You Can't Win For Losing

Today's high temperature was:  76

Rainy--sunny and humid--rainy

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I never complained about winter--

I prefer cold temps to this humid stuff!

Temperatures in the 70's is just perfect.  Humidity of 50% or more, makes it rough on me.  

I went out to rake and refresh the 3 year old mulch under my Lilac bushes and within 15 minutes I was sweating like a hog!!!  About a half hour later, rain came, the sun went under a cloud, the breeze came back up and I went out and finished and was quite comfortable.

I got a phone call from Pearl.  She wanted to know if I knew the lady we saw yesterday, Janet's phone number.  "Is it in the book?"  "No.  Wait it wouldn't be in our phone book!"

<all the time I am trying to tell her, but...she just keeps on talking>

"I need to know that medicine she was talking about...for the arthritis.  I need something.  I can barely walk."

<Finally>

"She has a cell phone, Pearl.  Her number wouldn't be in the book and I don't know it.  But...the medicine she was talking about has Prednisone in it and----something they use for Chemotherapy.  I will try and remember and look it up."

"I don't feel right about yesterday."

"Why?"

"You should have told me who we were stopping in to see, instead of surprising me.  If I had just known, I could have thought of things to talk to her about."

"I thought the three of you had a good chat."

"We did, but....well, I just wish you hadn't surprised me.  Don't ever do anything like that again!"

"I'm sorry..." but she had already hung up.

Well--that took part of the fun of yesterday away.  

Oh well.

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After my Soap, I decided to go shopping for plants.  It is supposed to be a beautiful day tomorrow and the nighttime lows all this next week are going to be in the 50's and it is suppose to rain a bit each day.

I went across the road to the Garden Center.  A young woman I know saw me and walked over, "Grandma said you stopped in yesterday and...you had Mrs. Ott with you."  (It was Janet's grand daughter).

"Yup.  We stopped in on our way home from Byron."

"That was so nice.  My Grandma was just thrilled."

Okay--so someone is happy about being surprised.

I got most every plant I wanted, but they don't have any Moss Roses as yet.  Then I drove up to Lowe's and found a small trellis I wanted and some more stuff that the garden center refuses to sell--Impatiens!!  I tried the garden center's replacement for Impatiens--Rosea Vinca (which all died last year) or the Sun Impatiens, which are too expensive.  If these Impatiens have the mold dust--I am going to try them anyway.

Then, I was out of food.  I wanted to come back home and unload--the entire back seat and floor of my car is covered with plants and the trunk had to huge bags of potting soil, BUT--I knew if I came home, I'd not get back to the grocery store.  I was so tired, but I told myself, "Just keep going and you can do it."  and I did.

I must confess, I probably did a bit too much today, what with the raking and walking all over two huge garden centers AND the grocery store.  I am very sore tonight and can barely walk upright.

SO--I will take a half a Percocet and sleep like a baby and feel good enough to sit out on the porch tomorrow and fill up all my containers!!!

I remembered the name of the arthritis drug.  It is mainly used for RA, which Pearl doesn't have, but maybe it will help her.  Methotrexate-Prednisone

Happy Mother's Day--see ya Monday.