With the pressure of load shedding, I fried the chicken hearts, cooked the chicken legs, minced the hearts and then washed all the dishes. Giving myself a head start for the weekend.
Load shedding stages are reduced over the weekend - not that it makes much of a difference. The high stages overnight are the biggest boon to criminals. My neighbour turned on his generator ... kept going till probably ten, I don't know, I went to sleep. Load shedding again from two to four this morning, and again from ten to twelve during the day. Tonight six to eight.
I got up early this morning. I let mippies out only after sunrise. Mini is chasing Sybil away. Which makes me angry!
I can't decide on what to do with all that chicken meat. My real dilemma is, that I have no plan for food for the week ...
Well, I've picked the meat off the bones, shared with mippies, ate some myself. Chicken stock is cooking, washing is on the line, and the tenant is busy moving out.
Actually, HE is at work, but he's hired some guys with a pick up, his mistress' sister is here, helping, as well. And I just got a voice note that he will come here, after work, to put everything back into the room that he took out when he moved in. Good! Because I was wondering whether I'd have to do that myself ...
Oh, and Sybil is back inside! When it got too peoply outside, she - together with all my mips - came running inside. I've had cuddle sessions with Mewly, with Mini, with Janey ...
Right. They just left ... they left the TV
standing in the driveway - I tried to call after them, but they ignored me. Or
didn't hear me. Or whatever. I got handed a bunch of keys - only two of them
are mine. The rest ... no clue. I looked inside, and they took my mat, after
all. I'll be charitable and assume that was by mistake. I'm guessing the sister
took it at the last minute, not knowing that it was mine. I see they also
picked clean the so-called spinach the tenant had planted next to the garage ...
nice, eh? Not that I care about the spinach - but it's exactly why I'm glad
he's gone: I've generously shared the harvest from the veggies I worked to grow
- but I haven't received so much as an offer of anything in return! The
tomatoes he's planted - with my seeds - are rotting on the ground. The weird
spinach ... well, like I just said.
I see they also took my second hose pipe connection and sprayer. During load shedding, I've been weeding outside the kitchen. Oh, first I cleaned the stove top, though. Thoroughly.
Lots of thorns growing out back now ... I'll need to water sections, thoroughly, so I can get them out. That's when I noticed that my connection is missing. I've been thinking that I might like to get that back garden looking attractive - I mean, I look at it every morning and every evening. Flowers and such don't do well, there, though - too dry, and too rocky.
I've been trying to think of what I should eat this week. I looked at some chicken recipes and thought I'd solved my dilemma - but frankly, I don't feel like chicken. Not at all!
Crap! Crap! Crap! Crap! Load shedding Stage 5 implemented with immediate effect - until further notice, I suppose. I can't access the schedule - internet signal dropped a bar or two ...
Ah, signal back. And yes, until further notice. I checked my spreadsheet schedule - no change tonight, but tomorrow morning from two till six! Again from ten to twelve and tomorrow evening six to eight again. Unless we get bumped to Stage 6 - then we'll enjoy another four hours tonight, six to ten; four hours from two to six ... I am so sick and tired of this shit.
I can just about cope with the scheduled load shedding, but when they up the stages - without notice? While the very people who caused all this are exempt from load shedding?
I just started decanting the chicken broth into 300ml bottles, when I remembered that the key to good broth is to let it cool completely. So I poured it all back into the pot ...
Since I still had no clue what I'd be eating this week, I had a look at my freezer list ... and I saw the Bockwurst. That's what I feel like! Weird, eh?
Sybil just brought me a feather! She is such a darling! Sweeter than any of the mips! Never complains, never demands, happily plays with the simplest things, doesn't seem to have any claws ... apart from the odd evenings, when she stays up the tree ... she's pure pleasure!
Yes, makes it very easy to love her - but no, I'm not neglecting my mippies! I make time to brush, cuddle, and spend time with each of my mippies!
Just got a voice note from my now ex tenant, apparently he'd been shouting at the gate ... must have been while I was washing the dishes. I noticed the cats acting like there was someone ... but didn't see anyone. And I didn't expect him this early - he was here about half past three! He says he'll try to come tomorrow and he'll bring back my stuff, too.
He reckons the hose pipe connection is probably somewhere here ... just an oversight. If it was just the sprayer, maybe! But the whole connector was unscrewed, and removed! That's no oversight - that's deliberate. He's in for a rough ride ... and I'm glad I'm out of harm's way!
Anyway, I carried on clearing outside the kitchen ... and to my delight, I saw Sybil and Lady Jane playing! Not full on, just gently exploring the possibility ... it was awesome! She'll win them over, yet!
Load shedding in forty minutes ... I better publish and shut down the PC now, so I can spend a bit of time outside with my mippies.
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