put it to dry in the oven (not turned on, but dry overnight). When it's dry, I'll try to stuff a tube with that and see how that smokes. Might help with the ash falling off? Well, that's what someone posted - and I've not yet tried using strips, instead of fine-cut tobacco.

Five to eight and FINALLY the music is off! I didn't even feel like making dinner for myself - but the half Dagwood and a few cookies, as well as a bottle of milk - I'm not really hungry, anyway.

When I went out to smoke earlier, I saw a large fire up the road - near where I get my milk, I think. I hope it wasn't his farm! It's still burning, but very low now - almost burned out. That is something I won't miss: the worry of a veld fire getting too close to home ...

Well, Saturday tomorrow! Let's see what I get up to!