Thursday, March 25, 2021

just more minutia of my life


If I am to keep on my self imposed schedule of posting every other day, then today, Wednesday, is the day but I don't have anything interesting to say that I haven't already posted about ad infinitum ad nauseam assuming of course that anything I have to say is interesting.

I haven't worked on the ditch since last Sunday. Monday was grocery shopping and yoga and, because yoga is at 5:15 in El Campo, after lunch is too late to do it since I have to get the dog walk in before we leave at 4:40 (during the summer the dog walk happens after yoga). Tuesday early morning it rained and then I had the appointment to get my new crowns. On the one hand, my front teeth haven't looked this good since I was sixteen. On the other hand the color is grayer than the teeth on either side but this was the second go round on color and as the dentist said it was probably as close as it was going to get without going into the lab for a custom color match. Which, no, not doing that. So I'll just get used to it. It's not like I can see them unless I peer at them in the mirror. And again, too late after lunch to start something like trimming the ditch.

And today, finally got my bone density scan. And again, it's a yoga day so I won't be starting after lunch even if it wasn't a wet drizzly day.

Actually, the main reason after lunch is too late to start any major undertaking outside on Mondays and Wednesdays is because lunch runs late around here. As does breakfast and dinner. Breakfast at 10, lunch at 2 (so we can watch General Hospital, yeah, I know, but we watch it anyway and it's not over til three), and dinner at 8. Sunday is the exception, only two meals on Sunday, brunch at 11 and dinner at 7.

I finally dug out the pink crinum lily bulbs and they are dead dead. While the outside of the bulbs are firm, there are no roots and they're mushy all the way through the center. Bummer. So one definite entry in the failed to survive column.

I do have some lobelia and pale purple petunias to get in pots or the ground 

though I did get my one tomato plant in a pot, already too late I'm sure, should have put it in a month ago, and a basil plant in the ground since I didn't get any volunteers from last year's plants. I repotted a desert rose I had recently already repotted because a datura sprung up in the pot, not really sure where that came from since I didn't get any volunteers last year, and I wanted to put it in it's own pot. Which I did and those four little things were all I managed to get done outside today.

Apparently nothing gets done after yoga either as it's now the next day. Back when I was big pot hunting I mentioned it at yoga and Abby said there was a big empty pot at the bowling alley I could have so the next class I jokingly asked her if she brought me the pot. That was a couple of weeks ago. When we drove up last night she motioned for me to come park next to her and in the back of her SUV was this gigantic clay pot heavy enough in it own right. We managed, just barely to get it in the back seat of my car. 

No way I can use it, which I did not mention, unless I plant something in it that is cold hardy because I'll never be able to move it once it's full of dirt and plant. But that was really sweet of her to bring it to me. So you can see how much bigger it is than the 'big' pots I bought. 

Tuesday night the pecan trees budded out. According to the conventional wisdom, that means no more dips into freezing.

The wisteria, swarming with bumble and other large bees when I took this, just because...

And two little planters of petunias I put in a couple of weeks ago.




19 comments:

  1. Does your crown bother your tongue? Since I have had my crown put in (like a year and a half ago), my tongue always wants to clean around it - all the time. It is so annoying and it is taking great effort not to poke at the crown. I feel as if there is food or something stuck there and I floss but nothing is there. I think it is just because it feels different. It looks fine so I have to learn to leave it alone but obviously, I can go on and on about it! :)
    That is a nice big pot! Hope you figure out what you can use it for!

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    1. not really. I got used to them pretty quick. but then I have a lot of crowns. probably half my teeth, long story, accident at 16 resulting in broken teeth, damage compounded from hairline cracks through the years.

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  2. That is a very big pot. When we bought our house years ago it came with two huge pots out front. They are empty and we still haven't moved them because they are so big and heavy. I would love to fill them with soil and plant some flowers in them. But then it would be even harder to move them. So they sit empty year after year. Love seeing the blooming spring flowers there. The colors are wonderful!

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  3. That wisteria is absolutely gorgeous! I have a Meyers lemon tree and a Norfolk pine in large pots. I have instructed them not to get much bigger, because the pots are at the limit of my ability to move them in and out. I don't know about anyone else, but the minutia of your life is fascinating...

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  4. That is one gorgeously huge pot! I hadn't ever seen Lobelia in a white/purple color scheme so had to go do a search for it... I found a site where the artist put a single Lobelia flower with stem in tree resin and was asking $39 for a single earring. Ahem... LOL I collect Holly Yashi earrings and the price for TWO earrings (one for each ear) is usually about $39! It did remind me of your artwork, however so thought I would share the link with you. https://www.dauphinette.com/products/pink-lobelia-with-stem Sorry about your bulbs. :/ Here's hoping that's the last of the 'dead' plants you'll come across.

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  5. Maybe fill the pot halfway with some very light material of some sort. Pebbles that don't weigh anything. I love the big pot!

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  6. That big pot is beautiful. I hope you find a use for it. My eyes are too tired to say more.

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  7. Beautiful wisteria. I really like that big pot. I wonder if, you don't use it, someone else might be able to use it.

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    1. Oh, I'll use it. I like Ms Moon's idea of a split leaf philodendron.

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  8. Oh, my. I've been watching pecan trees here and there, and hadn't seen one in bud yet. Either your yard's a heat sink, or things are really trucking along behind my back. On the other hand, they're talking about an Easter weekend light freeze for somewhat north of here, like Montgomery County. Keep an eye out!

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    1. the native hasn't come out yet but the hybrids have and now they're blooming. my neighbor's big trees haven't come out yet either but hers are always behind.

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  9. You could use the big pot for a tomato. Or maybe a split-leaf philodendron. They seem to survive everything around here. You could just throw a sheet over it when you get freezes. It's a fine pot.
    I love that you watch a soap opera. Something to break up your day.

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    1. I hadn't thought of a split leaf philodendron but I like that idea. I've never had one but growing up my parents had a huge one on the patio.

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    2. I've had one for over thirty years. I've given away so many of its babies.

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  10. That wisteria is a balm to my eyes.

    I was told that I was in early osteopenia and freaked out a bit. Looked it up since and it's really just terminology and not automatically a gateway to osteoporosis as bone density naturally diminishes esp. in women with age.

    I reckon if you are as physically busy and active as you have been for so many years, check your calcium intake and by all means keep getting the scan, there's little you can do wrong at our age.

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    1. I was diagnosed 20 +/- years ago, took a med for a couple of years then stopped. I tracked down my previous scan from 2016 so it will be interesting to see if it's gotten worse or not. I don't take calcium supplements, can't easily swallow them, but try to eat the right foods and cheese and be active. I have an appointment in April to follow up on the scan.

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  11. I;ve got my Wisteria along the fence too, looks just like yours

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  12. I have several very large pots. I use them all the time. I don't fill them with soil & a plant. I put a plastic pot, upside down in the big pot (for height), then put another potted plant on top of that. So it looks like I've got something growing in the pot, but really, it is just a decorative holder for another plant (which I swap out as my fancy takes me). Enjoy

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    1. what a great idea! perhaps I'll do that til I figure out a permanent planting.

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