My housemate had forgotten to tell me we would be dog-sitting this weekend for a friend who is moving house. So I came yawning into the kitchen and found two lively Jack Russells with custom-made Argyll knitted jackets, dog dishes and meals of ostrich mince, chopped beans and pumpkin in Tupperware dishes.
I am delighted to have dogs in the house again. Maxie and Tammy are running around the back garden and trotting in and out of my study. They have their own resting place with their duvet plumped and ready, but prefer to lie at my feet. Two alert and naughty Jack Russells with a water bowl just near the back door and a new place to explore, enclosed and safe. The neighbours’ cats are appalled that the grden doesn’t belong to them any longer, as are the hadeda birds who usually wander through flowerbeds at their leisure.
Freshly baked bread just out of the oven — Una made it before she went to bed — and I am about to begin a great salad of diced cucumbers, ripe avocado, tomatoes, sping onions, feta, olives, cos lettuce. Nothing unusual but perfect with grilled lamb. I might do a bowl of tzatziki as well, the yoghurt is thick and fresh.
Some days the next right thing just comes naturally. I shall pick flowers for the living room, branches of blossom. Clean the bathroom and make extra lunch for a housebound invalid. Play with the dogs. Go for a walk around the village in this thin spring sunshine. Invite friends over for tea.
The years of the ‘lost weekend’ seem to have happened in another lifetime. How I enjoy the simple and ordinary and uncomplicated in life, it is so rare and so often overlooked.
Beautiful! What a splendid start to the day. Mine consists of toasted bagel with hummus and pine nuts and steamy coffee in front of the computer. All the windows open in the house (finally!) and my German Shepherd asleep on her cushion in my room.
Sounds like a lovely morning.
I’m jealous that you have some fresh vegetables available at the beginning of spring. Then again, I guess we could to if I were willing to do the work.
Reading the blogs, it sounds like folks are really enjoying today…My day so far included riding the motorbike all over town (two meetings–needed them this time!) and nice breakfast w Anna (two legs, not four!).
Sweet.
Lovely! BTW, do you make your own yoghurt? If so–email me a recipe, I have always wanted to do it. In fact, in another lifetime I may have, now that I think about it, but I certainly don’t remember anything from “those” days, lol.
Jack Russells are definitely entertaining….my little Molly McGee keeps us in stitches. You should consider getting another goggie soon, methinks.
I am so glad you’re back….you are an important part of my life.
xoxoxoxox