Another day, another iris...

I don't remember where this color came from...actually don't remember where half of them came from.  But I love them all...maybe not equally, but almost equally.

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Another day with the first half spent trying to accomplish two medical calls, and am now waiting on another call.  But have a couple hours before it is due.

I have been out trying to pull a few weeds without getting down on my knees and find it is almost not worth it.  I was getting so dizzy part of the time that I was thankful to have the garage to lean against.  Funny how one minute it is fine and the next you just can't do it.  So, will be on my knees to do the rest..and that is a whole other set of issues.  Thank goodness I have a lot of strength in my arms.

Still having some other issues that I wish were over and done.  But will just have to live through it.  I am sort of learning not to let it get me down...I have been through it two other times before through the years and this is just another time to learn and go on.

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The good news...I had been running a temp, it was not Covid 19...and I am on antibiotics.  The dr. said my sinuses and throat were really red, red...and I had fluid on both ears.  So with knowing that is all it was, maybe soon we will get to go see our girls' new homes.  And get to see our grandfurbabies.  Hopefully, will see Lorelei sometimes this week...she likes her new house but is wanting to come and stay with us.  I just have to talk to Sarah and see what we can work out.  We were all staying apart with me with the temp...or what I thought was a temp.

I got new thermometers, and yes, I did get more than one new one.  I tried to get one early on, but Walmart was out.  And while my old thermometer that is only about a year old still says I am running one, the new ones both read normal.  The funny thing, with the old one, I take mine and it is high, but take Roger's and his temp is normal.  So, still an oddity.  I have not taken his with the new ones.

I am leaving you with a little video...it will warm your heart.




I hope you have a good week ahead...and that you are staying safe.  We are still staying close to home for the most part, unless we go for a little drive.

Flowers from today...

I forget why I was standing right against the dining room window this morn, but I was and happened to glance down and there were these beauties open.

It had rained a little early this morn, and the raindrops glistened in the sun.  I grabbed my phone and took a couple quick snaps. 

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It has been the usual day to day stuff here.  A couple loads of wash, vacuuming, cooking, and dishes...

I intended to either go for a little drive or sew a few lines but did neither.  Instead I sat out back and read a while...In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.  I read it when I was still a teen-ager but could not remember details at all.

I hope everyone is safe and that things are going well for you.

Update....

First of all, I wanted to inform you that after the little house wrens got their nest about half-way built, they quit coming.  I have no idea why.  I heard them around, but not on the porch.  Today I have yet to hear them anywhere else.  Even though I mostly regret that they didn't raise their babies, in ways I am relieved that I don't have to worry about one of my cats getting one.  So, I will just try to be happy with the situation.
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I started out with just one iris this color...now look at them!  Same with that one in the upper left-hand corner.  I had one of them and now probably have half a dozen.  I LOVE how they multiply.
I just hope it holds true for the one below.

It was in variety bag that I got a few years ago.  It is a beauty.

They are all actually slowing down...on the downhill side of blooming.  Not very many buds left on any of the colors now.  I sure have loved them.  They are one of my favorite flowers...along with pansies, hibiscus, foxglove, cone flowers, gladiolas....you get the idea:  you name it and it is usually a favorite.

Early birds....

For some reason, this iris has been blooming for about a week.  It is weeks ahead of all the others.

I suppose the reason they are early is that they have migrated to being right against the house.  Whatever the reason, I am enjoying it.

So frilly and pretty.  Always makes me think of a princess dressed for the ball.
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We have rain in the forecast....it has rained enough to make everything damp.  And the temps are cooler than yesterday.  I am not sure what to do with the day.  It would be a good day to go to the greenhouse to see if we can find more brandywine tomato plants...and we may do that, but I have gotten till I just love to be home.

I have been sitting here watching a pair of cardinals.  I wonder if they have a nest.  The male has been feeding the female.  If I have seen that before I don't remember it. I think it is too early for babies, but maybe she is getting ready to lay her eggs.

It is time for me to be getting off here.  Time I decide on something to do.  I do have fabric coming today.  I have enough crumb blocks made to make another crumb quilt top.  This time I am using gray in it....

My irises are starting to bloom...

This is a new iris to me...it was in a mixed bag I got a couple years ago. I think this is the first time it has bloomed. It is a beauty.
Some of the others are blooming, but I have not taken photos of them....I don't know why. I guess I have been in a kind of funk.

I haven't wanted to bore everyone with things...but hopefully one of them is over with. Roger had another spell of being broken out in this rash. I am not even sure how long it took to get over it, but probably at least 8 weeks, with three trips to the doctor. Maybe even longer. It just seemed like he was never going to get over it. He was in a lot of misery...even while we were in Tennessee. It was the nights down there....soon as we tried to go to bed, he would start itching.

When we came home he saw our doctor....he had just seen the nurse practitioners prior to this. And I am not saying anything against them...I really like both of them. A lot. But our doctor is older than both of them ...I am sure she has been a doctor longer than either of them has been a nurse practitioner. She ran a couple tests this time...which told her it was not lupus and not an allergic reaction.

Then there is me. My shoulder has been bothering me for months now. Started out kind of stiff...then there were certain things I would do that would hurt so bad. I kept thinking it would disappear just as mysteriously as it appeared. No such luck. I am not in constant unbearable pain with it....but moments of excruciating pain when I try to do certain things. And it is getting hard to find ways to sleep that it doesn't hurt slightly. Just enough to not be able to sleep.

Anyway, I had x-rays a couple weeks ago, then an MRI today...so will find out if anything is going on. We are hoping that therapy will do the trick. The doctor gave me a medicine to reduce swelling and pain, plus a topical ointment....and a couple exercises to do in the meantime. I think the medicine is already reducing the pain and I think I am getting more movement back...

Through this with the both of us, I hope we have learned to go to our regular Dr. when it is something like this...I bet she would have had Roger over his rash long ago, and if not would have been working on finding out what it is. She says if it comes back again, she is going to run more tests.

Irises on Mother's Day

I wasn't going to post anything, then I thought I would take a minute and post these flowers
and wish everyone a Happy Mother's Day.
I hope everyone has a wonderful day today and get to spend it with your loved ones.
In addition to the flowers, I wanted to take a moment of your time and have you go and read this article from The Off Season. I ran across it a while back and meant to share it then but never got around to it...now I am glad I didn't. It is a good story for a special day....Enjoy! I am proud that it happened a few miles up the road though I don't know any of the people personally.

Irises

I wanted to post something...figured I might as well show my irises that are blooming. I have two or three other colors, but it is raining so cannot go take pictures. The one of the purple one is from last year, but the others were taken this year.
I don't know the names of any of them...the off white ones were given to me by a neighbor. I started with about half a dozen and now have a bunch of them.
The purple and the peach I bought, and the purple have really reproduced, but the peach haven't. I don't know the reason for the difference...
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Sarah and Jeremy came by yesterday....seeing Lorelei did me a world of good. I start babysitting Monday if nothing else happens. I am hoping that I can at least post a little something along, but it probably won't be much. So hope you will bare with me till I get in a routine.

Etc...

Click to enlarge photos

I just had to show you what the smoke bush is now doing...this is not the greatest photo but I was doing a couple things at once and did not download them till just now.

Yesterday I had one iris bloom almost all the way open and today I have half a dozen of these that are open plus dark purple ones, as well as the peach.
I think this barn scene just looks so inviting...I just had to share.