Lock-down Day 226

Not sure why, but I struggled to wake up this morning. Since it's Saturday, I just turned over until I was ready to get up - or rather, until mippies became too insistent, ha ha! Which was still before seven!

I had a message that my order would be delivered today. Huh? No! First thing, after I let mippies out, was to see if I could re-schedule. I could! Now delivery is again scheduled for Monday!

I decided that, since I'm making steady progress in the garden every week night, I should spend today inside, where I still have a long way to go before it's my home again. Well, the good thing about so much that needs to be done is: I can do whatever I feel like - it all helps!

So, for now I've doomed the hornet nest in my patio door, planted one bag of potatoes, uncovered even more paving under grass in the process! Someone, at some time, put a lot of work and effort into shaping this garden. It's a pity it is so overgrown and neglected by now - it's quite possible that it was maintained up to the lock-down. With no rain since April, nothing much needed to be done - but the recent rainfalls have accelerated the weed and grass growth!

Back inside, I've finished the dishes and the laundry is in progress. I've got some tobacco leaves washing, I'll hang them up and cut them throughout the day.

I've been thinking about coffee. I saw on Friday that they're now selling my preferred instant coffee at even higher price - and advertising that as 'special'! Well, it's not just coffee, of course. Everyone is just increasing their prices continuously, trying to recover their losses from the lock-down - without any apparent grasp of the reality, that WHO they are trying to recover their losses from, are the very people affected the most! It's a vicious circle. At work, our suppliers are increasing prices with every order. And the more prices of basic groceries increase, the less people buy - as they, too, have less money - so they increase the prices again, resulting in even fewer sales ... and so it goes on ...

Back to coffee. I have, however, noticed, that the price of filter coffee, i.e. ground beans, is NOT increasing. By now, ground beans are already cheaper than my preferred instant! So. Time to switch, methinks. What I considered as a treat before the lock-down, will now simply become my standard. Bargain, eh? Not quite, but good enough.

I decided to bake myself bread rolls, so I could enjoy my Rollmops. I had just settled on going for brown bread, when I remembered that sour dough mix I'd bought a while back! That would be perfect, wouldn't it? Well, I'll know in a couple of hours! Dough is in progress ...

That black and white cat is still an issue, although it would seem it has grasped that attacking my mippies is a bad move. If it can learn to tolerate my mippies, I could sort of keep it. Well, not like my mippies, inside, but I could give it food and water. I would, however, have to find out as soon as possible, whether it's been fixed!

Speaking of food, my mippies are a little unhappy that we've run out of Iams, their current favourite. Delivery is scheduled for this week, though - so, no problem! And I'm still swimming in FIT 32 and I also still have plenty of Orijen - which, as I said, they're also digging into far more!

Okay, half past noon and I've made good progress. I've pre-fried the mushrooms, so they're on a teflon sheet in the freezer, when they're frozen, I'll vacuum pack them as well as the blueberries. The rye dough is in the proving basket - it didn't rise very much ... I hope it won't turn into a brick (i.e. too hard to eat)! I've poured the raw milk into a pot ... it looks like it has already curdled and separated, though, so I think I'll just leave it in the pot and hopefully I can skim off the cheese tomorrow morning.

Almost four and I've made even more progress. Busy, busy, busy. Mini has brought another live toy to bed ... which I've evicted.

Now it's seven and I'm done for the day. I've really managed to get all 'musts' done - all that's left tomorrow is to make my pizza and the cheese. Oh, did I forget to mention? I decided to make pizza tomorrow, as I have two tomatoes, an avocado and meat left over. So I've kept some mushrooms in the fridge for that as well.

Dishes are done again, mushrooms vacuum packed, ditto last weeks blueberries, and the ones I bought yesterday are sorted and frozen. Tomorrow I really can just sit back and do whatever I actually feel like doing. Maybe unpack more kitchen, maybe set up the gardening ... uhm ... actually it's a wardrobe. A camping wardrobe. I had bought that years ago, I last used it in Pretoria North, 2015-6 to store tupperware and brooms and such. It's a light weight canvas wardrobe set up (given structure) by something akin to tent poles. It's got one side for hanging clothes and one side with shelves. If I find my hooks, I could maybe hang the garden tools on one side, but I want to put the seeds and such in the shelves. Set it up in the outside room.

Anyway, I have most of tomorrow free to do whatever I feel like doing. That alone is good progress!

I might decide to clear the garage, so I can park in it again? It all depends on how I feel and what I feel like doing. Nice! And not I think I had better settle on the bed to tend to whichever mippie comes for cuddles ...