In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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It cooled down briefly so I did some fiddly gardening. I transplanted my coffee trees into bigger pots: they're been languishing in little bitty one-gallon pots for years, so I xfered them into 5-gallon buckets and put them outside. I also saved (I hope. I'll see if they survive) some trailing purple lantana plants from an area I know I'm going to have to dig up. I just don't want to pay for more plants than necessary.
I have a plant list for the front yard, mostly drought-tolerant with a few exceptions for plants in/next to the (usually) dry stream bed. I already have a lovely 25' island oak (hey! It's growing catkins! There'll be acorns this fall!) and a bunch of shiny-leaved Oregon grape shrubs, Catalina Island cherries, trailing purple lantana, a manzanita shrub that looks quite handsome and is doing remarkably well for where it is, and California poppies that reseed and pop up every year and a bunch of goldenrod. So I'm going to add coffeeberry bushes, dwarf coyote brush, beach daisy, ashy-leafed buckwheat and maybe some California fuschia (if I can find room) and purple fountain grass. Oh, and more goldenrod and yarrow of different colors. All very bird/bee/butterfly friendly.
In the back in going to add an elderberry tree: little berries for little birds.
But first.. I need to survey and re-grade part of the yard. Survey stakes soming Wednesday but scheduled booked up Wed, Thu, and Friday.
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Good luck with the dentist, BRENDA.
And it sounds like you're in the home stretch on your book. Congrats! I hope I get a chance to read it.
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Thanks SIG. I am always twitchy when going.
I am. Once she gives everything another go over it will be off to a publisher in Ontario. I hope you do too.
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Good luck with the landscaping Sigs. Take some pictures. I'm glad you're feeling well enough to start tackling big projects like this again.
I got a good night sleep after the terrible one the night before. My weigh in this morning is 151.2 lbs, which sounds a lot more reasonable than the 152.2 from yesterday when things were all wonky. We're pretty much at about an 8lb gain in 2 weeks from the low. I'm going to want to slow that down once I hit around 156, so that means I really shouldn't have too much trouble getting the caloric intake necessary, as I don't really feel that I'm eating all that much right now, especially compared to when I was panic eating to try to counteract the weight loss.
I can actually see it on my belly now, and my butt seems to be filling back in again. It's going to be nice to be able to sit on a chair again without having to shift every 2 minutes because of how uncomfortable it had become.
IBS seems mostly under control, with some instances here and there but far down from even pre-diagnosis levels both in occurrences and severity. Had a minor acid reflux occurrence the first night I was on all the new pills, but it went away as quick as it came without needing any tums. Thirst level still low and reasonable.
My dad is coming over later this week, so I'm going to work on cleaning the house today. I'm also going to get up into my attic and see about finding my huge cooking pot. The nutritionist wants to see me eat some protein in the morning when I take my meds, so I'm going to start doing hard boiled eggs again. They were only $1.97 yesterday, so I bought 3 dozen of them. Perfect timing, since I won't ever pay $3 or more for eggs.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Out to the dentist for the last big job.
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Quote:It sounds like you're on the right track, SIX. I hope you get that meter issue resolved on Thursday. I'm never comfortable doing anything unless I know where I am, and that goes double for medical interventions. Even when it's scary news, like kidney failure, I justHAVE to know the numbers!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good luck with the landscaping Sigs. Take some pictures. I'm glad you're feeling well enough to start tackling big projects like this again.
I got a good night sleep after the terrible one the night before. My weigh in this morning is 151.2 lbs, which sounds a lot more reasonable than the 152.2 from yesterday when things were all wonky. We're pretty much at about an 8lb gain in 2 weeks from the low. I'm going to want to slow that down once I hit around 156, so that means I really shouldn't have too much trouble getting the caloric intake necessary, as I don't really feel that I'm eating all that much right now, especially compared to when I was panic eating to try to counteract the weight loss.
