Song of the day: “The bright side of life” by the Monthy Python gang again, of course. So weird. And Gloria Gaynor’s “I will survive”, which are odd choices of music for my brain to get stuck on, I think…oh and there was this new song I recently heard from The Band Perry with “If I died young”. Such a cute little song. I’ve gotta say that every now and then I do thoroughly enjoy country music. Oh boy, I had no idea that I had this many songs in my head these past couple of days. And considering I usually sing out loud, and that sometimes others start singing along…well, much to my embarrassment things might look a bit like a musical. Hah.
Don’t hold it against me, please.
So what’s been going on, and for a change I’m not blanking. Weird, isn’t it?
Yesterday. Oh my, it was a splendid day, I assure you. Most of it was spent gardening and really there isn’t much that can beat that. I sowed lots of pots with herbs, seeing as grandpa promised to help me put together a cabinet in which I can dry them this year. It’s going to be fascinating.
In regard to experimenting, in our yard we’ve got lots of cacti, and I found a recipe on-line to make prickly pear jam, so I’m going to have to try that soon too. I’m not sure what to do with the taste description they give, though. Kiwi, melon and natural bubble gum. I mean, really. Eeewwww, but then I tasted a bit of the fruit’s flesh and it turned out it wasn’t bad at all. We’ll see once I get around to it.
Grandpa was turning earth, so we can start planting potatoes soon. He really is the expert there (having been a farmer most of his life) and he appears to want to do it “right” rather than have us bungle it. Hah.
Other than that there was basin cleaning, with a little luck we can paint the thing tomorrow…or at least the walls, while big brother puts a final layer of cement on the bottom. Then, if only we have five more days for it to dry…it’s unlikely, what with clouds already gathering over the mountain. Ah well, we’ll see, I guess.
There were edits, naturally, just like there will be more tonight. We’re not going fast, but not going slow either. It is going well enough, though.
Touri’s ear is doing well, and Gada appears to be improving as well. At least her recent deafness appears less bad. Carla is still pretty bad with his ears, so we’re going to have to continue with him for a while yet.
At the end of the day, big brother and I removed most of the furniture from my bed room, so we could spend today putting in my new floor…did I forget to mention that. Of course I didn’t, I just figured I would do it in the proper sequence. It took us about an hour, leaving on the bed for the night, and then had to leave for our daily trip to get rocks…again.
Chaos is absolutely enjoying the fact that my bed is presently half the height it usually is. Finally he can just climb up on his own (which he doesn’t do, he’ll put his front legs up and then wait for me to lift him up) and stretch out whenever he bloody well pleases.
So let’s start on today, because I finally got to my birthday present. I. Got. My. New. Floor! Yay!!! Seriously, it’s beautiful. We worked on it most of the day today and the bedroom has a completely new and perfectly spotless floor. Awesome, wonderful, and I can’t wait for the day to be over so I can go up and try to organize a bit before I go to bed. Seriously, I haven’t had this smooth a floor in…well, ever. Hah. But I’m serious. It’s wonderful, and yes, I did take pictures and I will post them at some point.
Which reminds me, I got an SMS from the people I did a babysitting job interview with. Apparently, their old babysitter was coming back from the UK after all, so they wouldn’t be needing me after all. Can’t blame them, really. The baby was already used to the woman, and changing sitters is rather difficult after all.
Ah well, better luck next time. I ain’t desperate yet, so I can afford to keep looking at my leisure for now.
Afterwards we headed down for the guest rooms to check up on the geyser in the bathroom, Sally was starting to get desperate with only cold showers in the morning, so big brother decided to tackle the thing again. We did manage to get it back to working order. Not scorching hot, but warm at least. After that we did a round of the yard, checking the berry bushes, giving some water where necessary, and just enjoying the outside for a bit.
More stones to be fetched at the end of the day, poor dogs meandering by the sides of the road…have I complained about this yet? What with the economic crisis, more and more dogs are being tossed out on the streets, meaning that they’re everywhere. Seriously, it makes me wish we didn’t already have all our dogs, because I definitely want to save some more. Can’t though, so I clench my jaw and we continue on our way after throwing out some food, and whatnot wherever we know lots of dogs frequent. I hate this!
But I’m not going to linger on it. It has no use anyway, so let’s wrap this up, shall we?
There were some supplies to be bought after getting rocks, and then it was back home for a quick snack prior to starting with today’s blog.
I think I need a nap.
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