Hello dear friends,
I hope you are all doing well.
I've
been fairly busy as usual as I'm helping build a house and picking out
paints, looking at bathroom and kitchen cabinet design, water
connections, electric connections and building flower boxes to set
outside the kitchen window and gaze at flowers. It is a lot of work
looking for design ideas and figuring out everything from scratch on a
budget.
I am also busy trying to keep my little garden growing. It has been very hot for several days.
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I
found this guy in the bird bath on the hottest day so far. I don't know
if he was trying to get cool or if he had fallen into the water from
the tree above. |
My garden soil
is of mixed health. There are parts where I need to water a lot because the soil doesn't hold the water for long. This is the area where the vegetables are planted.
There are other areas where I've over watered
and see I've drowned a few anenome plants that were not that hardy. I also have
a few seedlings I started a few weeks ago that need to go into the
ground but I haven't had the time or energy to plant them. Maybe
tomorrow.
My vegetables are doing fairly well. But I've discovered there are lots
of tiny holes my cabbage leaves. Last night I looked up the problem on
line and see the holes are made by cabbage loopers eating the leaves.
But I haven't caught any of them in the act yet and I'm not quite sure
what to do about it as I don't want to use any chemicals. I will have to
do a bit more research.
The petunias I planted just
the other day are starting to flower already and the geraniums are doing
well too. The pansies easily wilt under the hot sun and need some good
watering and deadheading on a regular basis.
I've also
been busy trying to get the blood glucose under control. I have been
doing my very best for years and it doesn't seem to make much difference
to my average blood sugar levels which are slowly rising. The doctor
now has me on another drug and I'm cautiously optimistic that it is
going to work. I should have a better idea in a few weeks time.
I
made a nice Greek dinner recently just for something different. I had a rack of lamb in the freezer that I had been saving and wanted to use it before it got too old. I didn't get a good photo of the lamb but didn't much like it anyway. I prefer lamb in a stew.
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Greek Salad |
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Roasted Greek Potatoes (garlic and lemon) |
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Homemade Tzadziki (cucumber) sauce & toasted pita bread |
It
has been a long time since I did any crafting or extensive reading.
I've been trying to do both but haven't gotten very far. Hopefully I can
do more of both over the coming weeks. One book I'm reading is called
London by Edward Rutherford. I am at about page 700 and have about 500 more pages to read.
I went to the eye doctor for my annual check up the other day. I was relieved to discover that my eye sight had not deteriorated even more. There is a new optometrist I was booked in with. She is a young and bright doctor and gave me some new contact lens to try. They are for presbyopia and can eliminate the need for reading glasses on top of contact lens. I'm trying them for a month and have to see her again at the end of the week to see how things are going. I think the prescription still needs a bit of tweaking.
Well that is what is going on in my world this week. I'll be by to read about your week.
Joining in with
Our World Tuesday this week and
I Heart Macro.