I can actually see it on my belly now, and my butt seems to be filling back in again. It's going to be nice to be able to sit on a chair again without having to shift every 2 minutes because of how uncomfortable it had become.
IBS seems mostly under control, with some instances here and there but far down from even pre-diagnosis levels both in occurrences and severity. Had a minor acid reflux occurrence the first night I was on all the new pills, but it went away as quick as it came without needing any tums. Thirst level still low and reasonable.
My dad is coming over later this week, so I'm going to work on cleaning the house today. I'm also going to get up into my attic and see about finding my huge cooking pot. The nutritionist wants to see me eat some protein in the morning when I take my meds, so I'm going to start doing hard boiled eggs again. They were only $1.97 yesterday, so I bought 3 dozen of them. Perfect timing, since I won't ever pay $3 or more for eggs.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
And just bc I'm nosy as hell, let me know how it goes in Thursday,
m'kay?
Oh, also...SALT ... works a little like insulin. Yanno how electrolyte drinks always have a little sugar in them to help with absorbing salt? Well, salt also helps absorb sugar. So make sure you have enough in your diet.
Happy housecleaning!
Eggs. Yum! Other options: cheese, sausage, ham, leftover chili con carne... damn,I'm getting hungry! Time for bfast. For me, it's beans, again. My blood sugar is fine but my cholesterol is sky high. I'm trying the vegetarian route, but according to my doctor itr hereditary, and according to my sis (who has the same problem) diet and exercise was useless. Still, I want to give it the old college try.
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Dug up my plant list from my very first post just to see how it all went
The avocado trees and camellias are still going great
The Canary Island pines that I planted on the property line to shade the house in the evening are 25' tall.
The Sundrops all died.
I have one verbena lilacina (out of three) still going strong
The Spanish lavender is still doing well
Thee penstemon BOP (blue/lavender) died, but the "pink" penstemon did well. It was such a drab color, tho (more like a tan-salmon) I dug it up
The white monkeyflower did spectacularly well ... for two years.
The blue-eyed grass also did very well, but looked so much like regular grass it got weeded up by an overenthusiastic helper
I never did try the Indian rice grass, but I tried other grasses that did well- alkali sacaton, unfortunately got overgrown by a shrub and invaded by crabgrass and was so hard to keep clean I dug the whole thing up. Worth another try, tho.
Purple three awn which looks lovely but I have to keep the dog out of it because th
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Quote:I bet that'll be a relief when it's over!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out to the dentist for the last big job.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I bet that'll be a relief when it's over!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out to the dentist for the last big job.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
I am back and it is done. This one was broken down to the gum line, so it took some extra freezing to get it out with the root intact. They put some foam in to help with the healing along with removing some infected tissue. Nothing was bad enough to need sutures or antibiotics. Just the usual if you need pain killers take them and be extra careful for the next three or four days.
Think a lot of the freezing is out. Jaw joint is a little sore because of where the needles went. But I expected it.
It is a big relief to have all that hard work done. Now it is just a cleaning in a couple of weeks.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I bet that'll be a relief when it's over!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out to the dentist for the last big job.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
I am back and it is done. This one was broken down to the gum line, so it took some extra freezing to get it out with the root intact. They put some foam in to help with the healing along with removing some infected tissue. Nothing was bad enough to need sutures or antibiotics. Just the usual if you need pain killers take them and be extra careful for the next three or four days.
Think a lot of the freezing is out. Jaw joint is a little sore because of where the needles went. But I expected it.
It is a big relief to have all that hard work done. Now it is just a cleaning in a couple of weeks.
That doesn't sound like it was fun. Glad you got it behind you, Brenda.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It sounds like you're on the right track, SIX. I hope you get that meter issue resolved on Thursday. I'm never comfortable doing anything unless I know where I am, and that goes double for medical interventions. Even when it's scary news, like kidney failure, I justHAVE to know the numbers!
