Happy Friday! I have a doctor’s appointment this morning, and they are going to be working on the net in our neighborhood as well, so if I don’t get online, please be kind to each other.
Above is the dwarf banana tree we bought at Lowes while Bit was on vacation. It will probably be a year or two until we get tiny bananas. It’s supposed to grow to 3-4 feet, right now it’s about one foot tall.
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I’m not doing so great. Pain levels are really up there, I’ve been using my inhaler more and doing more nebulizer treatments. I’m hoping Bit will have an extra day off next week so I can schedule a doctor’s appointment and she can go with me. I miss being able to do things, and I really don’t like being in a LOT of pain all day and all night or having more seizures (4 in the past week, which is more than I usually have in a month).
I haven’t been able to cook, the kids won’t let me do the dishes because my arms are *really* twitchy and they’re afraid they are going to throw things, I’m back to needing supervision to shower, and I just feel like I’ve backslid by about two years so far as functionality went. And I’m constantly tired and in pain.
This tree will grow to be 4-5 feet tall. So far it and the banana are doing really well.
Yes, I know this needs to be weeded. Bit is going to do that hopefully on Sunday.
This lives in the garden area in front of the porch. I know it’s supposed to grow to about 3 or 4 feet tall, and have small flowers on a long stem. Our yard is very green, and we wanted something that would bring some color in over the long term.
This is a fish mint plant. It’s not really a mint, but it does smell like fish when you break a leaf. According to research, every part of this plant is edible. The ducks seem to like it. It grows all over our yard.
This lily was a surprise. We didn’t know we had this plant until it flowered a couple of weeks ago. It’s about 5 feet tall, and lives in the swampy part of the yard. It’s a yellow Cannes Lily, we think. Fortunately, it is not anywhere near the house or the cats. And we don’t really touch it.
These tiny little purple flowers are some sort of ground cover, this is an extreme close up. The brown stems around it are pine needles. These grow on the drier side of the yard, from the road down to the pine trees.
We also have a strawberry plant, but I don’t have any pictures of that one currently. It’s on the other side of the porch in the other garden area, where the HUGE Elephant ear used to be, if you remember that. When the trees outgrow their pots they’ll be planted in the yard. We haven’t decided where yet.
And now for your science for the day: