Yup! On top of the State of Disaster, our president has now declared a State of Emergency due to the flooding in several provinces, including Gauteng, where I live.
I had a bizarre dream last night. For some reason, I was looking for my belongings spread all over other peoples homes. For an even weirder reason, I took three of the kittens along on my search ... and then left them in someone's cellar! Which I immediately regretted, and went on a mission to get them back - only, I didn't have transport, so I had to rely on help ...
For some reason I had no home. I had a room at my mum's huge apartment - in some sort of after-life. It was a mansion-like apartment, with huge rooms, high ceilings, multiple bathrooms ... my sister was living there, as well. She kept jeering at me, that I must stop trying to live, accept that I'm a useless failure at everything, and just give up and spare everyone the misery of my existence.
I found help from a friend's mum, who would drive me to where I'd left the kittens ... with my teddy bears ... but the mum had errands, too, and we sort of circled closer and closer, but never quite got there. She dropped us at the friends place, to wait, while she ran another errand, and the friend confessed her love for me and I mine for her. We were strolling, arm in arm, through the neighbourhood walking towards the place where I'd left my kittens ...
When I finally left Bizarro World and woke up! Maybe, watching an episode of X-Files right before I go to sleep is not such a good idea? Ha Ha!
I didn't sleep well, at all. I woke up around half past ten - load shedding. I was wide awake, and couldn't get back to sleep ... until way past midnight, and my ceiling fan worked again. No, I don't know why, as it isn't quite THAT hot at the moment ...
I overslept quite badly, it was past seven when I finally woke up! I had coffee, a smoke, then went to work. Traffic was unpleasant, delayed me even more. But at least there were traffic police at the main robot at Soutpan and Rosslyn road.
I had a message that my delivery is out today - that's the one which was only due next week. Suddenly it's here.
I'm looking forward to some time with my new kitchen toy! I have plans, ha ha!
For dinner last night, I fried some of the roasted veggies, together with some of the chicken - giving mippies a piece of chicken, each, of course! Ha Ha! I mixed some of the lemon juice with plain yoghurt and some of the instant mushroom soup as a kind of 'sauce'. Turned out quite delicious!
I think I should maybe start putting together my own recipe book. Oh, not for sale or anything like that - just a book where I keep my own recipe's. I have notes on bits of paper, like how I've amended the bread roll recipe, and such. My own chocolate chip cookie recipe - again, amended from one I found online. Chocolate Chip muffins. Apple pie. Rye bread. Lots of bits and bobs ... Sauerbraten, Pizza Dough, Stroganoff ... all made a little cheaper, a little different, and meeting my personal preferences.
On the other hand, I so rarely cook the same dish twice - every time I cook a dish, I make changes ... never dull!
My head is in my seed collection today. I need some form of catalogue. I do have a spreadsheet - duh! Of course I have a spreadsheet, ha ha! I have a spreadsheet for almost everything! I have one Calendar, giving each seed's month of either planting in soil or seedling trays, then transplanting; so I can basically filter by month which seeds I should best focus on each month. I have another one, which I started back at the previous place in Pretoria, where I laboriously searched for a huge number of details. I started that one, because I didn't have the soft soil to actually plant much in the ground - which is how I came up with the bottomless pot idea.
With the current load shedding situation, I'm thinking that I should maybe transfer the data to either my smartphone, or - even better - to some sort of index card or booklet.
My biggest issue, at the moment, though is; finding the actual seeds! Because they are in boxes and packets, lumped together, as delivered. I think the first thing I should figure out is an index. My problem is, that my head keeps running ahead ... to keeping record of plants, care, how they're doing ... but I really should stick to just the seeds, for now.
I think the best would be to sort them alphabetically. Keep record only of the name, quantity, age (i.e. when did I get the seeds), where I got them from, (i.e. bought, harvested) and just list the sowing date(s) on the index card.
After all, my biggest issue at the moment is finding the actual seeds! So, I think I'll use Whiskas boxes. Make one box per letter of the alphabet. I can actually use the boxes as they are - add the lid, and I can stack them. I can then mark each index card against my calendar spreadsheet - and each calendar line against my index.
I received a message that my driving licence is ready for collection. From the NMBM (Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality = Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape)! I remember going there to renew it, years ago, with Rose! That card has already expired by now!
I remember now, we never did get the notification, so we took a chance and it was indeed ready for collection. So now, four or five years later, I finally get the notification!
Back to my seed index: to keep it simple, I can make the decorating of the storage boxes a separate project, for now, just mark them A, B, C, etc. and start the index. I must remember to make index cards for seeds in my fridge, as well, ha ha!
I'll see what I feel like doing tonight - when I've finished my chores, that is ...
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