I am mighty. I slept until noon today. Noon. Without blinking an eye, one might say. My colleagues phoned me at around 9 in the mo and I just silenced both calls. Because I knew it was not business. I just pressed the sidebar on the phone and turned my pillow the other way around, you know, the cold and fresh side ;). 

I opened eyes at 11.58, stood up, stretched my back and went to kitchen to wake up. Like adults too…. that means to make coffee. I think I deserve some prize for this ability of endlessly sleeping! Could it be talent of some sort? I mean, it must be. I made coffee, stared out of the window, thinking whether I should now get all my stuff into car and drive as fast as possible to my cottage and do the gardening bits that I promised to myself…. right. No. I do not well when I hurry. I shall do that on Tuesday, which is also a day off as I now realised and I will go well prepared. The thing is I ordered 160 peonies for my garden. 160!! Which I thought was a lot but now I see proper gardener took 4200! Well, to be fair he does this as business, he has tiniest garden full of blooms first to cut once they bloom (or rather start to bloom) and sell them as cut flowers. And then after some years he will sell the rhizome or roots or bulbs. But he is famous for what he does and he used to do only tulips and other bulbs, and just this year he added peonies. Which I thought to have as my business for the whole country but now I see he has 4200 and I only have 160. That does not sound serious on my part as little calculations proves. So whatever now. I will gradually grow my collection obviously. So this year I only ordered 160 peonies as a emotional purchase. Imagine, how twisted you have to be to purchase 160 peopnies from Netherlands as a whim. I did. Two o’clock at night. Ordered, paid and now waiting for arrival. That in other words means that I have to go and do some shovelling. Yes, dig pretty big holes, 160 of them and fill with nice fresh soil, fertilizer and then pray the courier gets to me asap because we had our first snow yesterday. And that means it’s zero degrees or even worse any moment now. I also have decided to have my official garden as a showgarden of sorts. So the individual flowers that I grow are in display as in usual garden too. And the sales plot would be somehow separate. That means I will need to design all this in a particular way to become both showroom and production. I know I will succeed but it will be close call and it is pretty much freezing cold already. I did order tractor to come to do the digging but he has other objects a tad too far from me to go back and forth for just three hours of work. Obviously does not make sense for him. In the end it looks pure armgrease, sweat and pain coming up, like always. Whatta naive chick I was once again, be it during day or two o’clock at night! That is why my nickname is Mad Hatter. I just ain’t right in the head 🙂 and I like it!

So now is past midnight already, it’s Tuesday. I shall drop few more lines and get to bed in a minute.

So more or less now cottage is closed for winter. I have caught all but one kittens and their momma. Only remaining homeless cats look as if they actually have home. However, all the homeless cats in countryside here look pretty neat and clean. Not like you would expect in cities, like I was accused of fooling people in social media where I did not ask for financial help at all. I was just showing the house with heated floor that I built them and every now and then caught some cats on video when they came to eat. The biggest crowd was nine cats and a hedgehog. Yet some people know that homeless cats MUST look like shite and rags. Well, they don’t. On the contrary, the cats in my village keep neat, know how to use potty (yes, my flowerbeds) and wash after every meal. 

So I now have just old adult male cats there, who are someones cats. And this one 7 months old kitten who is acting very strange. I don’t think I will ever catch this one. So every now and then I will go and fill up their house with food throughout this winter too. But I know there are no totally helpless cats nor babykittens around now. So I can call it a success for the homeless cats. 

If all good tomorrow I shall start prepping for the peonies’ arrival. Dig the holes in proper pattern that I want and mix the soil with fertilizer and then when it’s all done I just wait. Once they arrive I only have to open the packages, plant the roots, cover with soil and voila!

This is it for now. As promised, at least one entry every week…. sort of 🙂

stay cool and hot,