So delicate, so beautiful!
It is sunny and warm today, a perfect summery day. Summer is just around the corner!
Our rain tank was leaking, a lot. Debris had become lodged in the tap, preventing it from sealing. Attila waited until the tank drained, then he turned the tank on its side and did a bit of tinkering with the tap unit. It still leaks, but it is a drip now, instead of a significant trickle.
Frederick, our garden shrew, visits the basin under the rain tank tap, which is always full of water. He runs around the garden like he owns the place, and in a way he does. He is a small predator, and likes to hunt mice and birds for his meals. He does a fine job of keeping the mouse population in check. No feathers have ever been found in the yard, so he is not catching birds. The only time a bird was attacked by a predator in our yard was several years ago, when a Mourning Dove was carried off by an Osprey. That was a lightning fast event, very shocking.
The spinach continues to do well, but when the heat arrives at the end of the week it will bolt, and that will be the end of it. So far one batch of Cream of Spinach Soup Base has been made and frozen, the yield was six servings. Two more batches of cooked spinach and garlic were frozen for winter soups, and at least one more batch to come. I hope to freeze quite a few batches of cooked greens from the garden, to provide myself with cream-of soups through next winter. The broccoli from the garden will make wonderful soup, fingers crossed that it thrives this summer.
The report of the most recent scan on my aneurysm arrived today, stable, best news ever! Since it has been stable for four years now, the medical suggestion is a scan every two years instead of every year, and if my Vascular Surgeon agrees with that, it will be so.
The report from the latest appointment with the Endocrinologist became available. The medications are working as they should. The medications only deal with specific lipid issues, some but not all mine. The rest are not treatable, yet, there are medications on the horizon, some in the final stages of testing. The lipid issues lead to other health issues, in the long term. I am old, the long term has come and gone. I seem to be holding my own though!
Yesterday Attila brought in fresh flowers from the garden. This time they are Wild Geraniums. The plants were a gift from Barbara, and they are thriving in our yard. Barbara grew all sorts of indigenous plants in her front yard garden, she was a well known edible plant enthusiast. For some years we had an arrangement, I kept her computers humming along as they should, and she gave me massage therapy sessions. Such a wonderful person, unique, having known her is one of my many riches. She passed away some years ago now, remembered always in our garden.
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Weather
17°C
Date: 3:00 PM EDT Tuesday 2 June 2026
Condition: Mostly Cloudy
Pressure: 102.3 kPa
Tendency: Falling
Temperature: 17.3°C
Dew point: 11.7°C
Humidity: 70%
Wind: SSE 12 km/h
Visibility: 24 km
Quote
“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”
Bertrand Russell
1872 – 1970