Sunday

Poor Ziva! When she came into her cuddle cave, I noticed the wound on her back was wet again. It took some trickery to get the meds and Ziva together - she fights me hard. I drained it - there was a LOT coming out, poor Ziva fought hard to make me stop. I held on to her, then disinfected and put ointment on. When I was done, she dashed off to the lounge and stayed there all night ...

I was able to feel her back this morning, I'm afraid I think I felt a little lump again. I'll have to try to get hold of her again and see if the wound needs more draining.

I'm wondering whether I need to take her to the vet, though ...

As expected, I didn't want to get out of my lovely, snug and warm bed too early this morning. It was past seven when I finally bullied myself out of bed.

I've been trying to watch my DVDs of Upstairs, Downstairs - but every so often it just shuts down! One minute I'm watching, next minute the program is gone.

Right now I'm backing up my Hard Drive, then deleting what I've backed up off the Harddrive.

Well, bread rolls are rising, stew is almost done, now I'll just make the muffins, then clean the kitchen and that's my chores done ...

Quarter to two, and everything is done. The muffins kind of fell apart - I guess I took them out just a wee bit too soon. Oh, they're delicious, as always - just mostly crumbs, ha ha! Well, kitchen is clean and the stew is finished as well.

In the garden, first thing I did was to cut down the tomato plants. Some are already damaged by the cold, and those left are meandering for ever along the ground or up the fence ... and frankly, I've had enough tomatoes to last me for quite a while, thank you very much. So I cut them all down, quite ruthlessly.

The carport needs a lot of work, I'd need to sweep, wash it down, sweep again, then steam and lastly, if I can, I should fill all the cracks. I'm not up to that today.

Then there's the bed behind the carport. I had cleaned that not long ago, and a new crop of weeds are already trying their luck. I'd like to cover that with cardboard and cart some of the compost heap on top of that. I'm not up to that, today, either.

So, I pottered around a bit in the bed in front of the veranda. Not the flower bed, though. First I cleaned around the rosemary, then placed cardboard around it and topped that with compost. Or mulch. Whatever. I carried on working along that bed for a bit, until it got too cold.

The stew is wonderful! It was quite rich - thanks to the marrow, but the sauerkraut countered that beautifully, making it a really delicious meal!

Mippies are in, and now I'm about to bath, then snuggle down in my warm bed. Janey is on my lap. Again.

I've cleared most of the harddrive, I must just remember to take the PC with me tomorrow.