Our garden is doing okay. The tomatoes have decided to keep growing like weeds and day after day we admite the new flowers and the growing green tomatoes, hoping for them to turn red soon.
Our potatoes had to be harvested earlier than expected as well. We were quite sad to see, that it had caught some kind of disease. It did not look like Fungus (the first suspect in our garden), and we have no idea what it was. Because we had to harvest very early, we did not get quite as many potatoes as we were hoping for, but enough for a good meal.
We also harvested the leeks and made a yummy leak food with some of the carrots we planted a few weeks ago. They were a bit stunted but nontheless very yummy.
Due to the heat, the herbs that prefer moisture are not doing so well this year. This in fist place is the basil, but also the Parsley complains about the hot sun, burning down from the sky.
Despite the hot weather, we still keep getting fungal diseases. This time it hit our zucchini :( We took away the affected leaves and sprayed the rest with a milk-solution. Since then it's doing a bit better and growing flower after flower, yet it doesn't seem to grow fruits yet. Maybe we need to improve our bee-like qualities and pollinated those flowers a bit better.
So much for our garden.
Now the not-so much garden-related story.
Last Sunday, when we came back from down the coast, we saw a cat lying on the side of the road. Not sure whether it was still alive and could be saved we stopped, but the ginger man had been dead since a while and there was nothing we could do, other than informing the council.
Cats get hit by cars every day, and it didn't change anything that I was upset with an unknown owner who let their cat out next to a freaking busy road (yes, freaking busy). Yet it got to me and the whole day it made me sad, to think about the body of that beautiful ginger cat.
We eventually had dinner and watched a movie when around 22.00h someone knocked on our door. We didn't expect anyone and were rather surprised and when we opened the door, there was a man with a tiny orange bundle of fur in his arms.
He said he had found it on our front lawn, and whether we had lost it. Of course we hadn't, our two neutered boys can't reproduce after all ;) But there are many wild cats out there and at the moment is kitten season, so it was clear to us, that this kitten, one way or another, had lost its mum.
The man was clearly overwhelmed, and we decided to take the kitten of his hands and take responsibility for it. His (almost all ginger cats are male) eyes were still blue and his walk wobbly. Later I saw a few teeth in his mouth, which they grow when they are about three weeks old, so we estimated his age to be about 24 days.
He was really calm during the whole time. I remember when we found Smaxie, he was screaming and trying to run away the whole time. Not this boy, who now is named Simba - he was calm and even adventurous. We got some formula for him and mixed it with wet food which he finally took some bites of. Since we have successfully changed his diet to wet food.
So now we have Simba living with us. Today he got a flea bath, to get the last fleas down of his body and truly he is a clean cat now. He is happy and adventurous and we will keep him here for a few weeks, until he is old enough to find another home.
It's funny how things like that happen in one day. It was a coincidence, but one that is worth smiling about. We also applied to become foster carers for kitten that very same day he came. it's just a funny coincidence this. :)
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