The day was pretty gloomy with sideways misty, soaking rain. Pip the Siamese Cat took one look and went back to bed. (Really very tempting to follow him but a fair bit of guilt about the waiting tomatoes kept me awake instead)
So I grabbed my brekkie and opened my emails to find a note from my best friend wishing us a happy anniversary!! Eep!! Really? That’s the date?? Damn!! I looked about the house and spied no bunches of flowers or boxes of chocolates so rightly assumed Jeff had forgotten too! Whew.
So I dutifully reminded him and we smooched and looked through some wedding photos and marvelled at how fast nine years goes by!! I couldn’t resist putting some photos up on facebook of me looking a lot cleaner and prettier than my normal self, holding roses instead of a bunch of vegetables!
This is the more usual me:
Oh it does my heart good to see all those potatoes and that lovely red dirt!!
Anyway, so I carefully dressed in some daggy trackie pants, wind-cheater and bright blue knitted slipper-socks (I am nothing if not sexy) and did the dishes and started chopping up the tomatoes.
After 6lb’s worth, I needed some outdoor time so I went and raided the hothouse, because it was still wet and miserable and I didn’t want to be that far outdoors!
By this stage I was kinda over tomatoes, so I donned my apron (seriously – does anyone except me these days wear a house apron??) and stuffed it with apples so I could fill the dehydrator again as dried apple snacks are almost better than chocolate. (Almost…)
Ok – now we can get onto the anniversary stuff and have a great dinner – Glad I thawed the nice steaks out! Baked some potatoes (of course) and made a basic salad while Jeff did the manly BBQ thing and cooked the steaks! All washed down with glasses of cordial as were not sophisticated enough to crack a bottle of wine! Maybe we should plan better for the ten year anniversary!
Aaaaand very romantically I am still awake, Jeff has gone to bed and Pip is having a bath.
Time for me to sneak a tipple of my home made plum liqueur!!
Cheers!
