In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Jack, you are a head of me. I think I might have understood about half of your post. But then what I know about cars you could fit on the head of a pin. Since I've never driven or owned a car.
Everything I put in that post I didn't know a thing about 3 days ago.
Like owning a house, owning a car is great until it isn't.
You've gotten by this far without either. I'd say your much better off without them.
Oh... tip of the day: Don't use safety glasses when using a sawzall to cut a steel pipe 3" from your face. Use safety goggles.
If you don't, you'll learn very quickly the hard way that getting metal shavings in your eyes is not fun, and if you didn't wear contact lenses like me you might even go blind.
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Yeah, Sundays I don't usually do too much unless it is something that I've been putting off for a while. And that I covered last week. So I just messed around with this thing, listened to some music and watched a little tv.
I really need to get a couch as watching tv in a dining room chair isn't good for my back.
My problem is too many years behind me where everyday was a lazy Sunday. I'm paying for it now.
Hope I can enjoy them again one day if I keep at it. In the mean time, enjoy them for me.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Thinking about the million-and-one things ahead of me, ANY lazy day is immediately spoiled by guilt.
I was supposed to get a lot done today, but I got tangled up with other stuff and got almost totally derailed. The only thing I can point to is that between dd and myself, we got 2 bins of leaves shredded and under one of the avocados, and one bin of weeds out by the curb, so I did my week's-worth of three bins of cleanup. And I ordered some hose end fixit parts over the internet, made dinner and cleaned the kitchen (mostly). But I still have a LOT of things staring me in the face.
Since Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are anticipated to be hot-hot-hot, I guess I'll be doing indoor work.
Still thinking about that frontyard landscaping, too. Needs some revision, but I'm not going to put a lot of work into it until I figure out a design.
And HEY! My hollyleaf redberry looks like it's going to have berries this year. Good for the birds, but they'll have to get there ahead of me! heh heh heh
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Somewhere I recall you saying you have either hollyleaf cherry or its subspecies Catalina Island cherry. I just want to point out that my experience with them is that they're extremely variable in form, depending on growing conditions and even individual plants.
I have a bunch of Catalina Island cherries planted under a large incense cedar and juniper on my side of a fence, but along the edge of a neighbor's uphill front lawn. So they get a lot of regular water, and nearly 100% shade, and they're very tall, very big around, and with widely spaced deep green dull, large smooth leaves with smooth edges. One of them seems to have found a deep source of water and is now a genuine tree.
On the other side of the front yard are the exact same kind of tree, planted at exactly the same time and at exactly the same size, that border a neighbor's downhill driveway. They get NO extra water, and no shade. They're roughly half the size with ~1/2 sized, shiny, more crinkly leaves with pointier edge scallops in a brighter green.
AND their form also changes depending on how closely planted they are to each other!
The hollyleaf cherries I had before were not uniform either - some were shorter and bushier, some taller and more treelike, etc. And the two hybridize freely, so depending on your source you may get some that are more like Catalina Island cherry, and some that are more like hollyleaf cherry.
Overall I like the looks of hollyleaf cherry better - their leaves are a prettier green, more crinkly, and more glossy, and they sparkle in the sun.
But what I like about both is that they're really reliable - they're very drought tolerant and do best in full sun, but not at all touchy about clay soil or extra water (as long as they're not constantly wet) or shade.
In general though, expect either kind to grow much bigger if planted as a specimen (solitary) plant, with extra water, and some shade.
OOC, have you ever heard of Malosma laurina? It seems to be quite variable. I thought I knew most of the native shrubs but I just ran across it.
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I don't imagine I'll ever have time to get to the landscaping. I planted a bunch of hastas when I moved in and besides an unidentified bush on one end, that's what's out there.
One or two of the hastas even died in the shadier areas. I know they don't grow as big in a lot of shade, but I didn't even know they could die.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Jack, you are a head of me. I think I might have understood about half of your post. But then what I know about cars you could fit on the head of a pin. Since I've never driven or owned a car.Quote:
Everything I put in that post I didn't know a thing about 3 days ago.
Like owning a house, owning a car is great until it isn't.
You've gotten by this far without either. I'd say your much better off without them.
Would have loved a car before the seizures but yeah now not a good idea. A house would have been nice again if I could have afforded it when I was younger. Now, it's not really a possibility.Quote:
Oh... tip of the day: Don't use safety glasses when using a sawzall to cut a steel pipe 3" from your face. Use safety goggles.
If you don't, you'll learn very quickly the hard way that getting metal shavings in your eyes is not fun, and if you didn't wear contact lenses like me you might even go blind.
That's not so good Jack. You have got to be more careful.Quote:
Yeah, Sundays I don't usually do too much unless it is something that I've been putting off for a while. And that I covered last week. So I just messed around with this thing, listened to some music and watched a little tv.
I really need to get a couch as watching tv in a dining room chair isn't good for my back.
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My problem is too many years behind me where everyday was a lazy Sunday. I'm paying for it now.
Hope I can enjoy them again one day if I keep at it. In the mean time, enjoy them for me.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I'm sure you will one of these days Jack.
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Well, I am back from my doctor's and got the results from my blood work. All is good but my bad cholesterol is up a bit. It was up a bit last year too. So, I got to figure out what to do about that.
Also lost 5 pounds but I can put that back on I think easily.
She decided to do an extra bit of poking at me but that all came out fine. Listened to my lungs, took my blood pressure and because I was jumpy it went into the normal range. 
Usually my bp is low.
Heart, liver, lungs, kidneys all good. Calcium, thyroid stable, hemoglobin good, iron stores good, potassium good, sodium good. Blood sugar good. Good cholesterol good. So all numbers really where they should be.
Only numbers not back is on where my seizure meds are. That takes a couple of weeks. That might need adjusting from what she sounded like and if they do it will be down.
So, she's happy and I'm happy.
Hope, I don't have to cut out peanut butter but it does contain a lot of saturated fat.
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Hey Brenda - I think if you get natural peanut butter - without hydrogenation or added fats - it's really low in saturated fat! One tablespoon has about 1.5gram of saturated fat and 12.5grams of UNsaturated fat.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Brenda - I think if you get natural peanut butter - without hydrogenation or added fats - it's really low in saturated fat!
I'm looking into it as that is one food I really do love. "Stick to your ribs" as my dad used to say.
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Call back from my family doc this afternoon, she got the report on my seizure meds level and they are too high. So, she has taken it down. I now take 2 in the morning and 3 at night. I go back to her in two months and we shall see.
Flipside is my eye doctor's office is reopened and taking in patients. So I called this afternoon and made an appointment. Got one for September.
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