Lock-down Day 297

Load shedding again from 05:00 - 07:00. Good thing I boiled water last night, eh? Yet it stopped at 07:00, not 07:30? Possibly they suspended load shedding again for the day. They don't announce that, nor do they update their website right away. I suppose they think we don't need to know if they suspend load shedding - we'll find out, when our power stays on.

Oh and I finally put two and two together regarding the lack of load shedding at my previous residence: An ANC VIP lived across the road! My ex landlord was always bitching about whatever that VIP was doing ... that's how I know. But I paid so little attention to what he was saying - I find all that trash-talking everyone very irritating - it took me this long to add it up! I used to think it was, because we were so far out, and such few residences over such a large area - but that is true here, as well. Yet, here, we're in full load shedding. Which got me to thinking ... and solving the puzzle.

I couldn't resist watching a second Columbo, so I only went to sleep after 10 ... and only got up after seven this morning! Taking it very easy this morning ... coffee ... feed Smeagol. I gave him what my mippies left over from last nights treat. He loved what they rejected! I had opened a tin of Weruva for them - a special treat! Not good enough for mippies anymore, ha ha! Smeagol loved it, though!

Having Smeagol around keeps my mippies close by, he he! On the other hand, I've also noticed that my mippies no longer rush me off my feet to get out, when I come home! I still open for them as soon as I get home - but they don't all rush outside! They often hang around me for a while, before going out!

Columbo joke: the character has sever vertigo. He's talking about it and closes with "As a matter of fact, I don't even like being this tall!" I love those little gems!

Bread is on the go, laundry folded and packed away, bed sheets washing in the machine ...

I went into the garden, finishing the bed out back. Half past one I came inside ... power out! The second load shedding of the day! Well, at least now I know for sure that I've got the right schedule! Good to know for future reference!

Well, I finished the bed, then went to carry the bulb plants from the front to the back. I've planted the Amaryllis' and Iris' in colour sequence: red Amaryllis, Iris, white Amaryllis, I didn't have another red Amaryllis, so I planted the Alströmeira, then Iris, then white Amaryllis. I applied the trick I learned from Rose: fill the hole with water, then place the plant! They all did well in the shade under the veranda, so I think they should do well in that bed. It's shaded most of the day: in the mornings from the outside room, and then from the Jacaranda tree. 

Power came back just before three ... bread was finished before the power went out, the laundry was finished washing, it was in the drying cycle - so: no problem!

I've sowed flower seeds: Sweet Pea, Poppy, Calendula and Pansy. I've sowed so the colours go together everywhere - never done that before, ha ha! I used to just throw seeds, then wonder what's that sprouting there. Which is why Rose called mine the Wonder Garden! Well, half those seeds should - ideally - be sowed in trays, so it's still a Wonder Garden: I wonder whether it'll grow? Ha Ha! They're all 'sow-in-autumn-or-winter' seeds. Okay, so it's still summer ... but what the heck?

At one place, I dug up a bulb - I think it's one of those creepers - it's the size of a baby potato! I couldn't pull it out, but managed to dig till below the bulb ... well, the top bulb, I suspect there's another one lower down ... and I had to cut it. I also found yet another slate or plate placed in the garden! Seriously! What the ... man, WHY? Why bury such a lot of plates and stuff? And in such odd places?

It's going on four, I've re-started the drying cycle for the bed sheets, I've achieved what I wanted out the back ... I think I'll now move outside my bedroom. In an hour, or so, the new bed should be shaded again, then I'll water it thoroughly!

Smeagol came to look for me, because he wanted his dinner! Seriously, he came wandering around the house until he saw me, then meowed until I got up, and led me to his food bowl!

Right, I've now cleared about 2/3 of the pavement, as well as the lawn from the pavement to the wall. Guess what? I found a small sheet of corrugated iron under the ground next to the wall! What is this? A garden or the setting of a bizarre kind of junkyard treasure hunt? Honestly, what the eff?

Around six, I'd had enough! I'm happy with my achievement! So, I watered the new bed, smiling happily to myself seeing my flowers! Well, when they flower, they'll be flowers. Either way, I'm very happy!

Of course, I didn't wash the dishes ... and honestly? I'm pooped! I've enjoyed a lovely, relaxing bath, and I just want to go to bed now ...

I still have to pack my lunch, though, and eat some dinner ... I'm even too tired now, to even fry a steak. Fortunately I have lots of tuna salad! Pasta, potatoes, rice, Brussel sprouts, etc. Mewthos likes the smell of the tuna, so he nibbles on a pasta and licks a potato! My little weirdo!