Lock-down Day 326

I'm still not feeling well. Not the best of nights and I only woke after eight! Mippies have been trying to wake me for hours - Mini pulled my hair (she does that at times, pawing at my head, when I should be getting up), Ziva mipped insistently to wake me, Mewthos stood on my pillow, pulling my hair ...

My head feels stuffed with cotton. I feel drained - despite all that sleep. I'm wondering whether it isn't all those insect bites adding up ... that large bruise on my calf turned out to be a spider bite, and I got another couple on the same leg. I've also removed a couple of ticks, last one late last night. That's another reason to keep the grass short.

And then, I read on FaceBook, that a High School friend has passed away! We'd chatted during the hard lock-down, agreeing to meet up next time I go to the German butchery, as that's near his home. We never did, of course ... I haven't been to the German butchery since the lock-down started ...

Mippies aren't going out - the earth moving equipment is active, not too far away. I haven't seen Smeagol yesterday, but his bowl is empty, so he's been around to eat.

A friend from Texas is posting that they, too, are enjoying load shedding - they call it 'rolling blackouts'. In their case, they do 25 minute outages. Considering they currently experience temperatures going well below zero ... imagine being without heat?

It's now two in the afternoon and I'm not feeling any better.

Twenty past three, still no better.

Twenty to five, I've had a bath and the weather has turned quite cool. Nice breeze with a strong promise of rain. I'm still feeling drained. The worst part is, not knowing the cause. I mean, one day I'm on top of the world, happily working hard in my garden ... then, for no apparent reason, I feel listless, drained. Oh, the logical connection would be that I've overdone it Saturday - but then why was I feeling fine Sunday morning? Is it hormones, courtesy of many paws? Is it a sugar low? What?

It took me two days to finish the chores I normally do one morning! Poor mippies, I had no energy to clean their litter box last night. Well, everything is done now. The bread didn't turn out too well, it's a little hard. Not just crispy outside, but inside, too. Not having much luck with their so-called 'french bread'. Anyway, I've rested, taken it easy for two days without too much change - might as well go back to work.

I've made myself some fish fingers - I just felt like fish. I'm finally feeling a bit better. Could be the lemon juice over the fish fingers. Anyway, it's now almost six, mippies are in, I'm going to watch an episode of Inspector Morse - I finished watching Columbo, the entire series. And then I'll give this sleep thing a try ... should be okay tonight, as it's turned nicely cool this evening. I'm hoping for rain!