The Return of Farmer Chris

Only, not farming Farmer Chris. We're not putting in veggies this year. Doug didn't want to buy raised beds and that's okay. He agreed that he doesn't want to put in a veggie garden. He'll regret it in August. Maybe we can get big pots for tomatoes. He does love garden tomatoes. 

After we got the patio all set yesterday, today was the day to go buy flowers. 

We got all our pots out of the shed, and we have these four humongous planters that a friend from work gave me. He doesn't like two of them because they look like trash cans. Fair. But two of them he does like, and we agreed we'd get a mandevillia for each of them and put them on the edges of the patio. 

Two hundred fifty dollars later, we came home with more plants than we have pots for (oops) and no mandevillia because they wanted 50 bucks for them. We'll wait a couple weeks and try Home Depot. I'm all for supporting our local flower shop but. No. That's too much. 

Our neighbor has been fussing hard at me about piles of tree/wood trimmings Doug has been keeping behind our shed. So I asked him if we could bonfire that stuff while working on the plants. We made short work of the trimmings, thankfully it wasn't too windy (it has been so windy lately!) and now she won't fuss. She'll still fuss. But at least not about the wood. All the plants found good homes, I used a pot or two that I wasn't planning on (plastic/black) but they'll do just fine.

We have our front porch plants in full sun, and back yard plants in sun to shade. Pictures of the finished products tomorrow. I'm not sure what we'll get into tomorrow but. We'll have some fun. 

Digits below photos! 

First, we evaluated how many pots and containers we had.

Then, we bought too many plants. Like ya do.

I had a wee visitor land on me while I was working. I put it in my marigolds.

Take that, neighbor lady! No pile of wood behind the shed anymore!!! (this was just the start)

A neighbor on our street gave us this patio raised dog "bed" recently. Her dog passed away, and she couldn't bear to look at it anymore. I was going to offer it to people at work, because Toffee didn't really take to it. But today, I set it out while we were working and she hopped on, and enjoyed it.

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours. 18 minute walk while Doug & Toffee napped. .86 miles. 10k+ by bedtime

blood glucose:
6am: 123
4:30pm: 105
10:30pm: 94

food & meds:
6am: phentermine
10am: met+glip
11:30am: english muffin w/pb and low sugar j
5:30pm: met+glip; mixed nuts
6:30pm: 2 bratwurst, some potato salad
vodka+sugar free lemonade
9pm: jardiance