If you ever wondered what happens when a cucumber gets lost in the vines, here’s a great example. See that big orange thing?
When I was in Atlanta, Bob was in charge of the garden and the yard is not his thing. He freely admits he hates yard work. “It’s boring,” he says.
He did find some of the cucumbers but they do hide and this one got away and is now happily composting elsewhere.
I haven’t been able to spend as much time in the yard as I’d like and the weather will be leaving me soon. I have a bed I want to yank all the stuff I have and put in native plants and not sure I’m going to make it in time. Maybe next weekend.
I am still getting the orange-ish ever-bearing raspberries. That’s about it. I’m going to pick the last of the apples and make a little pot of applesauce for us to eat this week.
The trailcam is alive and well. No brilliant clips lately. Lots of raccoons scampering around the bucket of water. I caught Skunky running through the other night. The opossum is a regular. Lots of cat clips. I haven’t seen bunny in a while but I’m sure he’s out there.
I bought one of those consumer “wellness” glucose monitors to see what’s going on with me since my previous doctor made me scared about my blood sugar being in the pre-diabetes range. I am just barely into that range and it coincides with me becoming a crone. It’s been stable since then and I only have a few days worth of data but I think I’m pretty normal for my age. As long as I pay attention to protein and get regular activity, I don’t think diabetes is going to kill me.
I’m trying a new fitness app. I like workout circuits even though I do the easiest iterations. I could probably make money filming myself doing these because I am so uncoordinated and it helps me if I talk through it. So I’ll be grunting and huffing and puffing and then: reach! reach! punch! punch! tap! tap! left! right!
I think it’s fun but it reminds of when I used to take step-aerobic classes taught by my cousin Jennifer. She was a really good teacher but as she built to longer sequences, I was hopeless. Is step aerobics even a thing anymore? It probably is but has a new name like the kids today invented it.
