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How is it July Already?
Jul. 2nd, 2024 12:41 amI feel like I spent the last week mostly asleep. At least I'm done with the antibiotics and can go back to eating dairy when I want to. The arm is no longer swollen and the tooth marks seem to be healing, though there is red skin where I was using a bandaid to cover the worst tooth mark, and an extra scab where a bandaid pulled off at least one layer of skin. I hate that my skin reacts so badly to all the glues they use to hold protective things to my skin! I took a photo of a penny on my arm this morning so I can track whether the redness starts to grow again as the antibiotic leaves my system. That's much less crazy-making than badly-drawn marker outlines!!!
At least weeding is a low-energy/nearly no-focus activity for me. The garden is growing. I've had peas, herbs (lots of peppermint this year), one small cucumber, and one small tomato so far. Lots and lots of mulberries! We have other plants too: purple pole bean, some Italian pepper varieties, squash, pumpkin, broccoli, and some purple cabbage that overwintered. One of the cabbage plants sprouted tall and flowered and has set seeds; I should do an internet search to see when to gather those. The pictures on the tags for those plants showed neat little cabbage heads, which is not at all how they're growing; the leaves aren't what I'm used to in the waldorf salad variant I make, but they're ok, especially mixed half-and-half with store-bought cabbage.
But I want more tomatoes and cucumbers! Not just little bitty green ones to look at as they grow on the plants, but ripe ones to eat. Ah, but patience is a virtue, right? (I still say I have no patience, I just pretend. And when there is no one here to pretend to, I don't even have that. It's work to pretend, after all, and even when I pretend, I am not fooled by my acting, nor am I distracted by the person I'm (not) interacting with.)
The weather has been very zig-zag--a day or two when I'm cold and use the heated mattress pad to just get to sleep, a day or two when I'm kind of comfortable, and a day or two when it's super-hot, and then it gets cold again. I'm not so old yet that I can't adapt to cooler or hotter weather, but not this fast!
A neighbor lady gave us one raspberry plant and one blueberry plant (though each box said 2 plants, and we didn't realize they were both half-empty at first), and before the window fell on my cat, we'd gotten them in the ground, but they went in at least a month late, though only a couple of days after the neighbor saw us pruning roses and offered them to us. We got them around sunset, and spent a day clearing an area to plant them in, and then added compost to that area and planted them. So, at this point, I just have my fingers crossed that they survived the delay. We have a lovely volunteer squash or pumpkin plant (based on the size of the baby leaves, I'm pretty sure it's pumpkin) that is growing at the edge of that area now, however, so if we don't get berry bushes, at least the weeding and digging and compost-transport is doing some good this year.
The FAWM-type songwriting challenge 50/90 is starting on July 4, so I will be doing at least some of that as well as the gardening and (hopefully) house-organizing and repair stuff too. My budget is horrible right now, which makes house repairs a lot harder. (Watching people I hired fix things isn't perfect, but it's a whole lot better than my Angel and I trying to do all or most of it ourselves.)
Oh, yeah, and My Angel found a place to do the emissions testing on our hybrid. There's lots of places they claim can do the test for the state, but they keep changing (it must be a very low profit task) and only some of them can do the test on a hybrid, and the state's website is lacking in that kind of information. So I can have new stickers for my license plate, which is a good thing.
I wonder if I can pretend to have enough energy to record something before Bandcamp Friday? I have no focus after hearing today's news, so not tonight, but maybe tomorrow? That would be nice.
At least weeding is a low-energy/nearly no-focus activity for me. The garden is growing. I've had peas, herbs (lots of peppermint this year), one small cucumber, and one small tomato so far. Lots and lots of mulberries! We have other plants too: purple pole bean, some Italian pepper varieties, squash, pumpkin, broccoli, and some purple cabbage that overwintered. One of the cabbage plants sprouted tall and flowered and has set seeds; I should do an internet search to see when to gather those. The pictures on the tags for those plants showed neat little cabbage heads, which is not at all how they're growing; the leaves aren't what I'm used to in the waldorf salad variant I make, but they're ok, especially mixed half-and-half with store-bought cabbage.
But I want more tomatoes and cucumbers! Not just little bitty green ones to look at as they grow on the plants, but ripe ones to eat. Ah, but patience is a virtue, right? (I still say I have no patience, I just pretend. And when there is no one here to pretend to, I don't even have that. It's work to pretend, after all, and even when I pretend, I am not fooled by my acting, nor am I distracted by the person I'm (not) interacting with.)
The weather has been very zig-zag--a day or two when I'm cold and use the heated mattress pad to just get to sleep, a day or two when I'm kind of comfortable, and a day or two when it's super-hot, and then it gets cold again. I'm not so old yet that I can't adapt to cooler or hotter weather, but not this fast!
A neighbor lady gave us one raspberry plant and one blueberry plant (though each box said 2 plants, and we didn't realize they were both half-empty at first), and before the window fell on my cat, we'd gotten them in the ground, but they went in at least a month late, though only a couple of days after the neighbor saw us pruning roses and offered them to us. We got them around sunset, and spent a day clearing an area to plant them in, and then added compost to that area and planted them. So, at this point, I just have my fingers crossed that they survived the delay. We have a lovely volunteer squash or pumpkin plant (based on the size of the baby leaves, I'm pretty sure it's pumpkin) that is growing at the edge of that area now, however, so if we don't get berry bushes, at least the weeding and digging and compost-transport is doing some good this year.
The FAWM-type songwriting challenge 50/90 is starting on July 4, so I will be doing at least some of that as well as the gardening and (hopefully) house-organizing and repair stuff too. My budget is horrible right now, which makes house repairs a lot harder. (Watching people I hired fix things isn't perfect, but it's a whole lot better than my Angel and I trying to do all or most of it ourselves.)
Oh, yeah, and My Angel found a place to do the emissions testing on our hybrid. There's lots of places they claim can do the test for the state, but they keep changing (it must be a very low profit task) and only some of them can do the test on a hybrid, and the state's website is lacking in that kind of information. So I can have new stickers for my license plate, which is a good thing.
I wonder if I can pretend to have enough energy to record something before Bandcamp Friday? I have no focus after hearing today's news, so not tonight, but maybe tomorrow? That would be nice.
