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They’re Flowers!

Apr17

Blanket flowers and coreopsis! I’d planted the seeds a couple of years ago, right before I was hospitalized for 5 weeks. They’re perennials and they keep returning. But until they’re flowering, I’m like–are those weeds??? So I have to be patient and wait for the flowers to pop out!

I’m still working on the flowerbed. I had to do blood work yesterday, and moved a bunch of pavers and dirt, but still have a long way to go. I wish I felt better so I could just get it done. 🙂

I moved the pavers around the rosebush, along where the grass stops and the dirt starts. I moved two of the pavers to the left center to pull a cart loaded with dirt into the area. I still need to cut back the sunshine ligustrum (left), but chickadees were having fits when I was working at night in there. So they might have a nest in there.

So I will wait on that, or really look for the nest, if one is in there. But maybe they’re in one of the birdhouses.

I still need to add a few more pavers to finish the area to the left. And I’m moving the pavers around the sunshine ligustrum to somewhere else. And I need to clean the pavers too. So still a lot of work. Then??? I need to get the hostas in the ground!

I have to take Tanner in to have his teeth cleaned this morning. It’s hard because both of my Havanese are chow hounds. But I can’t feed them because Tanner can’t eat until after the teeth cleaning. I can’t sneak food to Max. So he’ll have to wait until I leave Tanner off at the vet clinic, then I can feed Max.

Blood counts and platelets had gone down, but they were still okay enough that I don’t need blood or platelets. Yay! I’m off chemo for two weeks now, but still feeling bad.

Hope you are having a terrific day!!!

Terry

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You Want to Sleep but…

Mar29

Your dogs want you up and then THEY go back to bed.

I should have taken a picture of this when the right side was a mess too. There are still some blackberry bush roots and vining plant roots in there, so I’m going to work on them this morning before it gets sunny.

Hope your day is filled with success! I felt really good about whittling this mes down to something that looks better. You can see the daylily, which was just overcome by weed plants, and the salvia started to bloom, the same way. The gloves I got from Amazon for thorns worked great. Both the vining plant and blackberry shrubs have tons of thorns. I’m thinking of putting some more salvia in there.

Terry

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When You Go to the Grocery Store and…

Mar25

Plants jump into your basket. Most are mums, some Turk’s Cap and a sweet tomato plant.

I’m off to work now and will try and plant these tomorrow in the morning before the sun is too strong.

Do plants ever jump into your cart when you hadn’t planned on taking any home???

Terry Spear

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Gerbera Daisy

Sep2

I love gardens. They’re an extension of your home in a lush, green, and colorful way. I experiment all the time with planting plants in various locations, and I finally figured out that the gerbera daisy I planted in this spot comes back every year without fail. Sooooo, I’m going to try and plant a whole bunch of them in this spot to make a colorful bed of them and hopefully, they will come back. Why didn’t I think of that before?????

I’m still feeling weak. I know it’s all the little stem cells growing. And my blood counts aren’t normal yet. But I’m eager to get there. I’m eating a little better. But the cupboards and fridge are bare after me being gone for 5 weeks.

My son is here and we’re going to the grocery store after drs. appointments today.

Hope your day is filled with gardens and beautiful things.

Terry

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Purple Magic Crepe Myrtle

Jul8

I love purple flowers so when I found crepe myrtles in purple, I had to get them. Four of them. They are miniatures so they only get to about 4-6 feet tall, whereas the others can get to around 20-40 feet tall.

I’m coughing up a storm this morning, which means I still have pneumonia, but I was excited to write 800 words on Wolf Heir last night. It’s not my usual 2,000, but it’s a start since I haven’t been able to write anything. I wrote 300 words before this.

I’m trying to reach 40,000 today, which is only 400 words. So maybe I can add 1400 today!

Have a terrific day!

Terry

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Red Crepe Myrtle in Bloom

Jul7

My red crepe myrtle in bloom! It’s always the latest to bloom, and didn’t notice until I got home from the hospital and realized it was finally fully flowering!

Hope your day is sunny and great!

