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It's finally stopped raining and the sun appears to be coming out a little. There is still a grey misty haze hanging in the air, but it's so thin it can't last long in full sunlight. Hurrah! This gray haze makes the refreshed green things really stand out. This next week is forecast to be a lot cooler than it's been for weeks if not months. Fall is really here.
I went through this entire scenario in my mind a while back about how things could go wrong with certain planned events, and it might be a hassle to have to deal with. A couple of days ago I was informed that all my worries were for naught and my assumptions were incorrect. What a relief to be wrong.
As I sat here writing I remembered writing about those two fat figs I had left on the tree, and so I went downstairs immediately to check on them to see if either of them were ripe yet. Sure enough, one of them was, and the bugs had eaten a small hole in it. Abandoning all concern about getting some disease where the bugs had eaten, I plucked it and ate the whole thing. Ummmm... tasty!
Now if I can remember to get the other one first. The thought crossed my mind to sacrifice that fig to the powers that be. I'm greedy enough as it is, and it's a proven fact that I need to change my miserly mentality, mostly because avarice is my chief feature and anything I can do to fight the inclination to hoard wot gits sot before me in regard to the fruits of nature, even if I did plant it and nurse it into maturity, I need to pay attention.
Speaking of vegetables and fruits that I've grown, my tomato plants are making a comeback. I felt like they were devoting too much energy to growing stalks and leaves, so I scarified them by lopping off the weaker looking branches. Sure enough they started putting out blossoms, and with the cooler weather the bees have come back to pollinate them. I have over a dozen small tomatoes on two plants.
One of the plastic buckets I used to plant upside down tomatoes had the handle I hung them by break, and the plant growing out of the bottom of the bucket got chopped off by the sharp rim around the edge of the bottom of the bucket. There was a stub left I hoped would survive, but it didn't.
Two days ago when I was lopping off the extra growth on my other plants, I decided to dip the branches I cut off into some root hormone powder, and stick them up into the hole at the bottom of the then unused upside down bucket where the broken ones died. Why waste the unused nutrients. Then, the rains came and the rainfall amounted to nearly ten inches, so everything was soaked to the gills, especially my new cuttings. They're still alive... so far.
The ornamental cabbage I've managed to keep alive is thriving with all this rain. I think I'm gonna have to re-pot it with some fresh potting soil in a much bigger pot. Placing the re-potted plant on the second-floor deck in the full sunlight might provide me with leaves of fresh raw cabbage all winter, and up on the second-floor, the rabbits won't eat them instead of me.
The coming cool weather is welcome as far as my project for clearing a path through the woods is concerned. I was sweating so much during the record heat that I was flirting with heat stroke nearly every day. It looks some much more civilized down through there now. I can literally see through the woods to the street back to my youngest brother's house.
I have a lot more to do to insure that the tree roots won't wrap around the water pipe to my house from the meter at the paved road. This couldn't have happened if I hadn't started feeling a lot less pain from the rheumatoid arthritis. I'm getting good results from taking over my own case as far as prescription medicines are concerned.
I'm afraid to get all excited about the new experiment with imbibing a honey mixed with apple cider vinegar recommended to me by a passing stranger I decided to trust. I was a little slack about remembering to take it the second day.
Not any more. I read an article by this doctor who writes in the Huffington Post. The first article I read was the result of my friend Rainey sending me a link and suggesting I might wanna take a look at what he was writing about. I added two dietary supplements to my pill popping rituals.
The second article I read most recently resulted from another link to Huffington Post I read about on Digg. In this article the doctor wrote about how autoimmune diseases were caused in many cases by a certain type of intestinal bacteria in one's gut lining. He said it was the excrement of this bacteria and recommended a prescription drug to kill that specific bacteria. It's old news now that ulcers are caused by bacteria in the GI tract.
Could this stranger whose judgment and advice I trusted be right? Does apple cider vinegar kill those types of intestinal bacteria? This morning I took a small swig of White House Apple Vinegar without the honey. I survived, but I'll go back to using the honey with it. Damn!
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
