The hope of green things

We went to the big box store last weekend, and shelled out $100 for planters, soil, and plants!

We now have cucumber, heirloom summer squash, and tiny watermelons planted in containers, and a friend saw me post about it on facebook, and she brought me a cherry tomato plant, too!

I also got a baby parsley plant, since my existing plant is in its second year, and will die off this fall, and I got some basil, and oregano, too.  The herbs are in pots right now, because we are supposed to be getting a lot of rain, and I don't want them to drown and die like last year.

I will let them strengthen their roots and grow larger, and then I will put them in the herb garden after the flooding season is over.

The neighbor also gave me some nasturtium seeds, and those are in the planters, too.  They should have sprouted by now, and haven't, but we'll see. 

In the meantime, the scarlet runner beans are thriving and blossoming, and that flower mound we created has tiny sprouts all over it!  Can't wait to see how they thrive and bloom this summer!

Hopefully, they won't get pummeled to death, or washed away, by the heavy rains we are expecting tomorrow.

I saw my doctor this past week. My blood work continues to improve on the lowered dose of chemo (neutrophils are back in the NORMAL range, not just the "this is low, but still okay during chemo" range!), and he agreed that we could switch the hormone blocker to the one I was on most recently, before the tamoxifen, to see if the pain in my thighs goes away.

Of course, it means that I will get the old side effects from that medication back, but this pain in my legs really needs to be GONE. 

He is also referring me to a rheumatologist, which will either rule out arthritis, and prove that I simply can't tolerate the hormone blockers, or it will provide me with yet another life-infringing diagnosis of RA.

No one has called yet to set an appointment, so I don't know when this will be happening. It will probably involve multiple appointments, with blood tests, and xrays.

Dave has spent some of our stimulus money on a computer that he has set up just for old games.  I hope he has fun, and a good escape, from this project.  He spends way too much time focusing on negative subjects, social media, and news. 

I still haven't managed to start reading, or doing anything resembling a spiritual practice, but at least I have my little garden set up, and have been playing my guitars.  Those things are their own version of spiritual.

Rumor has it that we won't go back to working at the office until August at the very earliest, and that is contingent on the progress of the virus, as well as the possibility of the office moving to a new building in the midst of all of this.

Many of us REALLY DO NOT LIKE the location of the potential building.  It's 30 miles away for many of us, even coming from different directions.

It will mean Dave and I will have to buy another car, and I will have to spend an hour and a half driving every day to go to and from work.

Yuck.

Needless to say, most of us really hope this building deal falls through, like all of the others have over the past several years.

BUT, the thing about August really is just a rumor, and until I hear it from the CEO, I won't give it too much credence.

In other news, well....there really isn't any other news.  Our world has become very small.

We would have left yesterday for our hoped-for trip to Chicagoland to visit my family and friends.  Those plans didn't even have the chance to start solidifying before COVID came along.

My tears have been shed over it, though, and there's nothing to be done for it.

Wishing anyone who actually reads this a good Memorial Day, full of gratitude and reflection.  I'm glad it will be rainy here, maybe it will keep the COVIDiots from having big parties, and creating another numbers spike in 10 days to 2 weeks.