Lock-down Day 332

Good night, reasonably early morning.

I'm now obsessing over the gardening journal. Again! First obsession: address! I've been racking my brain for quite a while, now ... nothing really feels right.

And then Smeagol attacks Ziva! I'm running outside, out the back to the front where Smeagol has chased Ziva up one of the trees! Sorry, boy - YOU go! It takes a while to encourage Ziva to come down - my biggest worry, of course, that she might jump next door! Where the dogs would be far more dangerous to her, than Smeagol! But she comes down eventually. Follows me, while I look to see where all my mippies are ... no Mewthos! Sigh! He soon shows up, though - I think he was around the back.

I see the spider has been identified as a type of Golden Orb Spider. Relatively harmless, so she can stay.

Argh! Mippies caught another bird! Janey caught it, it got away, Ziva is pawing at it, Mini caught it ... I took it off Mini and put it in a box, but after having been caught and pawed at by three mips ... I fear it hasn't much chance! Mini was very upset at my wanting to take it away and growled angrily at me!

It's noon, and I haven't done jack! Feels like such a waste of a precious day at home! On the other hand, doing nothing is good for me. Breaks the 'must-be-productive' grip on my mind.

I had mail from the place, where I bought the tobacco leaf cutter, so I thought I should give it a whirl. I'm too lazy to wash any leaves, so I just took one out of the bag and ran it through the cutter. Perfect! Absolutely perfect! I rolled a cigarette with it - and it really does bridge the missing link in my process! Beautifully! No more glowing bits falling off, no trouble rolling it, no need to twist the ends ... just perfect! And, instead of spending a couple of hours cutting leaves, it's all done in a couple of minutes! I'm very happy! NOW I can get rolling again!

I spent almost the entire morning obsessing over my garden journal. I'm now going to stop - put it out of my mind, to carry on during the week. SimpleGardeningJournal isn't taken, so that's a possibility.

I checked on birdie earlier, and he was active enough to flutter out of the box. But clearly not well enough to fly ... I worried that he might have broken something, and I also saw some blood. I had a heck of a time trying to catch it again, inside my wardrobe! I left him in the box again ... and then Janey tried to investigate the box-that-scrabbles ... so I decided to move it to safety. I placed it in the laundry room, and as I was trying to cut some holes into the box, the bird flew out again. This time, it looked well recovered enough to release. I was able to open the back door (it was stuck when it was raining so much) and birdie flew out and away! I love happy endings!

I had been wondering whether I really was now part of the neighbourhood security WhatsApp group, as it has been completely silent. I am! Good to know.

Yeah, I'm feeling out of sorts again. I'd say it's the lack of doing anything productive getting getting to me. I don't like 'wasting' weekends. All week at work, I just want to be at home, doing things ... and then, when I am at home, not doing anything ... well ... it goes against the grain, doesn't it? In my defense, though, it is unpleasantly hot again! Though only 33 degrees ... did I say 'only'? Well, anything above 30 is unpleasantly hot.

Though I see it will cool down again tomorrow, clouds are moving in and there's a 53% chance of rain during the night, going over 60% chance tomorrow morning. I'm glad about that, as my poor flowers out back are wilting! Even though I put the sprinkler on for about an hour every day! The rest of the week is forecast below 30 degrees, and lots of chance of rain! Good!

Guess what I just found? My Gardening Journal! The one I had started late 2019, still in the old garden! Now, at least, I can jot down the things I want for the blog, and I can stop stressing / obsessing about starting it.

Well, I've done what I needed, well, most of it. I haven't got a clue about lunch after tomorrow,  yet. I'll have to think of something tomorrow.

Right now I've got to deal with Ziva, who can't seem to get enough attention. She got locked in the laundry room - the only way I can think is that she crept through the bathroom window. The door was closed,  since the bird left, long before they came for munchies. 

Mewthos is in my chair again, so I'm on the phone ... again. Even when I sat at the edge, he wouldn't budge. And when I lay on the bed, Ziva started nagging. And now,  Mewthos is nagging ... I give up