Terry

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A Bee on Zinnia

Jun13

The bee was so busy, he didn’t budge even though I was right on top of him, taking the photo. 🙂

They keep saying we need to walk and engage in various exercises so that we can heal faster. But it’s hard when you have no energy. However, I walked this morning. The rains had cooled it down a bit, and yesterday it rained all day, so I couldn’t walk. But I got to see the green heron again. I tried taking a couple of pictures of him from a distance with my phone. I hope one turns out.

Additionally, I captured the moon’s reflection in the pond and took pictures of mushrooms that had appeared due to the rain, making the walk an amazing adventure.

Hope your day goes great!!!

Terry

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These are My Darkest Daylilies

May31

Aren’t they beautiful!

So, after blood draws and such, I’ve been bringing my granddaughter to my house so we can read about Oscar, the 11-year-old boy who survived the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. She was so absorbed in it that she read 3 chapters to me instead of two yesterday. We did an overnighter. We would always do them once a month, and I want to do that before I’m hospitalized, and then the 100 days start with constant care for me after the stem cell transplant. I don’t know when I will be able to see the kids after that.

She’s been reading other books — working on the bingo card for school —and on Monday, we can start the reading challenge at the library. I still want to sign her up for Barnes & Noble like I do every year, and HEB. She also read for her Girl Scout patch. We’ve been doing math, spelling words, and reading comprehension, and then we pick out one movie to watch afterward. We also fed the turtles the day before.

So next week I have 3 grueling days of testing, biopsy, etc, and so for June, I will have her on Tuesday and a sleepover and all day Wednesday.

We ended up going to the library yesterday and picked up 19 books for $15. They’re beautiful books too. I’m having my grandson overnight tonight and then all day Sunday, before the grueling Monday. But I have so much fun with the grandkids, and they love coming to my house, so if we can, he and I will go to the library too.

I’m still working on getting Protecting the White Bear ready for publication, and I’ve managed to write some more on Wolf Heir.

Okay, I’m off to reread Protecting the White Bear before I have dinner with the kids and bring my grandson home to spend the night and all the next day!

Have a super duper fun day!!

Terry

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Chives in the Garden

May24

This one flowered. I planted two boxes full and they are doing great. They’re delicious on eggs and mashed or baked potatoes and a variety of other dishes.

I’ve been scheduled for the stem cell transplant for later in June. Yay! But I have to go through all kinds of chemo and get a new biopsy, replace my 2 line picc with a 3 line one (NOT looking forward to either), do all kinds of other rigorous testing, sulfa treatment for 10-12 hours one day and blood draws all day long that day, and then another day of sulfa treatment and then finally be admitted, another week of chemo, then do the stem cell transplant. Then no chemo after that while the stem cells hopefully begin to grow.

But it means constant trips to Houston once I’m released from the hospital for bloodwork and such for 100 days. I have to be with someone 24/7 to make sure I’m okay. So it’s not going to be a picnic.

In the meantime, I’m proofing Protecting the White Bear and hope to publish it before things get tooooooo wild.

Hope your day is filled with joy!

Terry

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Fuchsia Salvia

May21

Hummingbirds, butterflies and bees love them!

Well, I’ve had two days of being at the hospital–which means, hours and hours and hours. They gave me an infusion to try to boost my immune system to fight this cold, like normal people have on Monday.

They’re starting me on cycle 3 of chemo on Thursday which means a bunch of more hours at the hospital in Houston. The good news is that the micro cancer cells in the bone marrow from cycle 1 went from 760 to 7 in cycle 2. Woohoo!

Today, my granddaughter is graduating from her 2nd grade. Afterwards, she can be off from school, so we’re doing our grandma-granddaughter special day. They don’t actually get out of school for good until Friday. I’m taking her to get chicken nuggets for lunch, a grocery run, and a trip to the ice cream parlor. Then we’ll go home and play games. I miss doing all the things we usually do together, our once-a-month sleepovers and all the other fun stuff.

Sunday, I’m having my grandson come over for the day, and I’ll take him to have ice cream too. He’s been wanting to stay overnight so bad. But I think we’ll do the day visit. We’ll read books and do fun activity sheets, eat 2nd breakfast, lunch, he can take a nap, I can take a nap, the dogs can take a nap, and then get up and do some more fun stuff. 🙂

Hope your day is going great!!!

Terry

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