Love is the Reason for Living
Apr. 3rd, 2016 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyThis week I will try to kickstart posting again by doing a daily post. What did I do today?
I started by ignoring Alistair when he came in mewing for breakfast at 6:15. You can set your watch by him. Only not this morning, because the clocks went back. So he was mewing an hour earlier than he thought, and I wasn't getting up to feed him at 5:15.
At a more reasonable hour, my mother and I went for a walk on the beach path. Lots of joggers this morning. A few horses on the beach. A few of the regulars we see every weekend: Puffy Orange Parka Man and Fit Old Lady With Elderly Dog. A flock of ibis and one egret on the river.
I changed my sheets. I cut my fingernails. The finger that was sore earlier in the year is now better; the fingernail is still discoloured from the silver nitrate, but the weak point has nearly grown out. I went to the supermarket. They are... building something? Not sure what. The back carpark is a construction site, and I had to park in the side carpark instead. I went to Bunnings (hardware store) on the way home and bought a couple of bags of mushroom compost. I also bought some batteries for the smoke detector (bearing in mind the catchy slogan "Change Your Clocks, Change Your Smoke Detector Batteries"), but when I got home I found that we already had some and my mother had changed them while I was gone.
After lunch, I put the mushroom compost and some lime in one of the vegetable beds, and planted out two heads of garlic. I got the tulip bulbs out of the cupboard and put them in the vegetable crisper. Last year I put some daffodils in at the bay tree's barrel; this year Alistair has taken to sleeping there, so my mother dug the daffodils out last week, and today I planted them in the garden.
There is a branch of the magnolia tree right at eye level, which has some funny little balls hanging from it. Google tells me they are the egg sacs of a bird dropping spider, which is a spider that resembles a bird dropping.
Last winter I bought a jigsaw to do during the long, cold nights. Life went awry, and that jigsaw did not get finished. I'm only just doing it now. It may be done by this winter. I did some work on the jigsaw while listening to podcasts (Futility Closet and There's No Such Thing As A Fish). I chopped vegetables for dinner and prepared my bag for work tomorrow. After dinner, I watched "Call The Midwife" with my mother. She likes to diagnose the problem before the television midwives. Then I read for a while, and now I'm doing this before bed.
That was Sunday.
I started by ignoring Alistair when he came in mewing for breakfast at 6:15. You can set your watch by him. Only not this morning, because the clocks went back. So he was mewing an hour earlier than he thought, and I wasn't getting up to feed him at 5:15.
At a more reasonable hour, my mother and I went for a walk on the beach path. Lots of joggers this morning. A few horses on the beach. A few of the regulars we see every weekend: Puffy Orange Parka Man and Fit Old Lady With Elderly Dog. A flock of ibis and one egret on the river.
I changed my sheets. I cut my fingernails. The finger that was sore earlier in the year is now better; the fingernail is still discoloured from the silver nitrate, but the weak point has nearly grown out. I went to the supermarket. They are... building something? Not sure what. The back carpark is a construction site, and I had to park in the side carpark instead. I went to Bunnings (hardware store) on the way home and bought a couple of bags of mushroom compost. I also bought some batteries for the smoke detector (bearing in mind the catchy slogan "Change Your Clocks, Change Your Smoke Detector Batteries"), but when I got home I found that we already had some and my mother had changed them while I was gone.
After lunch, I put the mushroom compost and some lime in one of the vegetable beds, and planted out two heads of garlic. I got the tulip bulbs out of the cupboard and put them in the vegetable crisper. Last year I put some daffodils in at the bay tree's barrel; this year Alistair has taken to sleeping there, so my mother dug the daffodils out last week, and today I planted them in the garden.
There is a branch of the magnolia tree right at eye level, which has some funny little balls hanging from it. Google tells me they are the egg sacs of a bird dropping spider, which is a spider that resembles a bird dropping.
Last winter I bought a jigsaw to do during the long, cold nights. Life went awry, and that jigsaw did not get finished. I'm only just doing it now. It may be done by this winter. I did some work on the jigsaw while listening to podcasts (Futility Closet and There's No Such Thing As A Fish). I chopped vegetables for dinner and prepared my bag for work tomorrow. After dinner, I watched "Call The Midwife" with my mother. She likes to diagnose the problem before the television midwives. Then I read for a while, and now I'm doing this before bed.
That was Sunday.