A bright start today with Japanese Sencha Green with lime and cornflower, a pretty tea in the dried leaf with a lively taste from the addition of lime. This is a tea that enlivens the tastebuds and adds a brightness to the start of the day. I used my lovely Tulip flower cup for it’s spring flowers.
It has been an amusing week with the new microchip feeders for the cats we are now on level three of the training, thelid is at three quarters shut and opens when they enter the range. They are doing okay with the lid opening but they don’t like what I am feeding them and they want to check the other dishes out in case one of the others is getting something better than them but they can’t get to the food. I feel that the scavenging from the other dishes is going to be their biggest learning. I am pleased with the level we are at and by mid week I am sure we will be totally on top of this new feeding regime. I have just looked up to see Aurora sitting in front of Khepra’s dish and putting her paw into the small opening to get food out and now she has gone to her dish.
Outside it is a beautiful sunny day and I am going to get out into my garden very soon. The new wall looks fantastic. I can now start planting in the garden, so that is my task for today. I plan on doing some rescue work on the Bearded Iris’ which were trampled in the process of putting up the new wall and the new growth broken off, we are early enough in the season I am sure they will send up new shoots. Replant the Hellebore that was dug up and see if I can find the Daylillies that were previously in the ponga stumps and plant in the Nemomarica Gracillis otherwise known a Walking Iris. So I have lots to do once the area get a little more sun as it is very cold down there at the moment.
My thoughts for today are on change and how we cope with changes in our environment whenever I change anything inside the house I keep moving items fractionally until I find the right balance. Watching the cats adjust to the change in their environment just reinforced how we all approach change with a level of apprehension a need to sift down the change until comfortable with it.
I loved this quote on change as it fitted so well with this post
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” —Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
And
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.” —Anatole France
Blessings to all as Winter comes to a close and Spring is waiting in the wings to bloom forth, may the changing season bring a sense of new life to all and for those in the Northern Hemisphere as your season move towards the colder time may you find warmth in completions.
