Ah, THAT's better...

My food day yesterday was MUCH better in Primal terms. I wasn't particularly hungry, so I didn't actually eat anything until about 4pm. When I did eat, I had a naked burrito - basically yummy slow cooked pork with spices etc, salad, guacamole but no wrap. It wasn't perfect - it had rice & black beans in it - but it was much much better than what I'd been having. We went out for dinner with some friends (who brought me some lovely flowers, wonderful wonderful friends that they are - thank you so much again, you made my night!), and I had grilled chicken with bacon, more guacamole, Neapolitan sauce & grilled cheese served with veggies and mash. I left the mash and the corn but ate everything else - and I was quite pleased with myself!

Yesterday afternoon I did a load of gardening. I've always loved to garden - when I lived in an apartment a few years ago I had a million pots all over the place with this plant and that. I was always trying to grow something new. I'd let it fall by the wayside, and had actually left some of my favourite plants at my parents place. When I discovered they'd managed to kill my beloved Poinsettia, it was a call to action for me. Mark and I staged a coup and reclaimed all my plants so they are now safely living on the front balcony where the dogs can't eat them. 

(Just to be clear, my parents didn't care that I was taking the plants back. I think they were glad to be rid of them, and are now hoping it may lead to me also taking my worm farm. Which it will. In time.)

In my gardening frenzy, we went to the big hardware store down the road and I bought a load of seedlings to get my little garden going, and a bunch of packets of seeds to grow from scratch. I re-potted all the seedlings yesterday, and today I am planning to get my little herb garden going. 

I bought a pink Gerbera plant to add some colour while none of my others are flowering. The Frangipani is looking a little sick but since it came home it has perked up, and even has some new shoots coming out. I re-potted the plants on the far left and right into bigger pots and they seem much happier since I did. Gardening relates to being Primal for me because it's my play time - I find it so relaxing, sometimes physically demanding when lifting heavy bags of soil or re-potting plants.

I have 4 different types of tomato plants, 2 chilli plants, a capsicum plant and I've planted Rocket & Cos lettuce seeds so hopefully they'll come up all nice. I'll be using Seaweed fertiliser if necessary, and no pesticides etc. I did buy seed raising mix and I'm not sure what that has in it, so my produce probably won't be 100% organically grown - but pretty close! 

Today is SUCH a miserable day weather wise. I'm thinking about doing some cooking - maybe a fabulous Moussaka. If only my herb garden was up & running already! The dogs were big wet-heads this morning so I dried them off before they came inside. Jeff is the worst in wet weather - he just goes about his business in the yard as if it's not raining, so he ends up completely drenched and wondering why he's not allowed in the house! He's all dry now though, but a little unimpressed by the horrible weather after yesterday's beautiful, Vitamin D rich fun in the sun.