I'm usually a numbers guy, but I'd rather not, when it comes to me.
Personally, this is just one more reason why I don't really care much if I live beyond 50 years old. The best days are far in the rear-view mirror, and the idea of living the rest of my life into old age having to count calories just to exist isn't appealing to me. If this doesn't stabilize and isn't going to be easy and something that I don't have to put a lot of effort into, I probably just won't bother. I already don't have a bad diet, but if I have to live off of tree sap and crickets to stay alive, count me out.
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And just bc I'm nosy as hell, let me know how it goes in Thursday,
m'kay?
Oh, also...SALT ... works a little like insulin. Yanno how electrolyte drinks always have a little sugar in them to help with absorbing salt? Well, salt also helps absorb sugar. So make sure you have enough in your diet.
The question is "what is enough"? I could show you 10 blogs on diabetes that tell you to stay away from salt completely and another 10 that tell you to make sure you get enough salt. The more I try to read up on diabetes the more depressing everything gets.
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Happy housecleaning!
Didn't happen. Slept the day away again. Maybe tomorrow.
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Eggs. Yum! Other options: cheese, sausage, ham, leftover chili con carne... damn,I'm getting hungry! Time for bfast. For me, it's beans, again. My blood sugar is fine but my cholesterol is sky high. I'm trying the vegetarian route, but according to my doctor itr hereditary, and according to my sis (who has the same problem) diet and exercise was useless. Still, I want to give it the old college try.
Good luck!
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Quote:
Dug up my plant list from my very first post just to see how it all went
The avocado trees and camellias are still going great
The Canary Island pines that I planted on the property line to shade the house in the evening are 25' tall.
The Sundrops all died.
I have one verbena lilacina (out of three) still going strong
The Spanish lavender is still doing well
Thee penstemon BOP (blue/lavender) died, but the "pink" penstemon did well. It was such a drab color, tho (more like a tan-salmon) I dug it up
The white monkeyflower did spectacularly well ... for two years.
The blue-eyed grass also did very well, but looked so much like regular grass it got weeded up by an overenthusiastic helper
I never did try the Indian rice grass, but I tried other grasses that did well- alkali sacaton, unfortunately got overgrown by a shrub and invaded by crabgrass and was so hard to keep clean I dug the whole thing up. Worth another try, tho.
Purple three awn which looks lovely but I have to keep the dog out of it because the seeds are sharply pointed with microbarblets which cause them to work their way into fur, skin, and tissue
The germander sage, Dusty Miller, red autumn sage, and the creeping Oregon grape are doing well
The native gooseberries did well, but were so thorny I dug them up bc they were impossible to garden around. I have a much better-behaved pink flowering currant waiting to go into the ground.
The snowberries failed, but the evergreen island currant and rhus trilobata are doing well
In addition I have a hollyleaf cherry doing well, I'm in the process of cutting down two others bc one didn't grow true to form (it seems a prostrate variant) and the other never did do well. But they'll make decent firewood..
So, many failures but many successes. Gardening is an evolving process!
I miss successes. Hell... give m
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I bet that'll be a relief when it's over!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out to the dentist for the last big job.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
I am back and it is done. This one was broken down to the gum line, so it took some extra freezing to get it out with the root intact. They put some foam in to help with the healing along with removing some infected tissue. Nothing was bad enough to need sutures or antibiotics. Just the usual if you need pain killers take them and be extra careful for the next three or four days.
Think a lot of the freezing is out. Jaw joint is a little sore because of where the needles went. But I expected it.
It is a big relief to have all that hard work done. Now it is just a cleaning in a couple of weeks.
That doesn't sound like it was fun. Glad you got it behind you, Brenda.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
It wasn't fun. I hate needles and especially those that go into the mouth. They freeze me once then they poke to see if I need more. The poking hurt so more went in and it was rough getting it out to be sure. They even showed me the tooth which was all root because there wasn't much left after it broke then the bits wore down.
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