Several different daylilies in bloom!! I’m waiting for the Asiatic Lilies to bloom.
I got the results back from the bone marrow biopsy, and for the first time since February 2025, I’m in remission! Acute Myeloid Leukemia is an extremely aggressive cancer so I’m absolutely thrilled. Last time I had a biopsy, it showed the mutation had returned, so I’m still waiting on that report, but this is the first time I’ve been in remission.
I’m rereading Bear in Pursuit before I turn it over to beta readers, then on to the next book to work on!
Hope you have an extraordinarily beautiful day.
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
My daughter and I had seen these trees/shrubs at different places, and we both love purple flowers. It’s supposed to be drought-resistant when established. It’s known as a “pollinator queen,” attracting hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees. We bought them as shrubs because we couldn’t fit the ones trained as trees into her car. lol So we’re training ours into trees.
To begin with, it was just the little white blossoms until the flowers bloomed. I was afraid we’d gotten the wrong variety.
I’m hoping it continues to thrive through this summer and beyond!
Finished writing Bear in Pursuit and today I need to start reading it from beginning to end.
Hope you have a purplish fun day!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
We had issues with rats this morning, dogs caught one. Tanner wouldn’t let it go. I had a drs. appt to go to. Time was running out. lol He wanted to bring the dead rat in the house. I finally took their dog food and was going to give them some outside, but they barged inside, luckily without the rat.
I put the rat out with the trash, fed them, and made it to my appt on time. lol
Hope your day isn’t quite so wild!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I moved all the pavers, except the ones underneath the ligustrum. But I managed to fill in the planting bed with soil and hostas. You can see their little white/green leaves coming up.
The ones way in the back are white-feathered hosta. They say once they get a lot of light, they’ll turn a pale green. But they’ll be pretty no matter what. This should be prettier than plain dirt!
Another project I was working on. This is a purple magic crepe myrtle. This is all shady so I added Turk’s cap that loves shade and has pretty red flowers that hummingbirds love. You can see a full-grown one behind it to the right. So the new ones should fill that all in.
I’ve been working on another project, but ran out of pavers, like usual. 🙂
I’m off to do some more work.
Hope your week is going great!
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I pulled the pavers away from the pine tree and am extending them out where the pine tree is blocking the sun and killed off all the grass. I have some longer pavers and square pavers mixed so I’ll make more of a pattern in a little bit. I’ll remove the pavers along the side of the sunshine ligustrum also, I just get worn out with the chemo and probably low blood counts.
But I’m going to move the pavers further out to fit the curve of where it’s all dirt. I need to move the ones out from the white miniature rosebush, too, on the far right because it’s all dirt there, but I was having trouble reaching them because of all the thorns. These are all pavers I’ve had there for 11 years, so they’ll need to be cleaned also. That one paver is tilted. There’s a pine tree root there. I need to move other pavers that are no longer needed where they are and add to this bed. I pulled the pine straw covering my boxwood in the back onto the dirt. The yard guys have been blowing it all up into that corner, and it’s smothering my boxweed. I will fill the new planting bed with mulch and topsoil, and then plant it with hostas since it’s shady all the time.
I was also working on another project where it’s all dirt, but I ran out of materials. I usually go to Lowe’s or Home Depot to get my pavers and supplies, but I’m having smaller quantities delivered for free shipping, so I’m not wasting gas and having to lift them into my car and out. I still have to move the big bags of dirt and pea gravel, etc., once they’re here, but at least I’m not wasting time going to get them.
So I work at one project and then jump to another, depending on the materials I have that will work there. I truly want to get a project done, but I’m still waiting on materials. It’s like when I’m writing on my books in the beginning. If I can’t figure out where to go, I jump on another story I’ve been working on. 🙂
With the last two downpours in the last couple of days, I have been filling 2-gallon buckets, which are quickly overflowing. So I purchased a 50-gallon rain barrel for the one spot. There’s no downspout there, just the juncture between the roof and patio cover and it’s forming a big hole. Another area is doing the same but there’s a sprinkler head right at the end of the downspout. So I need to work around it.
Off to get to work. It’s just beginning to get light out.
Have a fun and exhausting day, but only if it’s fun.
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
So I had planted the hostas, just love them, and ordered more. I have lilies, daylilies, and hostas that came in yesterday, so I’ll try to plant them.
I had to cut the sunshine ligustrum way back. As you can see, they’ve blocked out the sun for the grass and I have all moss there now. I need to clean my pavers too, but first is planting so I don’t lose all the bulbs. (41 of them) Also trimmed back ligustrum on the other side of the house, and I have a few more of them to trim back.
The chemo is really making me feel awful, but it’s not stopping me from getting things done.
And I reached word count on the book, still working on it to finish it!
Hope you are enjoying a garden, whether it’s working in one, or just viewing the beauty of them.
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
