plants and girl update

[jinian]

Feeling grumpy and over-peopled, due in part to slug overwork and in part to hormones (natural or synthetic, at this point -- hoping they'll settle down soon), in part to upcoming school stress/excitement and in part to dental doom tomorrow morning. A little more headachy than usual, but I haven't been sleeping quite right so that's probably it rather than the estrogen. No signs of stroke thus far. Herpes vaccine study ends next month for me, ends overall in another year.5 or so. Not eating tomatoes and taking homeopathic sugar pills seems to kill the hand pain, until I fall off the wagon or, mainly, run out.

Bought more plants today. What? They make me happy. And there was a coupon. And who could resist a lovely cerise miniature hollyhock? Or three?

     1  IRIS JAPANESE PINK LADY
     1  HOLLYHOCK MINI BRILLIANT x3
     1  PHLOX TALL HYB C. VANDENBURG
     1  ASTILBE AMETHYST
     1  MONARDA MIX x3
     1  IRIS LADY FRIEND

Planted the Tricyrtis 'Shiro'-whatsit. (It flowers white, so I can remember the shiro bit, but it's a long name.) I think I cleared enough ground around it to make the nonmowing status of the area obvious. Next up: poeticus daffodils in front, 'Checkerboard' fuchsia between Tricyrtis and the birch tree, fritillaries, long-suffering peonies, and bright-pink crocus. Hmm, still much to do before the previous plant order arrives. *whistling*

     1  TULIP ICE STICK
     1  TULIP PULCHELLA VIOLACEA
     1  TRITELEIA RUBY
     1  CAMASSIA QUAMASH
     1  LILY LAVENDER MOUNTAIN
     1  EARLY SNOW GLORIES