Gyardening...

...evidences a belief in our tomorrows.

We've found a home for the red bud (photo posted on 9/8) and a couple of our dogwoods; Nettie and dd lost trees in a storm last year and have places for a few understory trees.

Those 5+ yearold bareroot trees currently border along what we now call the Strip Bed and are casting their share of shadow on what we consider our Sunny Gyarden, including our floundering Asparagus Bed. We've tried numerous plants in that strip; so far the trees and the iris have done the best. Only a few of the prize day lilies survived, but the ones that did are gorgeous.

Last year we got the Rose Bed started there, some plantings of Shasta Daisy, which are spreading almost too rapidly, bee balm, tickseed, some geranium, vinca, dianthus, creeping phlox, transplants of cone flowers, Blackeye Susans and Painted Sunflowers started by Michael once the construction of da Lane was completed in '99 -- the few sunlovers that we've tried.

That tree border is now shading all of the above. Still left to move are a couple flowering crabs and the hawthorn. We've now found places for them, along da Lane Entry, as far up against the abutting properties as possible. Next week is forecast to be 70's during the day and 50's in the evenings -- our idea of perfect.

This weekend I was able to move everything out from under the trees to be moved, so they're ready for the taking. The Long Thin Silver Bed directly across da Lane gets the most sun, so that bed now contains more lambs ear, tickseed, bee balm, Shasta Daisies, and ground covers. The Tall Thin Bed only has a headboard, so we moved some struggling Roses of Sharon to stand as the foot of the Bed.

Also moved a dozen or so of the iris; I'm thinking there's another Bed of sorts there, but until the trees are gone, it's hard to say. Kevin is still looking at a serious, wheelchair accessible raised bed and we've even imagined a kind of Secret Garden if this hedge continues to grow...

The hardest thing for me to believe is that four of our Hisbiscus are now in their _fifth_ flowering this season. Or, is that something that's quite common and I'm just waking up to the fact?

The photo of the Painted Sun Flower is one of Kevin's from earlier this year, but there should still be some blooming for NancyTurtle's, Carl's and Patty's visits!



On our HEALthWatch:

Our Oncology Clinic was as empty as Leroy's was full today! I was able to scan around the two waiting rooms so quickly I almost gave myself whiplash. Technicians were walking around looking for something to do, clerks were actually not _swamped_. An almost uneasy peacefulness...

Mine was just a blood pressure follow-up in oncology this morning after the RadioTherapy treament; my file wasn't even in the rack of today's appointments. They wrote my name on a post-it with the letters: BP. Seconds later the BP was in and it was back to the empty waiting room to await the onc's assessment.

The hydrocholorothiazide isn't resolving the BP issue, so a beta blocker, metoprolol, will be added. CardioDept wants lower numbers, and I just don't seem to be able to learn and implement the Alternative and Complementary techniques quickly enough to resolve today's numbers. I'm still walking a mile a day, but after a month of rad tx, I know I'm slowing a bit *shrugs*

Tomorrow we begin our eight rad Booster Treatments. For starters, I have a 4" diameter, black, comic-book "POW" mark on the inside of my left breast.

Rad Tattoo, Indeed! Whoooo-whooooo!!

Howz by yourz??