12 posts tagged “garden”
First time ever! Now I am in the photography stream of SU! woot woot! I hope that is a good thing. I'm going to be famous one day. In my own mind only maybe but that is good enough for me.
Brett Favre is a douche! I am proudly wearing my "We will never forget you Brent" tee shirt today. He needs a therapist.
Here is a shot of my mystery plant today...I took the camera to the nursery and they thought it might be a variety of Aster.
Ok the weather is beautiful, I've accomplished a lot today...updated facebook, twitter, Vox, took pictures, downloaded pictures, uploading currently to flickr...and I need to get outside. Times a wastin!
Yesterday afternoon, we had a doozy storm work its way through here. when it was over I snatched the camera and ran outside for refraction opportunities.
I think I have it figured out, sort of. First of all, it helps if you can actually SEE the refraction in the drop!
I've got a ton of pictures that look pretty similar, but if you look closely you'll see the flowers in the raindroplets.
if I crop them in too close they get blurry. I either need to start shooting in raw or maybe I should just get the tripod out and add a close up lens. I was so anxious to get outside with the camera that I didn't do either yesterday. lol. I wanted to go back in and fetch the close-ups, but I was so excited that I could actually see the images in the drops, I didn't dare move away until I got my fill of the same shots at different angles.Three of the stitches fell out yesterday so an entire flap was hanging down and bone fragments were coming out onto my tongue and I thought "oh shit". I called the doc and he wanted me in by the evening so he could redo the stitches. My check feels like someone beat me to a pulp. The pain is controllable though.
This is a shot of our deck, you can see the river in the distance. Our trees are still not blooming.
Since we gave up gambling, we've been spending money on other things, more tangible stuff, here is a show of part of our deck furniture;
Here are some photographs I took yesterday, you can see the rest on my flickr. I think there is a link somewhere. The macros aren't loading right away so I will post them separate or something.
Take It Easy, Lay Low. Those are my doctor's instructions. I am recovering from emergency oral surgery, thanks to a popcorn kernel. You see, my favorite ones, the only kernels I eat are the ones that are split. Well I should know better by now, my teeth are just weak. I stuck a little mirror in my mouth so I could look at it with the magnifying mirror, and it looked like the tooth had had an earthquake. And it hurt. But today it hurts worse. And I'm probably going to get a bellyache from taking the medicine on an empty stomach, but my belly is already woozy.
So I went to see Michael yesterday, this tooth that I broke was one that he had done a root canal on and put a temporary filling on, to be crowned. But good old Karen the Procrastinator, did not make an appointment. I am in the office 2-3 times a week, I should have just jumped in an empty chair when I had the opportunity, but I didn't and I can't blame anyone but myself for this predicament I got myself into. Michael looked in my mouth, and when I heard "Justin hand me the extraction forceps", I knew it wasn't good news. He said he couldn't save the tooth, and he didn't want to grind on a healthy tooth to make a bridge, so I am getting an implant. DH couldn't extract it himself, the tooth broke off and left the root tips behind. He called a colleague and made me an emergency appointment for 4:30.
We got there 15 minutes early. Insurance doesn't cover it. That was the first thing we found out, but I suspect Dr. Newman will give us professional courtesy as we refer a ton of patients to him. And after as good as he was to me, we will be sure to be sending more. He was so thorough, so kind, he went over my health history, explained what he was going to do, gave me enough xanax to make me relax, started the nitrous and went to work. I bitched a bit because the nitrous wasn't high enough, and Dr. N asked DH what he usually gives me and DH said 40%. So he cranked it up and I didn't feel a thing. He let the local anesthetic on long enough that I didn't even feel the needle, and after that, time seemed to go rather quickly, but slowly.
It was 7:30 until we left, and I was feeling pretty good, still numb and hungry, but I was only allowed to eat cold things last night. We stopped at Culvers and I got a quadruple berry concrete and a pint of vanilla custard. That was my dinner, and a fruit cup and a cinnamon roll that DH bought for me when he stopped at the drugstore to get my scripts.
