Valentine, oh Valentine

 I really hate that day, because it comes with more plants I intend to kill over the year. I know, those plants are given because of a fond feeling, but still! Today hubby gave me two painter´s palettes, one red, one white. I read the care instructions- easy to off, if husband mine keeps tearing the kitchen windows open the moment I start cooking. Painter´s palette hates draught. Then again, same goes with the poinsettia, which made it to one year three months and still no signs of dying. I don´t get it when people won´t understand my decreasing love for indoor plants- those have to be watered and fertlised regularly, because indoors nature won´t provide what plants are in need of.
Number four, who had arrived yesterday evening, had voted for meat loaf and roast potatoes for today´s lunch. Not my favourite meal to cook, I hate working with minced meat. Of course, I could use my not so good old Thermomix, which hasn´t even earned a name (most of my gadgets do have one, if they deem worthy). But that darn thing needs more time for cleaning than I for kneading the meat dough. So I kneaded and fried and roasted, but only after husband had finished with the next batch of bacon jam. I have to admit that I snatched two tablespoons and mixed it into the dough! At least a perfect way to use it. I did some early Easter decoration with son- the house was quite undecorated for a while- then tried the instruction for crocheted eyes my friend had sent me yesterday. The black buttons I had bought were anything but perfect. Neither are the crocheted eyes- I will have to plough through the internet to find a better solution. Until then there´ll be no picture of the scarf, sorry!
Today we had a cool and wet day, very un-spring like. The birds were back in our garden, as always when weather turns bad. I still do not know if I should feed them after spring arrival- now we get told that sparrows and tits won´t feed on box tree caterpillars then. Sounds reasonable- there aren´t many box trees left, since people gave up on them the moment they saw those caterpillars. Oh well, we have not yet reached the end of February, so it´s still officially winter. Usually the really unexpected cold comes with March, so there´s plenty of time to feed what´s left of seed and meal worms. Won´t keep it for the next cold season! The bird fat balls will get offed by Luna anyway. All of them. But only in case that she won´t die of a belly full of plastic nets, greedy as the deaf dog lady is! Weather forecast tells that we are to get snow overnight. Lots of snow. I sincerely hope that weather forecast is wrong again. I am so done with snow...