ScarletTricycle's blog: No. 188: time to stock up

I am downstate to visit my mom today and see how she's fairing. And in between her nap times, I'll head to Menards. They have my promix bales on clearance (which just means normal price pre-pandemic) so I'll go grab 3 of them for the future use at my house.

I found an extra envelope of collected dahlia seeds. So a few more that escaped the tin. I am hoping over Christmas break that I have some time off w my kids and I'll be able to squish in a little me time. And if so, then it's to count up total seeds I saved. I'm sure they all won't sprout but at least I should have options for this next growing season to wait and excitedly wait on for bloom.

I am also hoping to kind of plan a better mixup of plant out of named varieties. This last season because I had some new ones and they weren't what I ordered, I ended up with a bunch of yellow in one spot in my bed. So my hope is to look at what I really enjoyed and plan to plant 2 of and those that were just nice plan to plant 1. And then kind of think how to split them around the bed so it's not all solid colors of the same family. Which hopefully also maybe gives some help to seedmaking. Still of the bee making seed camp frame of mind. Maybe some day I'll have time to paintbrush it. Right now no time and I think the bees do a pretty effective job.

And on a personal note, I deal with inflammation on a constant basis. It often precludes me from doing what I had hoped for a full day. Just went on a secondary med, and I'm able to move again! Once the inflammation is down I feel like my old 30ish self. Now mind you this has been 10 years of feeling like crap and to be able to get up without hurting from a seated position or out of the car with no pain or off the ground easily when gardening - I could dance a jig now! They don't have a full reason why I'm dealing with this, it hasn't reared its ugly head enough to give a definite diagnosis of something. It's just showing signs of lots of things but not any one thing. So I'm hopeful this continues to work for me without having to go on heavy meds. I don't need that at all.

So all my journey. A lot going on in my life that I didn't really plan on doing or encountering etc. of late. I will continue to look at my blooms as some respite when life gets too much. I just hope I won't kill everything off with my bad habit of not watering on a continued basis and sticking to a schedule.

Merry Christmas to you all! May family time go well and be full of love and kindness. We need that more than anything in this world right now. Peace and love!

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