a tad grumpy today

I didn't sleep well last night because I could not find a position where I wasn't in one pain or another. Sunday morning I had a small ache in my lower back, nothing that isn't too common. Usually a little yoga stretches it out and makes it better but didn't really help Sunday morning so I went out and cleared the other raised garden bed. It had rained Saturday afternoon and I didn't feel like getting totally dirty so instead of using the shovel and climbing in/on I just leaned over and dug with my hands trying to remember to bend at the hips instead of the back but the ache wasn't any worse by the time I finished...at least until Sunday night. Yesterday was a misery. The low backache turned into sharp pain at my left hip/fanny/tailbone. I'm having a hard time finding the precise spot with the kink. Anyway, hurts to sit, hurts to stand too long, hurts to stretch. I finally broke down and took 3 ibuprofen a little while ago. The sharp pain is gone for now and I can sit more comfortably but still a dull ache across my hips and down my leg a bit. This happened earlier in the year too and it took weeks to finally go away.

I'm almost finished with the sunflower wax which means I probably have a couple more hours work on it and I need to set up the lizard with 10 petal anemone model I made earlier in the year to have it's mold made. Going to try and get that accomplished today. We'll see. I may just lay on the couch all day and read.

Rocky showed up yesterday and worked all day painting. He's got it all done just about except for the three areas that need repair, the door, and the shutters though no sign of him today.

We had a pretty fabulous sunset the other night, one of those that makes the air pink.

And my night blooming cereus bloomed for the second time two nights ago after giving me 5 flowers about three weeks ago.

Not the best pictures I've taken of these but I was holding the flashlight in one hand trying to take pictures with the phone in the other hand and waving off mosquitoes at the same time.

A year after the flood things have bloomed crazily or not at all. The penta, which blooms profusely for most of the year is blooming but only about half the size it usually is by this time of year. The orange double day lilies, as mentioned before, are blooming in September after their spring and early summer display, something they have never done before. The toad lily which was the biggest and fullest I have ever seen it before Harvey which died to the ground afterwards is about a fourth the size and doesn't look happy. Only one stalk of the yellow butterfly ginger has bloomed and sparsely at that and none of the others even look like they are thinking about blooming. Same with the white butterfly ginger though they are starting to fatten up at the tips now after all this rain. The orange cosmos have grown to nearly 6' and still have not bloomed which is what they did the first two years after I planted them but then they settled down and bloomed on knee high growth just about all year. Some of the chinese fringe flowers are blooming which I don't recall them doing in the fall before but then they didn't bloom this spring.

Everything else seems pretty much normal and I think I'm going to go take a nap.