Lock-down Day 358

Ziva upset me early this morning, when she tore a massive hole into the lace curtains to get to the window! I mean: massive! Just put up her claws and riiiiiip! Sigh ...

My sickle arrived early this morning! Yipee! Now I can cut down the last bit of jungle grass - if I feel like it!

At isn't at work today, apparently he fell and injured his knee last night. I guess he won't be able to come visit ...

I went to the store to get milk, sour cream and chocolate. Felt like a chocolate last night and didn't have any! How could this happen? Ha Ha!

I see that load shedding has now been cancelled, from noon today! Whoop Whoop! We'd have been due from eight to ten tonight again - not a pleasant time! Let's hope the lights DO stay on ... 

I'm in a mental flat spin about my seed data ... I just want it all and I want it now! I've managed to calm myself down by planning WHAT I'd like to sow this weekend. Well, I would like to try Frangipani. And lavender. And the pelargonium. Because those take a long time to mature ... especially the Frangipani. As for the rest, I can focus on herbs, especially the one's I've grown successfully before. That's for the Greenhouse. I've got all winter to work my way through finding and recording all the details for perfection. For now, I'd just like to see something other than weeds grow in my garden.

The flower bed is doing well, though! I keep watering it every night. I'm also playing with the moisture meter again! I got that years ago at a nursery in PE, and it's much more accurate that the 4 in 1 meter. Obviously!

One of the problems, I find, when looking up information about plants and growing them from seed is ... they ALWAYS refer to temperature only in terms of lowest temperature they can tolerate! As if there is no such thing as 'too hot'! Take Brussels Sprouts, for example ... everyone goes on and on about them needing lots of sun ... and how frost actually improves their flavour ... trying to find out the maximum temperature each plant can handle, is quite a mission!

Anyway, first I'll have to mow the lawn. I think I can get away with mowing only the half I didn't mow last Friday ... oh, and the back lawn, of course, since I'm watering that every day. And then I can decide whether I want to play with my new sickle, carry on weeding or play with my new greenhouse ...

Can you see the line between last week's and today's mowing?

Back at home, I took out the mower and started on the back lawn - which always gives me a good idea of what's ahead. Not much, though - the entire back lawn didn't even fill one bag! I took the mower to the front, and carried on mowing where I had left off last week. I can't tell the difference, can you?

On the right is my tallest sunflower! That one is doing really, really well! The bed needs weeding, though. On the left, you can see an Amaryllis behind a wonder flower! :) I have
no clue what it's going to be! And on the far right, you can see a Sweet Pea. They don't 
seem to be doing too well ...

These are the Marigold I sowed last weekend sprouting happily away! The seeds are 
from my last garden. I collected them from the Marigold which had bloomed there!

I carried on weeding the bed in front of the succulents, as I had been watering that while mowing the lawn ... but I think I should start from the beginning, again. The pavement next to the patio out back, outside the kitchen. Then work my way around that border again, weed the flower bed ... before I start working on new areas.

Without load shedding, I can enjoy my evening without restrictions. Mippies always gather on the veranda for our quality time before they get their treats, then we share my dinner. I bath, and we gather on my bed for cuddles, brushies and a movie!