Lock-down Day 443

Internet, yay! Well, not strong, but at least I could write and publish yesterday's post. Hopefully, I'll be able to log into my game later, when I have some time. For now, I had better start my chores ... mippies have been out since just after six, and have been back, demanding lots and lots of attention a few minutes later! Janey and Ziva, in particular, have been interrupting my typing with their need for love, over and over again. As a matter of fact, Janey is sitting here now - AGAIN! - wanting more cuddles ...

Okay, change of plan. I've just riffled through my bottom freezer drawer and there was a roll of puff pastry dough. Time to use that. Now, that I know how easy it is to make pie dough (though not yet puff pastry), that space is better used for something else.

I've decided that I'm going to spend today outside, in the garden! I haven't done that in a long time - and Wednesday is a public holiday, so any chores I don't get to this weekend, I can catch up on Wednesday. Anyway, the laundry is hanging outside, it'll be dry pretty soon, and all cooking and baking ... well, I usually do that on Sunday's anyway.

Lovely weather for gardening! It's lovely and warm in the sun - not too hot, like in summer - and indoors is lovely and cool!

I started by cleaning the car port. When I had pulled what weeds I could pull, I swept the car port and then brought the hosepipe to wash as much ground out of the cracks as I could.

I've been thinking for a while now, that I'd really like to move the plants off the veranda. They're getting almost no sun there, though they're protected from the cold, in their little greenhouses ... but I've got this cloche and the tunnel ... just no place to put either of them!

I've started re-cleaning the bed in front of the succulent bed. I'd watered it, so the soil is nice and soft ... 

On the left, the Frangipani, then the Pelargonium, and then all the herbs that sprouted ...

Today's achievement! I'm quite happy! It was a lot of work, and I managed to finish just in time. I placed ALL the growing seedlings - still in their bottles - inside the tunnel. Then I scattered carrot and spinach seeds on either side - spinach near the succulent bed, carrots on the far side.

As you can see, the rest of the bed is still covered in weeds ... it's going to be a lot of work, cleaning all of it. And yes, of course the weeds will just LOVE the protection of the tunnel ... that'll keep me busy, as well.

Anyway, I finished just in time - the sun was setting, mippies were waiting ... 

Mini makes me laugh! She's on the veranda wall, and coming inside. But not the shortest route (which would be to jump off the wall, on the veranda and stroll to the door), oh no! Not Mini! She jumps off the wall into the garden! Then strolls all the way around the veranda, to my driveway and stands by the gate - which I must please open again, for her to stroll through!

And now, the first problem of 'forgetting everything, when I'm in the garden': dinner! I had meant to make the Calamari ... but by now, of course, I'm just not up to it. So: omelet. With cheese. And apple pie for desert.

But first: bath! My head aches, my whole body is sore ... 

After the bath, I'll have my apple pie, then drugs and bed ... I'll need to take something for the back and muscle aches, I'm afraid. They will just get worse overnight, if I don't ...