The broccoli survived the cold, I keep forgetting to take pictures, I’ll try this weekend.
I started my hot pepper seeds this week, I’ll wait another week or two before starting the tomatoes
I’m still torn over what exactly I want to grow this year. I both want to narrow down my growing choices and at the same time I want to try 20-100 new things……
I think I’m going to try potatoes again this year. One of the things I picked up at the end of last season was one of those “make it yourself” cedar raised bed kits for about $25 (which is cheaper than buying the lumber would have been). It’s designed to be stacked so you can make it tall instead of wide, or both, so I’m thinking I’m going to try it for a potato bed.
Our snow is mostly gone. And has been replaced with nasty freezing rain. Which isn’t actually an improvement.
Shadow (the Siberian cat) has been diagnosed with a possible grade 2 or 3 heart murmur. His workup to confirm the murmur and how bad it really is has been scheduled for the first week of March.
Trouble (the calico cat) had a fairly large bump appear out of nowhere on the side of her face, right between eye and ear. This is a really bad spot for this sort of thing no matter what it is as there’s not alot of spare skin there, never mind the nerves for eye and ear being so close. So the bump was removed, biopsy says it’s a benign “inclusion cyst”, so as long as it doesn’t grow back there shouldn’t be any further issues.
For some reason I’m not looking forward to taking the dogs in for their yearly checkups this year.
The appointment with my primary care doctor to request a new referral to a new rheumatologists office went well. I did my best to be as honest as possible about both how I handled things and how I perceived the doctor and office handling things. And she was still pretty darn peeved for me. Which made me feel better cause it wasn’t just me being over-reactive or something. Now the wait begins to see how long it’s going to take to get into the new office.
In other news we now have confirmation that when I get really really stressed and frustrated my blood pressure tries to go through the roof. I normally sit below 110/70-60 and occasionally even lower. So when I walk in with a blood pressure of 140/98 they get pretty upset. Talking to the doctor helped though, before I left they took it again and it had already dropped to 132/78. I know there are folks with blood pressure much higher, but for me, that’s high.
Yay for the broccoli surviving! That was some brutal cold we endured, so I am amazed.
Fuzzy has had a heart mummer since the first day I took him to the vet. Sometimes they can detect it easily, other times they can’t find it at all. It doesn’t seem to bother him a bit – hope the same is true for your Shadow! Also hope that Trouble has no more issues with cysts.
Glad your doc is understanding of your issues with the first Rheumatologist. Hopefully she can find someone better suited for you.
As far as we can tell Shadow’s not showing any actual symptoms of problems from the heart murmur, so hopefully it’ll just be a matter of keeping an eye on him from here on out.
I’m amazed the broccoli survived too to be honest, but its still going!