Dark and wet Saturday

It rained during the night and the power went off. I woke up to the UPS crying again ... around half past two.

I reported the outage - and I wasn't the only one - then turned over and went back to sleep.

Got up around seven, hauled out the gas bottle again and made myself coffee.

Smeagol seems to have spent the night in my outside room, he came out to say good morning when he heard we were up. Mippies are not pleased, ha ha.

Well, this weekend is messed up already. I meant to do the laundry before load shedding at eight, as it's overcast ... I don't know how I'll get the heavy clothes dry, now. I could probably use the dryer for some, but not my woollen Jersey. The weather plus load shedding were bad enough, but add outages? Trouble!

Plus, of course, it's cold! Brrr ... 

I'm keeping myself busy with chores. I cleaned the cheese out of the oven, packed away seeds - the vinca and poppies I've got drying on my desk. Now I'm tackling mippies room. I've cleared some of the floor, swept, and now I'm assembling my shoe store. 

Years ago, I bought some of those plastic shoe boxes. I last had it up in PE. It's really quite useful, just a beech to assemble. And to take apart, to move.

Oh, wow! What a lovely surprise! Power came on at ten!

I finished putting the shoe rack together, then placed shoes in each box ... now I just need to clean the shoes, when I get some time.

Now, while I'm hanging the laundry and cleaning the kitchen ... mippies are warming up my bed!

Well, kitchen is clean - and I even cleaned another kitchen cupboard. Scrubbed it clean. Only problem is, it's now past half four ... which isn't enough time to cook. I'll have to leave it till after load shedding ... sigh ...

And then they were late turning the power off. Again. Yesterday they were an hour late ... so I thought I could take a chance ... and I just started dinner when the power went off!

I couldn't sit still. I cleaned the cutlery drawer. I'll have to do a more thorough job when I can see, but it's a good start.

Well, dinner was delicious! And now, I'm sorry to say, I'm too tired to even bath! I'm just going to call it a day and see what tomorrow brings ...