Very well, thank you!!
In one week’s time, look at the healthy “Topsy-turvy” tomato plant. It reveals four baby tomatoes (in one week). And the bell pepper plant has one “baby” and I anticipate many more!!
3:15 PM and I have to admit that I don’t do anything in moderation. As so often confessed, I spend too many hours at the computer doing Ancestry. Today, I can’t seem to find “a stopping point” so I keep working in the yard. Since I published the earlier portion of this message, I checked the bell pepper plant and there are six or seven more buds ready to open!! Hallelujah!!
For two days, I have been trying different ways to get my feet higher than my head. Boxes with a sleeping bag on top didn’t work because the sleeping bag crept away!! Now, this isn’t “higher than my head” but it is a comfortable way to rest my feet and legs while sitting in my easy chair watching TV. I “sit” a lot because my legs hurt a lot. ~~ It has been thirty minutes since “the inspiration,” pictures, and publication!! ~~ The picture’s peculiarity (color-wise) is the left-side picture without a flash and the right-side picture with a flash.
An hour later and I’m here to say: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” It took a couple of days to figure a way to use things I already have in and around my home. The sleeping bag in the chair was comfortable but the goose-down sleeping bag collapses down to nothing under the weight of my feet and legs. This is worth a try?! (Far better than taking an Aleve?)4 Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun:
I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
and they have no comforter.
2 And I declared that the dead,
who had already died,
are happier than the living,
who are still alive.
3 But better than both
is the one who has never been born,
who has not seen the evil
that is done under the sun.
4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
5 Fools fold their hands
and ruin themselves.
6 Better one handful with tranquillity
than two handfuls with toil
and chasing after the wind.
7 Again I saw something meaningless under the sun:
8 There was a man all alone;
he had neither son nor brother.
There was no end to his toil,
yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.
“For whom am I toiling,” he asked,
“and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?”
This too is meaningless—
a miserable business!
9 Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
10 If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
In a TV commercial for NutriSystem, Marie Osmond says “Oh, what fun.” That was my feeling—and expression—as I opened the package and saw the wiggly worms. The previous order was a disappointment because the little fellows were invisible to this old lady’s fading eyesight. I emailed Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm and asked if they were microscopic and hibernating. The answer was “yes, yes.” I wasn’t lodging a complaint; I was just asking two questions. A young man was extremely thoughtful, kind, and considerate–and promptly said he would send more worms. (“Customer Service” [for some companies] isn’t always so thoughtful, kind, and considerate.) After the worms were dumped in the center tube of the Garden Tower, I mixed good garden soil with wet shredded paper and dumped it on top of the worms. Now the worms can work their “nutri-system” throughout the Tower. It’s called “vermicomposting“ and the little fellows play a big role in a healthy garden. FYI: The entire Tower is their “bin” and they roam around and aerate the soil, and leave their casting. My job is to feed them my veggie scraps.
Three Quarters & Counting 