Daily check in thread for all#203

The floods in Australia I’ve seen on the news , it’s a 100 year flood. Extremely Powerful .. anyone heard from HT. I hope he is safe . Sending good vibes your way HT...

Love daylilies foxgloves and lupines. I grow the Russel hybrids they are up to 4K’ tall. It’s funny to watch the bumblebees poke in and out thru the lupine flowers.
Foxgloves is what digitalis is made from for heart patients. Foxglove is most commonly used for heart failure and fluid build up in the body (congestive heart failure ) and irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation). I have white , purple and a peachy color.
The deer and gophers seem to know what plants are toxic....I have them popping up here and there. The daylilies are a delicacy for the deer as they have disappeared except for a couple. I planted over 70 a few years ago... down the 4 .
Some of the daylily new hybrids are gorgeous and way too spendy. The deer will eat all the rose buds and lily buds leaving just the stalks. UGG... So many new hybrids of hostas, hibiscus, heuchura, dahlias, and new varieties of colorful bee balm . I would love more but I know the deer mice and gophers would have a field day.

The gophers have already started in the front pasture it is already a 40 hole golf course with 5 traps and I caught one last week. I had a cat that was good at catching them but he disappeared last year. Cats are great at keeping mice away too. I can say I really don’t miss all those little presents left on the front porch from the cat like beheaded mice or two sections of a gopher . It’s also interesting that cats know not to chow down on the livers of these rat finks, the toxic portions.
It’s all so tempting when googling thru garden catalogues, drooling madly over all the flowers, shrubs & trees. I swear they blow up the colorful pics on purpose to make all the garden plants look so full of leaves and covered in flowers soooo tempting. I admit I have a terrible addiction to garden plants, shrubs, flowers and trees. I am a collector of plants and have so many trees and shrubs my fav a variegated ginkgo tree, to rare mini maples I collect variegated plants. A fav plant is the Gunnera with its 4-5’ spikey leaves , also called the dinosaur plant. One of my fav bulb flowers are glads and lots of new colors and bicolored varieties. I had a collection of lilies and they smelled lovely. But the deer ate the buds and the gophers munched on the bulbs.
Now trying to add only deer proof plants... not sure what gophers don’t eat beside toxic plants.

Well I better quit writing about garden plants of any kind before I end up going to the online catalogues and doing some serious damage to my pocketbook. Then worry about how am I going to plant them... Talk about spring fever...

Sending Hugs and good vibes to all.

HT is safe, but not the best.
Bloods confirmed antidepressant sub level and the same with the mood stabiliser, both extremely low.
Can't arrange anything till the 28th of April. HT

Hello all. Got a good dose of natural vitamin D today, outside in the sunshine and fresh air. Filled 2 large dog food bags with yard debris, cleaning up for the nice weather to come. Of course, that means I'm in more pain, but so worth it!

Lisa bought me two yellow hanging baskets full of pansies for the front hooks. I also put my little garden flag out that has tulips and says Welcome to my Garden. The jonquils are blooming alongside the Dutch Iris and crocuses. My primroses are beginning to bloom a few feet from the hellebores. Coloring up nicely in the main bed.

Hope everyone is having a peaceful day.

Chotti training dogs is the is easy part of life always has been


Hi HT! ..watching the flood seeing Cali all over again.
Here in NJ. If meds situation gets to desperate, some people go to crisis for 3day. Get there meds attended to
Gone home 48 hrs later. 5 days

Long time to be way from fishes...
Lots of breathing mate

Be careful,
I hate to see you going off cold turkey. It is like effexor, very hard to wean off. Why can't you continue taking it until the doc finds something else? I am just concerned Jamie.

Best wishes and know we all are here for you.

Hugs my friend...

Karen...

Keep hanging in there Jamie,

I wish you a smooth transition.

Hugs, Karen...

I am glad things are okay. If anybody can do this, you can. One day at a time Mate.

Keep hanging on.

Hugs, Karen...

Sending you cyber hugs HT!

Pleasant Palm Sunday to those who observe.

Chotti the link is to a free group on face book
Some people do amazing things
Once fairs starting happings.again
You'll see where where people sell

I post occasionally
Inspired 200%
Body does cooperate to all the detailed tailoring I used to.

Though currently I am in planning stages for a calm boho type curtain for closet in my bedroom
See how it comes out.🤞

HT you're doing a good job of handling weaning...
Self love mate self love

Peace all

HT

HT... my son took meds for depressive/bipolar. He just hated the way they made him feel. Some he said seemed to have some serious side effects, gave him high blood pressure. Then trying to slowly titrate off is not easy. I’m glad to hear your busy with mosaics, gardening and starting a cooking class. My son was a builder he built beautiful homes .

Trina Hows the pup doin ? Started mine on another push button to push the recording I made says “Wanna Go See? That means she wants to go out side. I have to hide the cookie ball button , she pushing it way to many times for cookies.🐶
I would love the bohemian curtain idea ... there are some really creative clothing and easy deco creative people on YouTube. It’s amazing how some of the furniture, deco items can be reclaimed and made to look so beautiful. I used to love crafts and repurposing items.

Karen any new crafts you have made lately to share with us. I really loved the white paper bark from the birch tree pics you made with pressed flowers. Very beautiful and cleaver. I just pulled a bunch off the bark off the birch trees and trying to decide what to make other than another framed pic of bark although the bark is beautiful on its own merrit mabe make a mural. I wonder if there is a way to decoupage the bark onto boxes or small things for display?

Pitmom... how did your curtains turn out and you have good luck finding items to repurpose. Have you found a handyman to fix the trailer walls? I just had a ceiling leak in the kitchen ceiling and did a small drywall patch. It turned out pretty good. Now have to paint the whole ceiling. The gutter was leaking causing the leak in the ceiling. It’s always something.

Hugs and lots of good vibes sent to everyone... 🤗👍

I will buy a pic....
No probs. HT
Hi karen...chotti.
Hi all.

Thanks Chotti,

I will look into these ideas. Sometimes it is so simple, I can't see it. Google selling online. Thank you.

I think you have good ideas for the birch bark. I love it. I have fallen trees I take it off. Usually the inside wood has rotted and all I have to do is clean it up. Get the sawdust out of the middle and cut to desired size. I like that you can pull a little off and not hurt the tree.

I had a lot of antique dishes. Sold a lot of them. Some had gold on them which you can't use in microwave.

I had a lot of glassware that is mostly gone now too. I collected at one time I guess. Some of it so pretty.

I hope you have a fantastic day today Chotti.

Take care and thanks for posting.

Hugs, Karen...