Lock-down Day 430

I don't wanna get out of bed - it's cold outside the bed! But mippies insist, they want to go out! I gave in some time after six.

The bird didn't survive the night - mippies must have caught it, because I found feathers all over! Apparently someone ate and threw it up all around my armchair! Sigh ... and the bird had worms! Yuk!

I got busy in the kitchen, starting with the bread dough, then the meatball mix, now I've finished the apples ... and then suddenly remembered: I haven't paid my rent, yet! Yikes! I normally pay that around the 25th ... well, I just paid. Won't be late, as the last day of the month is only tomorrow. Phew! That was too close for comfort!

Anyway, here's what I did with the meatballs and bread dough:

I took that right after I had shaped the dough. Now, that it's risen, I've placed a slice of cheese on top of each!

Next, I'm planning on another experiment. Instead of making the apple pie in the same dish, I want to try and roll it like Apfelstrudel. Oh, I can't roll the dough as thin, nor add the butter needed to make proper Apfelstrudel - I'm going to keep it simple.

There, how does that look? I'm quite exited! This is fun! 

My daily joy! One flower bed with several colours!

The bees love my poppy flowers!

Red Marigold

The same flower from below. It's yellow underneath and red on top.

Spekboom in full bloom!

Lovely tiny pink flowers!

Apple pie thingy is done, bread rolls look delicious, my pasta turned out delicious! All that's left to do now is ... yep, again: cleaning the kitchen! Ha Ha!

I'm having some trouble with the big water fountain, some kind of algae seem to grow in there. I keep cleaning it, but reaching the corners is really difficult. So now, I've immersed the whole reservoir in hot water, I hope that will kill them!

My pasta turned out really nice! Really delicious, too!

I've sloppy washed the kitchen floor. I'm too pooped to wash properly, so I just scrubbed the marks and washed around. All marks and puddles are cleaned, so: good enough!

Oh golly! Family meeting at seven tonight! I'd better have finished and bathed by then ... Oh, and possible load shedding, too! Oh, nice! (In the tones of Onslow, from 'Keeping Up Appearances').

I had hoped for some time to garden, but by the time I finished with the floors, it was past four ... not much time to do much in. Well, I loosened the soil in the Marigold bed, cleaned the wilted leaves from the poppies, dug a bit around two of the Avocado trees and one of the rose bushes ... just pottering around ...

Half past five, Smeagol showed up! I fill his bowl every day, and make sure it is full before I call mippies in - they like to snack off his food, too! Mewthos was not happy to see him, so I kept mippies out front, and not very long, letting Smeagol eat in peace. Yes, I know, he would much prefer to get some lovies ... but it just doesn't always work out that way.

Now it's half seven ... I'm waiting for the stream to pop up, so I can find out what our new restrictions are going to be ... probably 'with immediate effect' again ... 

I've bathed, and done everything that needed to be done. Now, I think I'll munch a bit on my last pancake ... have some pineapple juice ... sit back ... and see what's next ...