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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Plants I Promised To Show Off From Yesterdays Post

Yesterday I promised to show you my plants that I usually keep outside in the courtyard. They spend their winter vacation happily in the house under a UV growing light. It's been so nice outdoors lately that I had to start getting them used to the summer weather. Yes, it's in the 80's here. Expecting 85 today. But this won't last for long because we usually get our icy cold days in March.

These are the plants that are sitting on the courtyard table. David and I brought them out to let them have some warm sunlight that they desperately need.

This is my African Violet in all its glory. I left it out in the sun for 2 days to let the leaves get darker. A few weeks ago there was only one flower- the one in the center. I still have a few blooms on it and 2 new leaves hidden under the center. There is pollen everywhere on the leaves because the bees have been buzzing on it.

This is known as a Kalanchoe I have them in orange, yellow centers, and white. They have such teeny tiny flowers and they love the sun. These are loaded with tiny flower buds.

This is my daisy that I chopped down to the soil. It's coming back nicely.

David gave me this basket for my birthday last year. I brought it out for watering and accidently left it in the sun yesterday. As you can see the plant pushed it's leaves out and the ivy has new baby leaf buds everywhere. I'll leave this one out but put it out of the sun so it gets plenty of indirect sunlight.

Monday, February 9, 2015

It's Monday and It's WARM Outside! BWAAHAHAAHAHAAAA!

Right now, the puppies are recharging their batteries. Sleeping like the little spoiled rotten shits that they are. I have 2 of them snoring on their bed next to me and one on the pillow/heating pad in back of my ass on my desk chair. That's Lucy. She loves to be as close to me as possible. Mostly laying on the pillow against my back. The sun is shining through the blinds and the puppies are just loving it. I have the doors and windows open because it's SO FUCKING WARM OUTSIDE HERE IN TEXAS! I had to cap that because some of my friends are nearly going crazy from all the snow up north and I love gloating about it. BWAAHAHAAAHAHAHAAA!

Anywho, I don't know about the rest of the nation, but it's like SPRING here in my neck of Texas. It's 11 AM and the temperature is 77. I kid you not! It's been so fucking wonderful outside that yesterday I had David help me take all my plants outside and put them on the courtyard table so they could get some much-needed sun. They are so happy right now. I'll have pictures tomorrow of them.

We should have a week and a half of this beautiful weather, but it's going back down into the 60's. Like break out the swimsuits y'all. Yeah right. Then the major freeze with sleet for a week comes later next month. Texas weather never fails to amaze me.

About 2 weeks ago or something like that, shit I don't remember when, I decided to go visit my Orthopedic doctor. Yes, the guy that replaced my knees and made me partially bionic. I asked to see him about my shoulder. When I said that I fell, they gave me an emergency appointment and I was in like a flash. Say you "FELL" but your shoulder is hurting and they don't give a flying sideways fuck, because the thing is, you "FELL", and that is the magic word when you have had total knee replacement.

So, I was in the office lobby for like 5 minutes and then I saw the doctor. He checked my knees and then my shoulder and had 2 sets of x-rays done. There was something on the x-rays of my shoulder that was very blurry by the collarbone. I told him that I usually have arthroscopic surgery done every 10 years to clean out this is gross the dead tissue that builds up around my nerves in there. It looks like that when it's about time to go in. Plus I'm usually in a lot of pain by then. He asked me when I had my last surgery for it. It was back in 1993, like over 20 years ago. The crazy thing is I have very little pain from it. He said he couldn't see anything wrong with my shoulder and that I was probably right, that I jammed it and pinched a nerve. He told me if the pain continues after 3 weeks call and he would get me in for an MRI. Well, today I'm fine. The exercises have done the job. Besides, I don't want to go under the knife for a while if I can help it. Knock wood!