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@ Colleen,,Very nice!

@Georgiagranny ,The iris roots that I planted in early August have leaves on them.
Yipee.
Not sure what color they are,, bought them at a yard sale 6 roots for a buck.

IF I can the darn canning done ,, soon.
I have a lot of work I want to do out side before weather gets nasty.

One is make a new strawberry bed.
The lonely plan that I save has lots of runners.
And that damn creeping weed is trying to take over the strawberry spot.
 
I;ve had an eclectic kind of a day today.. Had to be at my Doc for an appointment this morning about my long standing lower back pain..and she insisted I take Ibuprofen or Aspirin , I explained these will not work, that I;ve had surgery 3 times on my back and the only thing that works is a muscle relaxant ( she's new to the surgery as are all of them, mainly locums since Covid).. she said no.. because they're addictive.. ( I was only on 5 mg once a day to relax the back muscles ) :mad: I explained I cannot take Ibuprofen because I have stage 3 kidney failure.. so she looked up my notes, and said.. Oh yes, errmm. ...you must not have aspirin or Anti- inflammatory meds.. * well really, wasn't I just telling her that''?


Begrudgingly she prescribed me 2 mg of Diazepam, to take ''every other night' for a month.. good lord.. I could take the whole month's worth in one go, and it wouldn't have any adverse effects but of course I won't.. but it'll take me a fortnight of taking them nightly before they might work (I mean 2 mg.. you could give that to a baby ).... ..and she said she can't put it on repeat prescription .. and the reason '' because an old woman somewhere who'd been on a high dose for years , went into a Fit when she was taken off, and died ''.. 😖..

..Anyway.. from there I had to have a wellness check by the nurse/clinician... every 10 years or so we have these for free.. and despite my current physical maladies ... I am as fit as a flea... No High BP.. no Liver problems, No weight issues.. No pre Diabetes.. , she said ( she was young tbf and probably not been a clinician for very long ).. but she said she's never seen anyone my age with such low numbers... for everything, and whatever I'm doing to keep fit.. to continue doing it..

So that at least cheered me up.. (y):D
 
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Today I am getting ready for company tonight. My Husbands nephew and his wife are coming over to thank us for something we sent them ao I am cooking like crazy. They are 2 wonderful people. His Mom and my husband were brother and sister and very close and she told her kids if they ever needed anything to go to Uncle John and Aunt Barbara.
 
All that medical stuff took just over an hour... and from there I drove to the next large town to buy some Feather and Down cushion inners from the Cushion and curtain store. Couldn't believe my eyes when I got there.. and they had None.. no cushion inners whatsoever ( Dunelm for all the Brits).. the shelves were empty.. so rather than waste the journey, I drove a few miles further on to Costco.. and got the bulk buy meats .. etc.. .

Then when I got home I immediately portioned them up , and got them all in the freezer, including 36 dinner rolls portioned into bags of 3.. I didn;t think I was going to have enough space in the freezers.. 20 chicken thighs.. 36 rolls.. several large packs of other things.. but I managed to clear old Bags of ice, out and made just enough space..

Then because it's forecast to rain at the weekend , and I know that everything is going to hurt like Billy-O.. tomorrow.. I got the lawnmower out and quickly mowed the lawns.. didn't take long, because it only needed topping due to only one day of rain in 9 weeks..

Now of course I'm sitting here with a heat pad on my very painful Back. ( @Pinky ).. don't shout at me... 😜
 
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After a very good visit, saw my son off and headed to the library. Raining when I came out… stood under the covered stoop and watched the rain for a few minutes… I love rain. The plop-plish of the raindrops hitting the asphalt, watching the bubble-studded runlets coursing down the slope, feeling the cool breeze ruffle my linen dress around my legs. Magical after several hot days. Welcome September !
 
Georgiagranny said:
What earthly purpose do weeds serve? Ugh! Near as I can see all they do is choke out the good stuff :mad:
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Weeds are merely plants that grow where humans prefer they wouldn't. In a corn field a rose bush would be considered a weed by the farmer and in a rose garden a corn stalk would be considered a weed.

Plants do what they're supposed to do, which is to propagate.
 
@StarSong The weeds can just go do what they're supposed to do somewhere else, just not in my flower garden!

@hollydolly It's supposed to rain here all weekend, too, including Labor Day on Monday. Fine by me since I have to work anyway.

The "boys" were here and videod the garden with their drone. They're going to edit it, post it on You Tube and send me the link.

Since it's hot and humid today, the drone didn't want to work very well. It doesn't like heat and doesn't like humidity. We'll see how it looks after it's edited. I still haven't gotten the hang of posting pix, but if the video looks decent, I think I can post the link.
 
Georgiagranny said:
@StarSong The weeds can just go do what they're supposed to do somewhere else, just not in my flower garden!

@hollydolly It's supposed to rain here all weekend, too, including Labor Day on Monday. Fine by me since I have to work anyway.

The "boys" were here and videod the garden with their drone. They're going to edit it, post it on You Tube and send me the link.

Since it's hot and humid today, the drone didn't want to work very well. It doesn't like heat and doesn't like humidity. We'll see how it looks after it's edited. I still haven't gotten the hang of posting pix, but if the video looks decent, I think I can post the link.
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well our Labour day is in May, so no holidays here now until Christmas .. the children return to school on Monday , ( we were told it was today bu that's gone away).. and those who don't WFH will be heading back to work.. after 6 weeks school break...which means from now until basically next year we won't get a break in the high levels of traffic on the roads..

I'd love to see your Drone Video.. of the garden, if you think it's fit to show..
 
It certainly felt like a fall day, sunny/breezy temps in low 60's.On my early walk at 6:40am temp was 58,so I wore capri pants with a mock turtleneck/sweatshirt
This afternoon,I took our new minister,Todd's 2 daughters Nadia& Dhini to lunch at Panera's They are now 15 both going into 10th grade they attended different schools,Nadia is their biological daughter,Dhini {from India} adopted when she was 3 months old We had a nice conversation,feel I know them better after our nice conversation
I plan to watch more tennis matches on ESPN tonight at U.S.Open Tennis Championship or may watch LA Dodgers play NYMets nothing else looks interesting on TV tonight
 
StarSong said:
Weeds are merely plants that grow where humans prefer they wouldn't. In a corn field a rose bush would be considered a weed by the farmer and in a rose garden a corn stalk would be considered a weed.

Plants do what they're supposed to do, which is to propagate.
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You’ve been coaching our dandelions, haven’t you.😏.
 

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