Visualization

I've tried a lot of things to help me sleep.  Larry says he thinks about what he wants to accomplish the next day and then drops right off to sleep.  I tried that but I just wanted to get up and write my list down.  I have tried a lot of things. I tried keeping my mind totally bland, counting sheep, saying the alphabet backwards, drinking (I wake up about 2:30 a.m.).
This past week I have been visualizing myself sleeping...like I'm above the bed looking down.  I look very comfortable, relaxed, and asleep. This has been good.  I've dropped off to sleep without getting back up after an hour and a half, reading another hour or so, and then trying again.
I don't know if it will continue to work, but I'm pretty happy with it right now.

Mine! Mine! Mine!

Hummingbirds are evidently pretty territorial.  This one drinks from the feeder and then stands guard.  Any other hummingbirds that try to share are chased away.  

Medicare Concerns Me

Medicare concerns me for several reasons.  For one thing, I don't know if "they" are going to decide I am not worth the upkeep at some point.
But that isn't what made me decide to blog about this.  People call on the phone and try to get me to buy things all the time even though I had my name put on the "Do not call" list.  Now people call and try to get me to agree to receiving things with the understanding that "Medicare will pay."
Yesterday I went to a podiatrist.  He suggested inserts for my shoes and told me where to go to get them (not WalMart).  I went and the receptionist said, "Why not get some of the specially-made shoes?  Medicare will pay for one pair a year and three inserts."
The doctor didn't say I needed specially-made shoes.  I am aware that some people do need them.  I am afraid that too many people think "Medicare will pay" means "It's free."

Stuff

Bath and Body Works has a line of coconut lime products.  Lovely fragrance!  Sea Island Cotton was my favorite before this.  It didn't smell wonderful, but it didn't make me cringe.
I went to my podiatrist appointment.  He said that knot on my foot is a ganglion cyst.  I looked it up when I got home and it was called a Bible cyst at one time because people would try to cause it to erupt with a heavy book.  Not a suggested treatment.  More people get them on their hands, but the second most common location is the feet.
I ordered Nathan Lowell's Double Share which just became available in e format.  I really like the series.  I ordered it from them instead of from Amazon because it said the author would get more of the money and it wouldn't cost me as much.  Win-win.  Except if I had ordered it from Amazon I would have had it right then and this way it took several days.  Emailing back and forth was odd because I emailed the format request.  A couple of days later he said I hadn't sent the format request so he was sending several.  But I didn't get it.  I sent another email with the format request and this morning I got it.  I transferred it to my Kindle.  It is there.  But then my netgear was disabled and I couldn't connect.  I enabled it again (finally).  It may not have had anything to do with the ebook.  It doesn't seem to like it that I'm using my Fire with it and the computer.  But what does a wireless think it's going to do...just run one thing?
Anyway, there for a while it was looking as if I'd need to dash up to the hospital to use their wireless!

Today's Plan

 This is a clump of day lilies I'd like to get out from under a bush.  I didn't plant them under the bush, but the bush grew.

 I put a tsp of yeast, a tsp of sugar and about 1/6 liter of warm water in these plastic bottles I've been saving.  I am going to bury them at a slant to see if slugs and snails actually will crawl in but not out.

 Larry is building what he calls a grill hut.  I think it is more like a summer kitchen because he is going to run a gas line and power line to it so we can put up vegetables in the canner out there without putting the heat and humidity into the house.  He is building it a little at a time (some out of each paycheck).

 I got my pictures out of order.  I'm still planting seedlings.

 It is difficult to tell, but this is two trusses.  He built them yesterday.

 This shows the other two he built yesterday.  You can also see Daddy's old nail gun he's using.  I helped on one of them.  I stood on a board so it would flatten out enough to he could nail it.  I think he just had me help him on one of them because I wanted him to stop and let me take him to the doctor...he was making awful sounds.

 He has lots of pieces of wood cut so all he has to do is put a bunch more trusses together.  These are intended to roof the summer kitchen.  He ordered the metal yesterday.  The guy at the lumber yard asked if he wanted ocean blue to go with the house.  I thought it was pretty interesting that he remembered what color our roof is.  Larry only remembered blue.  I remembered ocean blue so I knew the guy was right.

 More pieces of wood stacked to use on the trusses.  You can also see the cabinets he's made since he turned it into a shop.

One of the cabinets visible in this shot will go into the summer kitchen.

Hummingbirds Are Back

There were three when I thought I snapped the picture.  I only see two right now...one in the air to the left of the feeder and one at the feeder on the right with a backdrop of trees.

Larry's Stuff

 This part of Larry's garden has potatoes and corn.  He has started mulching it with old hay.  I know hay isn't supposed to be wonderful for mulch because it contains seeds, but it is not this year's hay.  It may not even be last year's.  We planted sunflower seeds in the skips.  They haven't sprouted yet.

 These are his potatoes, all hilled and mulched.

 This is the muscadine arbor.

This little birdnest is in one of his grape vines.  The open beak is above and a little to the left of my thumb.  There are three baby birds in the next.  I was lucky to get even one in the picture because the sun was shining on the digital display.

In this part of his garden he has cabbages, Brussel sprouts, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and marigolds.