I'm on a ton of steroids and Lorcet and under strict orders not to let my head go below my heart, therefore no bending, lifting, nothing. I asked if I could garden and he said as long as I can sit on the ground and do it, I'd be fine. But I can't sit on the ground and do it. Well I can, but I can't get up easily. So when I garden, I use a garden stool, or just stand and bend over at the waist. Neither of which I am allowed to do, and I've got 24 plants that want to get into the ground today. Ok, its me that wants them in the ground TODAY, but since I can't bend, I think I'll take my rake down by the riverbank and plant seeds. I don't have to bend over to do that, just rake some rows and scatter the seeds.
But I don't know if I feel good enough to do even that, now that I am sitting down again. Dr. Newman called and said I was to do nothing really today, to lay low, keep my head elevated, keep ahead of the pain with the steriods, advil and lorcet and just veg. Ordinarily that isn't a problem, I am a couch potatoe by nature, but the SUN is shining today and it is already 49 degrees.
I'd like to take pictures this morning too before all the raindrops evaporate. I saw some waterdrop pictures on flickr with a diamond on the drop and I want to figure out how to do that. Do you use a star filter for that?
Anyway I feel like shit. And it is my own damn fault.
It is supposed to snow all day today, and it isn't supposed to stick because the temperatures are above freezing, but just barely. Of course it is snowing. I just planted. The rain we had yesterday really greened things up around here. This is my favorite time of year to look out our picture windows at the river, it is green, but the trees are only budding. Once they leaf, I won't be able to see the river and marsh behind my house.
I've got another tooth problem. I cannot believe how often I have issues with my teeth. This one is totally my fault though. Two words: popcorn kernels. My molar looks like it had an earthquake. I know this because I stuck a little mirror in my mouth to see why it hurt so dang much. I have a feeling this isn't going to be easy to fix, the crack is below the gum line.
I just ran out of things to say, so I'll just share some pictures.
But it feels so good to get back out in the garden. I've done some major cleanup, but there is still so much more work to do. This morning it is cloudy and chilly, and instead of fiddling around on the net, I should be at the garden store. The temperature is going to keep rising all week, and the warmer it gets here, the more crowded the garden stores get. Our spring is so short. It snowed yesterday! On April 12th! Can you freaking believe it? Right now the temperature is 38.
- go to Steins and buy:
- dirt
- mulch
- dahlias
- clean up bags
Then I will have it, and as the days get nicer this week I will get back out there, get some more dahlias in the ground, spread some dirt and mulch and sit back and watch things come up. Ahh springtime. Even though it doesn't feel like it yet!
We had a good Easter. Jeremy flew in, and I cooked a roast chicken with smashed potatoes and it was so nice to have him here. The Nix came over too on Friday, and we had a nice time just hanging out. Sunday we went to the Hotel Metro in downtown Milwaukee for brunch. We had reservations for 11 am. We all tried to pace ourselves so we wouldn't get full right away. It never works. I don't understand how people can keep coming back with loaded platefuls. Sometimes I think they add "get full quick" powder to buffets.
After brunch, we ran Jeremy to the airport. It was sure nice having him. I still see my little boy when I look into his eyes, even though he is a grown man now. Unfortunately, he is very camera shy. I've got to catch him when he's not looking and that is kind of hard with my d300.
Today I promised I'd go into the office, and I will, but probably closer to 12:00, when I can pick up the deposit, look through my inbox and get out of there quick. I took Tina off probation yesterday, she has been doing much better. She begged me not to quit coming in, she said it is awesome having me in there and everyone else would be upset if I stop coming in. So I've decided to just go in once a week every other week to pay bills, twice a week on payroll weeks. Since Michael said he'd take care of any discipline issues with his kids, it seems to be working, so far. Billy still hasn't apologized. He is trying to act like nothing ever happened, but he's getting my cold shoulder. I answer politely when he talks to me but I am still very hurt and upset. I certainly would not pick him for a friend, he is not my kind of people.
I better post this before Vox glitches.
I didn't get too many pictures of the garden yesterday, it was so windy from the gust storm. Plus, I had this little dude driving me nuts!
Hey, I see spots where I can plant things in the lower garden! Nursery visit today. Err, maybe not. There is a "heat" warning today.