For many years I have said about myself that if I don't have any real problems I will inflate minor ones to the size of the Rockies and proceed to obsess until I am in a sea of anxiety. I have also learned to slow down, make a list of said anxiety, do deep breathing and reflect.
I am currently at list making as I am going to the intake appointment for my long overdue colonoscopy next week. The intake is easy. And really, the worst part of a colonoscopy is the prep.
There are times when I feel like my social life is based on doctors' visits.
Just need to figure out transportation, which should not be a huge problem, but still.......!
We'll see, grasshopper.............we'll see.........
Meanwhile spring is finally happening. I received some money for my birthday so I bought a blower-sweeper thingie that has been terrific for clearing leaves out of unwanted places. I just have to remember to charge the batteries! So much easier than hauling around extension cords!
I bought a white passion flower yesterday. I used to grow many different varieties and winter them over very successfully. This is a small start toward rebuilding the collection. Because if a little is good a whole lot more is better!
Stay strong, and as always, thanks for stopping by..................*s*
Birthday #83 was last Saturday. By way of celebration I managed yo do something to my lower back on Friday. night. I leaned over the pick up stuff off the couch on my way to bed. Big OUCH! Slowly getting better, but not how I would prefer to celebrate anything.
On a happier note. I try to give myself a smallish treat every year for my own celebration. This year it's one of Kathleen Burke's. IMAGINE mugs. Love the image of all these people hand in hand. It's a most pleasant mug to drink from, which I suppose should be a main purpose!
I signed up for Karen Abend's Sketchbook Challenge this year. I have really enjoyed Sarah Mitchell's pre-challenge video on making the Australian Piano Hinge book. So far I have made three. I haven't kept up with the daily challenges due to feeling so lousy. I may start playing catch-up today.
We are finally having warm weather. Actually we had several days of what felt more like summer. After some very noisy thunderstorms late yesterday it's been cooling down to what passes for normal here. Of course that doesn't mean we couldn't have snow by Wednesday. Hey! It happens!
My first impulse was to start moving plants to their outside summer places. Then I remembered one year, many years ago now, that I did that and the temps promptly dropped to near freezing. Which then resulted in me frantically covering everything with blankets. So I will refrain for a few more weeks. Meanwhile it's a good time to get things clean and neat for the coming summer.
Daffodils are in bloom, late but so appreciated. Also have vinca and lily of the valley are showing progress. Morning walks around the garden/lawn with a cup of tea are definitely in order.
Stay strong, and as always, thanks for stopping by.............*s*
The spine looks a bit wonky due to the print I chose for the back cover. It's really quite straight.
Now I want to try a 9x12 which is my favorite size for planning pot decoration. I have to see what I have in the way of papers. I wish I still had some of my old Hammermill Bond cover stock. I bought a ream of it way back when I was finishing my degree Used the last of it a few years ago. Paper keeps vey well if it's stored properly. Meanwhile my habit of buying paper goes on.
The covers are reused calendars. Carl Larsson on the to and Mucha on the bottom. Again there is a good reason for saving stuff!
We are finally having some slightly warmer, sunnier days, The daffodils are finally blooming. Toes crossed we don't have a really hot spell which ends them all too quickly.
We'll see, grasshopper............we'll see..............
Stay strong; stay safe and, as always, thanks for stopping by..............*s*
Doc's appointment went very well. She's very pleased with all my various problems. Then we talked about THR exercises, (she had hers shortly after mine.), trees falling across driveways, snow and so on.
I ordered a new pair of reading glasses, about time!
I dd not go looking for flowers. The stupid cold, and did I mention Lyme, have taken a lot out of me. Slowly rebuilding stamina. We'll see, grasshopper............we'll see............
Stay strong; stay safe, and as always, thanks for stopping by.........*s*
I am off to my PCP this morning for my quarterly follow-up on T2D. My A1C has not changed, which is okay but I was supposed to get it down a a bit more. However, I managed to lose the pounds I put on over last summer and fall. And I am trying to remember to exercise more. The problem is finding the best time to do it. And yes, I will get the referral for a colonoscopy.
As a little reward I am going to order new pair of glasses. My last pair is being held together with crazy glue and prayer.
My favorite garden shop has just reopened so a visit is in order. Really hope to find pansies and primroses. I don't go there ofter as it's a bit more of a drive than I like to do if I don't have other stops in the area. Once I get there I always buy more than my original intents. What is the gardening equivalent of eyes being bigger than one's stomach? Pushing the season a bit as we are still getting frosty nights, but I have nice sunny indoor shelves anticipating plants.
Just read that waking up feeling grumpy can be helped by early morning bright light. So let's start DST as soon a we can so we wake up in darkness. FER DUUUUHHH!!!
Stay strong; stay safe, and as always, thanks for stopping by...........*s*
The fish in happier times/
Winter has five days to shape up and go home. The Vernal Equinox is on Friday, March 20. Perhaps Winter will take the hint and leave. Although, going through photos of past winters I would say that winter being well and truly gone is a shaky proposition.
Proge very sadly discovered yesterday that all our goldfish have died. We are assuming it is because the two and a half feet of snow blocked any oxygen getting into the pond. We will replace them when it warms up. But sentimentally we miss them because they were all decendents of two dollars woth of fingerlings I bought was back when we first put the pond in. They were meant to be short term experiment to see how fish would do. Instead we became quite attached to them and their babies.
A few days ago I started my second reading of Shakespeare's sonnets. Today Sonnet Five feels particularly appropriate.
Stay strong and , as always, thanks for stopping by.................*s*